Nuke

sometimes its better to let people know what you think of them. its not friendly but it does send a message that you wont be bossed around by monkeys. of course im a bit of a sociopath so ymmv. young people in general seem to think that success is measured by how many shortcuts you can take. education, employment, relationships, responsibilities in general. in time they will be the one taking low paying jobs they hate to pay for child support and alimony not to mention taxes, or being sent to the can for failure to do these things. actually its not new slang. frank burns used it a lot on m*a*s*h, though i think its meaning has shifted slightly.

point defense certainly looks cooler in scifi than shield percentage callouts. its why space battles in bsg or the expanse are a lot more interesting than in star trek. star wars has shields but doesn't abandon point defense, which i think makes more sense and is a lot more realistic (tactically speaking). its pretty much the onion model, where you have a layered defense strategy instead of a single space magic system. realistically speaking i have my doubts that scifi force fields will be all that useful and can be penetrated by neutral particle beams and lasers and will fail catastrophically with kinetic weapons. electronic warfare might be a thing, you might have hackers on your crew that try to break into incoming warheads and either self destruct them or turn them on their own launch platforms. stealth, diversion and mimicry are all going to be other layers in that defense. and lets not forget diplomacy and subterfuge. art of war stuff.

only about 7 hours late to the party. i understand there were fireworks. noticed there was some serious thrust asymmetry during the boostback burn before the rud. is that intentional, cause i was under the impression that only the centermost engines would be used. others may have been lit to compensate. i doubt that hot staging was the cause, it looked like they overstressed trying to turn it around. they might have to land their booster further down range and take a more ballistic trajectory with passive deceleration. its time to revisit and scale up ocean recovery (something like the now retired flip, but with 3 or 4 pylons instead of one, operating like a catamaran in travel mode, brownie points if its self propelled). upper stage burned most of its fuel before being scuttled. this is a good sign. its also a good indication that we got good data about the flight.

il catch it on youtube when i wake up.

had a dusting yesterday morning but it turned to slush and is gone now.

didnt even have to change mine, they had an update within 24 hours. i have a desk full of unused raspberry pis so i can always put pihole on one of them if it becomes necessary.

thought about it but with their recent moves against adblockers i dont think i want to give youtube any money. anyway looking forward to lighting this candle.

fixed.

this is why i don't use reddit.

i think this is an improvement. he also does a version of kill em all, as zz top.

like i said, pulsed lasers. been wanting to get a laser cutter/engraver for the shop. they got that $600 k40 machine made in china, but i have my doubts that the laser tube would arrive in tact. been looking for a model that uses a solid state laser for under a thousand but that might just be wishful thinking. i mean there are kits, but the lasers these things use are kind of dangerous to your vision so alignment procedures tend to require more care than i usually give my projects. also hear horror stories about the kits coming with the wrong safety glasses that dont block the ir. where they use an array of ir modules to pump a yag crystal. this changes the frequency to visible spectrum light, but enough ir makes it through to be dangerous, so your glasses need to be able to block both components. i also worry about my kitties because they cant seem to go 2 minutes of me being in a different room. and will preemptively sneak in and hide if they think im going that way.

i tend to avoid games based on movies and tv shows, because its almost always a cash grab by a shovelware developer.

not sure that would do anything. pulsed lasers can do more damage for creating shockwaves on the surface of anything it hits, making it more suitable for weaponry than continuous beams.

the psu used to have trouble powering my old second gen i5. but the 4790k ran fine. i think it comes in around 45w and 125w from the gpu. math tells me that the sum of these things is less than 265, but psu manufacturers learned different math apparently. its buisiness grade stuff so its usually tuned for stability. only real problem is there is no gpu power connection, but the cpu power is a 4+4 and the mobo only has a 4 pin cpu power (this is where intel started getting efficient). i could probibly splice together an adapter. even though cpu has its own power its usually on the same rail as gpu power anyway. i wont exactly be running crysis on the thing so it should work. mostly emulators and games i cant run on win10, including all my classic mechwarrior games. i was gonna put the board in moms computer, but she doesn't like change.

gonna wait till the end of the season. like i did with most shows this year. thus i can confine my disappointment to a couple days.

linux still wont recognize the samba share on my router. i think the router uses an smb version that is deprecated in my distro. it isnt even an old router, think it would be capable of using something higher than smb1. but no.

if the xt needs a 1kw psu, i loathe to think what its larger brother would use. been generally happy with the 7900xt (granted i upgraded from a cut down rtx2070 super), but the industry can do better. hopefully in 3 or 4 generations when the card gets long in the tooth, they will reverse their transgressions. performance in ksp2 is acceptable at 4k native now. the new psu also runs a lot colder. should run some benchmarks to see if my computer runs better without the space heater in the case (e: 3% faster in cinebench). it does reinforce my claim that 80+ ratings are not a guarantee that the psu work well at its advertised wattage number. and for something completely different, is a 265w flexatx psu enough for a 4970k and 1060. for my win7 legacy box (for a number of low performance ''80s, 90s and '00s games). was going to put the sf600 in there but after some review there is no way in heck that diminutive psu will fit in the equally diminutive htpc case. dont want to spend more than the cost of the tooling to mod the back panel of the case.

avatar2 was at least watchable. a lot of movies the last 3 years werent. also noticed they canceled 1899. i guess it wasn't conformist enough.

it was buy something or spend the money on groceries. im having the same dilemma about whether or not to buy a steam deck when the oled models come out on thursday. on the other hand now is a good time to buy the old models, they were price dropped in preparation. of course then i realized i was old and a 7 inch display just wont cut it.

was always a safety third kind of guy myself.

power supply installed. now somebody remind me why stuffing a 1kw supply into a 12 liter case is a bad idea. it just feels wrong. corsair did shrink all their connectors though. so all the power supply side connectors are tiny. like the tiny nvidia 12 pin connector (which they included, negating the need for a squid cable in the future if i ever go back to nvidia). while i do question the wisdom of using these connectors, i do appreciate the space savings as id not have been able to get the longer psu in otherwise. but i do worry because i had to fold the cables 90 degrees for clearance. and that was one of the issues these smaller connectors had. the old modular connectors were bigger and could handle consideable abuse. i was somewhat dismayed that despite the ginormous intake fan, the output vent is very restrictive. i hope thats not a problem. anyway, enough chit chat. ksp2. lets see if i still get annoyed by paige. see if my rockets blow up at random. see if part counts can be jacked up. see if i can get a thousand tons on the pad. wish me luck. gonna skim the patch notes first, see whats happened, haven't played since release. e: rock solid, not a crash. curse you gpu manufacturers for requiring so much juice.

some websites tend to make the gpu go wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. these also tend to be websites with a lot of ads on them. one of the reasons i run an adblocker. i dont mind ads but when they start running scripts in the background i have to question my own online security.

i guess we will just have to... jump the shark.

and a motorhead album.,

as i understand it the only agency that still hasn't signed off is fish and game. idk what kind of game you're going after if you need starship to take it out. but that sure would be an interesting hunt. wonder what the bag limit is for cthulhu. i guess it would fall under commercial demolitions regulations.