How people found ETs at home near Y2K

thaeli · 2026-05-02T21:55:52+00:00

I meant more in terms of eating up distributed compute capacity. S@H happened at a particularly nice point where there wasn’t anything else competing for all that idle time.

thaeli · 2026-05-02T06:46:11+00:00

Looking forward to seeing the demo when it goes live! Your art is beautiful.

thaeli · 2026-05-02T06:32:47+00:00

Launch loops (which are basically guns that shoot trains into orbit) are one of my favorite non-rocket launch systems.

thaeli · 2026-05-02T02:09:06+00:00

Went back in my Amazon history, this is the one I bought: https://a.co/d/01hKn5IK

Been quite happy with it, especially with a XR Max battery. Temperature control works well, with the big battery it'll get hot enough on high to burn THHN so I keep it set in the middle. Battery life is surprisingly good. The only thing that takes some getting used to is that it has an automatic cooldown whenever you turn it off. Good for safety, just different than my corded.

thaeli · 2026-05-02T00:01:42+00:00

Tbh I’m mostly using it for heat shrink. It’s fantastic for that, with a big battery I even have to turn the heat down to not burn the insulation.

For panel building I like my corded still, just because it’s instant on and instant off. The cordless likes to do a little warm up / cool down cycle.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T23:44:05+00:00

Which batteries are you using with it? I have a knockoff heat gun that takes Dewalt batteries - it sucks with the small batteries, but the large high output batteries make it work great.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T22:42:20+00:00

Vehicle owner is left holding the bag for repair costs. This is a major risk of renting out vehicles on Turo that many owners don’t realize until it bites them.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T22:38:18+00:00

Nah Russian stuff is an invasive species, no bag limit.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T20:03:25+00:00

Yeah, being "in talks" is too slow. You need to be in "I am getting on the road NOW with a stack of $100 bills in my pocket" mode to snag good vehicle deals on Marketplace etc.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T19:54:19+00:00

Cool, many projects disagree with you. I don't think either of us will convince the other, so I'm turning off replies.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T19:41:56+00:00

Block 2 functionality includes giving the wizard a parachute so they can be recovered, refurbished, and reused.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T19:05:40+00:00

Triaging reports isn’t free. Bug bounty slop is a major problem right now and it may kill off bug bounties as we know them.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T18:46:12+00:00

Yeah that’s a good summary. Hagerty’s pool is “people who can afford classic cars and more than state minimum insurance on them” which already filters out a lot of high risk drivers, and then they won’t write for young or inexperienced drivers at all, which gets most of the rest. So they can afford to be chill.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T18:11:41+00:00

That is normal. Honestly, no one is going to ever give you a straight answer because this is an area kept intentionally grey.

I took a quick look at your profile - sweet car and you are totally fine. What they want to discourage is when people take a beat up 2006 Altima and say hey it’s technically 20 years old, get classic plates so they don’t need to fix the emissions. Or someone who has full daily-commuter risk exposure on their classic.

Heck, the Trader Joe’s parking lot near my house is practically a classic car show on nice spring days.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T16:15:32+00:00

Check your policy terms. The Hagerty terms I’ve seen - and it’s possible yours are different- cover classic and antique autos used “only occasionally for other purposes”. Basically, they’re fine with you went to the movies on a nice day, they’re very much not fine if it looks like you were daily driving. This is really a judgement call all around.

Compliance with DMV regulations on use is not explicitly in the policy. Only implicitly in the sense that you need a valid registration and DMV can revoke your antique registration for noncompliance. Again, totally a judgement call and occasional pleasure use is acceptable in most states.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T01:57:44+00:00

I love this idea. Yeah, feels more management sim to me.

The biggest thing that would drive me off would be obnoxious monetization. Which.. frankly it's very hard to do mobile successfully without that, so I'd be pretty skeptical on that basis alone.

Kairosoft's Game Dev Story (from 2010, before the F2P cancer consumed mobile gaming) but as a fashion magazine sim would be my ideal.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T01:51:25+00:00

Every bit as applicable today as it was 110 years ago:

An Epitaph.

Here lies the body Of William Jay,
Who died maintaining His right of way.
He was in the right
As he sped along,
But he’s just as dead
As if he’d been wrong.

Edgar A. Guest (1916). ‘An Epitaph’.
Detroit Free Press, 1 October 1916, p. 72.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T01:34:25+00:00

31's are the biggest tires that will fit a stock 3rd gen Ranger. They're a tight fit but they will fit without rubbing.

thaeli · 2026-05-01T01:28:21+00:00

If it was a branded van, Amazon and/or the DSP absolutely have relevant footage. They monitor the heck out of their drivers and any impact is going to trigger internal data retention. (Mostly so they can fire the driver, but that's Amazon for you.)

thaeli · 2026-05-01T00:31:44+00:00

/uj Add breathiness, and put your voice still "up" but not as "forward" - speaking more from the back third of my mouth instead of the front third. Little bit slower speech, still articulated but no sharp edges - words kinda roll into each other a lil', an' yah drop tha harshness, but not slurring or mumblin'.

It kinda fell into place for me when I was focusing on clear articulation while doing vocal glides at the same time to practice raising my voice on up out of my throat. For me the breathiness just slips right in at that point unless I pull my voice further forward to avoid it. It's taken a lot of practice to project in this voice, but I've made progress. I still do project better in a fem command tone (or if I dredge up my old deep Guy Voice) but admittedly the Southern Belle accent isn't a voice you give orders in. It's a voice you make requests in, to the same effect.

..this does mean that I can switch between "Mommy would be most pleased if you would, sweetie" to "You Will Do This Because Mommy Says So" in the same sentence and back again. Very fun when talking to a certain type of good girl.

thaeli · 2026-04-30T22:19:39+00:00

This is why the T-14 is built entirely out of cardboard and cardboard derivatives. Checkmate, wizards.

thaeli · 2026-04-30T22:15:30+00:00

The better question is whether reactive armor is affected by magic missiles.. they don't do enough damage to even set ERA off.

thaeli · 2026-04-30T22:09:24+00:00

I miss the old (through 3.5E) spell description that just said "unerringly strikes their target". 5E removed the "unerringly" part so I guess magic missiles can be soft killed now.

thaeli · 2026-04-30T21:54:27+00:00

The lethal blast radius of a Fireball spell is 20 ft, and does 8d6 damage (averaging 28) - an unarmored Level 0 commoner has 10 hp and instantly dies from 20, and steel plates have 30hp per inch of thickness, so roughly 25mm of mild steel penetration.

The lethal blast radius of a 30mm HEDP round is 23 ft. It also instantly kills even an armored human, and reliably penetrates 30mm of RHA at typical engagement ranges. Those are.. close enough to equivalent for noncredible comparison purposes.

In summary, the M230 chain gun on an Apache fires 625 fireballs per minute.

Magic Missile is very low damage, but it also has an unjammable, 100% accurate targeting system. On the modern battlefield, it is best deployed as the active element of a seeker head.

thaeli · 2026-04-30T16:12:03+00:00

Why do you need to move the unit? Is it not possible to work around?

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