never bought a paper map. Have picked up one at a park or something, but haven’t done that in a decade.

Eating fast food. I do a ton of driving for my job and am frequently hours from home. I could pack my own meals, but the company covers lunch if I’m away from the office. I don’t have to stop for any health reason, I just don’t really like the taste after five years of the same things over and over. I’d be more ok with it if there were more options, but I’m in a rural part of the country.

I’m holding on at least till the stock split

I spend a lot of time driving, audiobooks are the way to go

I solve problems related to how lightning rocks talk to each other. Often there’s an issue with how automatic scribes decide they don’t feel like talking. Some days I must travel more than double the speed of your fastest horse using a metal box with wheels. I will often complain when my metal box picks the wrong music to play.

I’d say they are slightly better as they do a good job if you aren’t paying attention. The reality is they need more training, but the law of diminishing returns kicked in long ago, so progress will be slow.

This AI upscale isn’t the best, but it replaced the original so I guess no going back. The music is still 10/10

Apparently they replaced the original video with an AI upscaled version. You can see some things aren’t temporally stable. Some lines fade in and out as the camera moves.

TCP is a protocol where all the data is verified when sent. There is extra back and forth communication along with the payload to check that the payload arrived safely. Its great for downloading files when you want to make sure nothing is missing or damaged. UDP is more like a constant data stream where the sender doesn’t care if it all gets to you. The advantage is that you send less data overall, useful if you don’t care if one frame of a video stream looks weird.

One protocol isn’t safer than another, its all about how much bandwidth you have/need. Torrenting over TOR uses up way more bandwidth than needed. Depending on the implementation, TCP can use 50% more bandwidth.

For me it’s photography. I originally bought a camera and lens second hand. Now over the past two years its become rather a lot of money. I bought a Nikon Z8 last month and it was definitely worth the money.