One of my favorite horror films of the 1980s, Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 Possession. One quote I heard about it, is that some movies are about madness, and other movies seem to be themselves mad, and Possession is one of…
The sheer quantity of "mislabelled"[1] PRC origin parts passing through the logistics chains as Primo-A-grade-American-Made - even in Defense - is deeply disturbing, and that's the stuff that they do catch.…
You also have to ponder how it looks when you remove the Chinese supply chain for all those commodity parts. Which will almost certainly be the case if we decide to punch that dance card. Having a boundless cornucopia…
Refrigeration and freezer cars completely inverted a lot of prices in the late 19th through the early 20th century. Coming home from the Appalachian Trail I stayed at the Inn at St. John's in Portland ME, waiting for my…
Precisely how early Heliocentrism began to be seriously considered is a very much open question, but of its more lucid proponents, very little survives, if anything at all. Usually only in snippets told by others. And…
The retrogression perception is correct; but the specific timeframe is so incorrect that the back of my head blew out like a pinata. The goal is - and I am not picking on the reactionary wing alone, this impulse has…
I've been a very vocal advocate of Asciidoc as replacement for thick granular XML-based CCS (component content system) specifications, but Typst is the first one that gives it a run for its money. And then some. If…
Where the self-identifier of "nerd" as "I don't care that I don't know how to make people like me" is given precedence over "I care more about esoteric knowledge than about how to make people like me"
"Stay 'til 2300 codepounding or watch your child die of a medieval disease" seems to work really well for productivity, though. Oh, no, people stopped having children. Whatever could be the reason.
Block 4 is the only version they'd dare put up against a peer air defense, and Block 4 is delayed, delayed, delayed, and . . nowhere in sight, at the moment. There has been two and a half decades of FUD billowing around…
There's a parallel in Maus, where the PoV character runs increasingly into his Holocaust survivor's father's racism, even as he explores his father's threading the needle of 20th century Central Europe[1] . He calls his…
Is there an actual quantitative check that says "AI or not AI"? I'm genuinely curious. So far as I can tell, AI prose checking - at least vs the frontier models - has been little better than vibe-based. Which, well,…
First off, say a private prayer of thanks that the core of the current reactionary movement is operating as a scaled up dropship scam. Intellectually and organizationally focused, the end product would rival or even…
Hell yeah. I've run WEG d6, d20 Saga, FFG and I have to say, from a mechanics perspective, HERO + prefabs is my favorite system to run Star Wars in. A small but significant part of that is the vehicle/ship rules use the…
The grandson of Oswald . . no way . . no waaayyyy . . clickity clickity click click Jesus tap dancing Christ.
I've always been a "power user", making little python programs and figuring out new ways to do things with seemingly unrelated systems. My knowledge is shallow, but very broad. A year and a few jobs ago I was genuinely…
I'm not sure that's completely accurate? Vertex skinning isn't (necessarily) tied to polygons . . but to having points (or any parameterized features) that can be transformed by a weighted blend of matrices. The…
Humans have a hard time with zeroes, as there's not really an evolutionary driver for that. In the natural world, if whatever it is has exponents, odds are you're not going to be able to do anything about it.
Probably because you're watching the climax of the End of (heavily financialized, securitized, American-style) Capitalism. Assets are being converted into political power directly, as all the circuit breakers have been…
Being aviation-adjacent for the last few decades, I can't think of a light GA open water ditching that EVERYONE survived without a scratch. Astonishing luck and no doubt skill on everyones' part. I know, I know, Sully .…
Couldn't agree more. But I'd recommend solving the problem before shooting ten men and ten women into the Martian regolith forever and telling them to make babies. Alternatively, it's not the scale of problem you try…
The resultant economic income elasticity / demand destruction from sudden "shocks" in energy costs will dull those gains for oil comopanies. And that shock has a longer signal. Witness the commodity runup from the last…
Mentioned by . . the President? SecDef? Did they mention these things before munitions were released? Perhaps I have not been paying attention, but generally before exploding another sovereign nation PotUS does a little…
Wikipedia in one tab, and SpaceEngine in the other, is one of my favorite semi-educational gaming experiences. Great game. I haven't seen anything quite as nice even though it's quite long in the tooth.
