historically speaking Russia is a Ukraine DLC not vice versa

Maybe the healthcare industry can be nationalized, but quite a lot of it is physician owned, and good luck with that political battle.

Mercury arc rectifiers are a real-world Victorian-era technology; our actual industrial history is more grounded and visually interesting than almost all speculative fiction. youtu.be/YhaQqgXrMMU?...

I would lose my mind if I lived in the UK. What a strange little island. youtu.be/GCVps7N0YYE?...

Design standards for CaHSR have been substantially relaxed (max slope was 2.5%, now 4%; vertical clearance was 27' above-top-of-rail, now 16-21' hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/u...) so maybe we'll see more tunnels in my lifetime. youtu.be/vvQWmaR0CIE?...

96gb I pulled from my old workstation bc it was failing to POST. I checked memory prices and apparently have a pile of gold on my desk.

The actual vibe of this gorgeous movie. bsky.app/profile/warr...

When the box art misses the vibe.

When the box art misses the vibe.

pick your fighter

Y'all are sleeping on French Quarter Christmas eve eve. Place is like a zombie movie.

As a resident of Canada's Greatest Neighbourhood, I am often thinking about ways it could be better

It's a Christmas Movie if it has a Nativity scene.

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

Languages with exceptions should be burned and buried.

CECOT Archipelago

Main Street in downtown Houston circa 1965. Looks like a vibrant, colorful place. I love that Lone Star beer sign about 3/4 of the way down across the street. Woolworths, too.

The first government to be toppled by GNU "strings" command.

Forgot that Celeste is really, really good.

this does not change the fact that the Democratic Party in 2025 is, at least on social issues, *without question* the most liberal major political party that has ever existed anywhere in the world

In the prehistoric era, IBM spent immense amounts of efforts to nail the human-computer interface with keyboards and build quality that simply does not exist today outside of specialty, tiny volume manufacturers. youtu.be/iZJTqUZP_lA?...

Today I realized the music at the end of "Only Yesterday", a nearly perfect Ghibli movie with a joyful ending, is a Japanese performance of "The Rose" originally by Amanda McBroom, and is same song used in the "Happy Hands" scene in Napoleon Dynamite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5G3...

he describes enlightenment like a mountain and we all take different paths to get there and if mine is different than yours it really doesn’t matter, as long as we are all heading up I think about that all the time. “many are the paths to the summit.” I’m considering it as a tattoo

That feeling when your entire rapid transit system converges on one easily disrupted segment — like, say, a 123-year old bridge that lifts for tall boats. Portland needs an rail tunnel under downtown. It’s the only megaproject in our region that excites me at this point.

Welcome to our bold new era of Free Speech 2.0: Maximum Freedom.

I knew something was wrong when 60 Minutes started airing Swan Lake

You're upset that there robots are driving cars in San Francisco. I understand completely. I'm upset there are non-robots driving cars in San Francisco.

San Mateo could be great with two hundred high-rises.

Finally tried Mosley's Cafe after years of saying "I need to try Mosley's Cafe." 10/10 setting.

BART is full of all kinds of crime. Just took the train to San Francisco for a drug deal.

Surprise forced transit card migration - delightful when you're running to catch a train.

Time is a problematic concept. It's always been broken.

We already have a live action Labubu movie at home.

I felt a tiny shake about an hour-ish ago, apparently a 3.9 in San Ramon.

Maple time

I had to create a Facebook account to use Marketplace, and it's so over-run with AI slop that the police dept's promoted posts include "this is not AI" disclaimers.

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sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

The things we have lost forever.

There’s absolutely nothing about this song that says Christmas, but its Yuletide credentials have been forever seared into my brain. 1977’s EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS marked the first musical collaboration between The Muppets & Paul Williams after his MUPPET SHOW turn & before THE MUPPET MOVIE

LA machinists -- we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 Pu-Ga, dimensions 8.9 *8.9* 8.9. Dm me if interested in taking this on

Tap cards, theyre something I love to collect, and I finally sat down and wrote about them. Give it a read if you want

Building a system to implement a queue for searches is about 100 times more work than just making the system performant.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

We won't have enough Therapists to Fix This.

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

Amazing how many hoops Disney jumps through to intentionally obfuscate their Blu-ray disc structure to make them difficult to rip. They rely on the Java runtime to dynamically build the "real" playlist from segments.