I hate it also, but I know that waiting out there, sometime in the future, is the one time I’ll get that “you left your iPad behind. Last seen…” and my reaction won’t be “shut UP, clanker!” but “shitshitshit” followed by (hopefully) a rapid scramble and a “whew!”.
So I put up with it every time.

I haven’t thought it through as carefully as you clearly have, but I can see an argument for remanding to The Hague as a gesture toward rejoining the international community. That process is going to take a generation no matter what, but stark and forthright action might kickstart things a little.

I think this matters quite a lot, but I don’t see it being meaningfully discussed, and don’t know how to raise it into the zeitgeist for discussion.

Thank you for coming to my TED thread; next week back to photos of (hopefully) newly-eclosed monarch butterflies and sailboats!

There are essentially no steps between the “when the code compiles and the test pass” meme of closing two dozen StackOverflow tabs in time to the can-can, and telling Claude + MCP to chew on the problem definition until it has a prototype and working test suite to show you.

This is because software development is a culture of open, enthusiastic, and generally positive adoption of plagiarism in service of shipping working code.

There is a gulf of undetermined size - many fraught, unresolved steps - between making visual art in a world without genAI and a world with it.

I love this - doesn’t feel like a “kitbash” at all, more a very natural step between the Excelsior and Ambassador?

I have been on a nostalgia binge recently going through old FASA ttrpg stuff and this is a ship I would *covet* in an untold era campaign. Thank you for sharing it with us!

FWIW as an avid and interested reader of academic papers I learned from this thread that authors are *permitted* or generally willing despite permission to just send out copies of paywalled papers.

One person’s been reached and their behavior has been changed as a result of this conversation. 😇

Chladni patterns structurally related to the labyrinth paths. The mazes of Shismar are meant to be sung? That’s all I got, interested to read the answer key when it is published.

It is absolutely meant as a compliment! The moment in the show is not about the reactor, but about Stellan Skarsgard’s character building a working understanding of a new-to-him problem space, and then immediately using it to take control of spiraling people problems.
While flying into a shitstorm.

This immediately made me think of the helicopter ride to the reactor site and the conversation immediately after it in _Chernobyl_, which I don’t wanna spoil for people who haven’t seen it, but people who have will (or should) recognize this as high praise.

My interpretation has always been that the shield generator was inside the (at least several kilometers wide) “origin” of the shield on the surface and couldn’t be knocked out from orbit any more than the Rebel base on Hoth could be, before the ground assault to take out its shield generators.

Khajit has wares if you gotta ID

I want to thank you for this run of photos and videos, which is where I learned about the existence of these remarkable creatures.