Cool, and damp, but hopefully we will stay outside the T storm zone for the day and night.
I spent a gorgeous day yesterday working in the yard on my display. Had chats with several neighbors, and even met some new ones that just moved in one street over. I love that people will come by and get an emotional boost when they see the display. I love the opening it gives me to talk with my neighbors. I even like the pressure it puts on the neighbors on the street to decorate their own houses. We’re better as a neighborhood when we are participating in the same events, and a traditional night out for Halloween is a part of our culture I want to preserve and have other kids experience. And it gives me an opportunity to exercise some of my old work and school skills and do something creative and fun.
Meatspace baby.
Today will be spent putting the finishing touches on the display, adding the more delicate or steal-able elements, and getting a few more gags out of the attic and on display. I’m leaving some of my old standbys in the boxes this year. They’ll be all the more fun next year for having had a break.
Other than building community, it’s a break from my normal prepping activities too. Sometimes, you need a break, or at least a shift in focus. This is a nice one.
Take a minute to meet a neighbor today. Even if you aren’t handing out candy, or don’t decorate, try to connect to your community, even if it’s just a wave hello.
And of course, stack something…
nick
I saw that article. It wasn’t written by CS instructors, or else it was written by them, according to someone else’s list. No one who really teaches CS has the priorities they seem to have.
My “pain points” are:
It’s obviously hard to say, but one figure I heard had 200 cargo ships loaded, and waiting for safe passage. Given the size of those ships, that’s a lot of grain.
A lot of Africa depends on grain imports. Which is stupid, but that’s another discussion. So do a lot of other poor countries in Asia and elsewhere. So, yes, Russia is weaponizing food. “Look what you made us do”. Honestly, Putin’s propaganda is stupidly transparent. If he didn’t have nukes, this wouldn’t be tolerated.
Yes, we do.
The ex-chancellor of Austria made exactly that comment (not risking nuclear war), and said the Ukraine should appease Putin by letting him have some territory. Would he say the same, if Putin then says he wants Vienna?
We (the world) cannot let Putin blackmail us. “Give me what I want, because I have nukes”. His demands will never stop. We have to draw a line in the sand. For better or for worse, that line has been drawn at the Ukrainian border. Behind the scenes, the world needs to make it absolutely clear: If Putin uses a nuke, even a tactical nuke, he dies, and so does Russia.
We’re right back to the Cold War, unfortunately.
Podman is just IBM/Red Hat’s Docker clone. There are minor differences but Podman = Docker and vice versa.
Red Hat used to guarantee that applications developed targeting their flagship Enterprise Linux would be supported in future releases for ten years. I don’t know what the standard is now, but the important point to remember is that Podman will be officially supported whereas Docker will not.
Most of the Docker books go out of date, but one that is fairly current right now which gives a decent background is “Docker Deep Dive”. The chapters on Compose and Swarm can be safely skipped if you just want to be up to speed.
I had to get familiar with the tech as part of mandatory training at work. It is cool and I could see it being useful for some of what we do, but it is the proverbial hammer which,makes everything look like a nail to some nerds.
WSL is Windows Subsystem for Linux, a way of running Linux binaries as Windows subprocesses. They’re more or less at “Version 3”, which for Microsoft is when things start to be actually useful.
53F and saturated this morning. Tired. Don’t want to get up. Must get up. Arggg.
n
Why these idiot kids come to school without a charged Chromebook is beyond comprehension. They know the majority of their work is on the computer. Yet first class in the morning and their Chromebooks are completely discharged. However, their phones are fully charged. I guess priorities. I guess they will graduate to non-functioning welfare leaches of society. A career path enjoyed by their parents, and probably aunts and uncles, who celebrate gaming the system. Cretins.
As you can guess, I am subbing today. English class. Where most don’t care if they speak goodly at all. Sprinkle in a half dozen “like” in the sentence and they are golden. Except and accept can be used interchangeably; same as sell and sale; your and you’re are confused concepts; their, there and they’re are well beyond the capabilities of high school students. And some of their parents.
