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touché!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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2 things:
(a) I see MSN still hasn't lost their habit of spreading their "[N] reasons why XYZ" type of articles over [N+M] pages (where M are just extra ad pages). So make that 19 reasons.
(b) Was there anything in there that was actually unique to men, and could not equally apply to women? Besides, aren't we're all supposed to be gender-fluid now?
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Black holes generating enormous power has been around in science fiction for a while (Arthur C. Clark - Imperial Earth (1976)). More recent in the Star Trek Universe with the Romulan D'deridex-class warbird uses an artificial quantum singularity as a power source for its warp propulsion drive.
from the Wikipedia article ( Black hole starship - Wikipedia[^])
" A black hole weighing 606,000 metric tons (6.06 × 108 kg) would have a Schwarzschild radius of 0.9 attometers (0.9 × 10–18 m, or 9 × 10–19 m), a power output of 160 petawatts (160 × 1015 W, or 1.6 × 1017 W), and a 3.5-year lifespan"
That's a lot of power from a tiny space.
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"imagine if we could produce a microscopic black hole in a particle generator."
Ah yes imagine that.
Or if we could manufacture anti-matter (or other exotic matter) really cheap.
Or if we could construct a worm hole using neutronium.
Or if we could design an build a generation ship. Or a fleet.
Or if we could create cold fusion generators.
Or if those aliens that keep zipping around would actually drop off the design specs for those faster than light drives that they must be using. And those cloaking devices. Throw in anti-gravity while they are at it.
Or if fairies were real.
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Merely for specificity due to my intimate knowledge of Space Aliens I submit those are not faster than light drives per se but bending spacetime drives.
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I for one praise our soon to be Robot Overlords, Couple one of those with AI you have a Terminator, please somebody who is developing them come up with an off button... We've all seen the movies! 
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"Forbin Project" here we come.
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I always enjoy that video and music. Thank you for telling me to watch it again.
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Is it just me that finds the Spot robot to seem creepier and more threatening than the Atlas or Electric Atlas?
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I find Spot creepy also. I think it is the multi-jointed neck/arm and head/claw which has no resemblance to anything Terrestrial.
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And how many months did it take to make this marketing video?
I know the dancing one took 18 months.
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Wordle 1,039 4/6*
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Failed.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 1,039 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just made it!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Yuck! Too many options! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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When visiting a friend last weekend, I mentioned as a side remark that lots of people never gave a thought to the name 'Edge' - similar to the old days when lots of people using the Lynx browser never associated it with anything but a big, wild cat. My friend knows a lot of math, including a fair amount of graph theory. Yet, he gave me a puzzled look: What do you mean? Is that name supposed to mean anything special?
Well ... Yes. Like Lynx. And the little Ford Ka (that's some years ago, isn't it?). And the arrow below the Amazon text in the logo. One common brand of Californian raisins imported to Norway had the brand name 'Sun Maid' (with a picture of a young woman carrying a basket of grapes) - my mother never ever would accept the idea that 'Sun Maid' was a play of 'Sun made', ripened in the sun. Marketing folks come up with lots of bright ideas in this class, and 99% of the audience ignores/overlooks it. I am sure that they are prepared for that  .
I guess that a fair share of the Lounge audience has had their share of graph theory. So let me ask: Have you ever been considering the name 'Edge' as related to hypertext graphs? Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
(If you care to indicated whether you feel familiar with graph theory, that would be an interesting additional piece of information!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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In my part of the world*, a dissected plateau, there are many clifftop lookouts and walking trails.
There is a lot of signage encouraging people to keep away from the edge, which I consider excellent advice.
* The coincidence between my postcode and an ancient IBM RJE device/protocol I find amusing.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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