Cool and hopefully clear again. Yesterday was nice. A bit overcast in the afternoon and evening, but cool and sunny for most of the day.
So I spent it driving around. And I’ll do that today too. I have enough stuff for the BOL, and I have two more things to pick up about an hour into the drive, that I might just drive up to the BOL today. Might even stay overnight. Besides dropping off another load of stuff, there are a couple of dimensions I’d like to check against the “Sanitarian”‘s plan for my septic. Weird name, but apparently a Texas licensed position…
He’s drawn part of the drip field in a place where it can’t go. I think it’s just because the field isn’t drawn strictly to scale, but it doesn’t match all the measurements I made while we were up there and I’d like to be sure. I also didn’t ‘close the box’ when I did my survey measurements, so I’m missing a couple measurements that would confirm and validate all the others. I don’t really want to spend 6 hours going up and back without getting anything done up there. Plans. Who needs ’em?
Plans get changed. Planning is useful.
And I need more food safe buckets, because I plan to get through what’s coming.
Stack it up folks. Ways and means. Figure out how you’ll keep making a living. Stack the things you’ll need for that.
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C++ isn’t a Hot Skillz anymore like it was in the late 90s, regardless of current demand. Rust is the Hot Skillz language, and, of course they have to mention it in the article.
“The shortage of C++ engineers and the complexity of C++ as a programming language has the potential to encourage the uptake of Rust instead. However, as Hickling points out, many firms with established trading systems are loath to adopt Rust because it implies rewriting the existing code base.”
Firms – with managers who have been around the block a few times – are loath to adopt Rust because the developers will BS them about applicability and schedule in order to notch the resume entry and then skate to other jobs when things blow up and they want a “better work life balance”. That’s a Hot Skillz.
At the previous previous job, we interviewed the “genius” who ran a product line into the ground at one of the local medical device manufacturers pushing a rewrite of everything in Rust. The conversation went like this:
“How long have you been at the current company?”
“Five years”
“And you mentioned that your project is late. How far behind is the schedule?”
“Five years.”
It didn’t click in his head or, at least, he didn’t let on that it clicked in his head. Of course, it didn’t deter my management who only saw the non-thesis (usually a red flag) Masters from CMU’s Automation Lab.
Fortunately, the “genius” flubbed our coding test to the point that he couldn’t write anything beyond the C function prototypes despite having unlimited web access and a full set of Unix development tools.
Not mentioned in the article is that you will probably need to be familiar with Boost, a bolt on C++ template library for things like threading and network development cross platform. Both the syntax for using most of the templates and the error messages when things go wrong in compilation are not for amateurs.
71F and 92%RH this morning.
It was the same when I went to bed.
n
Plans get changed. Planning is useful.
Man plans. God laughs.
From one of my CDC enewsletters…
Let me take a second and break that down, since it’s “moisture from the sky” outside, F’ing up my plans…
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, recommendations and guidance from CDC have changed based on new data from a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources.
— CDC changed the story to fit whatever “qualitative” ie. MADE UP, or FEELZ based thing came down from above. “Quantitative” sources depended heavily on WHAT is measured, and HOW it’s measured. There was a lot of obfuscation for both aspects, as well as changing midstream (like changing the number of amplifications on test samples.)
During the webinar, CDC experts will discuss the science to keep people safe during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.
–grammar nasti here, but if you can’t write in english, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to write for publication.
You’ll hear more about how CDC evaluates data to give updated recommendations,
– awesome, useful
the sources of the data,
– again, useful
and how health equity fits into the framework of an emergency response.
– ah sh!t, there you go with the BS social agenda again. Your racism just invalidated any other usefulness you might have had, since you will be skewing everything thru the lens of your agenda.
–giving this webinar a hard pass. Although if I had time, I’d record it. I’m sure the “health equity” section will yield some good quotes.
