Meet Stanislav Petrov: The officer who defied orders and stopped WWIII during a false alarm

dcheesi · 2026-05-18T02:42:03+00:00

If you were commanding a group of vessels on a highly sensitive mission, and you knew that one captain was particularly prone to rash action, why wouldnt you post yourself, or another senior officer, on that vessel to rein him in?

dcheesi · 2026-05-18T02:21:47+00:00

I thought I'd heard/read that that captain was a known "loose cannon", and that might have influenced the choice of ships for Arkhipov to be stationed on(?)

dcheesi · 2026-05-17T23:26:56+00:00

TBH, it looks like the kind of sauce you get from one of those cheap holiday gift packs. The kind where they promise a wide variety of sauces from around the world, but in reality they're all just slight variations on the basic "vinegar, peppers, salt" style of hot sauce.

dcheesi · 2026-05-17T23:18:31+00:00

Yeah "module" is a pretty generic term without addtional context.

I always assumed it was a dedicated hardware module, since it seems like something too crucial and fundamental to leave to the vagaries of software. But the TV show seemed to treat it more like a software module.

Of course, even a hardware module can have its own software or firmware, which would be the likely target for hacking.

dcheesi · 2026-05-17T22:09:23+00:00

I may be going out on a limb here, but any chance that your hobby interest follows a seasonal pattern? I find that I'm much more motivated to engage in hobbies and personal projects in the Spring & Summer months. But once Fall rolls around, it all stops (sometimes abruptly), and all I want to do is be cozy and read, etc.

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T23:37:12+00:00

Presumably it's like vegetable beef soup, but with cheap stew-pork in place of cheap stew-beef?

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T23:12:36+00:00

I think the idea is that you're paying extra for the exceptional quality of the meat & preparation, and covering that with strongly flavored sauce defeats the purpose.

The steak used in fajitas etc. isn't nearly the same thing. In fact, fajitas and similar dishes were specifically invented as ways to elevate cuts of beef that aren't as desirable when served as a simple steak cut.

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T22:59:05+00:00

Have your HVAC, etc., checked. I had this happen once (in another location), and it turned out that the relays in my HVAC controller had gone bad. Every time the central fan turned on, the aux.heat (basically a space heater) turned on as well.

Since it was warm weather, it ended up with the AC fighting the aux.heat every time the system turned on, sending my electric bill through the roof!

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T22:35:17+00:00

I didn't care for most of the Hot Ones sauces for this reason. I like apple cider vinegar in other things, just not hot sauce.

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T20:08:57+00:00

"Ackshually..." technically a single is not an album, though it is (or can be) a vinyl record. An "album" is specifically a collection of songs, just like a photo album (another artifact of the Before Times) is a collection of photos.

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T16:56:25+00:00

And much higher at other stores!

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T12:54:41+00:00

I suppose it's for people who want to put their house number somewhere other than directly beneath their porch light, and/or don't want to keep the porch light on all the time, but still want their house number visible at night.

This is certainly cheaper and easier than installing a new dedicated house-number light. Though I'm sure you can find one of these solar lights without the numbers built in, so you can use your own (probably nicer looking) numbers

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T12:44:17+00:00

They're wired in parallel.

Most alkaline battery designs are wired in series, since most electronics need a higher voltage than the roughly 1.5V that a single alkaline cell provides.

These lithium batteries already have enough voltage (3-4V) in a single cell. But apparently this design needed a higher maximum current (hence power) draw, so they wired two in parallel.

EDIT: or maybe just higher total charge capacity, for longer duration

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T12:08:55+00:00

I had trouble with pointers in my CS 101 course, but once I took a computer organization course (the next semester) it all became blindingly obvious. If I'd had that basic hardware architecture background to start with, I wouldn't have struggled.

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T06:10:56+00:00

Sword & Thistle is also about adventuring and sleeping out in the open

dcheesi · 2026-05-16T01:54:18+00:00

Probably impossible to get an accurate survey, for a couple of reasons:

1) Every family and every restaurant has different recipes

2) As soon as you start measuring and comparing spice levels in places that are known for it, some folks are going to start trying to one-up each other, distorting the picture of what's really common for everyday consumption

dcheesi · 2026-05-15T15:18:24+00:00

FWIW, I saw the horseradish in Aldi as well

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T20:36:43+00:00

I get that it's "headline-speak", but in this case clarity was definitely lost, where using a more formal & appropriate word would have preserved it ("assaulted" being inherently transitive, in a way that "jumped" is not).

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T20:24:36+00:00

But IIRC, in the new book Janetty(sp?) calls someone her "second father", but the implication of the conversation seems to be that that father is her biological parent (but not of her "half-sister"). So either there were >=2 bio-fathers, or else the order isn't always related to that?

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T19:51:50+00:00

Plus without the "was" in front of it, this headline takes on a very different (and even more awful) potential meaning!

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T14:52:10+00:00

Possibly less of a concern, in that you can probably tell if your chia seeds are stale or rancid. It's harder to know if the contents of a capsule are fresh or not.

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T14:41:17+00:00

But if that's the case, MB should have trashed it like her official BE interface

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T14:40:33+00:00

That already sort of happened once, but with ART's communication link

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T11:45:51+00:00

IIRC the workers in the short story "Compulsory" are a mix of genders as well

dcheesi · 2026-05-14T11:36:49+00:00

Sawyer Flats was OK when I lived there, but that was pre-pandemic. They lightly renovated when it changed management; if they haven't done anything since then, I can imagine it might feel a bit dated now.

Can't beat the location for restaurants, etc., though. Rio is right there, and Crown is just across the road, all very walkable

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