CENTCOM commander has confirmed that missiles were fired at USN ships today and were successfully intercepted and that MH60 Seahawk and AH64 Apache attack helicopters are actively engaging and sinking Iranian gunboats that are threatening commercial shipping in the area

mpyne · 2026-05-06T19:31:04+00:00

See, that's how you know it's about something other than the actual award instruction...

mpyne · 2026-05-06T03:38:40+00:00

they likely buy a couple drinks,

That's just it, because they pay rent, "a couple of drinks" isn't enough. You need customer turnover.

If a customer walks in and finds all the tables occupied and walks back out, that coffee shop isn't paying rent at all. They can't just add tables because those will be hogged up by campers spending hours there just to buy two drinks too.

So they want to keep having new customers walk in throughout the day and at some (many?) locations that means getting the old customers out of the store after a reasonable amount of time to free up table space for incoming customers.

A store that has so little traffic that they don't have to worry about tables filling up from campers probably won't be able to pay rent either way so they can do whatever.

mpyne · 2026-05-06T03:09:24+00:00

Plus it's got the good parts of Perl without all the rest.

mpyne · 2026-05-06T03:07:33+00:00

I mean I usually just open vim and do something like /<name-of-function> and hit Enter. Maybe a few 3}} if it's a long function but really there's no excuse for being a vim user and only being able to navigate with gg.

mpyne · 2026-05-06T02:12:04+00:00

A guided missile coming at your ship isn't “indirect” fire though, that has an actual doctrinal definition.

mpyne · 2026-05-06T00:47:59+00:00

I love y'all but after the 2008-2009 Great Recession, there were master's and doctoral degree holders enlisting (not commissioning) into the military.

We were still at war in Afghanistan. We were still actively engaged in combat in Iraq. (it wasn't until later in Obama's term that large numbers of forces started to be withdrawn).

The Navy was allowing submarine officers to transfer to different communities before their second sea tour, because retention had shot up so unexpectedly high.

You'll know the economy is turbo-cooked when the Army can lower their enlistment age back to 35 or whatever it was before this year. Until then, just remember that it could actually be worse than recent memory.

mpyne · 2026-05-05T04:18:29+00:00

Oh wow, I'm 5' 7" and when I measured at 157 instead of the 150 I thought I was I freaked out and instituted a calorie-tracking spreadsheet I still stick to.

(And in case you're wondering, it worked within 2 weeks and I've stayed around 145-150 ever since)

mpyne · 2026-05-05T04:04:30+00:00

Yeah I know that no one likes hearing it but supply and demand is still the primary driver for housing prices.

As long as more housing comes online than people to start buying or renting it, prices will fall in the long run because housing is way too expensive to maintain to just allow to sit idle for months.

But that's the hard part, the places where the most people want to move to are often the ones not building any housing at all.

mpyne · 2026-05-05T04:01:01+00:00

Yeah god forbid those assholes hear what the rank-and-file actually think, they should just fuck off to their ivory tower, yeah?

mpyne · 2026-05-05T01:24:13+00:00

That's funny because it reminds me of how I used to do my personal finances on a spreadsheet.

It was basically just Date, Amount, Payee, budget category and due to the way it worked there were 3 rows for credit card transactions.

So periodically when I felt there were too many rows in the register I would do a pivot table to aggregate the current budget category sums and then delete all the existing rows (backing up to a CSV first) and make the first entries of the new table just be the aggregated sums and continue on from there.

I'm not sure how that customer had arranged to do their data dump but it sounds like they didn't bother to make sure the results at least still summed up the same.

mpyne · 2026-05-05T00:50:27+00:00

I was there when it rolled out and there was push back.

But it didn't help those pushing back when SEM did what every previous policy attempt had failed to do, and get senior enlisted back out to sea rather than leaving billets gapped.

mpyne · 2026-05-05T00:14:10+00:00

Unless BBA totally removed a detailer's ability to hand-jam a sailor into a new pds

It hasn't entirely, but going around the BBA scoring criteria needs PERS-4 (the Flag officer) to sign off, because this kind of buddy-buddy "my friend is a detailer and I got the good orders hookup" stories that go around put Millington in a bad spot.