The legendary final Warren Zevon performance on Letterman was 20 years ago. If I had to pick one moment that represented the high water mark for Letterman, that would be it. “Ed” was still on the air, and the Meds-and-Mistress era was just getting cranked up. Plus Zevon with that “enjoy every sandwich” line which never would have happened on Leno.
Time flies.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/warren-zevon-david-letterman-parting-gift/
Unfortunately, unlike Carson, Letterman’s shows are unavailable in any outlet beyond clips on YouTube. Worldwide Pants is still too radioactive over seven years after the last show aired on CBS.
The YouTube channel looks official.
Please, don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel. 😀
OFD is no longer around to post this. I’m sure he would have had it this morning.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/cockamamie-story/
Again, Kunstler has end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it books to shill. Take some things he writes with a grain of salt.
Nancy Pelosi is firmly in the driver’s seat about a vote for a replacement VP making it to the House floor should Biden assume room temperature between now and Jan. 1. I don’t think that the coverage given the incident is a slip in the coordination of the narrative but rather intentional.
Continuing to honor OFD’s memory this morning, a quick check of Ann Barnhardt’s site revealed this gem of commentary on Herr Doktor.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2022/10/31/trick-or-meme/
Happy Halloween!
Annie too should be taken with a grain of salt.
Astronomy report: Last night – clear skies above and to the east, a few clouds. Brisk out, high 40s?
I just grabbed some 10×50 binos for a quick look, since I was already sleepy at 9pm.
M31 is almost directly overhead, the Double Cluster not quite as high, and what I assume are the Heart & Soul nebulae just below that.
Jupiter is high, as are the Pleiades, and Mars is low in the east but distinctly not a star. A nice quarter moon as well.
To do: I need to get the C8 out and see if I can resolve Neptune’s disk, it is well placed near Jupiter right now.
Pelosi and the hammer attack. Beyond weird. Pelosi must have security. The only way this guy got in the house, is if they let him in. Ah, yes, GatewayPundit confirms:
The real story won’t ever be published, of course. The elite must not be embarrassed.
Most of the Docker books go out of date, but one that is fairly current right now which gives a decent background is “Docker Deep Dive”. The chapters on Compose and Swarm can be safely skipped if you just want to be up to speed.
I am so busy with the F77 to C++ port. I converted another 4,000 lines last week so I have 12,000 lines converted now. Only 688,000 lines to go.
I am still in the initialization and glue code. I am hoping that things will get faster once I am in the calculation code.
Otherwise, this is a 688 day project, if there are no bugs. And, there will be bugs.
Having to rewrite the i/o code is killing me.
The Speaker is next after the VP in the line of Presidential succession so, yes, the Secret Service provides security. However, Nancy Pelosi was apparently not home at the time of the incident.
After 9/11, the Speaker also received use of a small military jet, a G-III, for travel to/from their home district, but Pelosi asked to have this upgraded to a 757 or “similar range” aircraft when she took office the first time in 2006. Dunno what happened there. The G-III could easily fly from DC to San Francisco without stopping, and the flight is well within G-IV or G-V range, which offer even longer distance non-stop flying than a 757.
Swearing in didn’t happen until 2007. I’m gonna get nitpicked if I don’t clarify.
She still asked for the unnecessary plane upgrade.
“There seem to be 10 people “managing” for every one person coding”
I’m shocked. Shocked!
The more interesting question to ask is how many people on the payroll who are supposed to be coding can actually … you know … write code! At least at a meaningful level.
My rule of thumb is that the percentage of the general population who can even learn to write code at a meaningful level is 10%.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/most-messed-up-thing-at-twitter-10-people-managing-for-every-one-person-coding-says-elon-musk/ar-AA13yfVn
@Lynn: I feel for you. That’s the kind project that may be essential, but is absolutely *no* fun.
I’m sure I’ve asked this before, but: Given your problems with piracy, have you considered making this an SaaS solution? Run it on your server, and provide people with access. If you’re doing a big re-write anyway…
Succession has been set by a law put in place by Congress which, by sheerest happenstance, placed the leader of each chamber of Congress at the head of the line for Presidential succession. Funny how that worked out.
