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@jonathankoren @mhoye

The problem is its inaccuracy for smaller input sets involving low-digit-count numbers.

Trivially fixed by hardcoding the results for 3-digit and lower input. Ship it!

@ApostateEnglishman @jackwilliambell @cstross

Brain implants are and were dumb on their face.

It turns out we have several excellent brain interfaces available and honed over millions of years of evolution - our eyes, ears, hands, voice, and a bunch of more subtle ones like touch and balance. They are intuitive, built-in, and free. And none of them are permanently invasive, which saves all sorts of biology issues.

The only real use-case for any sort of implant is where you have no alternative - the pacemaker comes to mind. The rest are someone trying to sell you something you don't need or want.

@Viss

But surely everyone is checking their local repo before they push it to github, right? (Waggles eyebrows)

(Uproarious laughter)

Thank you, thank you - you've been a great audience, I'll be here all week!

@emma

I doubt very much the Inuit are occupying the "rugged empty areas" (by which I mean the interior, not the coasts where the current population, native and otherwise, mostly lives) of Greenland most like mars, but sure. Let's ask them too. But - even if they welcomed it with open arms, this is Danish territory by our own treaty with Denmark.

My point is - mars is a suicide trip. The money and time and effort to make things inhabitable for humans should be spent inside our current biosphere.

@jensorensen

To be fair, colonizing the rugged empty areas of Greenland would be far, far easier and cheaper than colonizing mars. A lot less dead people too. Just - do it with the permission and cooperation of Denmark, who do own it. They're very nice. Make a deal, follow the laws, pay some taxes, and live your rugged utopian heart out.

@Teaceratops

I'd look at intermediate destinations and try to convert a lot of that travel to land. If they can get to India or china, train travel to get a lot closer to home becomes viable.

In the past I'd have suggested California, then cross-country to New York and the QM2 to the UK, but I would avoid the US for now for reasons.

Honestly, it sounds like their best bet is don't miss the March cruise. Best of luck.

@ifixcoinops @joepie91 @sinvega @aburka @Viss

So much this.

I have a group of real life in-person friends. We don't have a written set of bylaws or code of conduct, and if/when someone gets obnoxious, they stop getting invited. Why would my online friend group be different? "Be cool and nice, don't cause problems" shouldn't need to be explicit.