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Exactly how I do it. I start it running for a few second in the general middle spot, and tap it either way. It's going to vary where that is summer or winter, but fortunately the handle isn't too tight and I can get it with a few taps.

I had one shower in an apartment where the temp was set by twisting the round knob, but turned on by pulling out the whole thing. Perfection.

Dug your hole and threw out both the ladder and the shovel.

That's the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can't fix that now. We can't undo what's been done, we can't start over with new data that is fair, and we can't seem to get AI out of where it's been jammed in.

Agreed. The short is that AI was done wrong in so many ways, for the wrong reasons, and was the wrong direction for the goal they continue to insist they are trying to reach. The science and technology and what it can do, even the worst of it, is fascinating, but this is not what it should have been. Money corrupted yet another thing.

Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it's a thing everywhere.

I think it's an earlier episode than "Miri", but the one where they get infected and everyone is doing stuff because their barriers are down (drunk), Kirk mentions in his breakdown before Spock kicks sense into him the ensign that he sees every day, but can't do anything. So there was the thoughts deep down, but Kirk has disciple and morality. Even more so in the novel version, Kirk is a prodigy in most canon books and wouldn't do that stuff.

That has the same energy as James Burke's episode about the single power relay that brought down the East Coast. People aren't aware of how many potential cascade effects we have around us just waiting for the right moment.

I don't think Youtube's history on false positives for things is all that stellar. Maybe if they get AI to help it will... oh, no, it will make it far worse than even Youtube can do alone.

I jumped on the bandwagon when it first came out, found some stuff interesting, but yeah, the ground aspect didn't work for me. Probably didn't help that everyone was doing the same stuff, so there were lines to scan and collect and whatever. Didn't feel like a real away mission. Might be better with age, since much fewer would be in one place.

I think for the ships I was expecting more like Starfleet Command, which was not realistic for an online version.

No, it looks like it's moving.

If you have a few things that work better without or don't need the VPN, like some games, a good VPN will have a tunneling feature to let that one thing through while staying on for everything else.

Reread through Flood by Stephen Baxter. Now a third or so through the sequel Ark. Read them years ago, remembering stuff a bit as I go back through it, but seeing it anew as an starting author, and comparing writing and such with what I have. Did that earlier with Artemis. Made me feel a bit better for my writing, even though I do have a ways to go editing.