I’m never one to overstate his contributions, which have mostly been in the realm of marketing and making things cool— attracting a techbro clientel to EVs was a brilliant move. Before Tesla, EVs were for people who were super environmentally focused short-haul commuters largely in southwestern cities. But…

he’s the Steve Jobs of heavy engineering— he takes other people’s ideas, makes them slick, shiny and attractive to journalists, techbros and the technorati. The journalists give him free publicity and tout him as a genius, the techbros think he’s a genius and take his claims at face value, and the technorati invest in…

Hugo Gernsbeck talked about a “pnumatic train” concept as well if I recall... and discarded it as thoroughly impractical.  a couple notable scientists of the 1920s, the great age of the tube system, did too. 

he’s GOING to try a mental illness or defect plea, it’s virtually guaranteed. The problem is that long-term psychiatric confinement isn’t always available for a juvenile. Charging him as an adult is probably the first step in getting him into long-term supervised care.

he’s GOING to try a mental illness or defect plea, it’s virtually guaranteed.  The problem is that long-term psychiatric confinement isn’t always available for a juvenile.  Charging him as an adult is probably the first step in getting him into long-term supervised care.

I absolutely abhor this trend, it’s literally enforcing 1984-style “newspeak” with absurd euphamisms that often disguise the ugliness of the topic being discussed. I saw a military police trainer who was doing a serious analysis of a police shooting, a highly-emotionally-charged public event that deserves serious…

that battle’s been fought and lost, these days it has no coherent meaning.

Originally gaslighting was changing the PHYSICAL environment to undermine someone’s memory. Moving their car keys then accusing them of being irresponsible because they lost their car keys, etc.

It’s always a tactical decision. You’re going to have to put that person on the stand and get testimony out of them. If the defense is going to rip them to pieces and make them look mercenary and unreliable to the jury, or can point to an admissible record of lies, or other things that hurt their credibility, then…

Jenk is the price you pay for ambition, basically. If you have X amount of dev time you have to allocate it between new features and polish, and bethesda has always decided to favor more content and more possibilities (even if they’re barely touched in the game itself and left as a framework for modders and DLC to…

The pandemic caused a lot of knock-on effects. Games that were nearly finished could be pushed out the door, unpolished but complete, and games that had just started development could continue the early steps but that entire middle phase of development, between storyboarding and design and polish and playtest was…

that isn’t true, wolfdogs, ligers, tions, and coyote-dogs are all fertile, as are some bear hybrids.

That’s not the most common definition of species used anymore, otherwise lions and tigers would be the same species, as would dogs and coyotes, horses and mules, etc.

Elves have had subraces since early on-- aquatic elves and high elves come to mind.  Not to mention the panoply of elven races that came about during Forgotten Realms. 

Exactly, Russia’s demands will be things the US just cannot do while Russia is engaging in a campaign of widespread war crimes and terror.  Sucks for her, she chose to go to Russia for the money and chose to carry drugs, she had choices here, the concessions Russia wants would hurt innocent people who have no agency…

I HATE the scripts that the author over at Ask a Manager uses because of this. Feigned, passive-aggressive confusion is not a great look.

Deleted-- it swapped my two comments somehow, gotta love kinja

Even if he was convicted, that doesn’t mean he’s fair game for attack.  I get the impulse, and it’s unfortunate that she felt the need to respond so drastically, but just because someone’s accused of something doesn’t mean they’re outlaws who can be attacked whenever you want.

This is a really, really good point.

submarines are termed a “boat” by tradition, an exception to the rules. There’s a lot of proposed dividing lines, the navy traditionally uses whether it’s littoral or seagoing, merchant mariners tend to go by the nature of the wake or its handling characteristics (whether it will pitch to port when making a port turn,…

There are some good solutions, thermal and gravity storage are both good options that use cheap bulk material.  I’ve heard a proposal that you could use desalination plant effluent (which is basically hypersaline water) as a thermal storage medium, or salt itself, or use it as the water in a gravity storage system…