Nuke

i would love four contiguous hours of sleep. but when you have to get up 3 times a night to pee, and then cant get back to sleep after trip #2. walk around all morning in a half awake state, until an appropriate nap time comes around, and then have to interrupt your nap after 15 minutes because someone you live with is having a crisis of sorts. ah the things young'ins take for granted. im not even an exceptionally active or busy person, im down right lazy by any social standard, but contiguous sleep is unobtanium.

i got up this morning. i have decided upon considerable deliberation that this was a bad idea.

i think im done with hack-a-day. it used to be a hub for the free exchange of ideas in the hacker/maker community. over the years ive watched the article quality degrade and seeing the site turn into just another link aggregator where most articles can be summed up by "watch this cool video we found on youtube". then came the waves of censorship where by they silently delete comments they don't like thus ending the free exchange of ideas. the new comment system is the last straw. sometimes i think another video game bubble would be a good thing in the long run. if you cannot rely on rent an engine it would force game devs to get back into the nitty gritty aspects of game dev that are often glossed over simply because the engine does that for you. the end result is better games. some of the awesomeness you get in the indie sector would bleed off into higher budget games. if this also happens along side an f2p crash, that would be doubly great. gamedevs need to get back to the basics. good thing there are suddenly a large number of engine devs looking for work. open source solitare exists. i see adds as a security hole. especially when they pop up randomly leading to accidental taps, next thing you know you are on a website selling genital enhancement products running who knows what kind of sketchy code. im fine with add banners so long as they stay put and stay out of the way of the ui elements. a few bad apples...etc. so now its scortched earth, eat pihole ads. if i want something il buy it cash on the barrel.

move over metric, hence fourth we will use the starship as a basis for all measurements.

ive been perpetually tired since in turned 40.

just run two in opposite directions, you can either match your masses or tweak the release velocity so their ke matches.

i booted my computer this morning, i had to install a new gpu driver. so while that was installing i checked to see if anything else needed to be updated. sound drivers needed an update as well. also a fresh bios. i said what the hell. last version had a bug that kept ignoring the xmp profile and i had to set it manually. unfortunately msi's bios flash utility doesn't work and left me with a hung system. i had to flash manually from a thumb drive. half hour recalibrating my system fans and i was back up and running. the xmp bug was fixed as well.

if you flash vaporize it, strip the electrons and run it through a charged grid or magnetic nozzel, you can use anything as propellant. you may not get the same isp as doing the same with hydrogen, but for a wilderness vessel that seldom finds itself near a point of interest, being able to use anything as propellant has quite a bit of utility.

i follow a channel that tracks the war from the standpoint of a retired infantryman. i wont post a link because it leans into the politics. part of the reason that starlink was discontinued in ukraine is that it was feared that putin would start using asat weapons against the swarm. so spacex decided to take a more politically neutral stance. im not sure the us government was involved in the decision other than perhaps providing access to official diplomatic channels.

these fusion startups always have ambitious timetables and end up taking just as long as the more common methods. seems to be true for the whole fusion research industry. but its good to try different ideas. i dont really think there is any reason to rush. at least that was my thinking before people started decommissioning their fusion plants for no good reason other than climate alarmism (which frankly doesn't even make sense). dont worry, so long as you can breathe you can still buy the latest iphone.

what if it falls up backwards? it would appear to be backwards from our material frame of reference. ive heard it said that times arrow is pointing backwards for am. idk if thats true, based on what i know on the standard model.

unfortunately we cant test any rockets due to red tape. but when you are as rich as musk you can buy a really big pair of scissors. i just wish he didn't order them from amazon.

reality is usually a foreign concept to most bureaucrats, of any kind. they are generally insulated from the consequences of their actions. mucking up progress since the sumerian civilization. its interesting that writing systems in general were invented as a means for book keeping.

i remeber one time somone parked a bit of old construction machenery in our lot, and one of our cats came in covered in hydraulic fluid. he was not to fond of the remedial steps. after his bath he never crawled under another vehicle again.

pineapple is fine so long as it comes with ham and jalapenos. idk how pinapple has become the new anchovie.

does it say "EX TER MIN ATE!" when it sees an "armed" suspect.

im a strong proponent for orbital junkyards. mainly from a salvage and repair standpoint. even the scrap is valuable because it is in a mostly refined state. materials already on orbit are more valuable than those launched from the ground from an energy standpoint. and financially if you have an on orbit economy established. how it would work is debatable. i like the idea of using a large unpressurized low speed centrifuge to contain space junk. this could serve as a counterbalance to a smaller high speed centrifuge for crew and workshops. also a zero g workshops and maybe an industrial centrifuge for a foundry. the whole thing would need to be either nuclear powered or have a massive solar array and radiator array.

i just saw the new mario movie, but i havent played a mario game since super mario world. was wondering where cat mario came from.

my dreams are usually quite pleasant, the nightmare starts when i wake up.

wow, thats still up. thats what i played before ksp. hell thats what harvester used to play and was a big inspiration for ksp. of course he figured out how to make that plodding hard space sim into something fun with the addition of explosion loving little green men. anyway i never played the 2016 version. ksp took its place and i never went back.

i eventually got up at 4:30 and did my job. i went to bed, couldnt sleep so i put on black sabbath's first album. somewhere the cat stole my pillow and i had to use the lumpy pillow and so i didnt sleep very well. i just got up sometime between 1 and 2pm. mom likes to have a big sunday meal despite the fact that there are only 2 of us, and we are both of an age where a large evening meal is a bad idea. of course she doesn't do any of the cooking or any of the cleanup, or anything other than make messes really. she is definitely a gnomeist, except im the gnome. so a little procrastination is good for my sanity. it must me nice to have a family where the young people act like children and the old people act like adults. but i come from a long line of responsibility deniers.

dont eat fast food. problem solved. of course im biased because i need to go two towns over to get fast food, driving to any of them will result in a very wet car. even when im in those towns i dont, except to get mom a big mac. her taste buds never aged beyond 13. i never partake myself. anyway i have been procrastinating doing the dishes for the last two hours. its now 4am and im tired. but those damn dishes are in the way. the solution is to do nothing and hope the problem solves itself while i doze off in my chair.

i have to agree here. my mom likes to turn the burners all the way up, because she is possibly the most impatient person i know. electric burners do not change temperature quickly. so turning it down when it starts to burn is already too late to save the contents. this has ruined meals and irreparably scorched some good cookware to the point where it needed to be replaced. low and slow. the only time those burners should be cranked, other than boiling water, is when you need to carnalize something, which has to reach a sufficiently high temperature. low and slow those onions and you get mush. and when you do use such high temperatures, you need to control it by lifting the pan off the burner periodically. so when mom uses the giant fire hazard burner for the little sauce pan, glowing bright as the sun, i cringe a little inside. she is going to need to get burned before she stops doing it, you cant tell her anything. this is why ive been cooking since i was 13 or so.

still better than being on fire.

dont live in big cities or anywhere of strategic value. fallout is still a problem, but at least you aren't on fire.