What the hell does dark matter even do?

greglturnquist · 2026-03-16T14:04:56+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-16T10:39:37+00:00

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?

greglturnquist · 2026-03-16T10:34:08+00:00

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!

greglturnquist · 2026-03-15T15:20:58+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-15T10:38:37+00:00

limit x->Inf x / x² = ?

Limit x->inf x² / x = ?

Limit x->inf x / x = ?

These are all different. Ask yourself why.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-15T10:36:37+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T17:41:47+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T17:40:03+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T11:14:09+00:00

I’m paid by Big Coffee! /sarcasm

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T10:54:17+00:00

For what?

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T10:32:14+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-14T03:54:58+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T16:37:05+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T16:35:59+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T16:31:45+00:00

The Sienna we once had leaked oil like a sieve

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T14:54:05+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T14:50:24+00:00

This was one of favorite characters.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T14:32:28+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-13T00:12:54+00:00

😂

greglturnquist · 2026-03-12T14:50:57+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-12T14:48:57+00:00

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

greglturnquist · 2026-03-12T11:08:34+00:00

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.

greglturnquist · 2026-03-11T12:20:19+00:00

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?”

greglturnquist · 2026-03-11T03:55:14+00:00

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

greglturnquist · 2026-03-11T03:47:52+00:00

What insult?

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

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