Could rain. Could be nice. Openweathermap.org says moderate rain, light breeze, high of 80F. The national forecast has us on the edge of a “possible’ rain zone. The Gulf will undoubtedly have its own ideas about what will happen. Either way, I’ll deal with it. Nothing critical to do outside today. Yesterday was overcast, low clouds, and it never rained.
And it didn’t matter much to me, because after returning my stuff and the trailer, I ate some meds and went back to bed. Woke in the evening feeling much better. So the day was a loss as far as work getting done.
Today should have me getting a few things done. I’ve got a couple of packages to mail, some website work to do, auction stuff, and all the normal list. I’m hoping the relief I got by taking yesterday off continues through today. It’s a lot easier to do stuff if you aren’t really sore.
Antibiotics and pain meds- the marvels of the modern age. Do what you can to make sure you still have access to them… legally of course.
And then stack them. Because no one is coming to help you, unless you’ve arranged it yourself.
nick
I’ve handled similar by setting the color schemes in each account as a visual cue of which I’m in. I don’t remember if Teams allows that; I never used it for much of anything other than video meetings.
You can open multiple at a time in incognito browser windows. It’s a pain, but it works.
Most software development organizations suck.
Now it is about people pretending to like/understand Lin-Manuel Miranda and not much else.
And Microsoft is…right up there
Office applications at Microsoft became a career dead end sometime in the late 90s.
CalDAV is still around so you might dig around in open source offerings or look at what Apple offers talking to multiple Exchange accounts being the only alternative to Windows for running Office right now.
Apple execs, like Microsoft’s, “eat their own dogfood”, and execs at other companies want to carry that Apple Silicon because it is cool.
Redmond wants everyone living on Teams. Big companies in the US like Teams over Zoom and Slack because they maintain ownership of the data for use by HR when mining for grounds to fire people.
Everyone has done something on their corporate drone laptop which could be grounds for firing.
What covers most of my needs are having different profiles in Vivaldi. Each profile remembers what passwords to use to log into which websites.
The stupid problem with the calendar is that I want one place to look for everything coming up. I can share the Outlook calendars from the places I don’t do so much with my main Outlook calendar. Which works fine. But for whatever reason, things scheduled directly in Teams don’t show up (they used to, but now they don’t). So I wind up having to look in Teams for meetings, and in Outlook for the overview of everything else, which is a pain, and also error-prone…
Yes, we “eat our own dogfood”.
The paint is peeling off the keys of my company issue “business” grade laptop after just a little over two years.
Cough.
Oh, and “Book of Mormon”, cultural fallout of which included the Bud Light fiasco.
Notice how silent “South Park” is on that one?
My “road” laptop running Fedora 39 hard crashed this morning.
That is a first.
No harm done since it is Linux, but still something to watch.
Any ideas?
– no good ones. I’ve got three copies of each of my wife’s work appointments in my calendar because of issues sharing…
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Turns out it’s warmish with heavy mist today. Like God’s own nebulizer has been running overtime.
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n
You can now add pain meds to your Jase Case (OTC but I think in scrip strength). I’ve got my eye on that Prepper Case.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/supreme-court-unanimously-reinstates-trump-to-colorado-ballot/
Colorado – butt out.
More to Follow
“This decision should put an end to ALL state attempts to remove Trump from the ballot based on alleged participation in an insurrection. It also seems to preclude the federal courts from doing the same. It’s up to Congress.”
I don’t see any wiggle room that would allow a federal court to get their nose into the tent, but I’m sure there are a number of PLT activist judges that have more than enough arrogance to try otherwise.
Maybe a glimmer of hope for the FUSA. It is more likely the PLT Judges won’t go the route that “Dirty” Harry Reid went on approving judges. Da chickens might come home to roost.
The American experience is full of “let’s see what we can get away with.” It’s part of the culture and no surprise that the judges play the same game.
It’s why we have the three parts as adversaries…
n
Unanimous, but Kagan and Jackson are clear in a kinda-sorta dissent that they only agree that Colorado lacked the authority in their vote because states aren’t authorized to enforce Secion 3.
Hermione Granger had nothing else to offer for now since Federal legislation on enforcement of Section 3 is pretty limited.
Lots of wiggle room for another state to try it.
The situation is especially bad in the last 30 years, starting with the meaning of the word ‘is’ being debated by a President on a witness stand.
Bubba Clinton was a symptom of something bigger, not a root cause.
It’s moral equivalence coming home to roost.
n
I’m living the problem of importing the standards of the third world today with our siding crew’s half-a**ed response to the problem of our cable provider’s half-a**ed wiring of the house 30 years ago.
At least the cable company work was neat and proably done by domestic labor even if it was exposed on the side of the house.
I didn’t learn about the problem until late on Friday when the siding company receptionist called to ask if the wires were important.
“Yeah, one in particular is especially important since it is broadband for the entire house.”
America is fast becoming a strange combination of ghetto culture and Arkansas.
Why wouldn’t they? Offenders suffer no consequences for transgressions, so long as they’re in preferred groups. Elected officials, appointees, police, and bureaucrats are very firmly members of a preferred group.
Mostly without good barbecue.
Remember Al Gore’s wife and 2liveCrew “oh me so horny” which led to Parental Content advisories on music??
Contrast with MeganTheeStalion “W.A.P” which I have mentioned here before… or any of her music for that matter.
Where is Tipper now? How many dollars where siphoned from the economy to her cronies and whatever org they set up, with less than zero effect on the “problem.”
Take any social issue, and you’ll find middle men making money while the issue gets worse, as they pretend to do something about it.
It’s lying on a grand scale, and feeds into the lying and doublethink that is pervading our culture.
