Matthew Dodd

@travis4nh Weren't we going to solve this by using starving orphans to do our shopping?

@Insanegame2025 @realsigridjin This was USENET days and the guy was a little crazy.

@MatthewNDodd @realsigridjin It was the internet stream protocol. Basically a zoom prototype that was used by like one vendor who created it.

hmm finally admitted ipv6 is a mess and dropped an internet draft for ipv8 if an ipv4 address looks like 1.1.1.1, an ipv8 address looks like 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 kinda wild it took 25 years to just suggest making the numbers longer haha

@keisan_15 @BaldingsWorld We doing REFORGER again?

@BaldingsWorld Seriously, that would be a great scenario. I prefer us being the backstop that will send reinforcements. But front-line defense in Europe should be handled by Europeans.

Serious question: do Europeans literally listen to nothing the US has said for 40 years?

@bird_actual @Aviation_Intel It was a puller rotor when you put the nose down on a gun run though. :)

@Aviation_Intel The AH-56 Cheyenne didn't fail, the only reason the U.S. Army didn't mass-deploy them was because the U.S. Air Force got its panties in a twist over a technicality regarding the Cheyenne's pusher rotor on the back and its stub wings TECHNICALLY making it a fixed wing aircraft.

Breaking: Army Names Its New MV-75 Tiltrotor Cheyenne II First applied to a failed cutting-edge attack helicopter, the Cheyenne name returns for what is perhaps the Army’s most ambitious rotorcraft program yet. twz.com/air/army-names…

@planefag You'll use nickel or silicon-bronze rods like everyone else.

@MatthewNDodd I'm a welder. Adjust expectations accordingly.

when I am King, the gears of the oscillating mechanism in table fans will legally be required to be milled out of chrome-moly steel

@shortmagsmle I'm pretty sure I managed to read every single interesting book in the middle school library. You're never on a list if you don't check them out.

For a class activity everyone had to go to the library and check out one book about a topic they had an interest in. This was middle school. I got called to the vice principal’s office via PA system a few days later. I had checked out a book from the history section about small arms of WWII. The guy asked me some roundabout questions to see if I was a school shooter type of kid (I wasn’t) and whether things were okay at home (they were). He heavily implied that I could be in some serious trouble, which was terrifying because I was always a pretty obedient student and a “good kid.” I wasn’t a smart ass and I didn’t “own” the guy because I was a nervous and always tried to be respectful, but I did manage to raise the point that the book came from his own library and that it seemed weird to me I could get in trouble for checking something out from a library that he was ostensibly responsible for overseeing. This caused what I now realize to be an uneasy stalemate and he sent me back to class and told me not to tell anyone about the book. There was no further incident. In hindsight, the whole thing was retarded and a well-credentialed professional administrator was basically shut down by a nervous 13-year-old.

@bryanrbeal I commuted on a two stroke enduro. The power-band and inadvertent wheelies when the light turned green were a real problem.

@treblewoe @Midnight_Captl If you're an IC in an "agile" shop, you're cooked.

A friend at Apple told me that over the past couple weeks, their team got access to Claude with a $300/day token budget. This is global sourcing on the business side, not engineering. I’m also hearing that when directors ask for backfill, senior leadership is asking what the team’s AI usage looks like. If token usage is low or nonexistent, the answer is increasingly: go figure out how to get more leverage out of AI first. Wild.

@travis4nh (Obligatory negative waves...)

@MatthewNDodd if I have amused even one other oddball, it was all worth it

The Tortoise (me): I would silently just have a mental reservation about the phrase "without any mental reservation" Achilles: very well, then the oath shall say "without any mental reservation about the phrase 'without any mental reservation' " The Tortoise: Then I would...

@travis4nh Legit still giggling about Hilbert.

2/ Achilles is wrapped up in baroque theorycel recursion...but you're not helping him, Tortoise. Why is that? "What do you mean I'm not helping?" he's lying there on his back citing Hilbert, and you're not helping

@DaisyRifles @teton83499 ... and then straight on through the chompers.

Something amazing to kick off the weekend. @teton83499 with some incredible balance and Red Ryder marksmanship! Give it a like if you couldn’t even attempt this. (I fell down twice just watching it!)

@HappierKindaSad @hbokujokiriya I'm thinking of a specific scene in "Split Second."

@MatthewNDodd @hbokujokiriya what show was he on? I love him!

@HappierKindaSad @hbokujokiriya Not a Rutger Hauer fan eh?

@hbokujokiriya Watching Luther for the first time, they were about to go into a dangerous situation and I was like, why aren't they pulling out their guns first like every other procedural? Which is how I found out British cops aren't armed

@choffstein Spheres on the geoid, but sure.

Week 1: Don't move. You are given distance D1. Week 2: Go 100 miles north. You are given a new distance, D3. Week 3: Go 100 miles east. You are given a new distance, D3. Draw three circles on your map based on your three starting points and their radiuses D1, D2, and D3. Where those three circles intersect is where the box is. You have 49 more weeks to hone in exactly. Good luck.

@planefag @philthatremains Overlapping hardwired cameras.

@philthatremains He isn't gonna break anything homeowner's insurance can't fix, but if he opens that door it's on like donkey kong. This has me worried though. I only have a peephole on my door, no intercom. I'd usually open the door to see what someone wants. That'd go south fast

some people are talking like this is a situation in which you would need a gun. it is not. this is a situation in which you call 911 and stay inside. if he breaks in, then you use a gun. NEVER go outside and confront a crazy person.

@GetOnTap Next to some of the best elephant races you'll be stuck behind!

Biggest truck stop on the east coast

@DrInsensitive @MAC_Arms Laughs in AMT.

@MAC_Arms Long-barreled pistols are much easier to point and shoot. So for my money, if it's not concealable, then the longer the better.

I love that shorty!

@travis4nh What your objection to "enhanced charges" should look like:

HB59 relative to the assault of a firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or law enforcement officer We passed, senate amended. Now: concur w their changes? Zero data or argument why we need higher penalties. Another Red Flag Roy "muh thin blue line" bill. 🟥