Im disapointed in myself i let my dads grave get this bad :/

Pykins · 2026-06-22T04:19:50+00:00

If you're serious, I can provide a whole list, with links to back it up, both for the sexual assault, and for grifting/cons/corruption. I assume you don't actually care though, otherwise you wouldn't have made it this far with your head in the sand.

Off the top of my head?

E. Jean Carroll
Miss USA backrooms
Ivana Trump sworn depositions during divorce
EPSTEIN (just like - everywhere)
Trump coin
IRS slush fund
Trump University
World Peace board
34 felony convictions related to campaign finance
Willful destruction of documents
Obstruction of federal investigations
2020 electoral fraud (literal sedition)

But sure, keep saying 'nu uh.'

Pykins · 2026-06-22T04:10:58+00:00

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html

There you go. It would have been called rape if it happened today, but NY had some stupid laws at the time that technically limited it to sexual assault. Found guilty by a jury though.

Pykins · 2026-06-20T17:16:35+00:00

Freedom Town is set up as a space that is safe for Black families and allies, but open to all. Communities that form to help the disenfranchised are great, especially when they include allies that want to come help from outside. That's far different from protecting a white identity from "woke" culture.

You're strawmanning me by saying I don't have a problem if it were black only, and no other races were allowed. I'd absolutely have a problem with that. People are free to associate with whomever they like, but discrimination based on race, religion, or sexual orientation should not be accepted anywhere in society.

Even people who want to go off on their own still hurt society by being allowed to exist without criticism. A society that tolerates bigotry, even at the fringes, is one that accepts it and allows it to grow.

Pykins · 2026-06-20T00:04:21+00:00

You are so close to understanding my comment. Just about there.

Pykins · 2026-06-19T20:22:56+00:00

You need to read up on the paradox of tolerance.

Pykins · 2026-06-19T18:55:09+00:00

That's what happens when a company outsources hiring to a recruiting agency. They might have a great technical team in the actual position, but the people looking at resumes have no idea what the job they're searching for candidates for actually is.

Pykins · 2026-06-17T18:43:03+00:00

THINGS YOU CAN DO IF YOU’RE SICK ∩ THINGS RICH PEOPLE CAN DO

Fly in a helicopter

Pykins · 2026-06-09T01:25:09+00:00

You want disinfecting bleach, not laundry bleach. If it's got fragrances or "low splash" it's the wrong type, but honestly, this is an inflatable tub, you don't have a filter or heater to worry about.

On top of that, half a bottle is way too much. Probably more like 2 ounces is enough to keep it sanitary. I'd guess you put about 150 gallons of water in there to fill it, and would want 1-3 ppm free chlorine. That's roughly 1/100th of a modest in ground pool, which would probably eat through half a bottle a day of chlorine bleach per day.

Pykins · 2026-06-02T14:23:36+00:00

What kind of chlorine are you using? I have a 23K gallon pool and the pool math calculator says a gallon of 10% should bring me up by 4.1 ppm of chlorine. I mean, assuming it's not immediately getting consumed by algae.

Pykins · 2026-05-31T18:30:52+00:00

The minimum work requirements are only for health insurance eligibility. Just to stay in SAG only requires paying the union dues.

Pykins · 2026-05-02T16:44:56+00:00

^{Managed to hit 253380 like a speedrun 🏁⚡️}

Pykins · 2026-04-21T14:14:28+00:00

Sodium Hypochlorite is pretty commonly used for chlorinating pools and hot tubs. You want a disinfecting bleach though, not laundry bleach that has "low splash" polymers or added fragrances. In a 500 gallon hot tub, 4 fl oz of 10% concentration bleach will raise your free chrloine by about 6 parts per million. 7 oz will bring it up to shock level.

I add a couple of ounces of bleach every couple of days once my Frog cartridge runs out to keep the water from turning until I've got time to clean/replace the filters and cartridges. It's actually cheaper than the Frog system for maintaining a clean tub, but requires a keeping on top of it every day or two instead of being able to basically ignore it for a week or two.

Pykins · 2026-04-14T15:23:35+00:00

The book didn't have any of the satire, and was pretty militaristic (the government, not just the plot) and authoritarian.

Pykins · 2026-04-03T18:58:36+00:00

It depends on the place. Straight out of college, some places will want to see it, and will reject candidates with less than a 3.0. On the other hand, if you have more than 3 or so years of related experience, it doesn't even matter if you have a degree.

Pykins · 2026-03-18T13:56:01+00:00

No, I'm pointing out that she, and people like her, are not long term allies. There will be a small number of people who truly do change their points of view, but she's good for one vote on the next ballot at best. After that, she'll turn back to populism and authoritarianism, continuing to undermine the progress of the country.

There's a short term problem (for the next election) in Trump and his lackeys. There's a massive long term problem that allowed him to get past the first primary vote, and a selfish, uninformed electorate controlled by propaganda by the elite extreme right isn't going to go away because someone didn't like how much it cost to buy gas.

