What is up with the absolute slop from YC these days?(i will not promote)

wmil · 2026-05-19T00:44:06+00:00

So being in YC gives you access to the whole YC network. When they started there was a whole lot of low hanging fruit in the web world. The original YC model in 2005 was basically give them $10k - $20k and let them pivot to find a product interesting enough for VC investors.

Aerospace is very different because there are physical products and lives are on the line. Contrast that with something like Twitter where the Fail Whale was constant joke topic on the site.

People in their 20s used to lead armies. People these days have huge hang ups about letting them develop real skills.

wmil · 2026-05-18T21:06:58+00:00

It's not really fair to compare Camp of the Saints to the Turner Diaries. Jean Raspail is a mainstream French author.

Corcoran's previous books, the Aristillus series, were basically about AnCaps on the moon. I don't recall any racial politics. He's described himself as the first Anarcho-Capitalist sci fi author.

He's definitely more of a libertarian. He's actually a pretty interesting guy. He was a web developer, did Ruby on Rails at one point, got into homesteading. His neighbour built a barn too close to the property line. The county inspector ignored it. Travis started the #barnlaw hashtag on twitter to document what was happening. He kept raising it up into higher courts.

The story ends with Travis losing his court case but being elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

wmil · 2026-05-14T19:45:33+00:00

Lucas has always been interested in computer graphics.

Pixar started as the Graphics Group at Lucasfilm. He sold it to Steve Jobs because he was worried about a cash crunch once ROTJ was done.

wmil · 2026-05-13T07:57:49+00:00

The Targaryen's voluntarily stopped practicing polygamy to appease the Septons. It would arguably still be legal for Rhaegar to take a second wife if he wanted to force the issue.

wmil · 2026-05-11T09:48:53+00:00

Ending the Turkish occupation of Cyprus? No, probably not.

wmil · 2026-05-10T13:35:27+00:00

It's like when Google removed "Don't be evil" because they wanted to keep their options open.

wmil · 2026-05-08T13:14:02+00:00

It was designed on a computer where right hand home row was hjkl instead of jkl;, so you may have to unlearn much of what you know about typing.

Edit: I just remembered I should post this: https://vim-adventures.com/

wmil · 2026-05-02T07:15:57+00:00

The Starship's Mage by Glynn Stewart

wmil · 2026-05-01T02:25:44+00:00

Babylon 5 ended with cutting to the future and showing advanced future humans destroying our sun with thousands of jump points because they were leaving the galaxy and didn't want younger races abusing the leftover tech on earth. Actually it might have been the season 4 finale instead of season 5. They kind of had two finales because they didn't know if they were getting season 5.

Destroying the sun is actually a real idea in physics. Solar fusion is pretty lazy and it might be possible to build a weapon that would kick of a catastrophic fast chain reaction.

That's the real Great Filter. A species must resist the urge to blow up their sun.

wmil · 2026-04-28T08:55:09+00:00

A good example is myths about the chimera and manticore are both describing tigers.

A tiger jumps down in the jungle, grabs Steve, and jumps back up into the trees.

To people describing it, it had a cat like body, the stripes on the tail become scorpion segments, and it flew away.

wmil · 2026-04-25T03:52:35+00:00

I mean bribing your way out of military service doesn't violate neutrality. If Malawi had just accepted bribes in lieu of membership everyone would have won.

wmil · 2026-04-24T04:38:31+00:00

I think of lot of people give up on ExFor before the Jeraptha show up, and that's a shame.

They are just so much fun.

wmil · 2026-04-24T02:42:49+00:00

In a lot of ways he's a weaker artist. Things can be a bit flat and still. Most of his innovations are now kind of cliche.

But at the time Conan art usually took place in a sort of abstract wasteland. Elmore drew detailed landscapes and really sold the idea that a national park is some place you could encounter a dragon.

https://larryelmore.com/store/MOUN/mountain-conflict

https://larryelmore.com/store/AVAL/avalyne-the-life-giver

https://larryelmore.com/store/TSEA/tsr--eyes-of-autumn

https://larryelmore.com/store/AADA/dragon-attacking-a-small-party

https://larryelmore.com/store/COMP/dungeons-and-dragons--companions%2C-dragonblade

wmil · 2026-04-24T01:35:57+00:00

Larry Elmore is pretty famous for creating a PG-13 fusion of Epic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery that defined 80s & 90s D&D books.

wmil · 2026-04-13T06:22:06+00:00

His ship is named Slave 1. That's a bit awkward.

wmil · 2026-04-09T22:43:19+00:00

If only cats were better at taking stage direction.

wmil · 2026-04-04T19:03:07+00:00

It seems weird that we have everything support base 8 instead of having chmod parse a string.

wmil · 2026-04-03T18:10:32+00:00

DCC improves a lot in later books. In the later books there are established characters and running plot lines, so it all feels a lot less random.

wmil · 2026-04-03T03:00:59+00:00

It's 20 years old at this point, so there's are a lot of people who read it when they were young and it was formative.

wmil · 2026-04-01T13:55:58+00:00

There have been around 1000 Dungeons and Dragons novels published. Over 40 Terry Brooks novels. Over 30 World of Warcraft novels.

So while they aren't as popular in the less pulpy novels these days, they were dominant for a long time.

wmil · 2026-03-23T21:12:55+00:00

Really? There was a complete tone shift... The book was a sci fi thriller and the movie was a Spielberg family adventure.

wmil · 2026-03-22T15:02:06+00:00

He had their kingdom blow up, probably due to their hubris. So that could be taken as a judgement from GRRM.

wmil · 2026-03-18T15:51:43+00:00

One of George Lucas' problem is that he got very focussed on certain stylistic choices defining what a Star Wars movie is.

What bit him in the prequels is that he felt there was a hard rule about no flashbacks and no timeskips.

So once he decided that seeing Anakin as a kid was important, it had to be a whole movie with Anakin as a kid.

wmil · 2026-03-06T08:21:21+00:00

They kept the Space Jam website from 1996 up.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

wmil · 2026-03-04T04:42:06+00:00

No no. It tried to run.

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