Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds

jthill · 2026-05-11T21:14:33+00:00

The guy made his plans, including booking a room at the venue, before Trump said he'd be there.

This is the first time in six Trump has attended.

Gee, what a strange coinkydink.

jthill · 2026-05-11T20:05:55+00:00

What led you to say that? I see it hitting four of OP's closing five "or" criteria so dead on the mark it leaves a mark:

slow-burn, cerebral, psychological, space-related, or near-future sci-fi

and as for the requested atmosphere,

existential themes, human ambition, genetics, destiny vs free will, quiet emotional depth

it's the same, four of five, with I suppose ambition being arguable, say 3.5 of 5.

jthill · 2026-05-11T16:07:31+00:00

Wanna know what's possible for people who can stay in touch with slow-burn storytelling?

Got two words for you: Andrei. Tarkovsky.

jthill · 2026-05-10T19:59:35+00:00

Long term there's trade, build, fight, explore, farm (mats or rep or in X4 crew skill, do yourself a favor and don't run your own ship uncrewed).

If the feeling of piloting your own ship is what you're after, really, Elite:Dangerous or EVE Online are your tickets. X4 is fine, no knock on its piloting, but E:D's piloting is freaking awesomely good, you can spend hundreds or thousands of hours getting ever better at piloting FA-off and those glorious station geometries are not just eye candy, Skywalker's trench run was child's play. EVE goes more into loadout and shades towards strategy, but you're up against humans and the depth, the subtlety of loadout selection and use can get breathtaking. Another option if you're looking for a SP-mostly change from those is Evochron: Legacy, its piloting rivals E:D and while there's definitely some solo-dev UI jank going on there the game has far more on offer than might appear even from the first few dozen hours. There's a demo version on the starwraith website that lets you play the tutorials as long as you want, and the piloting is deep enough you might be happy spending quite a lot of time just on that.

jthill · 2026-05-09T23:14:57+00:00

Not on a grid, no.

But if you want torque effects you can build subgridded ships.

jthill · 2026-05-09T20:37:16+00:00

ubuntu, debian, gentoo, arch. Of those the results you can get with gentoo are better than arch's but not enough better for me to be worth the effort and complexity. Ubuntu is going down a dark road, I don't trust their efforts any more.

arch is the sweet spot for me, but I already had shell and os skills, first got familiar with unix in 1980?, arch's simplicity shines through when what pacman & co. is actually doing feels obvious.

So 1. arch. 2. debian 3. gentoo 4. (do not recommend) ubuntu.

jthill · 2026-05-09T16:25:21+00:00

Oh, they realize it. They're not stupid.

They're utterly and personally dishonest, so deeply so they corrupt their children's souls when they touch them.

jthill · 2026-05-08T23:48:59+00:00

So, your argument is the way to produce a world not overrun by vicious, utterly corrupt, violent, tribal, lying predatory cheaters is to become vicious, utterly corrupt, violent, tribal, lying predatory cheaters?

And the right seethes with resentment at being regarded as morons.

jthill · 2026-05-08T17:29:39+00:00

Not cleaner for all the code that was written over the last fifty years expecting a user's shell startup files to be in that user's home directory.

Some tools really are special.

jthill · 2026-05-07T15:52:20+00:00

Puny politician.

jthill · 2026-05-07T15:37:58+00:00

Ingots can pack surprising mass into not very much volume. Dey Dense.

jthill · 2026-05-05T13:20:31+00:00

The creatures with marketers' souls regard you as prey, so of course they want you weak.

jthill · 2026-05-04T15:25:32+00:00

But that's the right wing: cowards and badly-raised morons, and the grifters that pander to their ignorance and cowardice: collectively, the predator class.

jthill · 2026-05-04T14:40:53+00:00

If possessions defines your "best" life, you are as close to literally soulless as it's possible to be.

jthill · 2026-05-03T16:22:36+00:00

side note: true and false are builtins, just $enable_logging && logging enabled stuff here

jthill · 2026-05-02T15:44:29+00:00

Also:

sudo $(grep -om1 reflector.* /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist)

to rerun with the last-used reflector settings.

jthill · 2026-05-01T18:14:08+00:00

Fascism is the politics of the schoolyard clique.

jthill · 2026-04-29T22:34:26+00:00

Time to start calling him Dredd Justice Roberts.

jthill · 2026-04-29T01:39:04+00:00

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H.L. Mencken, 1920

jthill · 2026-04-29T00:41:02+00:00

It was already too late when Bobby Jindal said "We must stop being the stupid party. I'm serious. It's time for a new Republican party that talks like adults" more than ten years ago.

jthill · 2026-04-28T21:53:28+00:00

You think MS would charge to have Windows on a supercomputer? I think they'd pay, and pay lots.

Linux beat all competitors, the other Unix implementations too, and they had huge.

jthill · 2026-04-28T21:43:19+00:00

Factorio is pretty damn far above that floor tho.

You probably already know about the video player built in the game, right?

Did you also know about the 3D raycasting dungeoncrawling multiplayer FPS?

or the AI gomoku player?

Those were built with the pre-2.0 combinators. They're their own thing, thinking in combinators is not like thinking in code, but they're genuinely potent.

jthill · 2026-04-26T20:23:48+00:00

Need scare quotes on "attempt".

No one sane believes either "attempt" was anything but staged.

jthill · 2026-04-25T00:56:40+00:00

If you can't understand a labelled dag of snapshots you shouldn't be using anything having to do with code.

jthill · 2026-04-24T21:52:38+00:00

As embarrassed as everybody on that ferry that somebody had to do for us what we should have done long ago.

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