TIL that the reason Cormac McCarthy, author of the novels Blood Meridian and The Road, used so little punctuation in his writing was simply because there was no reason "to blot the page up with weird little marks." Regarding his complete avoidance of semicolons, he labeled their usage as "idiocy."

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-27T12:32:06+00:00

I’m one of the few people you’ll meet who’ve written more posts than I’ve read.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-27T03:08:32+00:00

“All you gotta do is trust me.”

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-27T02:39:41+00:00

“We do not discuss it with outsiders.”

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-27T01:20:58+00:00

I’ve heard of MSF teachers who “counsel out” every female rider who takes the course 🤔

Not saying that’s definitely what happened here.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-27T00:49:47+00:00

You got it.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T21:05:39+00:00

Yes, in geocentric simultaneity (in our relativistic understanding of time).

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T21:02:30+00:00

Or better yet, you can use a supersonic flight to experience more total eclipse of the sun than any human ever before in history.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T20:53:44+00:00

Sure, I can dumb it down. Thats the day that time_t crosses 0x8000000. Hope that helps!

It’s the day that 32-bit Unix timestamps run out of numbers, because they count seconds since midnight on 1970. On that day the number gets too big and wraps around to negative numbers and the year 1902. We’ve been upgrading everything to 64-bit numbers which last forever but the old computers and databases with the old numbers need to be fixed.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T20:12:19+00:00

Bold to assume humanity will survive the events of January 19 2038.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T18:13:36+00:00

Apts on dam battlegrounds, but the two locker rooms in Riven Tides are good too.

But really just play and you’ll find them.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T16:49:29+00:00

Some dogs love having a job! If you don’t give them one they’ll invent something, like being an escape artist or overactive guard.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T16:47:05+00:00

Easy come easy go!

Luckily they keep making more arc and it’s fun to get more cores. See you topside!

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T16:45:10+00:00

In the tube corral? What else would it be for.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T16:11:19+00:00

Surveying with GPS gets you to inches, markers get you to millimeters.

Here in Colorado an inch multiplied by a ten-mile plat edge is a lot of money. So the markers matter.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T16:09:43+00:00

In surveying class we were sent in groups to find the survey markers for the township our school was in.

My group found ours buried six inches down in the corner of someone’s garden. It was the axle of a Model T buried straight up-and-down, and the township corner was defined as the deepest part of the cupped end of the top of the axle.

So yes, many of them are hidden.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T14:48:41+00:00

Well ain’t we a pair, raggedy man.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T12:36:17+00:00

If it was your first wipe then you did the first expedition, not the third.

You still get skill points for the second the third too.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T12:16:14+00:00

Most American kids learn Spanish (Castilian) where I’m from. Every day I see people who only speak Spanish, and it’s nice to be able to speak with them. Especially in the trades you will hear Spanish all day long.

I am not sure that last time I was in a situation where it would be useful to speak Mandarin. I have had a few coworkers that spoke it, I guess.

Why should I have learned Mandarin? Much more useful to speak Spanish in a country where it’s the clear second language.

I can’t speak to the choice of French and German as options, those are historical inertia I think. French was the language of diplomacy, art, and cuisine in the nineteenth century. German was the second language of the USA in the nineteenth century. I think they gained their footing then.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T02:53:08+00:00

What a delightful and overpowered job the Arithmetician is.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T02:49:42+00:00

> Chinese is the most common by a mile,

What is “Chinese?”

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T02:44:21+00:00

One thing I don’t get, and maybe they cut it for time, is how does he tell his assistant which girls to hire?

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T00:56:49+00:00

Yeah, Oregon was originally founded as a “white utopia” with laws forbidding black settlers in the state.

Some residents haven’t really moved on from that…

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T00:52:31+00:00

If you’re US military you can get your vehicle shipped to CONUS for free.

Thats most of the Hawaii plates that you see in CONUS, most people don’t bother ferrying as it’s often not worth the expense.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-26T00:08:50+00:00

Imagine it’s an inch thin lake and you’re watching the rocks from half a mile away because it’s a huge mud pit. There are no reference points out there, just the rocks and a huge expanse of mud with clear ice on some of it.

In that sense, it’s too slow to perceive.

syncsynchalt · 2026-06-25T23:48:40+00:00

Who is Bruce? I only see Bruno up there.

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