Cool and wet. Drying later. I hope. Lost all of yesterday to rain. Don’t want that to happen again.
Very short post today. Can barely keep my eyes open.
I’ll edit or add more later.
Enjoy the day, and stack some stuff.
n
Sat. Oct. 29, 2022 – tired tired tired, but you knew that
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The software is probably fine. The challenge with that kind of service comes not from wrangling the bytes but generating the dopamine hit that keeps the users coming back. As a result, all of the game and ad revenue-dependent tech companies have psych majors on the payroll these days.
Twitter bought their app ~ 13-14 years ago. Their own app was garbage, like just about everyone else’s in the early days of the iPhone until Jobs got the iPhone 3G and iOS 5 into the hands of users in 2009.
It wasn’t that the programmers got better, but more RAM covers a lot of sins.
And iOS/MacOS development requires a serious understanding of MVC, which a lot of people still don’t get.
LOL:
Celebrities Say They’re Quitting Twitter as Elon Musk Takes Over: “I’m Out of Here”
”Stars” like Alex Winter. These people can’t stop tooting their own horns. Just like they are leaving the country over tRump.
The bankers are going to force the issue holding paper written in the interest rate environment of … was it March? TSLA will need money to get the Jesus Truck out.
My former Death Star office mate and I aren’t on speaking terms right now, but Musk buying Twitter in the spiking rate environment is a textbook example of how to lose money on bonds, something which my coworker never clearly understood no matter how many times I went over the math.
People forget that Twitter was in serious trouble before the Orange Man took that famed escalator ride down to the lobby of Trump Tower in 2015.
Shout! Factory has a new 4k restoration of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” which probably generate residuals for Winter.
The only bad publicity is your obit.
I didn’t think the original DVD was terrible, but a new print/scan is always good. Cult flicks were labors of love for someone, and I consider myself lucky to have some of my favorites on disc, a few with really unique commentary tracks which serve as time capsules of the last 20 years, transitioning VHS-DVD-Streaming/Torrents, more than the original eras of the films, including Mike Nesmith on “Tapeheads”, John Hughes on older versions of “Ferris Bueller”, and Kevin Smith on “Roadhouse”.
BTW, the current release “Bueller Bueller” edition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” does not have the Hughes commentary. Maybe the estate is reserving it for the 40th anniversary edition (Good Lord that isn’t far off).
Caught half a story getting in the car today about the big increase of women amongst first-time gub buyers.
–that was one of the points he made, they have been seeing a lot of single moms who are afraid of violence (and scary people) either where they live, or where they work. One was from NYFC and still commented how bad it looked in her part of Houston. My buddy’s store is on the same street I was talking about with all the small groups of men standing around drinking in the afternoon.
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it’s 59F and damp, overcast.
Woke up naturally, so I figure I should get up and get started.
I was crazy tired last night, and it was getting late. I was asleep in my office chair, which is not a good thing for my back or neck,so I phoned it in and went to bed.
n
My bad. iOS 5 was 2011 and the 3GS was the big memory boost, in 2009.
I should have remembered the last one since a lot of us believe that Jobs helped the Death Star break the union to prevent a strike that summer.
Time sink for Saturday. High school game last night.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Midway
Border Collie pups herding ducks!
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/10/can-anyone-translate-duck-quacks.html
H/T peter
n
One of the things I talked to my gun store buddy about is the story about the school letting armed men into the building “to protect them” from the police.
He frankly didn’t believe me. Who would? It’s the opposite of what normal people would do. You have to be so twisted in your world view to even contemplate doing that…
I couldn’t bring it up on my phone while I was there so I went looking today.
The exact same search terms on google yield nothing. On duckduckgo, the first 6 results are relevant articles.
“school allows armed men in to avoid arrest”
This article has lots of internal links to the primary reporting.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/school-admins-let-armed-suspects-into-school-to-protect-them-from-police/
Posted here for the record.
n
I know google is convenient. It’s also not reliable.