G-III doesn’t have room for all the booze she’d slam down during the flight.
Optimist. Though there’s wiggle room around how “meaningful” is defined.
Lynn: Um, have fun?
You’re tempting fate with a statement like that.
@SteveF
RE: The ram beating the snot out of that hapless shepherd. Her dogs screwed up big time. It’s their -job- to keep the ram off the shepherd. My best herding dog loved nothing better than taking an obstreperous ram to task. If a ram stared at me for too long, he’d bite that ram on the muzzle and change it’s attitude right quick. If a ram decides to nail you, and they will because they’re jerks, you better hope you have a good dog, or are meaner than the ram.
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Slaughtered seven rabbits yesterday. Born August 7, 13 weeks old. Smaller than previous litters. They gained less slowly due in part to colder weather. There was an intestinal thing impacting their gain. They were not wormy, not cocci, not sure what was behind it. They weren’t all out ill, but neither were they thriving as well as previous litters. Their internal organs were healthy and good. I have two litters remaining. I’ll be processing again around Thanksgiving (eight rabbits), then around Christmas (11 rabbits). I’ll resume breeding the rabbits January / February.
I’ve lost a lot of my joy for Halloween from the abundance of adult sponsored / driven events for children and the stretching of Halloween from a few hours on Halloween night to multiple events over a week and halloween candy jars everywhere you turn. Adults really need to just butt out other than dispensing candy in response to ‘trick or treat’ and making amazing yard displays. Get the children running riot hitting up all their neighbors for loot. Dump the preponderance of adult events – Trunk or Treat, Trick or Treat Town, Halloween 5K, Boo at the Zoo, ad nauseum. Dump it all. Give it back to the kids, darn it.
And ‘Get off my lawn’.
I miss my childhood Halloween. I know the kids are having fun, but I can’t feel we have removed a lot of joy from it that they do not even know they are missing.
In my youth, I’d just put a paper bag over my head with eye holes and go for it.
I did the paper bag thing one year. Simply because everyone said “that’s stupid”. Whatever, it’s Halloween.
The whole Pelosi thing is just weird. Dude’s 81 and having a male hooker visiting? Give me a break. I turned 65 yesterday and my kickstand pretty much retired a couple/three years ago. Having sex at 81? Sure….. right.
RIght. Like some of my dates in my youth.
Got my lottery tickets. 10 sets of numbers. Signed the back. Now just wait for the disappointment. Well, not really disappointed. I know the chances going in are slimmer than Nancy Pelosi reviving Paul’s kickstand. Regardless of how slim my chances are, the odds are just slightly worse without a ticket.
Yah, I think I got that one covered.
But… but… If the adults don’t do it for the kids, the kids might not do it right!
Not just for Halloween, for any number of things.
Riddle me this, oh-so-caring parents: How do you expect kids (and teens) (and young adults) to learn to deal with things if you take care of everything for them? Oh, I get it: You don’t care about that because you just need to make sure that your peers get a good impression of you by virtue of your kid sailing through everything from childhood through ivy league admission.
Hey, don’t make assumptions about Paul’s kinks. And make sure not to kink-shame him, no matter how disgusting, cringeworthy, or institutionalization-worthy they are.
We’re not doing anything for Halloween, I think. The Child and a couple of (also teenage) friends were supposed to be here this evening and planned to hand out candy to little kids early on, then go trick or treating themselves. But plans changed, as they do, and The Child is at the one friend’s house. I don’t think I’m going to bother to turn on the outside lights or put the candy in bowls, as we’re at the end of a dead-end street and the neighbors don’t hand out candy and few people bother to come here. IIRC, the last two years, no one walked as far as our house and the only visitors came by car from outside of the neighborhood, and to hell with them.
There was an article about dePape in the Saturday Globe and Mail. A very strange character. I’m not sure the male prostitute fits. The Saturday edition can be found in the magazine newsgroups (for those still using newsgroups) or perhaps elsewhere.
