I think she would have a similar relationship to the one with Zosia, except the Sodium thiopental trick. She would reject her as truly Helen, but she would be drawn to her (they picked lady pirate for a reason) in a more trusting way, perhaps eventually. In general, it would be a lower drama story, and the choice, painful as it was, worked well for the story.

They seem to be good at channeling the memories and mannerism of a specific individual (Ravi, the indian kid, behaves like a kid) when appropriate. I would demand to “talk” to Helen (or, like, my wife, if I put myself in Carol’s shoes) through another Plurb individual. I would probably profoundly dislike the experience, assuming they would be able to attempt it, as uncanny-valley-like and I would doubt the genuinity of it (would I talk with a AI that is the sum of the knowledge and mannerism of my wife? Would that be my wife? Hard pass, but in that context, I wonder if it would help me get into the frame of mind to ask better questions)

As an ADHD person that watched (until I found it too boring) a lot of The Walking Dead in 2x speed, I kind of see what you mean, but…never in this show I felt the need to skip anything (only when I rewatched episode 2 to convince my wife to stick with the show after she noped-out at the end of the pilot, I had to skip the seizure scenes to keep her attention long enough to make her interested in the mysteries they introduced. I’m not proud of the manipulation. But she’s a Plurb too now, so, eh, ends, means, you know)

Whenever something drags for too long, I look around. The sets have a level of detail and care that few other shows enjoy.

The only thing annoying me is that I would have a list of question as long as my leg, and she’s not asking the right questions. That ain’t solved by fast forwarding, though.

Oh boy, I remember the comment about the eggs. And then the one about stem cells. I absolutely did not put the two together until this comment, and I both hate you and love you for it :)

I waited until I was caught up with the last aired episode to seek confirmation of it, but I recognized him on the first call and found it extremely funny.

PS. Love your handle by the way. The next raktajino at the replimat is on me!

Possibly, but a lot of plants want to be eaten, for lack of a better phrase. Most fruiting plants reproduce by being eaten. You’re not killing a strawberry plant by eating the berry, you’re helping it

I thought the same, and I find it surprising that this thought wasn’t expressed. But then again, it might be that they are aware of it, and still find it immoral to consume something tied to being alive, because of some misguided implicit imperative. There’s only so much innate behavior that you can encode in xNA, and the end result might be contradictory. Just like most people can rationally understand that farming animals is morally questionable, and still eat meat because…they think they really have to. They accept the cognitive dissonance. We all have our own dissonances.

Wildly speculative (my headcanon untill proven wrong, which will happen): The virus was created from a species much like ours, in an attempt to put an end to wars and communication barriers. The broad strokes that the design of the virus allowed in controlling these emerging behaviors made it so that, by erring on the side of EXTREME life preservation instinct, it made it to be not self sustainable. It’s a mistake. But couple that to the other imperative, spreading and replication, and you have a suicidal hyve mind. It’s not that different from extremely aggressive viruses like Ebola. They come in waves because they can’t really become endemic, given that the extreme mortality coupled with the extreme transmissibility burn through the population very fast. It would be an evolutionary advantage for the virus to have mild symptoms and move around with minor consequences, but evolution is not a great optimizer, not on the short term at least, and not when population spikes and ebbs fast. And when something is artificial, it might benefit even less from this long term optimization. So what would this dying population do, faced with imminent death, and an imperative to propagate? Propagate the virus. Turn the entire planetary efforts to broadcasting the virus, as a last ditch effort to try again elsewhere. Perhaps we received the 4th, 5th, or the 960323th rebroadcasting, each intelligent species succumbing to it, and passing it forward. And who knows, it might be that on some species it works different, or it doesn’t work in everybody (hint, hint) and that leads to a different approach to solving the self-annihilation-by-starvation catch.

Software company? They misspelled “private equity” in a peculiar way.

I sync to a local directory and then sync that with syncthing. It works.

The sync file is a big json thing, so concurrent edits are not exactly supported, but you get a pop up to warn you if you have diverging changes.

I worked in a couple of major european projects that had SLES everywhere, and I don’t remember official support being a topic at all.

What exactly is the use case for enterprise support? Where does it help and/or save money? I’m not challenging the concept, I’m genuinely curious because despite having worked in places where I assume it would make sense I have never seen it and never understood why would anybody pay for that.

Hard agree on IAM granularity. But breaking up things in projects limits the blast radius somewhat. They’ll get there.

It might be a silly idea, but that’s what I do with my weighted blanket when I want it to be a bit heavier: I fold it just over my shoulders, and leave it single on the rest of the body. It doesn’t change the thermal properties much, but it feels better. So you could try a lighter weighted blanket (10 or 12 lbs), folded on the shoulder. The problem is that lighter weighted blankets are probably not necessarily cooler than a heavier one.