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• Commented on Do my Laundry
  [...] of Shoggoth Gap and the necromantic cold war? Presumably a reference to the Fulda Gap, [...] More likely the Missile Gap, as referenced previously....
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  What's "CCSS"? Looking at the prev thread, my guess would be "Climate Change Shitstorm"?...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  This "Technocracy, Inc" stuff is fascinating, i'd had an idea for a story set in an awful intentional community 'practice arcology' in a desert meant to test out off-world colony designs (like Bruce Sterling's Taklamakan but less extreme). This group...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  many of you might loathe 'em for their flawed editing and overt left-leaning, [but] there are days when reading The Guardian is a joy The centre-leftism is fine, it's the transphobia that brings the loathing....
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Here's the Trashfuture interview with Charlie....
• Commented on I ain't dead
  Ooo, one of the podcast interviews OGH mentions was Trashfuture, that's cool! (The episode isn't out yet, they just mentioned talking to him in passing in the newest ep.)...
• Commented on Ask me anything!
  Use G Mail if you just want more email addresses as cheaply and conveniently as possible, imho....
• Commented on Ask me anything!
  There also doesn't appear to be anything magical that will allow chips to become more efficient I don't understand why, but i had the idea that adopting reversible computing would allow more physically efficient processors — something about logically reversible...
• Commented on Ask me anything!
  Was The Fuller Memorandum ever meant to feature the works of R. Buckminster Fuller?...
• Commented on Peak Brexit
  Yes, but you can turn that off is my point....
• Commented on Peak Brexit
  I'm not a regular Chrome user, but if you type about:flags into the address bar and search for http there's an option "Mark non-secure origins as non-secure" that might fix it?...
• Commented on Peak Brexit
  I temporarily forgot the advice to <a href="https://xkcd.com/763/">NEVER ask how other people use computers</a>....
• Commented on Peak Brexit
  Why does Eleos Gup Adikia keep including w3schools.com text strings? I noticed it in post #504's third link as well. It's weirder than the not-knowing-what-a-joke-is idiosyncrasy (which she'd probably describe as a metajoke)....
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  > Instead they burned a shit-ton of power on taking down the presidency RIGHT THEN. And I have to confess, maybe I'm a poor reader, but I'm having trouble grokking why. I think their boss was just hurrying them...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  Small typo in the UK Kindle edition at "loc" 4910: "then fly anohter 3000 fly another 3000 nautical miles"...
• Commented on The Pivot
  Ohhh, damnit! Sorry, ignore me, everyone, it's late......
• Commented on The Pivot
  Sorry, didn't bother to enclose my hrefs in quotemarks; links should be: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/768/cpsprodpb/44C3/production/_102130671_trump-approval_v3_640-nc-1.png https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44552852...
• Commented on The Pivot
  Actually his support has been growing. According to Gallup poll, his support is now 45%. It's tied to Obama at 45% and above Clinton at 44%. Keep in mind that both of these Presidents lost the House at this point...
• Commented on New Book Week!
  I'm guessing paws4thot meant the sort of op-sec that was speculated about in like this old blog post and others, like never travelling from Earth to another world without at least two completely blinded wormhole indirection stops, so your enemies...
• Commented on Dark State: how to get signed copies!
  Goodness, i don't think i've ever been so tantalized by a cliff-hanger! V dramatic point to leave the narrative off at; i hated it. I didn't see any typos other than a few stray (easily ignored) apostrophes, and some sentences...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Don't you bet on it. Round about 1960, the only way a retailer could restock was by sending the card back from a pair of shoes that was sold; many of them had everything except the common sizes, because their...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Yes. But the New Testament account of the crucifixion is itself fake news, as that was the Roman punishment for rebellion etc. - the punishment for (Jewish) heresy was stoning - the historical and Christian Jesus don't match up. However,...
• Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
  Sorry to reply to two of your comments in a row, but have you seen the back of a cigarette pack recently? Shiny glossy plastic wrapped photos of gruesome medical conditions caused by smoking; i'm curious what they used to...
• Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
  Tanenbaum's Law is to 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of physical media hurled fast enough' [originally: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."] See also....
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  has anyone else read 17776? i thought it was like Homestuck at first, but with space probes, a conceit i've liked ever since that bit in Blindsight (ctrl-F for "Imagine you are a machine"....) but then the surrealism of American...
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  Experiment with growing algae in pee-tanks, be the future of food / oxygen for humanity...
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  Um, is there any chance of getting a proper forum set up, with private messages and threaded discussions and like, subforums for posting about about stuff? (Cos i SO agree with OGH's opinion that closed-cycle-ecosystem research is far more important...
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  Jokes... you're wrong. That's bs. In fact, I tend to dislike "jokes" like that. I have a good number of jokes that involve zero fear. Short, sweet counterexample proving you *wrong*: The famous philosopher Descartes is in a restaurant. He...
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  Oh, i didn't know that. So you used to have to type Fortran invocations with full case sensitivity?.. maybe the unix thing was a reaction to that? I get confused enough about gcc flags without bringing variant typographical stylings in...
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  (My impression is they were simply super paranoid about being able to type everything quickly on early remote terminals, like rm and ls and just using a . for the present location -- it's hard to read but very fast...