@writing.dog
That Weird Chicago Submarine Lady; also, a literal coyote who can type. Writing dog, history geek; she/her/DOG/etc. Romance at short notice is my specialty; deep space is my dwelling place, but I keep a flat in Berlin. Solidarity forever!
YOLO law is entered if any member of the flight crew reports, declares, or observes “the need” and the primary flight computer detects that both pilot flying (PF) and pilot monitoring (PM/PNF) respond “the need… for speed” at the same time.
4. YOLO law (YOL) creates a direct relationship between control surface motion and how freaking sweet the commanded maneuver is. All protections are lost, and maximum deflection is unrestricted. The trimmable horizontal stabilizer (THS) is configured to provide the most bitching climb rate (α-Cool).
Yeah, Cody gets extra territorial when she feels like someone might try to steal her boyfriend, presumably because she has exclusive bullying rights.
(similar guarding behavior from her: www.instagram.com/p/DFjYbVdpVSv/)
me: i sure wish there was a big long wood instrument for me to blow air into
the humble didgeridoo:
Conway is great because:
1. The art is fantastic
2. The community is fantastic
3. There are extremely talented writers, and
4. Also me, and Nomax doesn’t flinch when I tell him I have found and ordered an out-of-print hardcover for its Valuable Information on 1700s merchant mariner pay scales >.>
That’s right! If you’ve wanted to get into Conway because you love fiction set in the age of sail—but only the part where you go: “wait, wasn’t this about a white whale? Why have I spent 7 chapters learning about the history of jute?”—then have I got great news for you! >:3
Got #2 of our dev team characters, this time it's @writing.dog !
Sandy's writing is easy to spot. Basically whenever there is a section where none of the words in a sentence are words you've ever heard before, chances are it's because Sandy dug 300 pages deep into a period source again.
Love ya.
Hey Berliners, good news! Wolt now covers Görlitzer Park :D
I will go to my grave defending Windows Phone in the 8+ era (around the Lumia 925/1020) as the zenith of smartphones in terms of design and innovation and all you “but what about my Samsung Galaxy S25bis Ultra II+ with 48GB of RAM, like any device needs to run TikTok and Gmail” nerds can *bite me*.
PS my only real Microsoft Hot Take is that Windows Phone was fucking amazing. It was a little too limited when it launched, as the iPhone was. But it was fast, the UI was fantastic—Metro’s tiles are a great way of presenting information—and my Lumia 800 was a transformatively awesome phone.
(Ironically, Microsoft—being full of smart people—does *really good work* in human-computer interaction and user experience. See: the Xbox adaptive controller. But also, like, Windows’ native voice recognition has been good enough for games to use as a gimmick as far back as Jane's USAF in *1999*)
LLMs are the answer to every shooting star Microsoft has wished on since 1995. You talk to Windows like a pal! It kinda understands you! It’s kinda useful! The interaction is frictionless! They *need* AI to pan out, not for profit but for their own emotional trauma from being bullied by Justin Long.
Beyond talking, Microsoft wants PCs to *understand* you. I know all the squirters here remember Zune. Do you remember Tafiti? That was their attempt at a semantic web search engine, launched around the same time*, with Bob levels of UI metaphor cruft.
* When I was working for them, incidentally :D
Redmond longs for you to anthropomorphize your computer. Hence: Bob. And Clippy. And hence Microsoft—unlike Apple and Amazon, who gave their voice-prompted assistants human-ish names but also invented them de novo—using Cortana, who started out as a full-featured AI with a personality and sentience.
Microsoft has believed—also for 30+ years, and with religious fervor—that this image problem will be solved by you talking to your computer. I assume the thought goes:
1. We own your PC.
2. If you talk to your PC, it’s like a friend!
3. Therefore, *we* are friends!
4. <contented sigh>
5. Pay us?
But since they *aren’t* Your Friend, they try so hard it becomes self-sabotaging. This is why Windows Mobile went from start menus and Excel to the photos and summarized information of Windows Phone’s “live tiles.” This is why Zune let you “squirt” songs to your friends. This is maybe why Kinect.
A deep anxiety that they’re The Spreadsheet Work Makes You Use (Until It Bluescreens) has kept Microsoft up at night for 30+ years. Unlike IBM, they will not lean in to this.
Instead, they covet the human appeal Apple has, or had, and crave being seen as Your Friend, like a gibbering Sméagol.
Reflecting further: I think an underappreciated reason for Microsoft going all-in on AI (which—deleted skeet notwithstanding—they clearly are) is their decades-old complex about being seen as too nerdy and awkward, which they *consistently* attempt to combat in the most nerdy, awkward way possible.
The alternate timeline where Coca-Cola retires Coke Classic and insists the only soft drink will be New Cokǝ, which is the original recipe with all the ingredient amounts reversed and also you have to pee in it, like neutralizing a jellyfish sting.
It is kind of incredible how the one company that *could have* learned their lesson instead apparently thought that lesson was: “Microsoft Bob didn’t go far enough.”
That and Israel would love to have stable relationships with the GCC, Jordan, Egypt, etc. For all the “this will only turn Tehran against us,” it is hard to imagine an Iran that is more intransigent or more of a bad actor in the region. It’s like the one objection that rings hollow.
Heritage liveries remind me that I do not long for some prelapsarian ideal except for in the one area of airline paint jobs, which have gotten inexorably and universally worse with time :|
“shower stalls are now florps”
“bathroom doors go sideways”
I feel like the only thing hotel guests want from a shower is water pressure and non-hydrophobic towels and I do not understand how this translates to “what if the shower had a complex hyperdoor that exists in our reality as a narrow plane capable of flooding your room through higher dimensions.”
Perhaps new legislation, like fandom cops, comes from Chrome users? I don’t use Chrome, but Firefox has a built-in feature where if you don’t like something, you can close the tab and move on like a goddamn adult instead of making it someone else’s problem.
(On Mac, it’s ⌘+W. Try Ctrl+W on PC?)
The worst part of being a submission mod for a website with 18+ content is users—often new—“helpfully” reporting art or fiction with kinks they don’t like.
You are bad and you should feel bad, unless being a meddlesome cop-brained dipshit is your kink, in which case I do not consent to participate.
Work flight :p staffing a conference for the next week.
i apparently have coworkers on this flight and if they sit close enough to try and talk to me i swear to god i will crash this plane :|
Dog Town is now big enough for its own power plant, which my site engineer approved again. It is in a very geologically stable location (over a massive cave, for safety!)
What if we kissed in front of the Dogtaun'ska atomna elektrostantsiya and we were both girls?
And also both dogs?
Also they have more dogs. This dog helped me design and build the town hall by picking up blocks when I dropped them and keeping them in his inventory so I thought I was going crazy when an entire electric motor disappeared.
He makes the villagers happy though :D
