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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.

    When I was at school they reckoned that I should be in the gifted program so I ended up getting one of the first laptops. This would have been in the very early 1990s and the thing weighed as much as a small whale and was built like a brick. I absolutely used it as a weapon.

    It had a grayscale backlit LCD screen. It was seriously a terrible laptop really. It had an interesting mode on it where you could transfer files from it to another computer by plugging it in via a PS2 port, and it would declare itself to be a keyboard and it would just “type” whatever you’d written (of course you lost all formatting). Bit of a useless feature these days but it would have been a godsend back in the early 2000s when transferring files was still quite difficult.














  • I have absolutely no problem with self-driving vehicles and I’m fully prepared to accept that it is a possibility in the near future. However I am also utterly confident that it won’t be Tesla that finally cracks it, and I am sure that they will still call it “full self driving” even in a future where we have actual full self driving.

    The law really needs to be laid down on this stuff, unless it can actually drive itself without a human even in the vehicle, and do so reliably, then they’re not allowed to call it anything that implies that capability.