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Artemis Heat Shields — [https link] The trouble is that the heat shield on Orion blows chunks. Not in some figurative, pejorative sense, but in the sense that when NASA flew this exact mission in 2022, large pieces of material blew out of Orion’s heat shield during re-entry, leaving divots. [https link]
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Apr 04 · 5 weeks ago
Magnified Sand [https link] To see the beauty of our land look closely at a grain of sand...
💬 1 like · Mar 28 · 6 weeks ago
Money Plane Crash — Apparently the police spent weeks hunting down those who picked up stacks of cash.
💬 1 comment · 1 like · Mar 18 · 7 weeks ago
REPLACED BY AI — [https link] Man, I feel your pain! Losing your $150K job after loading up on real estate, because, you know, as Realtors (R) tell you, now is the best time to buy and sell real estate! I've spent over a year writing code with ChatGPT as a very dumb assistant. To be fair, human assistants I''ve had were e en worse and generally could not show up on time, never mind being actually knowlegeable or helpful. ChatGPT is very useful when you can't remember an Emacs key binding, but...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2025-05-13 · 1 year ago
hmm, maybe this one: [http link] Don P. Mitchell Homepage
💬 2 comments · 2025-02-10 · 1 year ago
Antirez, amen brorher. — [https link]
💬 5 comments · 1 like · 2025-02-09 · 1 year ago
Lazy Boy — The living room was the corner of the house. After being exposed to magazine air for many years, the easy chair hardened: leather transmuted into granite. In front of the stone chair is a TV table piled with Yankee candles stacked one on top of the other. They're in the bleachers watching hockey, and the numbers and geometry here imply an expected donation to the Church of Meadow Showers or Wedding Day. Wicks tall and still above the radiator - there is far too much wax surrounding...
💬 2 likes · 2024-12-16 · 1 year ago
How to read an article on WWW (marginalia.nu) — [https link] [gemini link]
💬 1 like · 2024-11-23 · 1 year ago
For Zork fans
💬 3 likes · 2024-06-08 · 2 years ago
Object-orientation and other dumb ideas — Daniel Lemire has posted some great articles and is always interesting to read. Here is his short take on OOP, a stupid idea based on nothing that went so viral that opposing it would cost you your job, your friends, and your reputation. Includes a guide on how to spot these brain viruses as they spread near you. Look around and spot some current idiocies around you, and post your observations here, if you dare!
💬 20 comments · 1 like · 2024-06-05 · 2 years ago