77F and dripping wet, so yesterday was an aberration and not Fall….
Will be gone all morning. Have to help teach some science to fourth graders. Measurement.
Wish me luck!
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Tues. Sept. 18, 2018 – short shrift
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70º and Sunny. Getting back to normal temps around here. AC is off and on, depending on the time of day.
I just “quit” a job I’ve been doing for years. There are always hundreds of little things that get stretched out for months, and the corrections never seem to make everyone happy. If I can’t get it right, I’m simply not going to do it anymore. It was all “free” work to begin with. I thought I could do something nice. I was wrong.
Next year I’ll do the base work if they want me to. If they want to go with someone else, I’m okay with that, too. I’m usually overbooked anyway, and I can get work to fill in the gaps.
Linus Torvalds has “temporarily” stepped down as head of the Linux Kernel Development team. Lots of “blah blah blah” about it. From what I can gather it is another case of a meritocracy being destroyed by SJW. I understand that Linus was sometimes very abrasive and did not suffer fools gladly. I wonder how well things will proceed for LINUX without a nit picky leader. I have been wondering what RBT would have had to say about this development.
Back from the NSA. Only had to go through four armed checkpoints. They pay pretty well, too.
Linus Torvalds has “temporarily” stepped down as head of the Linux Kernel Development team.
Linus apologises for his years of abrasive behaviour
It’s the reeducation camp for you. Linus!
The Linux kernel is doomed.
And, if you haven’t already, see:
Non-discrimination is a core value of open source
and the two subsequent posts.
I thought discrimination was the absolute core of open source. Doesn’t matter who/what you are if you write good code, and plodders can take a hike (or work on docs.)
Doesn’t bode well.
Pity that a HUGE portion of modern life rides on top of linux.
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(toyed with the idea of writing a short story set in the near future where almost everything is ‘code’. Guy comes in and flops down on his ‘smart matter’ sofa, and bounces like concrete. Has to reboot his microsoft licensed sofa to get it soft again….)
Home from my time in the salt mines :-/
All these kids seemed excited to be out of their classrooms and working with parents.
some of them claim they can’t do math like 5-2 =? in the 4th grade.
Some are shockingly bright and well informed.
They are always surprised when a white man like me speaks to them in spanish. The moms were surprised too.
I would like to smack at least one of the teachers for her attitude and manner of speaking.
The lab was a ‘measuring olympics’ and was an editorial cheerleading session for the metric system. There was no mention at all of working in decimal inches, only that the metric system was decimal, based on 10s and therefore designed to be easier to do math with it. Well, so is decimal inches, as millions of machinists know first hand.
The old joke applies, “there are two kinds of countries in the world, those that use the metric system, and those that have landed a man on the moon.”
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“Trump court nominee’s accuser has not agreed to testify: senator”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh/trump-court-nominees-accuser-has-not-agreed-to-testify-senator-idUSKCN1LY2E4
“Senator Chuck Grassley said Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor in California whose allegations have put Kavanaugh’s once-safe nomination in serious jeopardy, has not responded to attempts by the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the confirmation process, to contact her.”
This is all FAKE accusations. The so-called victim cannot “testify” with a straight face. They are trying to ruin a good man here.
“The showdown has echoes of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ contentious confirmation hearings in 1991 involving sexual harassment allegations lodged against him by a law professor named Anita Hill. Thomas was ultimately confirmed, but only after a nasty televised hearing in which Hill faced pointed questions from Republican senators and the nominee said he was the victim of “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.””
Yup.
“New Senate race poll drops — and it’s bad news for Beto”
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article218563900.html
The one true poll is coming in November. Everything up to that point is fake news.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
I would like to smack at least one of the teachers for her attitude and manner of speaking.
I would complain to the principal.
The old joke applies, “there are two kinds of countries in the world, those that use the metric system, and those that have landed a man on the moon.”
True dat. I wonder what SpaceX uses ?
I was talking to an older friend of mine (80+) about generators the other day, and recommended the Honda EU2000i.
It turns out that Honda has replaced it with the EU2200i, with another 200W for both startup and continuous duty.
