Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he’s no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.

Thoughts:

1. Rhea Seehorn can totally carry an episode by herself. That was pretty epic in and of itself.
2. The drone fail 😅
3. I found it interesting how “they” firewalled themselves from Carol by only communicating by recording and interacting via drones. Carol definitely seems to have spooked them.
4. Granted, she did drug and nearly kill one of them so can’t blame “them”
5. I wonder what was on the second take of the second video we saw her record?
6. I’m sad I didn’t wait a bit longer to watch this episode because it’s going to be even longer before we ind out what she found at the food packaging plant.

I’d have to go back and rewatch (ok, you twisted my arm), but maybe Helen’s reaction was “standard” for the portion of the population where joining was fatal. I don’t recall any other failed joinings on screen so don’t have anything for comparison.

In ep 2 when Carol had a tantrum at Zosia and all the joined went into a coma (and many died as a result), it may be similar to Helen’s case. (Thinking out loud with that one). If it was similar, then that could be another hint.

If no one died during the initial joinings, but people died during the mass joining, how can they be sure they won’t kill Carol when they force her to join?

I don’t think they can be sure but also it may be an acceptable risk considering force-assimilating and the risk of death during assimilation are both loopholes to their “do no harm” ethos (I haven’t seen ep 4 yet so if anything revealed there contradicts that, I apologize)

Considering I can’t even identify the flavor by the label, I’m gonna say, no, probably not.

Basically pretending to be an organic grass-roots movement or to plant the seeds but the movement is to either destabilize or otherwise benefit a foreign entity.

How do you do my fellow Americans? How about we just start burning stuff down?

Basically shit like that (it’s not always that transparent except when it is exactly that transparent). See it pretty often even on here (less so since I’ve enabled “turbo” on my block button).

I guess what I’m saying is we should get the hell rid of it all so eventually public opinion won’t be swayed by cheap foreign labor, bots, and people who just want to burn it all down.

I’ve blocked so many accounts on here that are clearly not Americans just straight up trying to incite shit in US news / politics communities. I don’t know what’s worse: the number of upvotes those get or how transparent they are.

An unmanaged switch is just a single plane where all ports are equal. All ports share OSI layers 1 and 2. Anything you plug into port 24 can always reach anything you have plugged into port 3.

Managed switches (also sometimes known as “smart” switches) provide additional features on top of that. The most useful is VLANs (virtual LANs) which let you segregate traffic. Two ports on different VLANs share the same physical layer (layer 1) but are separated at the data link layer (layer 2). This lets you create up to 4096 different networks on the same switch; each network is isolated from the other. If port 24 and port 3 are on different VLANs, then they will not be able to communicate unless they can reach a common router at layer 3.

Additionally, managed switches let you do things like disable/enable ports (for security, power savings, etc), enable port mirroring, and combine multiple ports into an aggregation group (e.g. bond four 1 Gb links into one 4 Gb link).

The available features on a managed/smart switch vary by manufacturer and, often, by the license level (sadly common in enterprise gear). VLANs, port control, mirroring, and LAGs are usually common “baseline” features, though.

Just an x64 box running OpenWRT.

Which begs the question why not magnets at the top of the building to help pull the electricity up?

Guess it depends on the height, but yeah. Otherwise, we manage to pump a town’s worth of water to the top of a tower well enough. From there, gravity can do the rest.

But there’s probably a point where cost for that vs height becomes prohibitive.

If the costs of engineering a tower is more than just buying more land, then why build taller?

Figured it’d be something like that. Explains why they get built out in the middle of nowhere since land is cheap.

Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive.

Probably a bit of “hiding in plain sight” that way, too. There are a few big datacenters relatively near me, and they’re massive compounds in the middle of even more massive corn fields. Kind of stick out like a sore thumb when you’re driving by.

Same boat. Declined their router and just use their ONT. Not that the router makes a difference, but my “wan6” interface has been waiting for an IP address for about the same amount of time as yours.

Yeah. There’s other precedent for that, too.

With the original Xbox, you couldn’t play DVD’s without the infrared remote kit (even though the software and hardware was capable). The license fee for that was part of the cost of the IR receiver and remote kit.

Didn’t the original Raspberry Pi also sell codec licenses as well?

Yeah, the licensing is BS but couldn’t they just tack on like 40 cents to the price or whatever? For a $900+ machine, it wouldn’t even be a rounding error.

Open codecs are better, yeah, but artificially crippling existing media workflows is kind of a dick move, IMO.

Except driver’s licenses. Those are far too easy to get, especially for some people lol.

Modern Classic problems require modern solutions.

Yeah, I don’t know about pre-installed with Android that aren’t ad platforms masquerading as consumer hardware. I’d never use one unless it was supported by LineageOS or something. My comment was more “roll your own” in nature.