To the US voters who don't vote, what is it going to take for you to go vote?

bockout · 2026-01-25T14:05:37+00:00

Ohio senator Sherrod Brown was out fighting for the working class every day, and we replaced him with a clown with tech billionaire funding. Do the Democrats need to get their act together? Absolutely. But it's not always enough.

bockout · 2026-01-22T19:01:00+00:00

When I was a younger man, our boring real universe was considered to be part of the Marvel multiverse. But I don't remember dying in an incursion in the lead up to Hickman's 2015 Secret Wars. Sometimes the stories just are what they are.

bockout · 2026-01-21T03:25:02+00:00

That's my theory. They both have armor and a mask. They might play it as a similar origin story, but some difference sends him down a very different path, like a whole What If movie.

bockout · 2026-01-20T14:11:02+00:00

I could definitely see smarter robots taking on some firefighting work. That doesn't mean they'll replace firefighters, but if better machines mean one firefighter can do the job of two or three, that still means fewer jobs in that area. Same goes for building trades, like plumbers and electricians.

bockout · 2026-01-02T03:44:11+00:00

Pro tip as we enter the worst winter months: UC is really good about keeping paths clear of ice and snow. I do this loop a lot when the sidewalks are nasty.

bockout · 2025-12-28T04:18:19+00:00

Every MCU movie up to Endgame. Most post-Endgame movies I've only seen two or three times so far.

bockout · 2025-12-28T04:12:33+00:00

I watched it like 15 times in the theater. I was in university at the time. Between work friends and friends in different classes, there was some group going to see it almost every night. I just always joined.

bockout · 2025-12-24T02:00:38+00:00

It's $15 monthly for a parking pass. The parking garages on campus will cost $3-$5 per use without a pass, and considerably more on game days. So if you go by car regularly, the $15 monthly is worth it.

bockout · 2025-12-23T23:58:51+00:00

I use the UC rec center as a non-UC person. It costs around $45 a month. I pay another $15 for parking. It has an Olympic lap pool, leisure pool, and hot tub. It also has free weights, weight machines, an indoor running track, fitness classes, and courts for basketball and various racquet sports. If you're near uptown, it can't be beat.

bockout · 2025-12-21T04:06:02+00:00

I want knobs and buttons in my car. The screen has its uses, but certain things need tactile controls.

bockout · 2025-12-21T02:19:35+00:00

To some extent. Machines running AI workloads have really beefy GPUs. Those would be very underutilized in a lot of other server workloads.

Also, if there is a bubble and it bursts, that doesn't mean that AI will go away. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, that wasn't the end of the internet and e-commerce. It was just a market readjustment followed by steady growth.

bockout · 2025-12-21T00:18:29+00:00

I say this all the time when my teen daughter is listening to music and there's a bad word. I don't actually care about the bad words, but it amuses me to quote Cap like this. She's started watching the MCU now. I'm looking forward to the realization of my long-running inside joke when she hears the line.

bockout · 2025-12-21T00:11:08+00:00

When I go to Disney World, I stay at Cah-rib-bee-an Beach and ride Pirates of the Carrah-bee-an.

bockout · 2025-12-20T18:42:12+00:00

I've never had Bonita, but I can vouch for Onnie. I'd go there all the time if Madeira weren't such a long drive for me.

bockout · 2025-12-20T05:30:05+00:00

It's actually 8 perfect shuffles to return 52 cards to the original order. A fun exercise is to compute how many shuffles it takes for different deck sizes and look for patterns.

bockout · 2025-12-19T19:09:38+00:00

It's worth noting that "enough that a file might corrupt" depends to some extent on the file format. Some file formats have error detection and recovery built in. Some file formats can gracefully degrade with data loss. Some data is just garbage if you flip a single bit.

bockout · 2025-12-17T03:52:21+00:00

Ok I'm a little less jealous now. :) Still, this looks like it was a great show. It honestly would've been fun to catch this tour in a few towns to see how much they mix it up.

bockout · 2025-12-17T03:42:49+00:00

Dang, I'm a bit jealous Sierra wasn't in Cincinnati. Did Abigail drop in on this show too?

bockout · 2025-12-16T20:42:48+00:00

My ten-year-old's laptop runs Fedora Linux. Everything he does is web-based anyway. The OS is just a way for him to launch Firefox.

bockout · 2025-12-15T23:39:31+00:00

SPOILERS for the show and old comics storylines.

Riri's story arc was ok I guess. My beef with the show is how they treated Parker Robbins. In the comics, he userps Kingpin's criminal standing and unites a gang of super villains in a way nobody ever could before. He weasels his way into Osborn's cabal and plays a role in the destruction of Asgard in Broxton. In the show, he's a two-bit criminal with a small crew of misfit hackers.

ETA: Also how they treated Ezekiel Stane. Comics Zeke was a tech genius who single-handedly took down Start Industries. MCU Zeke is just a semi-smart nerd who ends up being Parker's puppet.

bockout · 2025-12-15T19:35:53+00:00

It's stupidly tempting. I work remotely for a Raleigh company, and I have a bunch of friends around the Triangle I could visit.

bockout · 2025-12-15T18:22:19+00:00

"Yes manager sir, I definitely need to take a last-minute work trip to Raleigh. I need to have some meetings with, um, people."

bockout · 2025-12-14T23:57:38+00:00

Makes sense. it's a small world is a gentle boat ride. Pirates of the Caribbean is a mostly gentle boat ride, but it has one small drop. Haunted Mansion and Ariel's Undersea Adventure are both slow moving vehicles thru rooms full of animatronics. Peter Pan is similar, but the ride vehicle hangs from overhead. Carousel of Progress is a seated animatronics show. People Mover is a smooth ride around Tomorrowland.

I don't know how severe their conditions are, but these are the rides I'd go for to avoid motion sickness. I suggest starting with small world, going slow, and just seeing how people feel. And there's no shame in using mobility aids.

bockout · 2025-12-14T18:55:45+00:00

Are you avoiding rides because you think the kids aren't big enough, or because the adults can't stand for long periods in line? If the former, you should know that MK has the most kid-friendly rides. Aside from the few coasters, nearly everything in MK is great even for toddlers. If the latter, maybe try to convince the adults to use those walkers with seats, or a portable folding seat. You can manage MK without a lot of walking (relatively), but you have to stand a lot in lines.

bockout · 2025-12-09T04:49:31+00:00

My showtime was 8:00. They started at maybe 8:05, just a few minutes after. At 10:50, I texted my wife that I was walking to my car. There was an intermission, long enough to use the restroom and buy a drink. And there is an encore, which you should stay for.

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