The headline is about missing a “cue” as in failing to respond correctly, but it’s misspelled “que” - which happens to be Spanish for “what”, which was the basis for my joke using Spanish question marks.

¿Missing the what?

Nah, the magic system is fine, they just didn’t use it right. Example: Snape wondering if somebody is there. “Accio Invisibility cloak!” Boom, Harry’s standing there visible and Snape has his cloak!

Company: Yes we’re charging you more… but on the other hand we’re giving you less, so it all evens out. Besides, changing hosts is a pain.

Customers: Changing hosts is such a pain.

Cool, I will take a look. Intuitively that seems about right to me. I was just saying the world definitely wouldn’t freeze overnight.

Somewhat, but I’m thinking of the future of federation as a torrenty mesh of peers with no actual hosting “service” that can be turned off. That’s how I picture the Cortex in the Firefly universe. When Simon as a boy is excited about getting a “source box” I imagine it’s a participant as opposed to just an endpoint.

Sleep is for people who don’t know how to write code!

The only way to get the right answer would involve doing math and knowing enough climatology and geology to even know which math, so I dunno.

Modern tech makes it hard for me to take science fiction seriously anymore that involves humans piloting space fighters, manually aiming weapons, or even being effective on battlefields. We’re rapidly reaching a point where warfare will be strictly in the realm of machines.

According to astronomers the sun doesn’t have a measurable effect on the night sky when it’s more than 18 degrees below the horizon. So I doubt naked-eye observers would notice.

Federated as opposed to using a Wordpress hosting service etc that can be turned off by someone’s business decision.

I signed up for early access, but tbh based on the signup page it’s hard to have a lot of confidence in anyone who thinks really light gray text on a white background is a sensible idea.

We would need enough advance notice to prepare for massively farming mushrooms or something underground to eat. Canned food will run out in a few years, even military MREs have a shelf life. A few lucky people might survive a generation, but there’s a minimal breeding stock requirement to avoid degeneration from inbreeding. Extremely long odds, I think the human race would only survive this event in a sci-fi fantasy story.

Wherever you live on the Earth’s surface starts cooling every night and gets warmed up again the next day. It wouldn’t cool any faster if the sun went away, it would just keep cooling at the normal rate until everything was frozen. But I doubt it would take more than a week or two, depending on where you live.

I really doubt we would notice, because if so we would already be feeling different during day and night. The sun pulls us toward the sky during the daytime and toward the ground at night. Also toward the east at sunrise and the west at sunset. But none of this seems noticeable.

Good one! If the moon wasn’t visible at the time and you were just sitting outside say at midnight, I wonder if you would notice anything different.

Most of us sleep at night and don’t check our info-hose feeds until we wake up.

Don’t we already have enough real shit to worry about tho?

I followed a roughly similar process but the flow was more like, “Here’s a 65-inch TV on sale, let’s bump up our 48.”

Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.