Could they hunt down the werewolf wizard and defeat him or not?? I need to know how this ended.

The question is: did the fake numbers make any difference? Were the management decisions based on them better or worse?

Bad grammar is disrespect. Underlings have to swallow that disrespect. It is just a power game. The next level is simply to insult everyone, and everyone will still remain submissive.

And if you insult people, and get rewarded by submission, one reaction is to amp up the insults.

After all, you don't know the limits of your power until someone quits. So abuse people, exhibit outlandish public behavior, say racist or otherwise objectionable things...every person who remains on your payroll is a sign of how powerful you are.

This is not a common tactic, but it's a highly visible tactic, and it's not hard to find some notable examples out there right now.

Except they don't just talk this way with underlings but everyone including their peers.

I think the key is whether they expect their underlings to be more formal or if it actually goes both ways.

If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect of a Vitamin D supplement is only short-term.

The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 weeks is not significant anymore.

If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect oft Vitamin D is only short-term.

The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 is not significant anymore.

As one would expect when you get your blood level out of the deficient range? It takes a while to get back down.

There is always so much grumbling and nitpicking about this topic, which I don't understand.

The production of renewable electricity is skyrocketing everywhere, far better than predicted. And that's not because of clever politics, but because the technology is good and cheap.

This has only advantages for everyone. Except for a few fossil fuel investors whose profits are marginally reduced. We may even be able to limit global warming to three degrees, giving us a better window of opportunity to come up with solutions for large-scale carbon capture in the 22nd century.

What's more, photovoltaics is super interesting and great to tinker with—it's huge nerd fun.

Can't we all just be happy when we see headlines like this?

I love that Mark Qvist publishes his strong opinion, view of the world, and goals.

It quite smells like the hacker spirit of the 80s, mixed with a little spiritualism and anarchism. Very refreshing after so many other people are just disillusioned, worn out, angry, or frightened.

Reticulum is a production-ready full network stack. Cryptography and anonymity are first-class citizens there. It is transport-layer agnostic, not just tailored for LoRa. I like it, but is see two main problems that prevent the wide adaption, and they are related:

1. The library is written in Python. If you want to design phone apps, Linux server daemons in C, or embedded software (for example for the Lilygo T-Deck) this is a bad choice. Somehow doable (execpt for embedded), but no fun. A small lib with C API and C ABI would be better.

2. Most of the end user software has a horrible UI. But it gets better with software like the Android messenger Columba (https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba).

If we would solve 1., we would have more end user software.

Currently, there are 4 project who try to solve 1. by writing a Reticulum lib with a low-level language, everybody does it in their favorite language and on their own, of course: C++, Zig, Rust, Go

The Rust implementation from Beechat seems the most mature. But I did not see it used in the wild, outside of Beechat's own devices.

Surprisingly, the Rust impl is Std only, so it doesn't solve 1

I took a deeper dive in Reticulum-rs. It is std. It implements 20% of Reticulum functionality. And it has 2 major protocol incompatibilities (like a different size for the MTU / Maximum Transfer Unit).

It looks like a quick vibe coded hack to implement a subset, tailored only for Beechat's own devices.

If someone would want to implement a full no_std Reticulum lib, they would need to start from scratch.

My surprise level at your finding is low. I regularly start from scratch in embedded rust for precisely this scenario. A typical response is "Why not use [reticulum-rs] etc.". Your elegant description could be described with the "But we have McDonald's at home" meme.

There are many cases where a library will be posted online, be mentioned in a blog post, and demonstrated in a demonstration workflow. If you try to use it for practical means, it becomes immediately clear it is "totaled" or easier to start over than fix or adapt it.

Mark's Reticulum implementation has a strong ideolgical background. Not just the oppositon to AI. If anybody is interested in what drives the developer, here's the manifesto: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/Zen%20of%...

Did you use it? I've never seen it used outside of Beechat's own devices.