I think the level of irritation is proportional to knowledge of the technical art of cinema, since what makes a good "shot" is often a discussion of minutiae. There are innumerable examples of better shots in…
One of my favorite horror films of the 1980s, Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 Possession. One quote I heard about it, is that some movies are about madness, and other movies seem to be themselves mad, and Possession is one of…
The sheer quantity of "mislabelled"[1] PRC origin parts passing through the logistics chains as Primo-A-grade-American-Made - even in Defense - is deeply disturbing, and that's the stuff that they do catch.…
You also have to ponder how it looks when you remove the Chinese supply chain for all those commodity parts. Which will almost certainly be the case if we decide to punch that dance card. Having a boundless cornucopia…
Refrigeration and freezer cars completely inverted a lot of prices in the late 19th through the early 20th century. Coming home from the Appalachian Trail I stayed at the Inn at St. John's in Portland ME, waiting for my…
Precisely how early Heliocentrism began to be seriously considered is a very much open question, but of its more lucid proponents, very little survives, if anything at all. Usually only in snippets told by others. And…
The retrogression perception is correct; but the specific timeframe is so incorrect that the back of my head blew out like a pinata. The goal is - and I am not picking on the reactionary wing alone, this impulse has…
I've been a very vocal advocate of Asciidoc as replacement for thick granular XML-based CCS (component content system) specifications, but Typst is the first one that gives it a run for its money. And then some. If…
Where the self-identifier of "nerd" as "I don't care that I don't know how to make people like me" is given precedence over "I care more about esoteric knowledge than about how to make people like me"
"Stay 'til 2300 codepounding or watch your child die of a medieval disease" seems to work really well for productivity, though. Oh, no, people stopped having children. Whatever could be the reason.
Block 4 is the only version they'd dare put up against a peer air defense, and Block 4 is delayed, delayed, delayed, and . . nowhere in sight, at the moment. There has been two and a half decades of FUD billowing around…
There's a parallel in Maus, where the PoV character runs increasingly into his Holocaust survivor's father's racism, even as he explores his father's threading the needle of 20th century Central Europe[1] . He calls his…
Is there an actual quantitative check that says "AI or not AI"? I'm genuinely curious. So far as I can tell, AI prose checking - at least vs the frontier models - has been little better than vibe-based. Which, well,…
First off, say a private prayer of thanks that the core of the current reactionary movement is operating as a scaled up dropship scam. Intellectually and organizationally focused, the end product would rival or even…
Hell yeah. I've run WEG d6, d20 Saga, FFG and I have to say, from a mechanics perspective, HERO + prefabs is my favorite system to run Star Wars in. A small but significant part of that is the vehicle/ship rules use the…
The grandson of Oswald . . no way . . no waaayyyy . . clickity clickity click click Jesus tap dancing Christ.
I've always been a "power user", making little python programs and figuring out new ways to do things with seemingly unrelated systems. My knowledge is shallow, but very broad. A year and a few jobs ago I was genuinely…
I'm not sure that's completely accurate? Vertex skinning isn't (necessarily) tied to polygons . . but to having points (or any parameterized features) that can be transformed by a weighted blend of matrices. The…
Humans have a hard time with zeroes, as there's not really an evolutionary driver for that. In the natural world, if whatever it is has exponents, odds are you're not going to be able to do anything about it.
Probably because you're watching the climax of the End of (heavily financialized, securitized, American-style) Capitalism. Assets are being converted into political power directly, as all the circuit breakers have been…
Being aviation-adjacent for the last few decades, I can't think of a light GA open water ditching that EVERYONE survived without a scratch. Astonishing luck and no doubt skill on everyones' part. I know, I know, Sully .…
Couldn't agree more. But I'd recommend solving the problem before shooting ten men and ten women into the Martian regolith forever and telling them to make babies. Alternatively, it's not the scale of problem you try…
The resultant economic income elasticity / demand destruction from sudden "shocks" in energy costs will dull those gains for oil comopanies. And that shock has a longer signal. Witness the commodity runup from the last…
Mentioned by . . the President? SecDef? Did they mention these things before munitions were released? Perhaps I have not been paying attention, but generally before exploding another sovereign nation PotUS does a little…
Wikipedia in one tab, and SpaceEngine in the other, is one of my favorite semi-educational gaming experiences. Great game. I haven't seen anything quite as nice even though it's quite long in the tooth.
I think the level of irritation is proportional to knowledge of the technical art of cinema, since what makes a good "shot" is often a discussion of minutiae. There are innumerable examples of better shots in…