My grandfather who earned the Naval Cross for sinking some of Japan’s biggest ships as a dive-bomber pilot lived next door for many years to a medal of honor recipient who fought in Europe- they were both such modest people that they didnt know for years of the others accolades. Warranted a big story in a local paper…

The books are not physical copies. They are available as mobi, pdf or epub file format for digital use.

Started learning Python this week. It’s very high-level (as in it’s really abstracted from the code machines can understand) and very readable. Just being able to get going almost right away is a nice change of pace from Java.

As a normal human, not trying to screw everyone I encounter, I find these tactics so effing annoying.

I’m aware of all these tricks. It’s the fastest way to make me shut down all negotiations. These sort of tactics only work on naive fools or spineless pushovers. Dealing with manipulative people is the fastest way to make me aggressive. In fact, I get extreme pleasure from playing along just to fuck them over last…

Also bribes.

My great-grandfather was a sniper in the Wehrmacht. He told me about the ping and how this was his signal to engage an enemy in a fight between buildings, when he was hiding behind cover. Urban warfare was not a rare thing in WW2, especially in France.

I admittedly tracked down this link from the citation in the M1 Garand Wikipedia article, but the NRA’s official magazine “American Rifleman” got this letter to the editor written by a Warrant Officer who’d come across some German WW2 vets about the ping noise. For those not interested in reading/loading the website,…

Not all fighting was done in a deafening blaze of war cacophony. More often than not, you have just enough silence around you.

My grandfather was a marine during WW2, and till the day he died he had nothing but praise for the M1 Garand, and he would talk about how it saved his life thanks to how reliable it was.

However, he said the ping was a huge downside. The enemy figured out the sound meant you had used your last bullet, so it could be a…

In almost every way it's an improvement, and from a technical standpoint it's on another world entirely.

Back at the time I got bored of Half-Life in 40 minutes and never picked it up again. This video can try to redeem for me it in half the time...that's just too long for me to bother. Won't a 2 or 3 minute abstract work?

I guess that's probably true. The thing is though tons of people can hack your info and do nothing but that 1 person who does can cause more damage than 1000 that just snoop. I find that a lot of people just do a lot to see if they can. Especially now that it really doesn't take much knowledge, anyone can do it. I…

My impression is that your 1/20 ratio is reversed. For every 20 (or 100) people like your friend who break in without malicious intent, there is only one who is truly evil. Stories abound of people breaking into everything imaginable. If most of them were malicious, the whole digital world would have crumbled…

This dude is totally auditioning for a commercial deal. "Freia Fruktnott?! WAAAAAAHAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

Is this the Castaway sequel?