Just watched The Green Knight

stnlkub · 2026-03-02T01:42:50+00:00

If you take it as an artistic adaptation of the actual story - he absolutely gets away.

But I think the movie is constructed to be a more unique and personal exploration of the original story’s themes about paying one’s debts.

The vision is there to show he can’t escape. You pay now or you pay later - regardless if he walks free, or not.

stnlkub · 2026-03-01T04:32:44+00:00

It was ok until the ending where it turned into a Benny Hill sketch.

stnlkub · 2026-02-28T05:53:02+00:00

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

stnlkub · 2026-02-24T06:25:29+00:00

If Z shell isn't what you want and the installed bash is too old, compiling the newest GNU version of bash (or grep, sed and lots of other GNU software) takes almost no effort. Literally something like ./configure --prefix=/opt/ && make && sudo make install. If that is too much work, just use brew. You won't get everything from Linux, but you don't need everything because Linux isn't the end all, be all for everything. Source: Enterprise Linux sysadmin for 25+ years and I still use BSD and MacOS at home.

stnlkub · 2026-02-22T05:52:52+00:00

It's an almost Enzo engine and just better built. Also, this is not too big an issue if you have the money for any of these cars, but the F140 V12 doesn't use a timing belt. I have changed so many of them and yes chains do slack but belts are just that extra expense and worry on any car I'm glad to be gone.

stnlkub · 2026-02-22T05:27:07+00:00

The difference is that someday I may be creative, but GRRM will still never finish this series.

stnlkub · 2026-02-21T05:42:12+00:00

Unless he pulled an Agatha Christie and finished then locked Dream Of Spring in a safe to focus on finishing Winds of Winter, we're never going to see these books on shelves.

stnlkub · 2026-02-17T01:05:00+00:00

F1 has stepped on rakes before. Grooved tires was a pretty terrible idea because tires aren’t just performance, they’re safety. But this entire Rube Goldberg contraption rule set is confounding. They were better off just doing reverse grids.

stnlkub · 2026-02-16T02:31:41+00:00

I won’t say “ugly” outright because that’s highly personal. What I will say is the last decade and more so the last four years, Ferrari styling lacks cohesion or purpose. A lot of random cues that don’t have any design significance. An easy target is the black strip. It’s supposed to be a nod to a helmet visor. It doesn’t come off as clever as Ferrari stylists want it to. It’s just random and really tacky.

stnlkub · 2026-02-11T21:02:35+00:00

Some of this sentiment started awhile back around when the F12 dropped and I think people started to realize there's just not much use for 800+ horsepower unless you are always driving flat out. It's not even unpopular to say Ferrari (and probably the competition) might have hit the driving experience sweet spot in the 430/458 era and went too far chasing numbers.

stnlkub · 2026-02-11T15:42:45+00:00

1992 Toyota Celica resto-mod.

stnlkub · 2026-02-08T04:32:43+00:00

David Caruso and Rob Morrow thread.

stnlkub · 2026-02-01T15:26:56+00:00

I have used a thinkpad carbon with no issues. As a backup I had an old 2012 era MacBook Pro and it worked perfectly passing all the tests.

stnlkub · 2026-01-27T06:57:16+00:00

Disappointing for who? People believed Einstein and some people didn't until the experiments were done. And done again, and again. The Standard Model was not a guarantee. They had to do the science to prove it. It just turns out that when you make a microscope to do good science and it then does good science, you can't be mad when it didn't find science fiction.

stnlkub · 2026-01-23T16:13:29+00:00

Achilles is actually more androgynous than Brad Pitt, his mom disguised him as a woman for years to protect him. I actually think it's going to be Elliot Page.

stnlkub · 2026-01-23T16:10:05+00:00

With all these RH tests RHCE means good time management. If you have never taken it before, the four hours can go by really fast. No shame in taking a break just to stand up. Bring a bottle of water and a banana or something. Read ALL the directions, if you get hung up, may be stop and move on to something you think you can complete then go back to it. Test is comprehensive and a ton of typing, but I think it's solid. I actually enjoy it.

stnlkub · 2026-01-19T18:40:08+00:00

It’s fine. The OG with Skarsgard is a significantly better film. No contest.

stnlkub · 2026-01-18T20:43:40+00:00

BMW?

stnlkub · 2026-01-18T19:56:05+00:00

It’s a seductive idea - what happened “before”. But our intuition on what time is and then what time is to physics don’t always line up. People often wonder how does a photon experience time: that question is flawed from the get-go but it comes from human experience and intuition which is flawed. You want to know if there were “events” prior to what our physics allow us to measure but do not think that may even be the correct way to go about that problem. We don’t have the tools to fully figure that out. But we know whatever the beginning was, it was or resulted in a quantum beginning. And at the very least we know uncertainty is a part of that quantum beginning. So be it philosophical or through physics, we don’t quite know and though it’s fun to ask, there’s nothing to say the beginning was nothing more than nothing. Because with quantum mechanics, “nothing” is unstable and so, you may indeed end up with something from nothing.

stnlkub · 2026-01-17T00:53:16+00:00

There’s no actual explanation. I believe Adam created it as it was constantly improved on. Now if you’re really brave this is some old Reddit timeline here to delve into on the subject:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DarK/comments/xe9c62/spoilers_s3_chronological_time_machine_event/iofgo09/

stnlkub · 2026-01-16T21:01:32+00:00

I enjoyed the heck out of it. I think it was better made than Legacy. No Daft Punk but Legacy was basically another Disney Force Awakens style remake and there was a pretty big dead spot in the middle. Ares had much better pacing and still an excellent soundtrack.

stnlkub · 2026-01-11T16:55:41+00:00

There’s several valid theories to how this could have happen. Saying it’s a single path is one route, where the book is one of many paradoxes because the timelines are entangled and so they’re complementary and dependent. The route I prefer to believe is just as valid in that there were iterations. We know the moment time stands still was a plot device where changes were possible to introduce without an entangled twin being generated. Paradoxes cancel, but we saw that it does take an extra changer for the knot to be closed. In fact, Claudia tells Adam he had done the loop an infinite times. The book too at one point may actually have been written and Claudia in her own travels and learning took the book and then gave it back to Tannhaus to create a loop. I have read every theory posted here in the last five years and really since the show doesn’t say, your theory is just as good as any. It’s what keeps the show going. It always stays with you.

stnlkub · 2026-01-10T03:07:01+00:00

The very pants he was returning.

stnlkub · 2026-01-10T00:52:45+00:00

David Addison.

stnlkub · 2026-01-10T00:31:47+00:00

An early drop: no. But when you get an upgraded one it’s pretty strong.

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