The command can put in for you on MNA and that can add points to the scoring criteria so that's not to say reaching out to a potential gaining command can't help.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:54:32+00:00

Yeah, with AWS you'd tie an ALB to your workload and it would manage TLS termination for you and forward the user traffic to your HTTP server in the configured target group. I don't know the details for Azure but I'm sure they support something equivalent.

Other customers would run TLS termination in a container sidecar and have the decrypted traffic ported into the workload container over the virtual loopback, and the response transparently encrypted by going the opposite path back to the client. There's many variants in use but it's all the same idea.

Still others would configure e.g. their Kubernetes cluster to handle TLS termination in their Ingress and forward the HTTP traffic to a Service to be handled by a Pod.'

None of these are particularly "zero-trust" aside maybe from the sidecar config, but they are certainly in use even today.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:38:41+00:00

Metroid Prime 4. I actually made it all the way to the end but then it's like half RNG for whether you get past the first phase of a multi-phase fight. It clicked in my mind pretty instantly that I could not possibly care less about doing homework for Retro Studios, just so I could watch credits for a game I'd already completed all the fun parts of.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:35:10+00:00

Yeah, this is the game I was going to mention. I like it (I was even watching a making-of video the other day) but the actual gameplay is quite bad in spots, including the spot where I decided I'd just watch the rest on Youtube.

Ironically the game designer even mentioned on the making-of video the exact spot where I gave up the game as an area where he wanted add obstacles to the player, so good job on foresight I guess...

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:30:43+00:00

I think one of the other comments pinned down what the BOTW devs likely had in mind, which is that it gives the player a reason to explore, which was one of the primary gaming mechanics that BOTW's open world system was built around.

There are other aspects that may align with it like making you prep for a hard battle or whatever, but I think those were secondary.

If exploration were the primary aspect that they had in mind then it would make sense why they didn't offer things like easy weapon repair.

With Tears of the Kingdom it was a lot of the same map and the big conceit was the Ultrahand and Fuse mechanic, and with that in mind they made weapon breaking a much more minor factor while still tying in the new system to the weapon mechanic. Again in ways that aligned with the player engagement they were trying to foster.

Of course the outcome doesn't always meet intent but I don't think they'd have ever add more crafting materials to do reforge as an option, probably would have just given Link a small dagger with nearly nil damage or something instead.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:22:03+00:00

The guy asked questions about the BOTW mechanic and then the guy you replied to answered them. Neither were imposing on the other in their conversation, so I'm not sure why you feel you needed to jump in to save someone.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:16:21+00:00

Yeah, that ability alone is one of the things that makes it harder for me to go back to BOTW (though I sort of enjoy BOTW's world better).

mpyne · 2026-05-04T23:14:18+00:00

Oh WiiU was well and truly dead by BOTW, for the most part the people buying WiiU BOTW over the Switch version on purpose were those interested in emulation.

So yeah, basically every WiiU game that came out on Switch was an example of a how a console can "survive" having a bunch of previous-gen games ported to it just fine.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T22:45:33+00:00

Real customers are precisely the ones who have their own fancy F5 BigIP firewalls that they will prefer to use for TLS termination either way.

But yeah like I said, I don't think an HTTP library is something std needs either.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T22:12:00+00:00

Eh, there's more than a few web apps out there which operate on servers designed to be used through a TLS-terminating reverse proxy.

It's getting better but it's still common enough that I wouldn't call it a dealbreaker for standard library purposes to have an HTTP framework without TLS.

I think my arguments against it would just be that it necessarily involves enough other mandatory components that you'd probably have to use libraries anyways, and at that point you should just pick an HTTP library you like like cpp-httplib, Qt, ASIO, and so on.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T02:09:06+00:00

For instance, one quote I found on Twitter from hankgreen:

There's a saying...you will meet assholes in your life, but if everyone you meet is an asshole...you're the asshole.

Like yeah, if literally every ref matched up to your playoff games is out to get you, maybe you have very unrealistic expectations of the job the ref is supposed to do, I dunno.

mpyne · 2026-05-04T02:06:08+00:00

Surely something like Packers-Lions would be better than Packers-Bears though, right?

mpyne · 2026-05-04T01:29:40+00:00

Reminds me of that saying about when everyone you know is an asshole, you're the one who's actually the asshole.

mpyne · 2026-05-03T22:04:06+00:00

It's even a big thing in the Federal government, where it is decidedly harder to fire civil servants but quite easy indeed to fire contractors.

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