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added– I’m sure she’s a strong presenter, but from her LinkedIN, the “health equity” presenter is maybe 24 years old, new Masters of Public Health, did a year and a half as a contract employee at CDC on FLU during COVID, then half a year for CDC with another temp agency. Or in other words, knows nothing but what she’s been told, hasn’t got enough experience to know up from down.
Someone named Chuck Waggoner commented a couple of times on this post over at Jeff Duntemann’s blog:
Problems with SASM on Linux Mint
His comments talk about audio-related software.
Could this be “our” Chuck Waggoner?
Maybe plugs sees the handwriting on the wall:
Biden administration kicks midterm campaign off by forgiving 40,000 student loans
Cause as much destruction as possible before losing in 2024.
Who are the 40K and how were they picked?
A lot of MPH degrees are Professional Development “for busy professionals”. The academic standards are non existent for those programs. Pay the $60k, sit in the online classes, and you get the paper.
The diploma is the key credential for healthcare management these days. If the presenter doesn’t hold another hands-on degree in the medical field then someone bought the paper for her, Daddy … or Sugar Daddy.
The people I’ve met holding the MPH without hands-on education and experience in the medical field are usually among the dumbest I’ve ever encountered in management in any industry … and considering my train wreck career, that’s saying something.
What? “./configure; make” doesn’t work anymore?
Probably Borrower Defense cases that have been in the pipeline for a long time.
Or male from female.
You think you’re joking…
My previous job had me working with a handful of MPHs. All of them were, shall we say, highly supportive of the LGBTQWTF agenda.
I’m not quite as harsh on the (ig)noble users of those three letters as Greg was, but it seems to me that getting the degree and certification adds nothing to one’s skills except the ability to speak the cant and to understand others who speak it. I’ll also add MPHs to the evidence pile which suggests that people who put their degrees or credentials with their name in situations in which it is not required are more likely than not to be useless knobs. Think of anyone who writes “Mary Doe, PhD”. Good ol’ Mary probably has a PhD in Women’s Studies, not anything with any value. Ditto for ”DD” and double ditto for “EdD” and now “MPH”.
Think of anyone who writes “Mary Doe, PhD”. Good ol’ Mary probably has a PhD in Women’s Studies, not anything with any value. Ditto for ”DD” and double ditto for “EdD” and now “MPH”.
– concur. and as further evidence, the Mary Doe in question goes on to list under “licenses and certifications” a whole bunch of Emgmt 101 online courses from FEMA. Same ones most CERT folks take if they’re interested in the topic. Same ones I’ve taken. They are prereqs for some more advanced FEMA courses, but jeez, outside of the credential worshiping .gov agencies, who would think those courses meant anything?
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>> Or male from female
Come on now @Ray, that requires a trained biologist.
Modern advances are amazing. For our entire history before 2022, we thought we knew how to tell men and women apart, and yet we were wrong. Oh how ignorant we were!
Oh how PRESUMPTUOUS we were…
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>> Think of anyone who writes “Mary Doe, PhD”. Good ol’ Mary probably has a PhD in Women’s Studies, not anything with any value. Ditto for ”DD” and double ditto for “EdD” and now “MPH”.
Umm…uhh…Dr. Jill Biden??
Jill Biden really has the doctorate, but it is an EdD.
Most people assume it is an MD. Even my wife was misled by the media.
Prior to marrying Plugs, Jill Biden was best known for the ugly divorce case she lost which established that she did nothing to help her first husband build one of the most successful college bars in the country. The Stone Balloon at the University of Delaware.
Ironically, the professors which signed off on Biden’s dissertation worked just a few blocks away from the bar.
And, in Biden’s defense, it was a real academic credential and not Professional Development. Even if the paper was a political favor, several faculty had to put their reputations on the line signing off on the work.
The ex- was supposedly working on a book.
Zoinks! NFLX down 125 points.
