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ive had good luck with cermet coatings. they last at least twice as long as teflon and are workable longer into their use life. their only failure mode is they can chip if you drop a piece of silverware on it. im too lazy for cast iron. if you had fatty beef its not much of a problem. usually has enough in it to keep the surface from sticking. i have electric burners and just keep the heat lower and use patience. but if you got a hot burner keep an 1:10 oil water mixture in a squirt bottle and keep your surface wet (shake well before each squirt). unfortunately with the burners i got that trick doesn't work.

wind blew a tree on the power lines across the streat, one of those explosive actuated interruptors went off. made a cool flash and a loud bang, after spinning up the backup generator and charging the system, while some guys went to clearing the tree with a chain saw. power is back, for now. its funny because i had just finished all the housework for the day and was going to either play minecraft or upgrade my psu, but i don't feel like either now. i also don't trust those winds, another tree could topple. its funny because this summer the property owner went and removed about half a dozen trees from their lot, did a firewood sale to pay for it. all that work and you still get a fine.

speaking of full disassembly, my psu showed up. im not in a computer surgery mood right now though. now i can enjoy my games and feel bad about the environment (but not that bad).

was watching star trek lower decks the other night and i really like moopsy. my first reaction was, that's a pokemon. clearly a reference. of course the episode does bring up a good point. i wonder why pokemon don't attack their trainers out right. the relationship between pokemon and trainer is clearly one way exploitive. sure they get a good health care plan, but then again so does beef. i know if i do something my cats dont like, or they are mildly annoyed, or they want to show me that they love me, i get the claws.

latest debian lets you pick your de in the installer. why has this not been a thing until now? such a great feature. a lot of people pick distro on the de alone and its better to have a distro that lets you chose rather than a fork for every de. was always a kde guy so i went with plasma. very windows like (though i wish it was a little snappier). anyway its possibly one of the most usable distros ive seen. ive managed to work through most of the problems ive had setting it up for its intended usage. still a couple things to work on but i think i like it.

some kids can be very manipulative of the administration, and its usually the bullies that are the best at it. they get busted if they get caught, but they dont always get caught. the ones that fight back on the other hand almost always get caught. then you got some teachers who are of the opinion that its better to let kids settle things on their own for the life lessons and that interference can be detrimental, they often turn a blind eye. not sure zero tolerance policies work either, it just dissuades anti-bullying behavior on the part of the students being bullied. its a problem with no good solution, which is why it still exists.

discord is a gaping security hole and they ban people for not owning smartphones.

lunar manufacturing is a drop in the bucket compared to semiconductor fabrication. there are a lot of successful industries with astronomical start up costs.

im still waiting for my new power supply so i can play the damn thing. anyway i like games you can hack just by playing them, ksp falls into that, so does minecraft. you can break the game just by building stuff. its a far cry from the super mario world exploit where you can inject arbitrary machine code by placing shells in a certain order.

just talking about whats possible. just an example of a thing i was working on for my own game. try figuring out how to track a thousand projectiles spewed fourth from an autocannon that missed and are coming back the long way around. you got some trigger happy goon at the controls spewing these things everywhere. you cant track every bullet indefinitely the computation time would be astronomical especially when the number goes up every trigger pull. most games just despawn the projectiles at some arbitrary max range by expiring a timestamp. so you have a projectile cloud object to represent the idea of lost rounds. you build a convex hull from the bullets to represent the kill zone. this can be multiple bursts or projectiles from multiple vessles in the same engagement. they dont have transponders and if you get hit by one you are in a world of hurt, and tracking the origin of each round is not neccisary. the bullets drift apart so the volume of the hull is constantly increasing. then if you run into the cloud you figure the chance of running into a bullet based on the volume of the hull divided by the volume of the bullets times the count. you despawn when the chance of hitting a bullet gets down below a tenth of a percent. you can randomly throw in stray rounds periodically as if the rounds are getting lost in the solar system, maybe show little streaks and issue a collision hazard warning to the pilot. so now i have a small number of projectile clouds that are easier to manage and provide the illusion of stray bullets. so something computationally impossible becomes practical.

the thing thats cheaper to build in space is space infrastructure. still want that moonbase shipyard that can handle nuclear engines without posing a threat to the earth.

simulations are physics allowed to play out. this is independent of the physics being realistic or not. you set the laws of physics in code and iterate it every frame. if there is game play (some simulators have real world applications, like flight training) its mostly is in the context of those laws of physics, and the physics are not defined by the desired gameplay mechanics. rpgs are all lookup tables and dice rolls, really a digital extension of table top games often copying the rules verbatim. mechanics dictate everything, any simulation code is merely to support those mechanics and are subject to fudging to meet their requirements. the lines do blur considerably though, because the nature of complexity and computing, you cant simulate everything in real time, you have to make some abstractions.

we had a cold snap but its back to its usual wet mess. for now.

social networking (not media) was a good idea. myspace was superior to facebook in every conceivable way, you could personalize your page, you could talk to people in your own town, you could meet new people. i got dates, nsas, discovered local bands. the site monetized itself only as much as it needed to exist. facebook in comparison is a sterile dumping ground for ideological propaganda and an engine for divisiveness. you dont meet new people, no, they demand you pony up your contacts and force feed you spam while you wait for friend requests and likes. it does the exact opposite of what myspace did and made it too corporate to boot. i only have a facebook to use my vr headset, i have 3 people who asked to be my friends and never said another word, it wouldn't be so bad, but i know two of them personally. i guess you are supposed to communicate by posting memes and ideology and it sorts you to your designated echo chamber. other platforms ive not really used. its just not worth it. i think i have a reddit that i dont use, dont have twitter, idk if youtube counts but i mostly watch it as a tv alternative. tik tok is pure narcissism and i avoid it like the plague. especially the phone screen format. i remember when they came out with the hdtv standards and proclaimed a 16:9 display optimal for human vision, so it really pains me to see people using screens the wrong way around. dont much like youtube's copycatting either. of course when humans are given multiple options for what to use, they always pick the worst one (qwerty, bluetooth, touchscreens, discord). tech companies are the worst. much of the products offered are last decade's features with this decade's bovine excrement. marketing solutions to long solved problems. oh and you need an account, a pc, and a smart phone and sign away all your personal data to use the service. even if you pony up you are still the product. a decade prior you go to a store pick the product off the shelf and pay anonymously with cash, no accounts on external servers. i really miss those days.