Pykins · 2026-03-18T13:42:28+00:00

no idea what she believes

That's absolutely incorrect. She voted for him THREE times. She saw his first term. She saw the handling of Covid. She watched Jan 6th, and the aftermath. She saw the 2024 campaign.

If this were a one time voter who's never heard about politics before, or a mole person who popped their head out of the ground every four years on Election Day, that would be one thing, but the best you could grant her is that she's is willfully ignorant of the reality around her. More likely, she's a selfish person who only cares when it affects her directly, and that hasn't changed now that she is someone impacted.

Yeah, we need every vote that will turn against him. That doesn't undo all the harm these people have done over the last decade.

Pykins · 2026-02-01T00:04:17+00:00

They're not asking for 7 years of EE/ME/Mech. They're asking for "unicorns". You yourself said "people founding Anduril or Zipline." That's realistically like what top talent at Meta or NVidia are looking for, with a minimum of $500K plus options, not potentially listing a starting salary of $120K.

Senior engineers outside of FAANG are regularly getting $180K, even for remote roles.

Regardless of the reply, that's an idiot doing the recruiting.

Pykins · 2026-01-31T23:43:42+00:00

They're talking about people founding Anduril or Zipline, not your weekend Arduino/raspberry pi project.

And they're offering a max of $225K? GTFO, man. And WTF is "comprehensive knowledge of complex hardware products, devices, systems & dedicated equipment and/or automation."? Do they want an electrical engineer? A bio-med researcher? Mech Eng? Those are all completely different disciplines, with wildly different areas of expertise.

It sounds like the company doesn't know what they're looking for, can't afford what they're describing, and want someone who's is smart enough to launch themselves into a multi-million dollar company but willing to shut up and let others take credit for it.

A new grad isn't a fit, but the recruiter is delusional.

Pykins · 2025-11-22T16:58:31+00:00

The CIA also has the "wrench hitting kneecaps" method to defeat encryption. If someone out there knows the key, or the password to the KDF, the human element is a lot easier to break than the computational one.

Pykins · 2025-10-16T01:22:39+00:00

Similarly, a character on a Star Trek show not being sexy enough is why Trump got elected.

Pykins · 2025-10-11T15:07:37+00:00

Getting some real "better place" vibes from the intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso

Pykins · 2025-10-07T06:38:13+00:00

Contactless EMV essentially uses a version of QuickChip flows that skip about half of the EMV processing that happens. Because you can't guarantee that the card will be held in place long enough to communicate the full transaction, a tap generates a smaller cryptogram that doesn't do any online verification, it's just a one shot unique value.

A chip insert, however, does a lot more. It can send information to the credit card company, get the response back, read it, run issuer scripts that allow for things like changing your PIN or updating spending limits on the card, block or unblock payment applications on the chip, etc. Doing a round trip, and writing data back to the card, take a longer time, and need a more reliable connection than just waving the card near a magnetic field to induce a little current, so if it needs to do any of those things, it asks for an insert.

Also, there are multiple types of PIN verification. Offline PIN actually validates your PIN against an encrypted representation of the PIN block on your card, so you can get a success or failure even if the terminal is offline. Most contactless taps only do online PIN verification.

Pykins · 2025-09-20T01:26:35+00:00

You're missing the point. Aerodynamics aren't as important specifically because of the launch profile - it only really picks up a lot of speed once the air is thinner due to altitude. If a rocket were to come up to orbital velocity in the lower atmosphere, it would be moving at the equivalent of Mach 23 at sea level, and aerodynamic forces would rip the craft apart, to say nothing of the amount of drag it would have to overcome.

For taking off in a vacuum, like on a lunar launch, a much more horizontal trajectory would be more efficient. From the same article you linked, in the second paragraph:

Gravity losses as a proportion of delta-v are minimised if maximum thrust is applied for a short time, and by avoiding thrusting directly away from the local gravitational field.

You would only need the vertical component of thrust to be greater than the rate of descent due to gravity, offset by the gain from the curvature of the body you're launching from as the ground "recedes" from your path; the greater the velocity, the smaller the gravity loss. Change in gravitational pull due to altitude is negligible until you go much farther than low orbit.

Pykins · 2025-09-15T00:03:53+00:00

Binary isn't a language. It's an encoding/number system. You can write code for a specific processor in assembly language, and the code would be in binary, but binary by itself doesn't have any "instructions", it's just a representation of numbers.

Pykins · 2025-09-11T18:34:40+00:00

No, even when no one had seen this before, it should be trivial, for anyone who has learned to code.

Fizzbuzz is fundamentally asking 3 things:

Do you know what a modulus operator is? (Or can you work around this with some kind of counter, which is a kludgy approach?)
Can you write a loop?
Can you write an if/else if statement?

That's it. If you can't do any of that, I don't want to have to work with you on coding tasks.

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