By coincidence, Ed Dutton made a video on the subject of worthless degrees, credentialing, and midwits. https://odysee.com/@JollyHeretic:d/Why-Over-Educating-the-Unintelligent-is-Fantastically-Dangerous:b At around 15:30 he discusses how the not-bright think that they are important and part of the elite because they have a degree to put on their wall.
Right. Rust has some interesting concepts, but making good use of it is probably *more* difficult that writing C++. If there’s a shortage of good programmers (and there is *always* a shortage), then an uptake of Rust is going to come at a cost of C++ and other language.
Mediocre and poor programmers? A dime a dozen, but they would be even less productive with Rust than with other languages.
Rewriting a large, established code base always goes so well. In the best case, you invest years and millions, only to get to where you already are today.
Rust can co-exist with other languages just fine. If they want to move, just start writing new stuff in Rust, and leave the established code base alone.
Hey, sounds familiar. I’m re-working a programming course and I have been informed that a didactic expert is going to help me out. A young guy with a doctorate in psychology, and likely zero knowledge of programming. Oh frabjous joy.
Rust isn’t OO. It offers some OO features, but it cannot replace C++ in every situation, especially where abstractions are key.
I’m not familiar with how Wall Street uses C++, but I would imagine that structure templates such as Boost’s MultiIndex see heavy use. The time/date abstractions Boost offers are probably also important. Any Wall Street gig posting I’ve seen mentions Boost and STL.
For fun I looked up “didactic expert” in Brave search and got this:
That’s a lot of big words and recursion without any actual explanation or meaning.
Zoinks! NFLX down 125 points.
I won’t be retiring early any more. I am holding a boatload of NFLX stock that I bought 20 years ago. Since last October the stock has slid from $690 to $220.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX?p=NFLX
and
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-identified-4-uncontrollable-issues-213041540.html
People think that I am joking when I say that you need a million dollars per person to retire. Since I have a wife and a disabled daughter, that means I need three million dollars to retire.
I figure that Social Security will be means tests by 2030. If you have any means at all, they are going to test you out of the system.
The one that I am worried about is Medicare. Medicare expenses are growing at 10% per year. Maybe more. They cannot means test Medicare, can they ?
Before I’m eligible to collect. How Convenient. Though I suspect they’ll start it before then if the system hasn’t completely collapsed already.
Netflix was practically a penny stock 20 years ago. If you watch “The Last Blockbuster” one of the central ideas of the documentary is that Blockbuster’s fatal mistake was not buying Netflix when offered the chance.
The Chinese relation in Seattle who is on bare Medicare and needs a kidney was recently told she may be put on the list in five years – essentially a death sentence since a lot of dialysis patients don’t survive that long.
Netflix was practically a penny stock 20 years ago. If you watch “The Last Blockbuster” one of the central ideas of the documentary is that Blockbuster’s fatal mistake was not buying Netflix when offered the chance.
Yup, the first time I got in the price was $6. I sold at 60 and then jumped back in at 46. Netflix would have never sold out to Blockbuster, the Netflix guys had a vision that they successfully executed on. RBT turned me on to Netflix and I watched his travails before jumping. I just wish that I had bought more 20 years ago, like 10,000 shares.
I still like Netflix’s business model but they have so much competition now that the market has turned from growth to value.
Before I’m eligible to collect. How Convenient. Though I suspect they’ll start it before then if the system hasn’t completely collapsed already.
My wife just turned 64. She is going to start SS when she turns 66 and 10 months. Maybe retire then too, she is not sure yet.
I will be 62 in a couple of months. My plan is to work until I die but start taking SS when I turn 67. I am surprised that I saw 60 with my heart issues, I doubt that I will see 70. I have not had a heart attack in almost ten years, I am overdue.
So FAANG changed to MANGA and now may be changing to MAGA if Netflix drops out of the Growth stocks.
