One might almost say a Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons.

Heat and noise. The noise and the increased electrical bills are the main things people living near data centers complain about.

I'm really fascinated by the 1890s, myself. Would have been horrible to live in for medical reasons, but there was an amazing counterculture and avant-garde that was just amazingly cool and weird.

There was '50s nostalgia in the '80s, though: Happy Days and Back To The Future.

There was some interesting counterculture in the '40s and '50s, but how could there not be when the dominant culture was so conformist and bland. You have to dig at least a little for that stuff today, because those countercultures didn't really become legible until the '60s, when they were already changing into something less interesting.

Yeah, I can always use the Android Terminal once. If I re-open it, it says it's corrupted, and has to delete and re-install its minimal Debian environment.

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU Terry Pratchett.

Poor Ea-Nasir will never know peace.

Or a thing for that matter, like Cthulhu, or Has&^*##NO CARRIER

"Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" is the official name of the ideology of the Communist Party of China.

In the 1980s, it was the high-end trim line, more or less across the board. I believe it gradually drifted down as special trim lines for different models were added until it was the base line on everything.

Instead of a human who was driving exactly the same as the Waymo up until the instant the child ran out. Important distinction.

That sucks, and I love to hate on "self driving" cars. But it wasn't speeding to start with (assuming speed limit in the school zone was 20 or 25), braked as much as possible, and the company took over all the things a human driver would have been expected to do in the same situation. Could have been a lot worse, probably wouldn't have been any better with a human driver (just going to ignore as no-signal Waymo's models that say an attentive human driver would have been worse). It's "fine". In this situation, cars period are the problem, not "self driving" cars.