Snitches get stitches. Nothing has changed except the Amish attitutdes dominate in the country right now.
The linked story is from Cleveland which is once again exploding with violent crime after doing a fairly decent cleanup job in the 90s. That seems to be a story on repeat all over the Rust Belt and places like NYFC.
My wife and kids watch “Abbott Elementary”, which gets high praise in the press, but is not funny in the least to me. Letting gunmen into the school to protect them from cops wouldn’t surprise me as a storyline on that show before the season is out.
Lots of news rooms are trying to spin Paul Pelosi’s attacker as right wing this weekend, including the local Sinclair station whose broadcast we endured last night.
They’re trying. Of course the story ran in front of a Robert Francis commercial. Unfortunately, the station does not have a link this morning.
All Republicans live in a school bus outside their house.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-lived-in-a-school-bus/
It wasn’t that the programmers got better, but more RAM covers a lot of sins.
And it gives the programmers breathing room. You would not believe the crap that we went through fighting to add new features to our software and not blow the ram limits. We had to drop the Univac 1108 in 1982 because it had a hard 2 MB limit on code and data space. I think our Prime 750 and 2250 were limited to 16 MB but the paging killed you first. The next limit we hit in 1989 was the IBM AT 370 addin coprocessor boards had a hard limit of 6 MB (we sold hundreds of those coprocessor boards for IBM). I am not sure what the CDC 7600 limit was but it used 28 bit addressing even though it had 60 bit code and data. We have not been limited since then except for our own stupidity.
The bankers are going to force the issue holding paper written in the interest rate environment of … was it March? TSLA will need money to get the Jesus Truck out.
TSLA has cash for now so they are good. In fact, TSLA is probably getting ready to do a stock buyback. The problem with TSLA is that Musk had to make a decision between the Cybertruck and the Semi. The Semi won, Pepsico has good lawyers and Volvo ??? is releasing their electric truck.
TSLA may be the biggest purchaser of lithium in the world. Number two is probably not even in the ballpark.
We really need a better battery system. Something with the energy density of gasoline or diesel. Not hydrogen.
@nick
Border Collie pups herding ducks
Nice job. i haven’t done much herding the last few years. Too much life.
Cardigans are upright herders and like to “head” the stock. The dogs in that video had really nice distance from the stock for their maturity level.
Ducks are amongst the most difficult stock for a novice dog. Ducks panic easily, don’t always flock, need to be driven instead of following a human like sheep will. The skills used by a dog to herd ducks are very similar to the skills they need to herd cattle.
At AKC herding trials I’ve seen more poor quality duck herding than good quality duck herding. Dogs that are excellent on sheep don’t necessarily have the chops for duck or cattle. Done right, it is elegant, calm, and efficient.
Done wrong it’s a soup sandwich.
We got a couple inches of snow. Fall prep is effectively done. I’ve got a few tasks to putter away on but remaining big projects get a 4-6 month wait. I got through nearly all of my list. Feeling pretty good about it.
Ive got 7 rabbits to send to freezer camp this weekend. 8 if I’m feeling cranky. I could put up another sheet of plastic for the chickens. I finished the electric project for the rabbits. So much better in the rabbitry. I also got the last poop chutes up. Huge difference.
The mice are still around but wisely making themselves scarce. I spent part of a day moving mouse vulnerable food into hard containers in the pantry. A bit more to do down there.
My aunt is coming from New Zealand to visit in February. For Fur Rondy and the Iditarod and northern lights. I’m very excited. It’s a brute of a trip. 26-30 hours in travel mode. 13 hours on the plane to get to California. And about that again traveling to get to Alaska. 1,440 air miles from Anchorage to Seattle but it doesn’t look it on a conventional map.
Qantas was running an A380 between Dallas and Sydney for a while. Nonstop. IIRC, it was 20 hours each way. I’m surprised they don’t run one to SeaTac, but the reason may be political — that’s Boeing territory … for now.
