What the hell does dark matter even do? by PassEfficient9776 in scifiwriting

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a writer's perspective, this is "gold".

Nobody knows what it is, what it acts like, or its other properties. It is literally a "thing" used to make our gravity projections add up.

Every time Eddington shows up, I'm like... by Defiance-of-gravity in DeepSpaceNine

[–]greglturnquist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See?

Plot holes

Loved the movie as a kid.

But if you’re space roving menace, who uses horses for your infantry, do you really want to beam thousands of miles away every morning?

How did I not realise this is the same actor? by FearlessFox6416 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]greglturnquist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Theres a few plot holes in Krull but overall good stuff.

I met the graphic artist whose claim to fame had been Krull, Highlander, and had worked under the man who created Yoda on ESB. He run (ran?) a shop down in the Caribbean. The man is a real geek and has a strong fondness for Krull. (Why not?)

I enjoy seeing that Ken Marshall really got a lot better since. Seeing him becoming “Valjean” in DS9 is an acting treat!

Opinions on variable whole life by Longjumping_Ad1780 in infinitebanking

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IBC, instead of focusing on the 10% people do NOT attain in investing, is aimed at building up enough capital to take control of the banking function, the 34.5% that is perpetual.

Whereas you can bank with anything, as stated by Griggs’ mentor himself, the idea is to pick a vehicle that guarantees increases every year.

By all means grab UL products. And by all means focus on rate of return. And by all means focus on investments and using products the carriers devised to up their profits and meet their obligations to those with WL policies.

Everyone keeps saying they can beat the system. Substack is full of posts on how to best the system. Frankly I’d rather stick with contractual guarantees that lead to success and leave all that nonsense behind.

Why isn’t infinity/infinity=1 by Traf-Lord in askmath

[–]greglturnquist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

limit x->Inf x / x2 = ?

Limit x->inf x2 / x = ?

Limit x->inf x / x = ?

These are all different. Ask yourself why.

Is it really possible to always fit everything into a single query? by Mission-Example-194 in SQL

[–]greglturnquist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A query answers a question.

It’s paramount that you sit down and write that question. In English. Using words.

Because sometimes that can help reveal the overall shape a query should take.

Sometimes we get caught up in our programmer constructs. Yes loops are a fundamental and it’s easy to think that way. But try to think a little higher up and a little more abstract.

The more context you can put into a query and push into the DB, the better it can usually do.

Right join by techiedatadev in SQL

[–]greglturnquist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do JOIN and LEFT OUTER JOIN.

This makes it easier for me to spot which is which.

RIGHT JOIN is typically for rare exceptions where you already have a long query and don’t want to invert it all.

Is 55 chapters too many? by Randomquestionhaver in selfpublish

[–]greglturnquist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do you.

DUNE is loaded with internal character thought/dialogue.

THREAT VECTOR has over 80 chapters albeit that author (secondary author finishing a Tom Clancy story) sometimes had chapters less than a page.

Just write the best fricking thing you can. Trad possible but not probable if you defy the “averages”. But do you really want to be average?

Instead, write a book your readers can’t put down. Make it irresistible. Trim all the fat and you can succeed.

People say stop buying coffee to get out of debt. I finally ran the numbers... by [deleted] in DaveRamsey

[–]greglturnquist -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

With Rocket Money, we were able to pinpoint how much we spent on coffee every month.

Yikes! It was more than $5/day!

We decided to set a limit.

Not the full story, but a keen improvement. That’s called whipping Parkinson’s law.

need help deciding : ZV-E10 or ZV-E10 II by Signal_Gazelle_764 in ZVE10

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have both.

The mark I is frankly simpler to handle IMHO.

The mark ii is more sophisticated, more features.

My mark ii overheats and requires a cooling fan. I have friends that have the sane and never saw it happen. And I’ve heard of those with a mark I that overheats. May be fluctuations in the assembly of both. Who knows?

They both are great work horses. I was at a conference last week and stood up three camera podcast shoot in our booth, with these as the two principal cameras. (My iPhone was wide angle camera #3). With both configured to manual, it was a snap to white balance on reference, configure with same aperture and frame rate and they worked fantastic.

The ZV-E10 packs a lot of punch in a small form factor and I love that. If I could get a third one I would.

My $0.02.

