Michael Mauldin

Just wanted to remind people on X that my real focus is on astrophotography. lazytoad.com/astronomy/inde…

@ThrillaRilla369 Yes. You'd watch the TV to see what the draft lottery was... it told you whether you were likely to be drafted. Friends and classmates would be drafted, whisked away to Vietnam, and many never came back. I missed the war by only two years (the war was over when I turned 18).

Does anyone actually remember the Vietnam War? Was it as bad as the stories my uncle used to tell us

Dear restaurant owners: We all hate the QR code menus. Stop. -everyone

@davepl1968 I just noticed they're all powers of 2 minus 1. CS background.

There are (at least) two ways to approach this, and based on nothing at all but conjecture and speculation, I think people with ASD will approach it differently than neurotypical people. I think neurotypical people will double the current number and add one. So 2x7+1 = 15, for example. I think people with ASD will intuitively "see" that each number is one less than a power of 2. The sequence then simply becomes 2^N-1. So, did you just "feel" it? Or did you go recursive and solve it computationally? Or some other means? Let me know! Just FWIW, they're mathematically equivalent:

Let's assume you can solve this. I think HOW you solve it says a lot about how your brain works. First, figure it out so you have your answer, then check the thread for what it all means.

Frank Herbert speaks of this

@JohnCornyn Bless your heart.

I believe if we remove @LeaderJohnThune asap, replace him with Mike Lee, we can still win. Thune needs to go.

@Adriksh Pointers predate C. IBM used them in PL/I in the 1960s/

C pointers were invented because a systems engineer decided that instead of just passing the data, it would be much funnier to hand a junior dev the exact geographic coordinates of a landmine in ram.

My double Milky Way photo for 2026, Valley of the Gods, Utah, USA. Wallpaper size available for free at lazytoad.com/astronomy/nigh… Canon R5m2 vis+Ha and Laowa 15mm f2 Zero D

Fuentes suggestion that people mad at Republicans should vote Democrat is idiotic. If you’re mad at the cops, you don’t vote for the criminals. You hire different cops.

🚨 BREAKING: Legislation has been filed in the US Senate to BAN members of Congress from receiving special treatment at airports They’d be FORCED to stand in the lines and go through TSA just like the rest of us. Great! This is LONG overdue.

Dear Airlines, stop escorting Members of Congress to the front of the TSA lines. Let them experience what the Democrats are doing to travel. @Reagan_Airport

@BasedMikeLee I'm working on getting Ken Paxton into the Senate... RINOs gotta go...

If your senators don’t support using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, you might need to replace them.

Members of Congress should not be escorted to the front of TSA lines. They should have to suffer in the lines they helped create just like us commoners.

@ThrillaRilla369 Yes... the whole Chess club got together at our 30th.

Did anyone here ever attend their high school reunion?

I do hope you’re prepared to say that to my face.

I warned you this would happen. And this is when they are 1% of the US population.

🚨Should @LeaderJohnThune be removed as Senate Leader if he doesn't get the SAVE America Act passed this week? Repost for large sample.

@Milajoy I'd say it was the 16th amendment and Woodrow Wilson.

When was the exact moment in America when everything started going downhill? I say when Barack “Barry” Obama was elected.

@Schwalm5132 “History offers a clear example. Our Founding Fathers did not hide behind pseudonyms when it mattered most.” Sure they did. They used them until they didn’t. If they didn’t use them, one could argue there would be no revolution. So I disagree with this statement.

@TenativeTangent @straceX Hmm... 1980 to "late 90s". In any case, sudo came first.

@TeamToad @straceX Or I suppose you mean one decade.

sudo was invented because linux users needed a polite way to ask the operating system for permission to permanently destroy their own file system.