A simple 300 bps connection over POTS to relay the information from the process controller is all you need. But even POTS is disappearing.

Please do. I’m tired of reading PKD novels, they’re more fun happening IRL.

Um, OK… what do you DO with this? It just seems like a hermetic exercise in digital hoarding.

What on Earth do people DO with computers that requires this level of complexity?

It just seems like computers could have stopped in 1989 and I struggle to see what the difference would be.

Never seen letters like that on license plates in Quebec.

https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf

Spoiler alert: if we weren’t 8 billion and fertilized our crops with fossil fuels, then we wouldn’t need that much fossil energy…

Yes, it’s you. It’s me. It’s your 5 kids. The oil didn’t pump itself out of the ground and set itself on fire for fun.

It’s your plane trip, it’s your military, it’s your proxy wars.

I have this great book about all the glassware in use in 1940s chemistry.

I feel seen.

It comes in mustard yellow too!!??

Oh I mean as a toy, like in a plastic case with all the other Matchbox cars I had as a kid.

Or as some kind of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

Maybe in history books but not in any grocery store I’ve been to.

Very standard in French? I struggle to remember seeing either.

When I was a kid I saw this in a book

https://www.motor1.com/features/393554/alfa-romeo-navajo-bertone-supercar-sunday/

and I was so excited by the thing I tried to make a copy out of construction paper. I probably like these kinds of shapes for some reason.

I still think it looks awesome, but as a toy, you know?

The Aztek is awesome!

What? Space Nutters have assured me that space investments return seven dollars for every dollar invested?

Just start asteroid mining and put a Starbucks on Mars to profit from both businesses!

He’s using a “thorn” cuz he’s so tistic and awesome.

I thought I was the only one. I wanted to Hulk punch the guy over IP.

I maxed out my configuration at 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD around the same time.