That kind of flight would be brutal in a coach seat. The one person I know who took the Quantas non-stop flight said that the charging port at her seat was broken as was the provided in-flight entertainment device in the back of the seat in front of her.
I always bring a Kindle with a couple of paper backups, but the kids these days …
If they want to, anyway.
Whose “books” are they again?
https://bookriot.com/amazon-changes-kindle-ebook-return-policy/
The Pelosi hammer attack is getting bizarre. The LSM is in full suppression mode.
I’ve returned out-of-date computer-related titles which are still on the virtual shelf without updates. Hot Skillz stuff like books about Docker are really bad.
It is really hard to know from a preview whether a title is out-of-date. I’m an honest customer about it, but I guess not everyone falls into that category.
Plugs referenced the situation and said some stupid things trying to tie it to politics in his recent appearance with Kamala to support Fetterman’s sinking fortunes in Pennsylvania. That Biden opened his mouth is probably the bigger problem for the Dems and the media than either the attack or the political beliefs of the suspect.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-attack-nancy-pelosis-husband-was-despicable-2022-10-29/
I got through nearly all of my list.
Congrats!
Feeling pretty good about it.
As you should! you did an amazing amount of work in a short time.
Which reminds me, I need to get going….
n
“Electric utilities aren’t doing enough to address inequities in today’s power system, advocates say”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/electric-utilities-arent-doing-enough-to-address-inequities-in-todays-pow/635188/
They never stop with the crap.
Dilbert: Wally and CO2
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-10-29
Like the first commenter, I suspect that Wally produces a lot of methane too.
“SpaceX To Cut Down Satellite Count By Consolidating V-Band System”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-to-cut-down-satellite-count-by-consolidating-v-band-system
“The company plans on modifying its FCC license from 2018 for its V-band satellite constellation, which it has yet to launch, but was originally going to operate over 7,518 satellites.”
“In a rarity, SpaceX has told the FCC it’ll cut down on the total number of Starlink satellites it plans on operating amid concerns from rivals, environmental groups and astronomers about the system’s sheer size.”
Yup, the battle plan rarely survives first contact with the enemy.
My son is home this weekend. I had ready a new set of upgraded headlights for his truck, a 3M polishing kit, and a set of LED backup bulbs. The headlights weren’t too oxidized, but after we finished, the difference was still dramatic. Then we installed the new bulbs – some Philips 4K halogen bulbs. They were a bear to install – no room. I finally wised up and removed the washer fluid tank on the left side and the battery on the right side, which gave us plenty of room.
The backup bulbs didn’t fit, even though Amazon said they would. Easy enough to return via Kohls drop off.
Divemedic has moved to:
https://www.sectorocho.com/
His former host apparently quiet killed him.
It’s surprising that Amazon ever allowed returns in the first place. Book sales are final. I’ve never ever known of any bookstore that allowed books to be returned for refund. Paperback exchanges sometimes will take a pile of fiction in exchange for a single novel, but no one anywhere gives money back for a purchased book, whether “in error” or not. I accept returns on my online sales of vintage items, but not of books.
Not only will people read them then lie about it, they will also buy one on the chance it is a desirable (and valuable) edition, then try to get their money back when they discover it was exactly as described and not the rare version they hoped to resell. They do the same with art on paper. We don’t fall for that.
I wish stores would stop allowing clothing to be returned. Scammers horribly abuse the women’s clothing market with no conscience at all. Vast numbers of women see nothing wrong with buying clothes, wearing them, then returning them. I no longer buy things that are on clearance, and may soon stop buying at “outlets” because if I am paying for clean and new, I expect it to be so. If I want used clothes, I’ll go to a thrift shop.
Amazon has never been held the the same standards as other retailers by Wall Street, and the sales for now are subsidized by AWS. Hot Skillz! Per “The Legend Of Jeff, Family Guy, Drives A Honda, Wears Same Shirt To Work Every Day” (TM), books and music weren’t chosen as the first Amazon products because they were lucrative but the two big distributors would allow even small retailers to play cash float games, the real core of Bezos’ plans.