“With Energy Prices at Record Highs Joe Biden’s White House Says Energy Taxes are “Needed” for Green Transition”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/energy-prices-record-highs-joe-bidens-white-house-says-energy-taxes-needed-green-transition/
Here come the carbon taxes. Biden can implement these via the Clean Air Act as fines anytime he wants to.
The only way to stop these is via SCOTUS saying that The Clean Act does not cover carbon dioxide. I do not think that they are brave enough to do so.
“EU To Impose Full Embargo On Russian Oil Next Week, Will Send Price Above $185 According To JPMorgan”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/full-embargo-russian-oil-would-send-brent-185bbl-jpmorgan
“What was largely a theoretical modeling exercise until moments ago, is set to go live because Reuters reports that the EU is set to declare a full embargo on Russian oil after this weekend’s French election:”
Somebody (China, India, etc) will buy the Russian oil for a discount and either use it themselves or sell it on the open market as “new oil”.
India still very mad at us for the nuclear mess that we called them on 25 years ago. They are looking for a payback.
I spent the morning working on my warehouse with my electrician and his helper. The outside lights at the warehouse are now controlled by a photocell relay instead of the 18 year old timer relay. No more having to reset the timer box due to a power outage or the change of season. Life is good !
MAGMA. Microsoft is still on a roll.
>> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-identified-4-uncontrollable-issues-213041540.html
This was an interesting number…
@alan:
For which, read: Give the parasites on Wall St. what they believe they deserve.
G.
What is with all the stories about the advance child credit payments today? Did they really think that advance payments weren’t going to affect people’s taxes? Can they really be that stupid?
Yes.
Yes. Congress critters are more concerned about votes than intelligent decision making. Some are not even capable of thinking, see AOC for a reference.
For fun I looked up “didactic expert” in Brave search and got this:
That’s a lot of big words and recursion without any actual explanation or meaning.
Kamala, is that you?
It was a few percent, maybe as high as 5. Most, like the mask mandate judge, didn’t have 12 years of legal experience, including some trial experience. She had around 8 years experience and had never sat first chair in a trial.
It was people on the income based repayment plans. It is a program for people in low-paying jobs to get lowered payments or deferrals of their loans. IRRC, if you were in one of these programs long enough, you got your written off. One not uncommon cause was getting disabled – you are never going to pay off your debt, as it will grow because the interest exceeds the payment.
The median amount owed for student loans is around $17k. The average is $33k, so a small number of people skew the average up. For most, it’s a car loan sized debt.
It was a few percent, maybe as high as 5. Most, like the mask mandate judge, didn’t have 12 years of legal experience, including some trial experience. She had around 8 years experience and had never sat first chair in a trial.
Plus all of his SCOTUS nominees and several of his appeals court nominees.
Just pack it up and move. Easy.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/polis-offers-disney-twitter-new-home-in-colorado/73-5155158a-e233-46be-a0db-1c6472cf5ba8
Just pack it up and move. Easy.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/polis-offers-disney-twitter-new-home-in-colorado/73-5155158a-e233-46be-a0db-1c6472cf5ba8
I imagine that ‘Disney Mountainland” would be a new park. And not a bad idea, somewhere around Colorado Springs.
Unless your doctor or dentist had family money, if they’re 50-ish or younger, chances are they went to school on student loans, easily six figures worth. Navient currently tracks more than 200 borrowers who took $1 million in loans, mostly doctors or dentists, UCLA Dental being a particular favorite according to one article I read.
As I’ve noted here before, the student loan program was nationalized to pay for Obamacare. The government is not going to easily give up that revenue stream, and any discussion of forgiveness is about monetizing a whole lot more debt.
A forgiveness bill would be monstrously complex. The White House can only chip around the edges with Executive Orders.
Joining us now on Fox News Sunday to discuss the ramifications of $8 gasoline thanks to taxes starting January 1 is newly-elected Speaker of the House Donald J. Trump.
Joining us now on Fox News Sunday to discuss the ramifications of $8 gasoline thanks to taxes starting January 1 is newly-elected Speaker of the House Donald J. Trump.
