powers of 2 seem to work well in many things. in rhythm too. so dont be so quick to dismiss.

a bunch of robot cars broke down middle of wuhan highways today.

Oh c’mon! Do you really believe we actually sent space probes ~15.0 billion miles from earth?

Next you’ll tell me that the message from humanity was read by someone later linked to Nazi-era activities (though not a confirmed war criminal in the legal sense).

why all u programmers cant make ur own website and host ur own git servers?

offtopic: i've always read cory doctorow as cory dotcrow. anybody else?

im reminded of an o henry story where a guy tries that.

isnt the pentagon just asking for total access to source code and data silos of anthropic and openai...that we cant ask because its proprietary software?

cant any point on the map with a road be a rome?

Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t.

Honestly I think this part

> The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructure reflect regional, political and geographical situations.

should just be taken as pseudo-profound art fluff. Are you telling me all Greek commercial transport goes straight through non-Schengen instead of just ferrying across?

fudgings for better lookings!

and roman empire appeals to the usa.

indeed, shipping and air transport breaks the ideology. wonder what teleportation would bring!

i like calling a function f without arguments simply as

f # first word in TCL command line is a command

rather than

f ();

if there was also a function called g, i like to do things like

set a f

$a # calls f

so i can now

set a g

$a # calls g

cool i think.