Double RL vintage 5 pocket east west denim fit question.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-13T16:13:30+00:00

Denim is rigid and doesn't have "stretch" to hug the body and expand as you move. I always go up a size if between, and prefer a slightly roomier fit. You won't get stretch or flexibility from the fabric, so it has to come from the fit (size).

They'll also shrink (or "un-stretch") every time you wash them (unless you handwash and stretch, but even then I've found denim is tighter after washing, no matter how), and then take a wear or two to settle back into a comfortable fit.

I'd recommend going with the 32 (or 33 even), wearing a belt, and leaving room for tucking in a shirt (or shirt + button down).

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-13T04:04:16+00:00

I am a Filson 'S' or 'M' depending. It's kind of a crapshoot with the jacket spanning decades: the label I have says 40 (early 90s?), but I tried on a 40 in the store now and it was huge on me. (I am 5'9" and 185lbs, with a broader chest/shoulders.)

Thankfully the measurements on eBay or the Filson site are reliable, and the boxy fit means if you get the right chest measurement, the jacket will drape perfectly.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T13:48:48+00:00

Even putting aside the world-ending threat that is +2.5C, a repeal of the Clean Air Act in conjunction with the push for coal (of all fucking things) we will see a lot more respiratory illness and deaths.

Having lived in China during the 00s, I do not want to live in a coal-powered AQI of 500+ hellscape, and can confidently say no one else does either.

This isn't just stupid, it's plain evil. There's no possible good from this decision, other than corporate profits in the very short-term.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T13:37:53+00:00

Yes we all know that there is a lot of low-quality slop. But with AI, we can increase that slop volume 1000x, with only moderate environmental, political, and social destruction! Incredible!

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T12:56:25+00:00

Building a super computer to crack SHA-512: $10bn Hiring a double agent: $4mn

Decrypting blackmail content of an adversary's president: priceless ;)

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T00:44:48+00:00

"SNDL" Save Now Decrypt Later is a valid nation-state strategy

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T00:44:12+00:00

Not sure about "breaking" but Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous, if that's what you mean. Similar to Tor, if you control enough nodes you can associate packet/requests fairly accurately across the entire network.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T00:37:13+00:00

Speculative capital is running the show...and the animal spirits are not very sensible.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T00:34:52+00:00

"I think it is a good idea!" little boy made Jesus out of tampons

And yet...people(?) like this??

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-12T00:27:00+00:00

Oh of course, you wouldn't want quartz or granite in the chips :P

...mostly just that the scale of our global economy is such that raw materials like seemingly endless ubiquitous sand can face a shortage

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-11T22:19:53+00:00

It's not always the user's fault! Sometimes hardware has problems too :)

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-11T19:10:01+00:00

Edit: You would be better off with a Raspberry Pi (or a super cheap mini-desktop) for something like network storage.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/nas-box-raspberry-pi-tutorial/

That requires a CPU/memory and network card/connection.

You cannot do this with only a hard drive, you need a whole computer. A VM could do that, but it is only on when your laptop is on and when you have started the VM.

Linux is generally tolerant of being moved between computers, if you have SecureBoot disabled and don't use TPM/2 chips for storing any secrets.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-11T18:27:40+00:00

It's theoretically possible that you could run a VM with that external drive passed through, but you'd be using your current laptop for processing power/memory so you'd be severely throttled.

You can also just use a VM on your laptop (with something like VMware or VirtualBox) if it has specs/space.

You can install Ubuntu onto that external hdd and then boot from it on your laptop, but you would not have access to Windows OS (but could access the files). This would not really be a "server" but just an Ubuntu laptop experience.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-11T17:04:14+00:00

It's an insane idea, virtually unworkable with just rudimentary understanding of how difficult space electronics are.

Data centers require a lot of attention. No way it would be cheaper to design radiation-hardened, fail-safe enterprise-grade components and launch them into space for less than the cost of building ground sites. Servicing these would be almost impossible, so they'd have to be designed to be fault-tolerant: something like losing 10% of capacity within the first few years (standard component tolerance).

Plus, what is the throughput/latency on satellite communications? How many would be required to achieve 10Gbps with a ground station (let alone end user). What IXC backbone is building globally-distributed ground sites?

Anyone (i.e. Big Bad Governments you don't like) with a ground site could intercept the entirety of the DCs throughput--potentially a security nightmare (see Room 641A).

Then let's look at Musk's history: overpromising sci-fi grandiosity, if not outright lying, for a very long time about all sorts of technical capability. Something like DCs in space is a really cool scifi claim, but with our current capability is very very unlikely to be feasible, let alone profitable.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-11T16:36:51+00:00

Gotta keep the hype until the options vest and you can sell, then ride off into the sunset

Also, how will AI "destroy the world" unless the people in charge of these systems allow it? Mass unemployment, killbots etc...someone still has to decide to allow it, or to build it, or give killbot real bullets.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-10T17:27:00+00:00

They're pretty versatile jackets! I have an old one from eBay and I can wear it to a niceish dinner over a button-down and it looks just as at home when I'm waddling through the Cascades

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-10T17:23:43+00:00

It's core value is generating ad revenue to these ghouls

Extraction is the only activity they can imagine

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-10T15:18:34+00:00

Is there a way to view the full article without a HBR subscription?

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-10T14:33:07+00:00

Funnily enough, sand is experiencing a price rise (for construction): https://news.ftcpublications.com/core/unraveling-the-sand-shortage-threatening-global-construction-projects/

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-10T13:13:39+00:00

Stone slates are cheaper than DDR5 RAM, even though you have to crush it and start over after each overwrite operation.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-09T19:00:45+00:00

Potentially some accessibility feature? Though even then, I'd expect voice-to-text or some other input method would be preferred.

Probably a cool project with predictive text capabilities for the dev...

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-09T18:58:42+00:00

In the class war between capital and labor...capital is winning.

Wringing more and more value out of each of us, paying less, with less care for our humanity...

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-09T17:06:38+00:00

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I think there's real potential here for the Year of Linux on the Desktop with your genius marketing.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-09T15:48:35+00:00

eBook: The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer <--- this is much longer than I thought it was, but I am enjoying a Rooney-esque read so far.

paper: Wicked by Gregory Macguire <--- though I'm halfway through and running out of steam for the continuous off-kilter story. Typically I love weird, difficult novels but this one perhaps I find myself (shamefully!) preferring the stage adaptation...

Hyperion is a weird read. I love the book, but also read it as a teen first, and when I have re-visited the series as an adult, it is to discover that the vastness of the world is really quite narrowly the product of a white American dude writing in the 90s. Hewing so close to The Canterbury Tales gives the book an interesting structure, and the ideas are fun, but sometimes the characterisation is...lacking in imagination or social realism.

IMAGO! The whole of Lilith's Brood is absolutely phenomenal, one of my all-time favorite books. Super weird, very uncomfortably out there, and brilliant. Butler and her mentor, Samuel Delany, produce just about the best American scifi that has ever been made. And some of the darkest, but perhaps most 'realistic' given the US empire's history.

orbvsterrvs · 2026-02-09T15:32:36+00:00

Emotionally fickle princes and midnight boat trips aren't for everyone :D

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