The UK is probably paying $10/US gallon now.
I just don’t see DJT as Speaker of the House. Of course, the impeachments of Biden and Harris will never happen. Biden and Harris may be charged by the House with incompetence / corruption but you will never get the 2/3rds vote of the Senate to convict.
Fortunately, the “genius” flubbed our coding test to the point that he couldn’t write anything beyond the C function prototypes despite having unlimited web access and a full set of Unix development tools.
I wonder if I could pass your programming test. Especially now in my doddering old age. I keep on getting my Fortran and C++ code backwards.
They absolutely can be, Clayton. Keep in mind that some people truly believe that tens of thousands of people, if not more, all colluded to “steal” an election. And those believers will argue as much despite (a) not providing a shred of evidence to support their claim and (b) not explaining how no single one of those tens of thousands—not even the lowest-paid cog in the machine—hasn’t jumped at the chance to “confess” to a “steal” for the right amount of money.
Lots of smoke out there. “U.S. Election Officials Face Their Biggest Threat Yet — Jail Time”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u-s-election-officials-face-their-biggest-threat-yet-jail-time/ar-AAWnmLu
“(Bloomberg) — Over the last two years, local elections officials across the U.S. have faced a deadly pandemic, shortages of funding and workers, false claims of election fraud and even death threats.”
“Now they could face prison, too.”
“Under a spate of laws proposed or passed in at least 10 states, elections administrators could see criminal charges and penalties that include thousands of dollars in fines or even prison time for technical infractions of election statutes.”
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Yeppers, no bias or editorializing there!
Widespread allegations of election fraud and theft will increase incentives to opt out and not participate in voting at all. The last election was widely trumpeted to have the highest participation rate evah with ~160-170 million votes cast. An additional 90 million are too young to vote. That would leave north of ~70 million already voting “None of the Above” by staying home. At what point does the system lose even the appearance of legitimacy?
At what point does the system lose even the appearance of legitimacy?
—I’d say that for anything except very local officials, about two years ago.
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this blog has transformed from what Bob created
– It’s inevitable, and has been discussed before. I’m not Bob. Don’t pretend to be. I do try to maintain much of what he did in terms of style and content. I’ve talked about it extensively before. READ his posts, and his participation in the comments. I do. A couple times a month, at least. That alone is the major reason that Barbara allows us to continue, so that Bob’s words and thoughts are still here, and there is an active community to draw people to them.
His extensive commenting and posts about storing food are particularly relevant at the moment. Use the keywords at the right.
The last week has had more actual talk about computing than the previous month. There might have been some astronomy talk in the future if I’d won the auction for some mirrors and a telescope kit today, but it’ll have to be septic systems instead because it’s a Daynotes Journal. It was about the things Bob was doing day to day, and it’s now about what I’m doing day to day, with a giant scoop of what everyone else is doing, which is typical of the old blog as well.
People come and go. There are a lot of names that were very active while Bob was pushing his prepping work, and they got prepped up, and we haven’t heard much or anything from them since. Some people don’t like the political stuff, which is unfortunate, but it’s probably more civil here than just about anywhere else online, and you can always skip over it. If people came by because they had a personal connection to Bob, and they haven’t a personal connection to me, it’s natural that they would stop coming by. If they came for the content, or the discussion, I hope they’ve continued. I know we’ve added active people that never came here when Bob was alive, and that makes me feel good too.
I can’t really address any sort of metrics, the feedback from google and wordpress changed at some point, but we had 133K visits last month iirc. At least some of them are from actual people. 😉
I’d like to think this place is still a force for good in peoples’ lives, it was for me.
I keep doing it because I like it. I like hearing from everyone else. I like talking. I like having a place to talk.
Now go and stack something against future need.
n
@lynn:
Nope. According to the RAC, yesterday, $7.24, if I’ve got the conversions right. 161 pence/litre, in real units.
G.