I just saw a recommendation on Instapundit, and thought I’d mention it here.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/a23281818/honda-eu2200i-generator/
I’m tempted myself, but I’d get a propane conversion kit, since I am on propane out here in the exurbs already. I already have a propane tractor – a 1947 Allis-Chalmers Model C, and for about the same money I could get a 6Kw power take off unit.
Or get both – “two is one, one is none”.
Linus Torvalds has “temporarily” stepped down as head of the Linux Kernel Development team. Lots of “blah blah blah” about it. From what I can gather it is another case of a meritocracy being destroyed by SJW.
Linus has been living in Lake Oswego, Oregon for far too long. At least he doesn’t go for the “Tiny House” cr*p. IIRC, he’s rocking 5000 sq ft and a garage apartment/office — serious cash in Portland anymore
“Ruger Mourns Death of Former CEO William B. Ruger, Jr.”
https://www.ruger.com/news/2018-09-17.html
Truly a visionary.
Roger that, lynn!!
I got castigated on another forum for using our traditional system.
I replied that I would switch to metric when I became smarter than the Wright Brothers. Quite similar to your response.
At this time my watch reads atmospheric pressure at 29.88 inHg, with my elevation at 5 ft AMSL.
Metric has no flavor. I want a car that does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds. I want low 10’s in the quarter mile. I hated the Double-nickel. I’m 6 foot 2. A Pint is a Pound the whole world ’round.
Yes, it’s harder to do some of the calculations in your head, but 0.0625 is 1/16″, and if you can memorize that kind of table, you’re WORKING your brain. Making it do what it was meant to do.
I don’t give a hairy mole rat’s fanny if the metric system is easier. It’s soul-less and boring. Life is meant to have flavor.
I seem to remember them trying to convert us back in grade school – early 70s. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.
I wonder what ESR will say about this development.
So….
” McDonald’s Workers Stage Multi-City Strike Over “Sexual Harassment Epidemic”
“There is a big movement of working-class women brewing. They are banking that in the age of #MeToo customers will not tolerate this kind of behavior.”
–wait, McDonalds has customers?
–what do these geniuses think will happen if customers stop going to McDs???
“they worry that if they complain it will affect their legal status”
–so you’re admitting they are working illegally???
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-18/mcdonalds-workers-stage-multi-city-strike-over-sexual-harassment-epidemic
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” McDonald’s Workers Stage Multi-City Strike Over “Sexual Harassment Epidemic”
— wait, McD’s help has a union? Really?
No wonder McD is installing order and pay kiosks. Two months pay to a crazy person will pay for machine. (I made that number up. Like Democrats accusing someone of possible attempted rape 35 years ago.)
I’d rather deal with a person to place my order because I /might/ want to pay with cash, but if y’all are gonna go bat shit crazy…. as long as the folks doing the actual cooking are sane…
And… I have never seen a hot chick working at McDonalds. Oh, I get it…. the waddling heifers aren’t getting hit on.
You can still use the machines and pay at the counter, with cash or a credit card. Irritates them when you order with the kiosk then go to the counter and use your credit/debit card.
Personally I would still rather interact with a human rather touch stuff on a screen.
I have seen lots hot chicks at McDonalds. Big ol’ sweating heifers. They must be hot as they are sweating. Or am I missing your definition of HOT?
if the choke point to serving more customers is the illiterate counter person, then replacing them with a bunch of order screens helps throughput.
another nail in the coffin of fast food… which was never intended to be a career.
n
Weird yellowish pink light out and lightning and thunder moving around us. We might get some rain here in a few minutes….
Power blinked once too.
added- yup, raining.
Oh and where is all the smarmy “we shouldn’t have to pay to rebuild them” talk about the Carolinas?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-18/only-3-homeowners-parts-hurricane-slammed-north-carolina-have-flood-insurance
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Here’s some newspeak I’ve never heard before, from the newsletter of my favorite bookseller…
“Each author identifies as disabled along a physical, mental, or neurodiverse axis—and their characters reflect this diversity.”