@SteveF
Yah, I think I got that one covered.
Yeah, that is a given, sir.
But… but… If the adults don’t do it for the kids, the kids might not do it right!
And +1,000 right there. Reflected glory, hubris, whatever you want to call it. It’s dysfunctional at best, evil at worst. Churning out scores of screwed up humans.
@Lynn: I feel for you. That’s the kind project that may be essential, but is absolutely *no* fun.
I’m sure I’ve asked this before, but: Given your problems with piracy, have you considered making this an SaaS solution? Run it on your server, and provide people with access. If you’re doing a big re-write anyway…
Actually, the conversion is quite the challenge. I like challenges.
I don’t know about the SAAS. I am thinking about it. Anyway, the conversion is to make us multiple platform capable again.
The whole Pelosi thing is just weird. Dude’s 81 and having a male hooker visiting? Give me a break. I turned 65 yesterday and my kickstand pretty much retired a couple/three years ago. Having sex at 81? Sure….. right.
Happy birthday !
The wife managed to listen to her grandparents having a argument about sex when she was a teenager spending the summer with them and they were in their late 70s. Her grandfather said it had been a week and her grandmother said it was yesterday. My wife left at that point so she does not know what the resolution was.
Anyway, I aim to be like her grandfather.
If a ram decides to nail you, and they will because they’re jerks, you better hope you have a good dog, or are meaner than the ram.
I’ve got a shotgun. I will get the last word.
But… but… If the adults don’t do it for the kids, the kids might not do it right!
After age 6 or so I let my kids decide for themselves how much they wanted to do for Halloween, although it was a big holiday for me, so decorating the house and yard was a given. Lots of ghosts and spiders. When it came to costumes, we didn’t direct them, just supported.
One year one of my kids was indecisive and we let him go out as Chuckles the Clown the Vampire Pirate.
Having said that, we dressed our youngest and his best friend as 5-year-old versions of Hans and Franz from Saturday Night Live, complete with sweatshirts that had foam rubber muscles. They had no idea why all the parents loved it when they said “Trick or Treat! We’re just here to pump (clap) you up!”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4I5bOsHXbg
>> If Putin uses a nuke, even a tactical nuke, he dies, and so does Russia.
So then MAD comes into play?
And it’s TEOTWAWKI?
And @nick watches intently from the BOL…
>> In my youth, I’d just put a paper bag over my head with eye holes
RIght. Like some of my dates in my youth.
One bagger or two?
Four bagger. We each wore two in case one broke. Neither could take a chance.
Well shoot. My sales guy just gave me two weeks notice. He has a new job working for a local school district as a network engineer.
Now I have to find a new sales guy as dedicated as he was. It is not going to be easy. He worked for me almost four years.
Well, the night is winding down. Other years we had a steady stream until nine. We’re down to isolated groups. Still young kid though. Someone pointed out that out was a school night, and if purple planned around the Astros game that might have been why w had so many early…
I got about ninety percent of what I wanted to do done. Lots of compliments, lots of egoboo. I’ll give out a bit longer, then take the fragile and expensive stuff down.
That’s usually the signal to get one more rush.
N
@Ray Thompson
Wonder how long it would take a special patch cord to suck the charge in a phone battery down to near zero while trying to charge a chromebook?
Step 2 could be the bicycle generator.
Bet you got axed a lot of questions…
@Brad
That pesky little detail about House Speaker being second in line for the big office has some Republicans in the House making committee plans.
Canadian perp allegedly outstayed his visa, but from other evidence it sounds like about a decade ago.
@Greg
Sounds close enough for a first approximation.
The additional dimension is that the Venn diagram would show that the set of people able to code goodly is not only largely non-contiguous with the code certificates, but that a significant portion of the latter is also.
In my (limited) experience, good code writers do not want to become managers. A few, yes, but most taking that route were poor coders to begin with, yet managed to get the paper and hang on long enough to get an offer from the bad-coders-now-managers club.
