Think about it like a mid-life crisis, or some other point in time where people say “What am I doing with my life?” and then decide (and have the means) to make a change. Now the second life has begun.

What I get out of self hosting services: Full control of my data and something to tinker with when the fancy strikes.

Graphs? Monitors? Failover? I get enough of that shit at work. If it’s down then whatever: I’ll fix it when the inconvenience is too great to ignore. External users? I only invite people who understand that this is my hobby, not my job.

In my house it’ll be Lake Ontario to my Canadian friends and Lake Fascismo to everyone else.

I heard there’s a lost director’s cut where Armstrong meets an alien

Trans men don’t want to go to the women’s bathroom, but they’re legally required to do so under Kansas law. This is a protest where they follow the law-as-written to draw attention to how stupid it is. I can guarantee you that these dudes (even the ones who didn’t get the cops called on them) were humiliated by using the women’s bathroom, but they overcame that to raise awareness for trans rights.

The Dirty Dozen has a very cathartic finale, nearly on the level of the cinema fire from Inglorious Basterds.

You nailed it. For me, the human-written stories were interesting because it’s not immediately apparent where they’re going. The prose evokes images and emotion, and I want to put the pieces together to identify the theme.

The AI stories blurt out the theme almost immediately, and then my attention wanes because there’s nothing left in the text except for a base retelling of events.

They have silly outfits because it’s fun to make your friends laugh and be goofy, and also because it protects privacy and creates a cohesive world.

The story I heard behind the costumes is that they used to play at a venue that only let a band perform once per day. They put on the outfits to appear as a different band and get paid for an extra set.

Fucking DHL is double-dipping: They charged me a tariff inspection fee to import my packages, and now they charge a fee* to request tariff refunds of eligible shipments.

*Or I can make an account on some inscrutable government website, write letters to DHL to get paperwork about my shipments, and try to figure it out myself.

TempleOS signed by Terry Davis.

I burned it to a DVD and mailed it to him for an autograph, back when he still had stable housing. I think maybe 2015.

The difference is small and pedantic:

“Once” means “A single time”

“Nonce” means “Used a single time”

Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction “for the nonce”). It descends from the construction “then anes” (“the one [purpose]”).

Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean “used exactly one time”. Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

Red Sonja (1985)

I like that it’s a definitely-not-Conan movie with a bit more humor. Maybe people don’t like the kid actor, but I thought that Prince Tarn and Falcon added a lot without being overbearing. It could rate even higher for me if they’d gotten Basil Poledouris to do the soundtrack.

Cool World (1992)

Things really start to fall apart in the third act once Holli transports to the real world and from a technical side, Who Framed Roger Rabbit beats it by miles. However, the idea of Cool World, a mix of childish and sleazy animated characters all living in the same universe, is compelling. Bakshi’s animation style really brings it alive.

Explain how the cartoonist could avoid drawing the crossbow?

/s

Not sure if it’s a mistake by the comic artist, or a mistake by the instructor from the comic, but the shooter was destined for failure.

The butt should be pressing into the shooter’s shoulder, such that their body absorbs recoil. In this picture, they have it squashed beneath their armpit where recoil could flip the gun out of their hands and maybe smack their face.

I agree with the person who suggested linking to Wikipedia articles.

For example, it’s not much help to learn that PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, because nobody calls it that. As an outsider, now I’m wondering what a component interconnect is. It’s much more useful to link to a page that gives context about how PCIe is actually used.

Very true. I believe FPGAs are also popular for aerospace applications, since it’s cheaper to design and patch programmable hardware than to design and physically install ASICs.

Vivado is software for designing hardware on an FPGA. AMD bought out Xilinx, one of the big FPGA manufacturers, a few years back. FPGAs are basically programmable digital circuits: you configure a series of internal logic gates to represent the function of a circuit with memory, data busses, registers, gates, etc. In this fashion, an FPGA could be programmed to function like a CPU, a radio, a video encoder, or nearly any other piece of digital hardware. Very useful for hobbyists and prototyping.

The thing with FPGA software is that there are no open source alternatives. FPGAs have so many complicated blobs and signing keys and proprietary IP blocks that your only choice is to use the manufacturer’s offering.