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Neurodiversity
“Neurodiversity is an approach to learning and mental health that argues diverse neurological conditions are the result of normal variations in the human genome.[1] This portmanteau of neurological and diversity originated in the late 1990s as a challenge to prevailing views of neurological diversity as inherently pathological, instead asserting that neurological differences should be recognized and respected as a social category on par with gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability status.
“There is a neurodiversity movement, which is an international civil rights movement that has the autism rights movement as its most influential submovement. Citing the classic legal maxim, “Nothing About Us Without Us”, the movement promotes self-advocacy of its members. Neurodiversity advocates promote support systems (such as inclusion-focused services, accommodations, communication and assistive technologies, occupational training, and independent living support)[2] that allow those who are “non-neurotypical” to live their lives as they are, rather than being coerced or forced to adopt uncritically accepted ideas of normality, or to conform to a clinical ideal.[3] Challenging pervasive social norms and stigmas, it frames autism, dyslexia, and other neurotypes as a natural human variation rather than a pathology or disorder, and rejects the idea that neurological differences need to be (or can be) cured, as they believe them to be authentic forms of human diversity, self-expression, and being. ”
IOW, all those people you thought were nuts? They’re just … different.
Added: And since they’re not actually, y’know, sick, helping them to become better integrated into “normal” society would be somehow wrong. 🙁
(Problem solved. Now, wasn’t that easy?)
You’re a prince among men! Now solve war and famine, and we can get a beer….
n
I’m going to bed. Those 4th graders wore me out.
You’re a prince among men!
Aw, shucks! T’warn’t nothin’. It all depends on how you define your so-called “problem.”
Neurodiversity
I could not even read that entire description through on the fourth try, much less the first.
My dad turned 80 today. We took him and mom out to dinner in a Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Houston by the G. R. Brown convention center. Dad’s younger brother showed up with his wife and a long time family friend. All three of us boys showed up with our wives and three of the six grandkids. Good times, good times.
I almost did not go since I have been having breathing problems since last Saturday. I am really tired, I should have stayed home from work today but I am helping a customer out who is working on a LNG plant redesign. I am so glad that I went.
@lynn, I understand completely, but you need to take care of yourself too.
See your Dr! You shouldn’t be having breathing problems. EVERYTHING is important after your big surgery. DO NOT let this go and end up with a problem!!
n
Probably uses English. Metric parts for aerospace are expensive in the US.
Location wise, they probably have some rocket guys that I used to work with. USA/English it would be then.
Remember the spacecraft that NASA insisted the contractors use Metric? Crashed into the planet instead of orbiting and taking photos. Your tax dollars at waste by politicians and bureaucrats with -2sigma IQ.
@lynn, I understand completely, but you need to take care of yourself too.
See your Dr! You shouldn’t be having breathing problems. EVERYTHING is important after your big surgery. DO NOT let this go and end up with a problem!!
Went and saw him a little while ago. I am still alive ! And I have a working heart. Who knew ?
I have good sinus rhythm now. I haven’t had a good sinus rhythm in almost a decade since the first heart incident.
The extra breathes are a known side effect of the surgery since I have a hole, actually a flap, between the two large chambers. The extra breathes should go away by three months post surgery but can last up to a year as that hole, flap, grows back together.
The extra heart beats are another possible artifact of the surgery or, they were being repressed by the afib previously. They may or may not go away. My dad has them too and hates them too.
I have one of those EU2200i generators. We were able to rent one after a windstorm here – nothing short of a miracle, we were in Home Depot waiting for a shipment to come in from another store when someone was returning one. It ran 2 freezers and 2 refrigerators simultaneously for 4 days. So I bought one, because there will be a next time, and because I’m still working, I can afford it now but maybe not later. Quiet, a good reputation for reliability, and unlike many other lookalikes that are cheaper, has a dealer network for parts and service if needed.
“has a dealer network for parts and service if needed. ”
Thanks Mark for the info and bringing up this point. MOST of the time, we are grid up and have access to resources. Having resources available is a consideration when making decisions like this. I’ll add that we (collectively) have a long experience with the Honda product, and not any experience at all with something like the “Firman” branded gennies that Costco is selling online.
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