For completeness, I should point out that a fair number of good code writers and a lot of average ones (ahem), code only as a means of solving the interesting problems at hand.
Your spot on and I can except yous respons.
Used to have 120-150.
Less than 50 tonight.
Packed it in at 8:20 after the fourth group passed without stopping here of either of the closest neighbors. These kids have no stamina. I my day it was time to quit when the last porch light went out or the frozen ones got too heavy to carry.
The Atlantic:
Fine with me.
Except for anyone in government, anyone in social media that censored opinion and inconvenient information, mask nazis, and everyone else on the left.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/31/the-atlantic-calls-for-covid-amnesty-n506977
Wrong, David.
Later, he gets it right:
NB the last bit: The policies were worse than the disease.
This amid reports that not only:
But that Biden wants criticism of his Afghanistan withdrawal to be censored, too.
Got a few last stragglers as I was packing some of the stuff up. The good stuff is put away or secured, and I’ll clean up tomorrow.
I ate far too much sugar and will be in GI distress most of tomorrow but it was WORTH it.
And I met several of our new neighbors from the other end of the street. Nice young couples.
My costume was a hit. Now I can shave. And I should send the boots I wore in for rebuilding. I can wear them as is, but new soles and footbed might make them more comfortable. Weird having all that ankle support, and they are HEAVY but that’s what lumberjack boots should be.
Kids are in bed. Lights are out. I think I’ll make one more pass around the intarwebs and hit the hay myself.
n
This was quoted extensively by Ace, but should be read entire:
Leaked Documents Outline: DHS’s Plans to Police Information
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
Even without the ID I would have given a 50% chance that a Microsoft shiiteweasel was at one end or another.
Before the committee’s start meeting, there needs to be a framework of new laws supporting the separation of individuals found guilty of certain crimes from their public pensions and preventing them from ever having so much as the meeniest of minie mo’s on the levers of power.
To do so requires a cunning plan to ensure that laws passed get signed.
So I propose a trade: Pass the laws, take them to the White House, and get them signed.
The trade? Joe and Jill walk into the sunset in return for the signatures, and Laptop Boy gets shaken, but not enstirred.
Thus sayeth the Widow Jobs. The Atlantic is her personal majority-owned outlet.
Vanguard is the largest single stockholder of Disney since Jobs halved her stake to *just* 4%.
I’ve been consistent with regard to Covid. I don’t want anyone’s forgiveness, but, please, take off the masks.
Just had a kerfuffle with a delivery from The River.
They have added photo “proof” of delivery.
I will be adding my address to the bottom of the door for positive ID.
(Yes, I know what I said about them last week)
I’ve been consistent with regard to Covid. I don’t want anyone’s forgiveness, but, please, take off the masks.
About 10% to 20% (SWAG) of people around here are still wearing masks. Mostly asians and blacks. Go figure.
And less than 1% (SWAG) of the people at my church is wearing a mask to church. The two services are running about a thousand people so I have a fairly good sample. At least, that I have seen.
>> Someone pointed out that out was a school night, and if purple planned around the Astros game that might have been why w had so many early…
Astros / Phillies were rained out today in PA.
Ayup, but if you’d planned to watch them, maybe you went out early and hurried home?
n
Shocked…absolutely shocked I am…
CNN: ‘Absolutely no evidence:’ Police, FBI affidavit debunk salacious conspiracy about Pelosi attack pushed by conservatives.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/pelosi-attack-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html
>> Ayup, but if you’d planned to watch them, maybe you went out early and hurried home?
I thought the really rabid fans were just in Philly? And Astros fans just expect the wins so the recap on Sports Center is sufficient.
“But Pelosi seemed to be speaking in coded language on the 911 call to make clear he needed help, a law enforcement source previously told CNN.”
The layoffs at CNN haven’t gone far enough.
Zaslav shouldn’t stop until everyone is operating out of the old plantation house at the abandoned country club where Turner started the operation … if it still stands. That would focus some minds if they didn’t quit.