And Mackenzie drove the Bronco …
To be fair, Barnes & Noble takes returns or at least they did until the pandemic. I’ve never taken fiction in there seeking my money back, but I have gone in with lousy programming books and received a refund for dissatisfaction reasons.
I worked at Robinsons/May/Maison Blanche for a while in college, before they became part of Dillards. I always pulled womens clothing out of the mens dressing rooms at the end of the day, with high end Roxanne swimsuits being a particular favorite of some regular.
Pleasant dreams. 🙂
I also saw crazy returns too. Red tag Levis with “Satisfaction Guaranteed” printed on the label were usually the most outrageous but always received a refund/exchange, especially if the customer went to store management’s office next to the restaurant — remember those?
“Joe did this!”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/10/joe-did-this.html
“U.S. energy executives told Jennifer Granholm that shuttered crude oil refineries won’t restart, Valero’s Chief Executive Joe Gorder said on Tuesday.”
The cost of restarting a shuttered refinery is incredibly expensive. Just about all of the piping will need to be replaced due to plugging and corrosion if the refinery was not shut down and nitrogen blown through the piping to clean it out.
Bayou Renaissance Man is moving his website too.
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/10/no-blog-updates-until-thursday.html
The wokeness amongst the hosting companies is criminal.
And even if shut down properly, there is always something that was running fine that doesn’t come back up.
n
I have moved several sites over the decades. I get better with each one. There’s a process to doing it correctly.
As long as the wild accusations are flying in SF about Mr Pelosi the elder, I’ll toss out this pure speculation- at least I’ll label it as such.
This was a drug and sex fueled night gone wrong.
Why? It’s San Francisco. The Dems have a major problem with rich people who like to do drugs with male prostitutes and scumbags. Pelosi is a Dem, surely knew about the donor in CA and the pol in FL, and didn’t do anything about it. Tacit support at a minimum. Plays the same reindeer games at a maximum.
So there, wild speculation, with a veneer of plausibility. You read it here first.
n
“Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie: ‘$3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption’ in 10 Years”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/25/goldman-sachs-jeff-currie-3-8-trillion-of-investment-in-renewables-moved-fossil-fuels-from-82-to-81-of-overall-energy-consumption-in-10-years/
This is why all the energy consumers are going broke. All of the money spent on the so-called renewables is so much higher cost than conventional energy supplies. And the higher costs come right back on the consumers.
Just wait until diesel goes to $8.00/gallon on Jan 1. Gonna be a lot of weeping and wailing.
I interpreted Nick’s comment as referring to petrochemical plants, not to blogs.
If you’ve successfully shut down and moved several chemical plants over the decades, wow.
Given what I’ve read at Divemedic’s site, and others, it’s not easy moving a website either… although there is probably less risk of energetic disassembly.
🙂
n
>> The backup bulbs didn’t fit, even though Amazon said they would. Easy enough to return via Kohls drop off.
@ITGuy1998, try these folks, not the cheapest but reliable fitments and good customer service. And made in the good ole US of A.
No winner yesterday (29th) so the Powerball jackpot for the next drawing (31st) is ONE BILLION DOLLARS ! ! !
Gotta be in it to win it…
@nick:
Depends on the site. WordPress or other CMS-based sites, maybe. A collection of flat files, not so much. That’s me, folks!
@alan:
And even when I’m in it, I never win it…
G.
Clocks went back in UK and Europe last night. Your date is different, because reasons.
So I have the chore of adjusting 3 mechanical clocks. It’d be four. but one is still away being fettled. That one should be back next Thursday, at which point I hope to have another non-going wall clock sent away for repair. That’ll be to the same guy, and he’s good.
G.
>> Clocks went back in UK and Europe last night. Your date is different, because reasons.
Clocks went back in UK and Europe last night. Your date is different, because politicians.
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