drewfer @drewfer@qoto.org
peccavi
Joined Aug 2018
drewfer
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Is it cost effective to save ourselves yet?
@strypey just realized that I fat fingered 2027 instead of 2017. Apologies.
To add to this, the 2027 Steel Dossier included intelligence that Telegram's encryption was compromised but that little tidbit was overshadowed by the Trump 'pee-pee tapes' accusations.
We tried making baby aspirin appeal to kids in the 1950's and preschool kids started overdosing on it. That was the origin of the 'child proof' cap.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/aspirin-poisoning-saftey-caps-history-medication-for-children
I had followed Julia Galef's podcasts, etc.. for a while before reading the book so I was mostly familiar with the content. Not a huge amount of change as a result but there are some good supporting stories that I've related to others to help illustrate the concepts in day to day conversations.
Things are progressing. I'm in a pretty happy place overall.
I'd be willing to test out some audio chats with you.
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?
Let's not forget that Jamal Khashoggi was likely assassinated for investigating Crown Prince MbS's gift of $20B to Jared Kushner which, some state, was in exchange for access to US intelligence that helped him oust the previous crown prince.
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.
Don't give up on it just yet, there are lots of great acts still carrying the torch.
@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.
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.
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.
I prefer the 2:2:4
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