That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.

No worries, that only happens if there’s a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn’t be a problem here, surely this thing won’t generate any of that.

I’m guessing this is next to a golf course, and people try to keep playing the ball after it lands in the cemetery.

I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?

Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?

You seem to be suffering from imposter syndrome. Step 1 is to understand that we’re all just winging it.

Are you getting the job done? Plenty of people you perceive as smarter than you are not getting the job done.

Most functional War of the Worlds merch.

Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn’t understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.

It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.

You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.

I don’t know if we’re doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but

The tentacles of an octopus are usually not attached neatly in a row. Some of them will be behind the other legs.

Yes it was. But as far as I remember, they tried to migrate to Windows and gave up?

Should be possible to make a compatibility layer. You can run android apps on PC now, according to constant banners on Play Store.

The biggest issue is hardware support. Mobile hardware still uses custom drivers for everything, so you wouldn’t be able to ramp up a new OS on existing hardware. You’d need to invest in making both a phone and an OS, and that’s a big risk considering only a small amount of turbo nerds will care.

Most Americans are incapable of seeing the big picture. They’ll drive to the polling station cursing about all the bicyclists in the road, vote against bike lanes “because I don’t use them”, and drive home still cursing about all the bicyclists in the road. They could have been on a bike path out of your way, you know!

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.