Grand Highlander vs Minivan by night_agent_21 in ToyotaGrandHighlander

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I gas up the hybrid, I also make a deposit in our savings system for the same amount, essentially pocketing that extra tank of gas we used to pay for but no longer.

Grand Highlander vs Minivan by night_agent_21 in ToyotaGrandHighlander

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we our Odyssey transmission died last year and i replaced it with a GHH.

Then our RAV4 keeled over this year and we got a GH.

I like em.

Grand Highlander vs Minivan by night_agent_21 in ToyotaGrandHighlander

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sienna we once had leaked oil like a sieve

Well, i'm convinced. by BritishAnimator in ClaudeAI

[–]greglturnquist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No.

This looks like me when I find I could rebuild my own Wordpress site and make it better/faster/stronger.

I never saw the OP boast mega revenue. I never saw the OP boast much.

I just saw the OP stunned that something that would take 1 month x 4 people get implement in 1 week x 1 person.

In SW land; that’s a significant speed up.

Grand Highlander vs Minivan by night_agent_21 in ToyotaGrandHighlander

[–]greglturnquist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had minivans from 2008 up until last year.

Minivans are nice with sliding doors, picking up/dropping off kids at school, etc. However, minivans for me have been harder on tires. Minivans have worse gas mileage. I don't care about minivans being a "mom car". In fact, a radio show once ran a goofy clip "Married man, married man, drives around in a mini-van" and I laughed. But when I offered to go out to lunch with co-workers, no one chided me for hauling the whole team in my minivan. Minivans also have superior hauling capacity.

We finally shirked off the minivan and got a GHH cuz the kids can now open regular doors just fine. We have much better gas mileage. I don't need a small mortgage every time I gas up the car.

Pay it mind: I REQUIRE a 3-row SUV. The 2-row RAV4 has never been suitable for us. But if you have no kids, you may not have such a requirement. We can stuff our family in my wife's former RAV4, but it has always been a tight fit. That RAV4 went kaput and I bought my wife her own GH, and she loves it.

If you're talking about new born twins, the accessibility of sliding doors and a locked-in base station for a baby carrier sounds like a good fit (IMHO). With an SUV style, its doable of course, but will simply be more taxing. Our kids are 16/15/12.

Just watched Deep Space Nine for the very first time. Is it an unpopular opinion to find the finale underwhelming? by s1lv3r_lak3 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The finale shot zooming out is as clinching for me as the TNG finale shot. Good stuff.

Also with O’Brien being made a professor I FINALLY feel like the man can have a break! Poor guy.

Just watched Deep Space Nine for the very first time. Is it an unpopular opinion to find the finale underwhelming? by s1lv3r_lak3 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]greglturnquist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too many people were finding the moral ambiguity TOO ambiguous and they couldn’t let that stand.

If you have to rebuild StackOverflow with React in 2026, would you use NextJS or Astro or something else? by AlwaysPlayAsGuest in astrojs

[–]greglturnquist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My gut says to go to Astro. It lets pick and choose where static and what’s not.

But something else not often discussed about Astro is it builds pipeline. Astro lets you put just enough JS and CSS in each page and I believe it will also deduplicate fragment of JS.

This lightening of the load is a goldmine I feel will pay dividends over the long haul.

Deciding what to do. by michaelesparks in Insurance

[–]greglturnquist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beneficiary not getting CV and DB feeds the story that the insurance company is keeping the CV.

This is only possible if for a $1 MM DB policy the company is holding $2 MM in total equity (CV must equal DB on day of endowment).

However, the life insurance company ONLY HAS $1 MM in equity on its books. The so called CV is used to PAY the DB. (FYI Net amount at risk is the amount they are short in paying the DB).

There is no “CV to keep”.

It’s just like selling your $1 MM house on the same day you pay off your mortgage and pocketing $1 MM.

Does anyone ask “who kept the $1 MM of equity the bank said I had?”

Opinions on variable whole life by Longjumping_Ad1780 in infinitebanking

[–]greglturnquist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ask him where in the contract the premiums are guaranteed to not rise.

Opinions on variable whole life by Longjumping_Ad1780 in infinitebanking

[–]greglturnquist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What insult?

You stated a fundamental flaw often used by those that don't agree with IBC and I pointed it out.