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"People have often asked me what moves me most," said Tolkien. "I think the most tragic point in the whole story is the terrible irony that good often does evil. The most tragic moment is when Sam in his protectiveness says, 'Take your hands off.' And therefore defeats Gollum's repentance. Because that seems to be very true to life." Although Sam is only trying to protect his friend, his action causes Gollum to revert to his evil side. This speaks to Tolkien's wider world view, says Lee. "What happens in his mythology is that good can sometimes do excessive evil unintentionally."

Re:Self hosted email continues to steeply decline on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:37AM (#49331758)
Did you change domains?
If this has been true, perhaps at some point the pendulum will swing back the other way. BTW the current CEO of Boeing is a mechanical engineer.

https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/kelly-ortberg

I still have my 28s from the late 80s. Also really rugged except for the achilles heel of a battery door.
https://phys.org/news/2014-01-smooth-rough-surfaces.html

A quick search looks to show the same general topic from more than a decade ago. I too have a recollection of this being discussed in the late 80s or early 90s. Maybe some folk wisdom that's just now getting quantified.

Just re-ran an identical order from December, and a PCB from Shenzhen is up just around 4% so far.
Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:11AM (#47847671)
>They have hundreds of office / home locations where the parts are printed / assembled

This shouldn't be a big surprise to Russia or anyone else, as it has precedent. German aircraft production peaked in 1944 at the height of allied strategic bombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_production_dur...

Re:How a subsea cable is repaired on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:44AM (#47847437)
https://www.google.com/search?q=blind+mans+bluff+book

Has a good story of how it was done several decades ago. Not sure how it works these days.

Re:Relics of the Heroic Age of Manned Space Flight on Sunday April 12, 2026 @09:19AM (#47739293)
Worth visiting this site just to see the menus.
Re:The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:09AM (#47638762)
The USA oligarchs were watching Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler and New Dealed just hard enough to blow some steam off and keep things mostly as they were.

If you believe Smedley Butler, at least some of those USA oligarchs were big Mussolini fans.

Seems likely to be even worse now. USS Ford out of action, removed from region due to "laundry fire" and some socks in the toilets. Also USN has far fewer carriers to deploy. Three or more were deployed continuously off Vietnam for years at a time.
I asked my dad for the 16kB expansion. He said no.
Re:Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:40PM (#47378435)
300km?
Re:The Billionaires' War on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:09AM (#47350744)
What makes you think this is a fad? (unless you are using a bit of sarcasm)

When have any elite not thought they were the smartest, most virtuous, anointed by god, etc? I don't think you can just point to Rand or something -- That's just the modern context we view it through.

Re:I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:35PM (#47171665)
I didn't get it, so I looked it up.

22/7 ~= 3.14

Access as a front end for mssqlserver ran great in a small shop. Seems like there was a wizard that imported the the access tables easily into sqlserver.

I've not seen anything as easy to use as the Access visual query builder and drag-n-drop report builder thing.

Re:AI Needs More Power on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:28AM (#46216968)
The deeper BS is that there is no engine. People remember the XB-1 demonstrator flying and assume that Boom is farther along than they really are. The XB-1 had off-the-shelf GE engines.
Re:Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop on Saturday December 06, 2025 @09:52PM (#46178741)
on a pi?

You can run nodejs fine on a pi with "Raspberry Pi OS Lite". In the configs, look for "Overlay File System" and enable it on the boot partition and main partition. The pi will boot from the sd card and run entirely in ram.

Be sure to run something to clear your logs occasionally or reboot once in a while or you'll run out of RAM. Still, get a quality sd card and power supply. You can get years out of a setup like this.

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