Ooh, so close. There is a NumPy lib.

Did you hear anything like this?

https://birdwatchinghq.com/bald-eagle-calls-and-sounds/

A lot of us are sick of it, too. Not happy about being stuck on this ride.

I’m not sure. That’s why I asked. I wasn’t sure what you had in mind with the “most of the Internet” phrasing.

Going back to basics, “The Internet” is just a big network connecting lots of small networks. So “most” would be counting physical machines connected (or logical hosts? Does a single physical machine running 32 VMs count as 1 or 32? Oops, we’ve muddied the waters already!).

But…bandwidth matters, too. The point of the Internet is the communication between systems, no? Video compression has come a long way, but it still uses a ton of data. At the same time…watching a movie on Netflix is still doing just one thing.

Opposite side of that coin is traffic. If you’re looking at this from the standpoint of running a website, you’ll be concerned with how many requests are coming in. Lots of sites used to get ‘slashdotted’ when an article mentioned them and suddenly they got 100x the requests they could handle. Or email…one email doesn’t take much, but billions of them get sent every day.

Or maybe something else?

How would you measure what “most of the Internet” is? Number of hosts? Share of bandwidth? Amount of traffic? Something else?

This is essentially what I came here to post. Search, if not poisoned by surveillance capitalism, would handle the current WWW just fine.

Will you set the world on fire?

Chevron 7…encoded?

Looks so innocent you’d think it’s 1199 again

Way to miss the point.

I felt this way seeing how they treated Obama during his tenure. There was so much bullshit mudslinging, and at one point I said to myself: oh, it’s simple racism.

Funny, because my biggest complaint with him was that he didn’t address some of the worst abuses of the Bush years.

You would weep at the coat the library pays to provide that service. It certainly isn’t cheap. Free…so long as you ignore your taxes.

Oh, I’m nowhere near average in this respect. Believe me, I know I’m tremendously privileged to have the level of stability that I do.

The point I was trying to make is, even with the relative stability I do have, I’ll still lose my house if I lose my job and can’t find another one quickly enough.

I love this! There’s a family in my neighborhood that has three cats, indoor/outdoor. My wife and I check to see if they’re about basically every time we walk in the neighborhood. The cats will saunter up to us for pets most of the time :D

I love forests, especially when the terrain is rugged enough to straddle the line between hiking and freeclimbing.

For books, I like the feel of turning the pages by hand, but I won’t begrudge anyone their e-reader!

What about playing FTL? :)

I’m with you on everything except gardening. It sounds appealing in the abstract, but then in the spring it turns into “ugh, too much to do” and “ugh, gotta get up early to water” in the summer.

Actually…what DID get you into gardening in the first place? Maybe there’s something to it that I’m missing.

Would you mind talking a bit more about your approach to cooking? I take some satisfaction from being able to cook and sometimes from the feeling of improving my skill as a cook, but mostly it feels like a necessary chore.

… by 1500 BC (look up the battle of Megiddo between Egypt and Kadesh).

I’d say any warfare is an indicator of the population being too big for mutual aid to provide social cohesion.

Does it matter if you have more than the average person* if your house is effectively over quicksand?

Most Americans have more than the average person planetwide, but we’re one job loss away from being homeless. There’s no real stability in the job world, so our lives are mostly relying on luck**.

I’m paranoid about this type of thing, so I:

• Live in a cheap house - purchase price about 60% of what the bank would have approved.
• Drive an old car. I bought it in 2012 with a low-interest loan. No car payment since 2017.
• Save aggressively. Max retirement accounts and keep up a healthy emergency cushion.

*I’m taking “average person” here to mean “has more wealth than 50% of people on Earth” (wow, such a high bar!)

**Not entirely luck, but I’ve read too many “lost my job in tech to layoffs in 2023/2024 and am now homeless” accounts to believe in any guarantees in the American economy.

Try to shoot Nestle.

Miss? Mad Max.

Hit? Waterworld.