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Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.

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  • Starship AI Valves have a base price of 12 million units each. I don’t think you can dig these up, though. The only way I’ve ever gotten my hands on one is as part of the loot you get for scrapping a starship, and I think they can be gifted to you very rarely by NPCs.

    The Fusion Igniter and Stasis Device are currently tied for the commodity with the highest trade value in the game, with a base price of 15.6 million units each. You can craft both of these but they take a large amount of specific materials and multiple crafting steps to generate from the whole cloth, and require knowledge of several advanced blueprints, all of which makes it a pain in the ass. Despite their high resale value it’s faster and easier to employ other ways of making cash.




  • Oh, one other point of order on that as well: Obviously even if it’s not all bullshit (spoiler: it’s all bullshit), Revelation is supposed to be a prophecy of the end of times which obviously hasn’t happened yet. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed if it did, what with the sounding of the seven trumpets, the worldwide earthquake, the 200 million horsemen slaying a third of mankind, etc.

    So even if it’s all somehow inerrantly true, the Devil hasn’t killed anyone yet.




  • If we believe that the various Satans (in the original Hebrew, literally “adversary,” and rendered without the definite article so there are probably multiples of them) are in fact one and the same with the Devil (singular), this link-up doesn’t even occur until the Book of Revelation which is firmly a new testament thing and wholly unsupported by any of the old testament or ancient Hebrew sources from which it’s derived. Making all the assumptions required on basis that this is so, then whoever he was killed a lot of people in Revelation. But not until then.

    In old Hebrew tradition, the Satans are sort of the prosecuting attorneys for god. They work for him in order to tempt the faith and righteousness of various people. Several mortal people are also given the moniker of “Satans” when they’re working against the interests of god or various other individuals.

    Meanwhile, the notion that Lucifer is also one and the same with the Devil or any kind of Satan is a much later interpolation made when the church(es) of the era wanted to insert a bogeyman into their religion and they needed a justification for it, some time in the AD 200s. Lucifer is identified as the king of Babylon, a mortal, when he has attracted god’s ire in his sole appearance in Isaiah 14. The situation has become so warped that his name was finally removed in the New International Version of the bible and he’s simply referred to as the “morning star, son of the dawn.” (Isaiah 14:12, if you want to go have a look.)

    Modern pontificates will also insist that the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is also somehow the Devil, which is dubious. Even if he were, and god were speaking allegorically for precisely half of his rant as we are thus demanded to believe, god smokes him at the end of the passage anyway so it’s a moot point.



  • Many folks don’t realize because the common usage doesn’t work that way, and to muddy the waters further the laws are written in many jurisdictions such that “assault” is used as a legal term of art which requires some manner of physical contact between the perpetrator and victim. DC specifically treats assault and threats of bodily harm separately, (source) but the penalties are the same and in fact refer to the same paragraph anyhow, so the net difference in this case is kind of moot.

    In some jurisdictions there is no such thing as “battery,” and assault is the attack while threatening is the threat. This may or may not have something to do with dumbing down the wording at some point for the layman. I’m not a lawyer despite the occasional insinuation to the contrary, so I’m not qualified to speak on that possibility.


  • In the case of Catholicism in particular, this is a feature and not a bug. Catholics famously and proudly don’t read the bible, but rather have its presumptive contents preached at them — with various degrees of translation, omission, or addition to suit the current whims of the Church — by their deacon.

    A significant portion of what people assume to be modern Christian belief among multiple sects and denominations is not supported scripturally, to put it mildly. But the Catholics manage to institutionalize that phenomenon to a degree that makes all the others look like a monthly book club.


  • Consider the IoT Enterprise LTSC builds. These come premade from Microsoft with less bloat (or none, in the case of the Win10 IoT version), and don’t shove the consumer features down your throat on every update because they’re designed for mission critical embedded applications.

    I have 10 IoT LTSC running on most of our machines at work because a significant chunk of our hardware is not Windows 11 “ready” and we use many vendor-specific things that don’t work in Linux or Wine, and I use 11 IoT LTSC at home (locked to 23H2 so my Mixed Reality VR headset remains working!) without incident.

    http://massgrave.dev/

    Without either of the above restrictions if I were you I would shop for a new mouse.





  • Paintball paint is thin and fairly translucent, and also water soluble. It’s unlikely to foul the camera appreciably, and even then only until it rains.

    If you’re going to slingshot at it anyway and are laboring under the assumption that you can hit the lens, you may as well just hurl a 3/8" steel ball or a rock through it.

    As your attorney I advise you that this is purely a thought experiment, naturally.