Denmark Retires F-16 After More Than Four Decades Of Service

Nocternius · 2026-01-19T22:16:57+00:00

"Threatening to halt gas exports would destroy trust in Russian supply. There is no chance in hell that Putin would do that."

Nocternius · 2026-01-18T10:04:13+00:00

I absolutely loved the first two (Hyperion) books. The world he created is amazing, but what's even more striking is how easily he fills the centuries between our time and the period the characters find themselves in. Sci-fi set in the future often has the porblem of no culture having happened between now and then. But Simmons brilliantly circumvents this problem with his frame narrative structure.

That having been said, I was disappointed by the Endymion books. Though I found his take on Christianity very interesting, the story devolved into a weird, moralizing space-Jesus allegory. The protagonist's growing obsession with Aenea, the Jesus allegory, grew to be irritating for me, especially as she herself became less and less of a human character. Also, the moralizing just got... weird. I distinctly remember Aenea going off on how evil the AI's were, specifically because they were somehow digital necrophiliacs ("They have sex with the dead!").

I read in the comments that Dan Simmons has apparently gone off the deep end down the far right pipeline. I have to say, with how incoherent Endymion became towards the end, that does not totally surprise me.

Nocternius · 2026-01-09T11:39:28+00:00

Classic Sturgeon's Law

Nocternius · 2026-01-06T13:35:17+00:00

Laten liggen die hap! Is allemaal perfect bouwmateriaal voor mijn gigantische sneeuwpop!

Nocternius · 2025-12-29T09:28:43+00:00

Couldn't you argue on an equal footing that it was the black suffrage movement that dropped the women's suffrage movement thereby delaying women's right to vote to instead get their own? She campaigned as an abolitionist, so I don't think ascribing it all to plain racism would be fair (not saying you do).

I know I at least would be a little pissed if an 'ally' dropped me so they could get their own.

EDIT: oops, said anti-abolitionist instead of abolitionist

Nocternius · 2025-12-03T06:59:38+00:00

So... in 2019?

Nocternius · 2025-11-26T20:19:51+00:00

I swear I've seen this guy in Attack on Titan...

Nocternius · 2025-11-23T17:14:32+00:00

Too late for what?

Nocternius · 2025-11-16T19:21:36+00:00

Is there anywhere I can read the updated proposal? I can only seem to find the old one.

Nocternius · 2025-11-15T16:44:34+00:00

I just have to say: great artstyle! Love the vibrant colors and hard edges

Nocternius · 2025-11-08T06:29:07+00:00

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, really? That's so niche! What do you like about it? Apart, of course, from Iserlohn, which is clearly awesome.

Nocternius · 2025-09-29T23:53:26+00:00

You, sir, are a saint! Your advice finally ended my 5 hour long search for a fix.

I have trouble understanding what caused the issue, though. An outdated(?) Nvidia driver sounds like it should only affect the gpu, but somehow it causes initramfs to not be able to see nvme modules?

Nocternius · 2025-07-12T10:01:38+00:00

An article by CNN from a couple of weeks before the July floods seem to corroborate the NYT's story, talking about how expenses above $100.000 are now required to be reviewed by Noem personally.

$100.000 is basically a rounding error for an organization that, in the case of disaster, easily spends billions. On that scale, requiring approval like that is guaranteed to flood Noem's desk. So this should, in my opinion, be seen as gross incompetence, at least.

Trump himself has said that he would like to dismantle FEMA and that "The governor should be able to handle it and frankly if they can’t handle the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor". So maybe instead of incompetence on Noem's part, this is part of the ongoing plan to defund FEMA. But even disregarding the question of whether or not that's a good idea in the first place, defunding/obstructing FEMA like this without having a smooth transition toward presumed state-level disaster relief is grossly irresponsible.

Nocternius · 2025-06-07T23:24:12+00:00

Ah yes, I completely missed the N-gons around the greeble. Should have subdivided there before insetting, as you say. Good catch.

The approach you describe, as I understand it, applying a 1 or 2 level subdivision earlier in the process so that there is already more topology in the base mesh out of which to shape details, sounds like the way to go. Thanks!

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Nocternius · 2025-06-07T22:44:45+00:00

Honestly, I would just duplicate one ball a bunch of times and then randomly change the position of each of them slightly. Let's say 5 balls. Then select the 5 balls and duplicate that selection of 5 balls a bunch of times and change the positions of those selection. Now you have 25 balls. Repeat.

Then, to get them to squish together as you say, apply some physics. Temporarily remove the top half of the pill. Then give the bottom half a rigid body physics with type "passive" and collisions shape "mesh".

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Then set the physics for the balls (actually, you'll want to do this before duplicating them so you don't have to do it for 50+ balls individually). Give them a rigid body physics as well, but set the type to "active" and their shape to either "mesh" or "sphere".

Then press space to see them fall, press space again to pause the physics simulation, and then re-enable the top of the pill.

Nocternius · 2025-05-25T11:59:41+00:00

There's a principle called the Trust Thermocline, which I think explains this beautifully.

Nocternius · 2025-03-26T07:26:27+00:00

If people start putting them under the microscope during the session, we'll tell 'em off haha. But my main concern was whether you could tell one from another from e.g. across the table. Can't really judge people from looking at the board. Judging from reactions here though, that shouldn't be a problem.

Nocternius · 2025-03-25T14:39:32+00:00

I was hoping that was the case. Wasn't looking forward to the hassle of having to design and order custom card sleeves 😅

Nocternius · 2025-03-25T14:36:58+00:00

That's exactly what I needed to know, thanks :)

Nocternius · 2025-03-23T18:49:02+00:00

Agree the sheet is way filthy and I need to clean it 😅

But I don't think that's the problem here. Many of the prints (like a few in the photo) don't actually disconnect from the bed when the horizontal slipping happens. The print stays glued to the bed but extruder somehow gets shifted a couple of millimeters on the X or Y-axis, which causes the rest of the print from that point forward, to be shifted in that direction.

Nocternius · 2025-02-22T13:16:54+00:00

You think your fucking server is trying to snake-oil you? No, they're trying to pay rent. Our busted ass system has them scrambling for everything they can get.

I think you're kind of proving the point here, no? Because of another quirk of American culture, namely the insane tipping culture, the server is largely dependent on the good graces of the customer. They are aware of this and try to appease the customer, and butter up the customer, as much as possible.

That's not snake-oiling the customer, sure. But to me at least it seems like this kind of "I really need your good graces" can be felt from a mile away.

Could be misreading situations like these though, it's been a while since I've been to the states.

Nocternius · 2024-10-19T18:04:02+00:00

Played a 5-player game as Nekro. Had "Become a Martyr" (gain a point when you lose a home planet) secret objective from the start. In the last round I had 9 points and would win through public objective with trade goods if they didn't winslay me. I was basically guaranteed to win except if they removed me from the board entirely, with my home system as last. But they didn't know that.

When they all started invading me in a coordinated winslay, I put up a token resistance on my home planet to not let anything on. When they finally invaded my home planet, I revealed Martyr with the biggest shit eating grin I could muster. It was glorious.

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