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The late David Foster Wallace wrote an amazing ode to going on a single cruise and vowing never to do so again https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Shipping+out%3a+on

• phreack 3y ago
  I did not know this author before, and read about a quarter of the piece before realizing both that it was way longer than I expected, and that I was hooked on every word. > Captain Nico explains that the Nadir subscribes to something called GPS: "This Global Positioning System is using the satellites above to know the position at all times, which gives this data to the computer." It emerges that when we're not negotiating ports and piers, a kind of computerized Autocaptain pilots the ship. This line in particular made me chuckle.