Tilde Lowengrimm

Don't tattoo "DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you.

I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell.

Use sophisticated data structures and functions rather than uncounted throwaway arrays or piping everything into and out of a massive state variable via jq!

I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell.

Focus on application logic and flow control rather than spending all your time mangling strings and escaping quotes!

Financial, medical, & insurance companies force a false choice between receiving stacks of paper statements (yuck) and paperlessly getting vapid emails which don't actually include the records which they're telling you now exist for you to manually sign in and download.

Amazon is a particularly notable offender here. When you make a purchase — they don't even email you a _list of the items you just ordered_. This, I believe, is because they're mad at leaking business intelligence to whichever "organize my inbox" companies people use. Tough deal, Amazon; suck it up.

42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw.

By declining to report an apparent US launch of five missiles, he likely prevented an overzealous Soviet "counterattack" which would have destroyed Europe and started a global nuclear war.

I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself.

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.

The TOWT _Anemos_ (2024-present) is a contemporary sail cargo vessel which can move 1kt of cargo and has a 15-20 day passage from France to New York (roughly the same as a contemporary cargo freighter), but with negligible carbon emissions.

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.

Before refrigeration, transporting fruit by ship was a game of sheer speed. You wanted to pick up that absolutely freshest (perhaps not even ripe) fruit possible. As you sail, more of it ripens and rots in your hold. The faster you reach your destination, the more fruit you have available to sell.

In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war.

A weapon more powerful than ten thousand swords, huh? So… a single belt-fed machine-gun emplacement? Maybe a couple of belt-fed machine-gun emplacements? Not exactly the sort of thing which destroys a city and leaves it engulfed in flames.

Go off, I guess, but I would simply not attack Poland even if I was planning a dead-eyed denial hours later.

I'm not an experienced 4d-chess spymaster-dictator. But if I wanted to test NATO's resolve, I would not start with the state with massive ground forces and no chill which has just begging for an excuse to fuck me up for years.