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xthetenth

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  1. Words on flags are like words on political cartoons. The entire point is to make a symbolic representation of something, and labels indicate failure. Hilariously considering the flags on display that they made, all the flags they picked as being good are actually great. This is a correct choice for the best flag in the US. It's distinctive as hell and does a great job of being a symbolic representation of the state.
  2. Does sex hurt both parties for any of those species? Also, ducks, I believe.
  3. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather was a Prussian general back when all of them were Junkers, and my Grandmother's side has a coat of arms too (Both dad's side, don't know about mom's).
  4. No, all the states that just decided to say fuck it and put the state crest on a blue field and then had to put the damn state name on the thing because it wasn't clear are the worst. And then there's this that excelled even that ignoble tradition: By way of apology look up Zheleznogorsk's flag. You're welcome.
  5. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that process engineers for transistor companies are wizards masquerading as engineers. You know something's going to be fun when your light source involves hitting tin droplets with a CO2 laser to create ionized gas plasma for an elliptical mirror coated with several layers of Mo and Si in a vacuum. And it's going to be what makes something in your pocket two transistor process nodes from now. http://anandtech.com/show/10097/euv-lithography-makes-good-progress-still-not-ready-for-prime-time
  6. I'm not sure, but is there a point where it really doesn't matter how the hit is it's going to be lethal? Cause if a KPVT is what it takes to make utterly sure but it does make things utterly sure and the things have got to go, then I'm going to suggest we make Tied a happy happy man.
  7. It's late, but didn't one German terror cell or something along those lines get busted because they were using US ideas of living off the grid, and it turns out being the only people in the neighborhood paying all their bills with cash is all kind of suspicious? There's a fine art to maintaining privacy, I think, where you wall off what you want hidden from everything else with a shield of seeming normality around it. I have a feeling it's still viable especially with co-conspirators. You could probably put common nightly activities of mine into a macro enough that I can go do something I don't want widely known and have a vague shot of keeping it hard to figure out. But at the end of the day security is measured by keeping the effort to figure out that you're doing something above what anybody's willing to give before they know that something is something you do.
  8. Most of the world is breeding below replacement, I'm pretty sure the US is the only country in the developed world actually breeding above replacement rather than riding a population increase via demography. It's just that as usual Japan's invented a smaller form of birth rates.
  9. Holy fuck that last bit is a towering edifice of stupid. Remind me to go on a rant about stupid bullshit UI elements that have gone unchanged since the first version of OSX and iOS. Basic things like the dock and the stupid grid of static icons. The only hope is that it's such a giant goddamn tower of dumb that it gets the tower of babel treatment.
  10. Where the hell did those idiots even get B-64 from? An utter ignorance of bomber development?
  11. Software engineering is likely to continue to fucking suck. Any sort of engineering that's paving new ground is deep in the depths of the land of diminishing returns, and us poor bastards that sit in front of computers by definition are paving new ground because if you're not you find whoever's done it before and you license that shit. I'm also not terribly convinced we're going to see a big jump in single thread performance which means that any sufficiently complicated code is going to be full of the hardest sort of code. Or I'm wrong and we're going to be eating grapes from the doting hand of the IDE we tell what to do as it actually turns flowcharts and diagrams into working software.
  12. I remember that skit. Still somewhat surprised it got a movie.
  13. Looks like pairs and singletons (I think) so that'd square with up to date delay coils. Either that or an early install predating them really figuring out turret whip. First experiments with coils were in 35 so I'd expect a SoDak to have later coils.
  14. Hell yes, I've wanted that game for a long goddamn time. (Also don't look up the sins mod on the subject, the engine wasn't right for it and I wasn't really good with game mechanics back then).
  15. Anybody bad enough to push Scott Adams into accidentally saying anything good is really really bad even if he's totally unhinged in saying it. On the other hand, I think that non-descriptness is why Trump generally has bought his support among conservatives at the expense of that among liberals and independents. It's good for the primary and bad for the election. It'll be interesting if he wins the primaries seeing whether he goes in with specifics to try and prove his doubters in the independents and liberals wrong, and if that works or backfires.
  16. Yep. I'm very happy with how aggressive the Shadowrun games are about making flanking or other cover-removing synergies a huge deal by preventing crits on people in cover and making crits huge. XCOM is really frustrating early in that it is literally an attrition simulator, and playing it well and not making mistakes is only going to reduce casualties to a manageable number.
  17. The aforementioned 68er Bewegung was the West's kids calling the country out on its shit, and a lot of the current serious anti-Nazi stuff dates to then. Nothing similar happened in the East. The East had to rehabilitate Nazis to fill the bureaucracy as well because otherwise it would've been Iraq II grade chaos, but criticism of the state was easily deflected by pointing to the fucking outstanding anti-fascist credentials of the guys up top so there wasn't enough room for a real serious second wave of anti-fascist house clearing when they'd truly become surplus to requirements. History works in some weird ways and in this case, worse handling of the Nazi riddled bureaucracy (although they were kept in check) wound up getting rewarded with a real anti-fascist backlash that they can't really be given any credit for. Overall though, the only thing that I could say would contribute to lower fascism in the West that's actually a positive thing the West did rather than something bad that caused a good backlash is the Marshall Plan helping a better economic recovery. Also yes, fuck the West for putting literal Nazis in positions of power, on the other hand, it literally would not have worked had they not because of the degree to which the Nazis co-opted the nation and the bureaucracy.
  18. I was reminded that there's actually a way to swap two variables without a third variable to use as a placeholder (just requires two or three compares and three add/subtracts so it's potentially worth using if you really really need to save a register and are willing to buy that with a few extra ops). I also learned that some people apparently still believe enough in stupid tricks only really worth using in very specific cases and prone to causing some really fun integer overflow bugs if you forget that you need to break it down into cases to ask that on interviews and say it's something anybody sufficiently curious would have run into. The fuck. Friendly reminder that we write code for the ease of use of the person maintaining it and optimize performance as a secondary concern unless there's a real critical section to performance.
  19. Can't wait (lol @ the notion of actual equal distribution, it'll just be rent seeking all the way down). Serious though, it'll be interesting to see what shifts happen in the eternal fight between really really poor people that work for cheap and robots that cost a lot up front but work for slightly cheaper.
  20. I'm kind of fond of calling it deserving what you get even though I know full well it's an individually futile act.
  21. I thought it was parts out the rich. Now I'm disappointed.
  22. Are you a democratic voter with strong opinions? If so the turnout was utterly terrible and it'd be the closest your vote would come to something other than statistical noise.
  23. That's minimizing huge differences in magnitude.
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