Let it never be said that engineers do not have a sense of humor – or can’t recognize their foibles. If you don’t laugh at this you aren’t an engineer, or someone who’s dealt in related fields, or thinks like one. Hell, just living with en engineer should get a chuckle out of you from this video. It’s certainly the nightmare child of redneck “hey y’all, check this out” with heavy equipment. For another guy who is possibly too smart for his own good, National Geographic makes it difficult to s…
Recently at VoxDay’s, a commenter had asked why Apple, despite obviously focusing on SJW-centric issues, had not imploded severely. My take on it. Steve Jobs was a hard-core liberal. Maybe, several years after his death, he would have become an SJW as well, but one can only take him at what he chose to do before his death. Like his choices or not, Apple kit wasn’t simply flashy looks for a lot of money – despite several missteps pushing technology beyond practical limits, he methodically laid…
We already are forgetting. Some of it, I know for a fact, are the rabbits, the R-selected liberals, who want to turn away and forget that there are wolves, that death waits. Who find remembering what happened “too morbid” or “too sad” or “you’re just stirring up anger against muslims” as if that’s a trump card. I don’t remember because I want to feel pain. I remember because I must – so the people who died that day are not forgotten. So that we don’t forget the systemic malfeasance that led up…
Meanwhile, back a few days at Vox Day’s [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/09/nobody-ever-did-nothing.html] – a comment: > Everyone knows about the paradox of tolerance. The solution is simply to choose intolerance. The thing about SJWs is that they continue to call intolerance “tolerance.” Herbert Marcuse, doyen of the New Left, coined the term “repressive tolerance” for it, which is of course an oxymoron. They love such wordplay. Makes them feel clever. It gives me the shivers. Me too. We…
Eric Raymond a while back published some observations on strategies to win games, titled A secret of game-fu [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4699]. > I have a rule: when in doubt, play to maximize the breadth of your option tree. Actually, you should often choose option-maximizing moves over moves with a slightly higher immediate payoff, especially early in the game and most especially if the effect of investing in options is cumulative. This rule has many consequences. In pick-up-and-carry games,…