It’s a reference to A Fire Upon The Deep, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge. One way to describe it is that a superintelligent computer virus tries to take over the galaxy. It is great, try a web search.

Is that something like a “class II perversion”? For example the Straumli Blight.

True but OP’s question was about dating apps, where the other person is shown your picture and prewritten blurb, and spends at most a few seconds deciding whether to swipe left or right. I can very easily understand a swipe-right ratio of well under 1%. So I think the question was about how to get past that.

Type the chromebook make and model into ebay and see if you can get a cheaper replacement battery. Otherwise you can probably fake something using phone or cylindrical batteries or similar, especially if you don’t mind them not fitting properly into the chromebook.

Never used any apps but I’ve gotten some decent connections and a few meetups from craigslist (back when when it had personals ads) and (believe it or not) more recently, reddit. Just write literate messages that are responsive to what the other person wrote, instead of being generic.

Also, proofread your responses very thoroughly before sending. Make sure that the grammar and punctuation is all perfect. The slightest error can be a huge negative in how well your response is received. Why is that? I don’t know. But I’ve seen multiple people comment on this. Some have come out and told me that they responded to me because of it. It really matters.

Reddit has apparently just ditched its PM system in favor of a chat system. That seems pretty terrible for those of us who prefer to write carefully.

Tribute song by filker Robert Osband, who himself passed away a few years ago:

WHATEVER BECAME OF TOM LEHRER?
Tune: Whatever became of Hubert? ( https://youtu.be/hF3sEZ7M4h0 )
By Robert Osband, Copyright 1978
From The NESFA Hymnal, page 174.

Whatever became of Tom Lehrer?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Is he dead? Still a Prof?
Does he make bucks enough, that he don’t need that stuff he sings?

A satirical, jocular singer
Who’s been through the political wringer,
It is hard to record a new disc
When Harvard brings down its big fist.

Whatever’s become of you, Thomas?
We miss you, so tell us please:
It is Harvard, your boss,
Why you’re gathering moss
While your waiting applause lies in freeze?

Does Tommy, recalling when he was big time,
Think “They won’t like my singing,
For my songs, give a dime.”
We all think that a comeback is due!
Tom Lehrer, what happened to you?

unknowable traits

There are some really interesting ones, but nobody knows what they are.

A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office…

Maybe interesting but I don’t think it’s news. Try a politics community.

There is a Humble Book Bundle about this expiring in a day or so:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/get-good-with-money-books

I have no opinion about it, just letting you know it is there. I haven’t bought it myself.

I don’t think finance theory will help you much. But it’s worth reading the classic “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” to protect yourself from certain kinds of superstition.

What does it even mean to break up Nvidia? Google, sure, they have a bunch of different divisions that are dominating separate industries. NVidia basically has one product amirite? Do you split them into a consumer GPU division and a data center GPU division? Split the consumer segment further for different specific games?

Yes they are way too powerful but the remedies are different.

Yeah, someone corrected, I don’t follow this stuff carefully.

Kn0thing

Ah ok, close enough though maybe. Another zillionaire techdude.

IIRC her sister is married to Spez. What a crappy in-law he must be.

Ideally, set up a battery and inverter system in your house, and turn the charging rate up or down depending on what other electric devices you are using at any given moment. Idea is to keep your power consumption exactly the same regardless of what you are doing at home. That way you give no information to the power company.

Not the onion?

What did the Tesla robot say to the gas pump? “Get your finger out of your ear, I’m talking to you”.

limitless

Where is the tritium supposed to come from?

There are lots of such recordings on youtube. IDK what are on albums. Here, try some of these:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brautigam+beethoven+pianoforte

Pen and paper then. Too many computers.

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired