Okay, I bitched too quickly. Discord does deserve some respect for the severance package they are providing the expendables. But this still does not excuse punishing people for being management stupidity.

It's "more efficient" to have fewer employees doing the same amount of work. It's "more agile" to have to dodge more bodies of overworked wage slaves. I guess I missed the part where TFA justifies the idea that Discord's incompetence at forecasting headcount requirements should be remedied by throwing people under the bus.

"It's not personal, it's just good business." Yes, they demanded your total loyalty and even your bodily health, but throwing you under the bus is good business. You are bad for business now, so take a walk. What a monstrous philosophy that is.

"Thrifty working class" is code for "too poor to have leisure time for complaining."

Marvin's dread of humble doors is about to be unleashed.

A microscopic flake of metal could have got onto the plane from a very large number of sources, no filing needed. Especially since the flake was aerospace-grade metal on a plane.

I was in the unenviable position of needing clean RTF on Windows for a while (to create help files for the oldstyle Windows help system, also brought to you by Microsoft). Word's RTF would not work with their own help file generator. Wordpad was what I had to resort to for this purpose - either that, or the old Applix suite on Linux at the time.

I guess RTF is pretty much a dead thing now, with HTML having pride of place.

Are they asking for direct access to hardware from userland? *Sniff* smells like someone wants to distribute binary blobs. Again. (?)

I've seen a lot of creation myths over the years, and the Genesis account is remarkable in how free it is from personifications or explaining how things came about through social circumstance. I think that is one reason it holds up as well as it does.

For instance in the nearly related Babylonian myths, people were an afterthought and a nuisance. Instead of waters representing dragons, it was dragons representing waters. Genesis has its own MCU llike moments, but far less than any other creation myth that I know of.

He's more of a mathematician theoretician than a scientist in my book.

He's done some brilliant mathematical hacks to come up with some very interesting theories. For instance, creating a boundary layer and applying different mathematical theories on both sides to come up with the idea of Hawking Radiation from black holes. And that has met with some observations as well ... https://phys.org/news/2021-02-...

But like the hack itself, the observable evidence requires us to squint our eyes a bit to see past all the analogies required.

I am at a loss as to why you've been flagged "flamebait" for suggesting that NASA keep their promises. This seems like a pretty minimal expectation for a functional civilization.

I've actually been here for a quarter of a century. It's amazing it is still around. I was using Linux before it was 1.0, and even had a patch accepted to the kernel but not the mainstream kernel. I haven't played a major part in the OSS movement, but I've been fairly involved.

To understand what I'm up to in this series you need to read my previous journal entries. The tldr; is that in an unexpected way Genesis has the drama, snappy pacing, and language that would work very well with 5 year olds learning science.

Genesis is such a battle ground. I anticipate as much pushback from the creationists as the science enthusiasts because I don't play by their rules of ex-post-nihlo or timelines either.

Its a lot like going back to a childhood playground and talking with the old neighborhood friends, nothing serious just interesting.

I don't think the Firehose is that particular. You just must have seen it at the right time. I don't remember interacting with you before either. But it is nice to meet you either way.

Since this is a journal, consider it a friendly place and my own personal journey instead of a new direction for /.

Its kind of like going back to a childhood playground and seeing all the old neighborhood friends for me.

Wait, stop ... this made it to the front page?

I like your signature.