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This reminds me of the book i learned about the war from as a kid, back in USSR. It wasn't until mid-Wikipedia age that i realized that D-Day was a thing, because the book, while portraying America's Pacific Theater rather faithfully, basically glanced over the whole "second front" as if it was...

Congrats! Funny how, looking back, it's always a series of freak accidents that define big things in one's life.

Have you lost weight between then and now? Were you under 25 two decades years ago?

Huh, that's new? I remember reading about that one roughly a decade ago.

I heard the show had overtaken the books by now, and instead of the author's carefully constructed world you get a random scriptwriter's fan fiction.

Well, if you want videos here is the whole list from two internal videos to eyewitnesses and CCTV of the dead goat bounce on landing. https://ru-chp.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F Preliminary investigation suggests that a lightning strike killed most onboard...

Over here there seem to be a massive push to spin the "ones who took luggage are the murderers" narrative, with the sort of intensity that makes me think something is being hidden behind it. Every discussion i've seen quickly derails into it. -Pilot error, tried to force the plane to land...

"Think? Why would i think, i got you for that!"

...a while ago. I honestly can't remember when was the last time i saw a phone booth. A public phone i saw about 5 years ago, in the middle of my old village. Not far from a cell tower, ironically enough. Another memory this brings back is spending evenings sitting on the fence looking at the...

Sounds like you need to write tests for the tests.

Hm, that's the next Monty Python title in my queue. Hope it's better than the Holy Grail one.

Damn. That's also so unexpected - i've been there 8 years ago, and i remember wondering how they built such a roof *out of stone* back in 11th century. Never realized there was anything combustible in there, much less to such an extent.

Hm. Being from an in-between generation and someone who saw the first two prequels before finding out that there was an original trilogy, i still struggle to come up with a coherent point of view looking from which would make TLJ enjoyable. It's just an illogical mush of procedurally generated...

Shameless plug: I wrote the decoder for METEOR satellite signal, which works on RPi among other things - https://github.com/artlav/meteor_decoder That satellite is digital, so images are of much higher quality while being in the same band and needing the same equipment as NOAAs.

Looking at a video, i'm a bit surprised how furniture is sliding around. Isn't it standard protocol on ships to have everything bolted down?

Not exactly, the Curiosity rover also had a down-looking camera on it filming the whole touchdown.

Notebook, how can you make it sound so boring? This is a video from a space probe. This is a video of it kissing an asteroid and backing up slowly, 5 years of getting there all for these few seconds. Surface gravel held together for billions of years by nothing more than a faint promise of...

Well, at least it's not Florida... or are there gators in Texas swamps too?

Actually, many disasters are exactly that, since single special events are typically all accounted and planned for.

Funny you say that, because i actually ended up writing a simple service manager for looking after my processes after getting frustrated with systemd. There had been some bizarre design decisions around there. My favorite is the thing writing some logs to /dev/xconsole pipe by default, which...