my battle with amazon continues. got my new chair to day, utter waste of money. im tempted to fish my old one out of the dumpster. is it just me or have people forgotten how to design things. also what was up with the internet today? nothing worked.

you got to be careful with socket compatibility. mobo dictates everything but you still need to have an idea of what cpu you are going to be using. then pick a mobo that is compatible and gives you all the interfaces you need. then you do ram (usually something on the qvl). you cant stick an amd in an intel or vise versa. even if you have the correct socket type, you might need to flash the bios to unlock a newer chip. fortunately that is really easy these days and you can do it without a cpu in the socket. read manuals before you buy. i usually theory craft multiple different builds before settling on one. i dont really do in-generation upgrades. no point getting a low end cpu and upgrading later. first off its got to be better than what you were running previous without jumping to a higher tier. wait too long and an upgrade involves replacing most or all core components anyway, so just buy something in your budget and plan on replacing most of it next time. cases, gpus, ssds, power supplies (in good condition and in spec for your build), fans if they are good (say noctua or some other high end fan product) usually end up in multiple build iterations. when i upgrade im usually skipping 2 or 3 generations and im unlikely to hit the same socket twice. memory too is almost a new type, except current build still uses ddr4. will do gpu upgrades periodically and storage as needed (of course with m.2 i usually coincide this with the core components, because depending on build getting at them may require a near complete disassembly, im currently fine for another terabyte or two).

halloween is canceled because i got a cold and the store was out of candy. pretty sure its not covid, the flu, or rsv, haven't ruled out strep yet. pretty sure i picked it up from my sister's brats while i was in anchorage. children are a germ factory. meanwhile mom is acting like im not about to pass out, demanding coffee and things that she could make herself. may contain virus. dont infuriate the help when hes got a cold. we know we only get 2 or 3 trick or treaters every year. we buy candy, we eat the candy, we buy more candy, and then we eat most of that. mothers are telling their kids to only take one, i want them to hold their bag open so i can dump the whole bowl so i dont have to eat it. at least thats the way it usually goes. i lost a whole damn week and didnt have time to buy our second batch of candy.

let india and china try to outdo eachother for firsts, meanwhile we work on the boring part of establishing the essential space infrastructure. specifically, cheap reusable launch capability. we will let the others prove their dominance, just to say "hold my beer" at a later date.

the biggest problem you will have from your tower is fitment. i normally check dimensions myself, in extreme detail because im an sff builder. for a mid tower this should be a non issue, but the current iteration of gpus has been exceptionally large. so at least check the gpu dimensions, account for power connectors and cooling. they are ok, at least i know what im getting. some of their models are also cable compatible, like my 750 and 600 both use corsair type 4. the new supply is type 5 however and a full cable transplant will be required. anyway i need the 600 for a project. so shop computer gets the 750, the 600 goes into a low performance build, that or it becomes my new 3d printer psu. comes down to whether or not i can cram it and a 1060 into a 9 liter office case.

got back from anchorage, met my sister and her brood (iteration 2). met my new nephew, he was just the happiest little sack of potatoes. my niece was listing to gwar on my ipod. she's in preschool. sis finally started her vet tech program.

its an ok space show, its only down side is its dreamed up by people from the united states of california. the desire to edit history is just too strong for them.

i remember childhood differently.

sometimes i wish holidays would just be a day off with no baggage attached to them. get the kids an orange and a crisp $20, have a modest dinner with desert. it wouldnt bother me but they are all like that. sugar coma on halloween, turkey feast on thanksgiving, ham and utter chaos on christmas, lamb and lots of eggs and chocolate on easter, guinness and corned beef on saint patties. chocolate on valentines day, flowers on mothers day, explosives on the 4th. why does every holiday need to come with baggage? why cant it be like veterans day where you just binge war movies and and play taps on your guitar. and i haven't even got to my current pet peeve yet. i have just discovered that t-shirts are now lostech. add it to the list right under can openers and chairs. the fabric is wrong, the neck is to tight and while its well above my size its still too small. i also have to fly to anchorage tomorrow and i don't even have a nice shirt to wear.

mine has a dead pixel too close to the center, and its too much to send back. not buying gigabyte again. really depends on what you are playing, you can 4k some e-sports titles or older tripple a games just fine. i was getting almost 80fps in mwo with my old 2070 super. and now that i moved on to a 7900xt there are still some 4k games i have trouble with. in a lot of cases its a choice between refresh and resolution. supersampling to 4k from 1440 usually. i just bought a 1kw supply in hopes of being able to better handle power spikes, and if that doesnt work im going to consider 4k a pipe dream in certain games. gpus need to stop power hogging, and game studios need to trim their usage a bit. only software i have trouble with is the old version of 3dsmax i have, of course that program never played by the ui rules of its host os.

care free my buttocks. when i was 22 i had to get on a bus for 2 hours, do an 8 hour job, spend an hour on the bus, go to class for four hours, spend 2 more hours on a bus and have an hour left to shower/study/eat (pick one) followed by 7, sometimes six hours to sleep. i got my degree but the whole experience turned me off to work in general. my care free days started in my 30s, il let you know when they end.