drewfer @drewfer@qoto.org

My scum-of-scrum lead stopped me in the hall after our sprint review and asked me if my job was still fun.

Love that guy.

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." -- https://github.com/MITDDC/zork/blob/master/zork/dung.56#L439

I picked up a pair of those Orivis kaki pants from Costco and they are so LOUD. It's like the corduroy pants from my childhood had a baby with those wind-suits from the 90's.

Now I'm off to swiff-swiff-swiff down the hall.

@freemo late to the party, but I hope you went high sheen. Flex nibs love the sheen.

What inks do you have?

@freemo

The muzzle break should help significantly with follow up shots considering the amount of barrel roll you get on a 1911 platform.

Do you do timed drills? You should be able to see a difference in score.

@kilroy_was_here @freemo

Don't give up on it just yet, there are lots of great acts still carrying the torch.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/

@freemo well, now you can hang all sorts of things off your barrel without needing a rail :)

@freemo how did you manage that?

My friend Chuck, the mathematician, has been training a neural net on lotto numbers to try and hit the Poweball jackpot this time. He generated like 150 numbers because....*waves hands* probability or something.

So, now we're siting in the lotto shop and he's hand filling out 150 little scantrons.

@freemo @SteelFolk

It's more about the casing, chamber, and barrel of the gun itself, not the bullet.

The Army's most recent iteration of the standard issue rifle (SIG Spear) has a specially designed steel & brass case to help handle the overall pressures that the propellant generates. My understanding is that the new bi-metal construction was needed to ramp up the bullet performance but keep it within the pre-existing overall cartridge length requirements.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.277_Fury

@SteelFolk @freemo

Some background info -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_pressure

@freemo the difference is from technological advances in metallurgy and the change from black powder to modern smokeless powders

Modern ammunition designs just don't need anywhere near the same amount of case capacity to generate the same amount (or more) energy.

The .38 vs 9mm is a good example as they have roughly the same diameter bullet but the 9mm has almost ~30% more energy despite being ~30% shorter overall.

@freemo

I prefer the 2:2:4

If you've read Neal Stephenson's `Termination Shock` then you might be interested in this:

https://makesunsets.com/

Quick update since my last post:
* Changed Jobs
* Moved
* Getting a divorce

Life is....complicated.

Wow... I'm on a flight with Sergio Mendes.