If the device was a nuclear clock in the same reference frame, maybe.

It is price fixing with an intermediary (who produces the AI model).

https://65daysofstatic.bandcamp.com/ – their catalogue is quite impressive though :)

“read as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Most scholars say they were written well after the fact (decades to generations after), after a bunch of oral tradition related changes crept in. Plus, they were sort of down selected from a much larger corpus.

So this is just a narrative technique rather than an actual eyewitness account.

It’s basically a zombie death cult. This powerful necromancer has to die to become a lich, releasing his soul into a phylactery which happens to be the souls of his believers (and making it really hard to destroy his phylactery). Then his believers are promised that they will come back as undead, as a reward for carrying a part of this “holy ghost” phylactery. What a racket.

Much wiring, great advice 👍

I sometimes refer to my cat, endearingly, as “Little Miss Poopy Bumhole”. She doesn’t take the hint.

This is actually legitimately cool and would be a great drop in a steampunk game.

I would like her even more after that.

I have to cycle on and off of coffee for it to be effective. If I just drink it nonstop, I get tolerance issues and it stops being effective. Also, it gets harder to have restful sleep.

The problem is choosing the three days I need to cycle off, since I’ll want to sleep 12 hours a day on those days. Then I need to trudge through the following week avoiding cravings, but at least I’m sleeping well.

When cycling back on, a single cup is so very effective.

I’m assuming the third one is Minthara – I’ve never recruited her.

Resting judge face

Have you had to do the soldering portion before, or has it always been technicians? If I was a junior technician doing a replacement on one of these, what advice would you give?

This guy connectors

They are mil spec outdoor connectors for signalling cables. In a geophysics context, we use them to connect a line of sensors (things like seismic sensors or similar). It’s a $200 connector on a $2000 cable.

The list is great! But it doesn’t really tell us which ones are actively developed. Running historical DEs is fun sometimes. For example, LXDE doesn’t really see a lot of development compared to its successor, LXQt. But once again shows the the Arch Wiki is the best ;)

I guess people do occasionally compile KDE 1.x just to see if it still runs on modern systems (it does, but obviously some underlying things have changed over the years, like the audio and graphics stacks). But that isn’t the same as being actively developed :)

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway”

Gangsta sells catnip

The monster under your bed

Technically published 2021-2023, but didn’t start reading it until recently but: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture has grabbed me and pulled me in hard. It’s popcorn sci fi (all flavour, minimal substance) at its finest. Scratches the epic space opera “ship and crew” found family itch.

Can tell it’s him though – having read some of his previous books: the aliens are insectoid and at least one character always has to have the author’s obsession with fencing. ;)

Feels like Reynolds in parts (gothic horror), but equal parts The Expanse and Mass Effect. Popcorn 🍿