slowhand09

No possibility of bias in an article from "electrek.co".

You should google "far side" fifi chicken

AWS architecting class years ago. Awesome instructor said if you want to save money, start deactivating servers. The ones people use... the admins will contact you right away. The others... people started up and forgot about.

"Back in the day" I identified a way to save prob a quarter million dollars a year on my project, funded with your tax dollars. Created a spreadsheet model for the cost, documented it all, and gave it to my boss. He said "I'll look it over". I asked his two weeks later if he'd been thru it. His response was "It looks correct. Nice job." I asked if were going to trial it. Golden response: "No, we don't get paid to save money; we get paid to spend money." And that is when I truly understood Cost+Award Fee contracting with the gov't.

You should run for congress... wait, no borders means no countries so no congress. Just a bunch of really powerful people making rules over fiefdoms...

Ha! I used to want an Inmos Transputer. Even tho I had zero experience in parallel process development. Saved myself some money by not being able to afford it. "I should buy a boat" meme appears.

"crushed rock stored 0.15 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare (2.47 acres)". (.15 * 2000lb)/2.47 = 300lb/2.47 = ~121.5lbs/acre of carbon uptake. After applying 41tons/acre of olivine. How is this feasible? You ship railroad cars of volcanic rock dust, spread it on a field, and watch it take up a sandbag size amount of carbon per acre. Is it continuous or a onetime thing?

Lucky to have never done this... yet. But I did disable a major (and I do mean MAJOR) system for 20 minutes by misconfiguring an IP tables entry in Prod.

How about dotdotat@dot.dot.com?

I followed the example from my MacBookPro (Big Sur 11.7.09) using terminal. It would not allow me to spec an interval under 0.1. $ ping -c 4 -i 0.1 218.101.61.162 PING 218.101.61.162 (218.101.61.162): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 64 bytes from 218.101.61.162: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=212.910 ms 64 bytes from 218.101.61.162: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=201.219 ms 64 bytes from 218.101.61.162: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=204.627 ms 64 bytes from 218.101.61.162: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=203.737 ms

--- 218.101.61.162 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 201.219/205.623/212.910/4.389 ms $ ping -c 4 -i 0.09 218.101.61.162 ping: -i interval too short: Operation not permitted

They is responsible for this! And We is gonna make sure They pay for the time We lost working on It, to fix They's problem.

We is out! No diggity.

"The whole goal of a smart meter is to allow remote access so the government can turn off your power to" :X, where X="CONTROL YOU"; #FTFY

https://archive.is/ybixP non-paywall link

I think I may be a unicorn...

I have an 11c. I bought it new in 1985. On its 4th set of batteries.

Thats awesome. i still have my TI-Programmer (with LED display) that did binary, 2C, octal, and hex calcs. Bought it for my IBM OS/360 Assembler 1 & 2 semesters.

My 1985 HP-11c is probably on its 4th set of batteries now. Would love a 15c but have the Retro 15C and Free42 emulators on my iPhone now.

I'll cherry-pick one line. "There's a lot of fundamental issues, ranging from food deserts to lack of public transportation among the poorer areas."

Food deserts in Baltimore? Like the Mondowmin Mall that was destroyed by residents during the Freddie Gray riots? And the companies that tried to rebuild and provide in the neighborhood, only to be robbed constantly to the point that companies gave up for not being able to guarantee workers'safety?

And public transport, in areas where cabbies fear to go, buses take hours, and electric scooters and bikes are routinely dumped in the harbor? Vandalism runs rampant. Bus seats are sliced open, gang members threaten riders, etc.

I hate what poor Baltimore has become. Yuppie white-collar Baltimore thrives, just not in these areas. 35 yrs ago I love going to Balt to play tourist. Nice people, Inner Harbor, restaurants, stores... Employed so many people. Corrupt city government at all levels, corrupt cops, and promotion of a victim mentality are some of the things that brought it down. Baltimore is screwed in general, by its own actions.

I learned Fortran IV as an introductory language. And read here that it is so elementary, and these other languages that are more complex and faster and better for software engineering, and software engineers are better now... I say why haven't these new and improved SEs devised a translation program to compile Fortran into C++? Back in the 1980s we used software to reverse-build flow diagrams of Fortran programs. They gave us fullpath test coverage, unique variables, reused variables, loop termination conditions etc. Before that on mainframes we'd use JCL (job control language) to output assembler code from submitted Fortran, COBOL, or PL/1.

How can we not feed Fortran source in and receive Language XYZ as output? Perhaps the new wave of ChatGTP will write this and save society.

Incorrect information. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/08/fac...

4 Dell monitors on my desk were made in China.

Thanks, I just semi-retired from DoD.

"Its for the greater good."

https://www.facebook.com/reel/988486965857313/

If only we had some sort of national leader saying "Made in America" is good...

Look at every computer monitor on every military desk. I bet it says "Made in ____".

That should also be weighed when decisions highly dependent on products such as petroleum, lithium, cobalt...

Look for a coyote and a roadrunner nearby.

I grew up in NC. I worked in tobacco a few times for family friends. Many of my schoolmates' families raised tobacco. Or corn. Or soybeans. Many of these kids earned hundreds of dollars over the summer, while supporting the family business. 12 year olds didn't smoke. We bought candy cigarettes.

Farmers and their families and their employees work hard. They work long hours. People on dairy farms work 7 days a week. Cows don't take the weekend off. Crops don't care if its 100 degrees.

I mowed yards. I raked leaves. I helped harvest hay. I built fences and sheds. I helped vaccinate cattle. I helped build the new VFD building. All this as a kid. In 100 degree heat.

We didn't have air conditioning. And you were excused from class on the 1st day of deer hunting season.

This wasn't child abuse. This is living. Some people grew up with AC, color tv, video games, and summer camp. Some grow up and work.

Nah. There are lots of knowledgeable and precise people who speak of things with the amount of specificity required to communicate the important details.

WP is WP. They interviewed me once about firearms. They either misquoted or misunderstood everything we spoke about.