We used to pride ourselves on plain dealing and plain speaking. Now even our kids know that they have to repeat the lies and never speak certain truths. Best not to even THINK certain things, lest you slip up under stress and have your life destroyed for wrongthink.
n
“The American experience is full of “let’s see what we can get away with.”
The epitome of which sits in the White House today on the shoulders of the Clintons and the Obamas, whose wealth has no other source but grifting and selling out the country.
so here’s a little quick programming challenge.
my bluehost pin must be
6 numbers
no more than 2 sequential – dunno if that means xy or yz or zy
no more than 2 repeating – dunno if that means 11 or 1xz1
for the purposes of the exercise, just assume sequential is ascending, and repeating is adjacent.
Problem –
determine by how much the stupid rules reduce the solution space for someone brute forcing the pin ie. how many potential pins, out of 999999 are thrown away.
n
and out of curiosity, how do you approach it? iterative loops? because if you increment by 1 you automatically get sequentials in a repeating pattern…
Generate a table then check each entry? and then generate a lookup table for valid submissions? FWIW, they seemed to check as I entered it, as I got the requirement text changing from red to green when I met each requirement. I didn’t think to check for asc/dec or adjacent while I was picking my pin…
n
A quick look manually says you lose 200K just with those rules on the first two digits, another 100K minimum by adding a third, (without considering descending- which doubles it to 400 and 500K).
So just on a first look, you reduce your answer space by half… and it only gets smaller from there.
n
added- I think they are trying to rule out phone numbers, zip codes, and 4 digit pin re-use, but in addition to reducing the apparent solution space, they also force me to write it down, since I can’t use a pin I am familiar with.
Blizzard strands hundreds on California’s Donner Pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NDR6LWCWc
I think I know how this one turns out.
Sequels are rarely as good as the first ones.
Also, the Colorado bubble heads did not remember that the constitution states (…assumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt….) which also does not exclude “insurrection”.
@JimB: Saw your comment including Monoprice as a hardware source. I really appreciated buying items from them in the past. However, when I recently wanted to make a purchase, I saw that they were shut down and out of business. I was very unhappy to see that.
I use 1Password to generate PWs. You can vary the length, alphanumeric, special characters, and generate “pass phrases”. When I hit a weird password site, usually goobermint, I generate a password as close to their paraments, paste it in a text app, try it on the site, and modify it manually until it works. A lot of sites limit the type of special characters, so I’m not even gonna try to program something.
We all knew that the climate crisis is a complete and utter hoax, but now the wheels may be coming off.
‘Very Bizarre’: Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/very-bizarre-scientists-expose-major-problems-climate-change-data
@CowboyStu
Maybe check the link you used? This seems to be active.
https://www.monoprice.com/
i think arbitrary limits and requirements for passwords are counterproductive. I’m not the only one, as I’ve posted links to current recommended best practice before.
I’m sure the pinheads who decided on the restrictions for pin numbers at bluehost didn’t even consider how many would be rejected, down from 1 million possible choices to half that or less…
Their actual password scheme is funkier, requiring a higher minimum number of characters than any of my other sites, breaking my own mental scheme for site passwords and meaning I have to write it down…. but not on a sticky note stuck to the monitor. 🙂
n
And don’t even get me started on companies that use the exact same language when referring to different accounts. Like MS, gaming, xbox, and xbox live. They are all “your MS account” but all do different and inter-related things.
Or gravitar vs their parent vs wordpress.com and wordpress.org and wordpress accounts….
I’m in a kafka loop with gravitar… can’t access my account because I can’t access an account.
n
@MrAtoz, maybe I should have said “thought problem challenge.” I just looked to me like something that you’d have to write a program to figure out. At second glance, there is probably a pattern and recursion that would allow a manual approach too.
My main point being that their rules restricted far more than they probably realized and made it much easier to guess pins than it should be.
In their case, the pin is only used for live interaction, so an automated attack isn’t practical. And a 6 digit pin is un-needed, especially with the added complication of their requirements.
It’s programmers being pinheaded.
n
Sounds like quite the trial.
@Nick: Ok, stupid little brute force program. As you described it, the restrictions aren’t really too awful. You still have 933699 of the original 1000000 possibilities. That’s prohibiting ascending sequences of length 2 or more, and immediate repetitions of length 2 or more. So 124467 is ok. I’m sure they are trying to prohibit 111111 and 123456 as PIN codes.
Almost certainly not the programmers, per se. It’s probably the security team, generally tech wanna-bes who couldn’t make it through a CS/SE degree or who couldn’t cut it as a working programmer. (Based on my experience, anyway.) Or else it came from a manager being clever and over-specifying what the developers are supposed to do. There’s a very high chance that the actual programmers are Indian, marginally competent at their jobs, unwilling to do anything they’re not specifically told to do, and unwilling to question even ridiculous instructions, at least not to the manager’s face. (Again, based on my experience.)
OTOH there’s a picnic area there now.
BYOLP: Bring Your Own Long Pig.
@brad, I think it’s more than that.
you lose any number that starts with 012, 123, 234, 345, etc, which wipes out ranges of 10k at a time, and the same for the descending sequences. ANY number that starts with a double loses a whole power of ten when it makes a triple in any number place, …
I may have gotten a power of ten wrong somewhere, but it seems like it would leave way fewer than 9xx,xxx left…
n
Has anyone measured the Donner Pass picnic area barbecue pit? Is it properly sized for an adult human thigh? Asking for a friend.
Given that the last regular episode of South Park predated the Mulvaney/Bud Light flap, that’s not surprising. And the two “specials” that followed were months after the boycott started.
One of the specials was a general slam of social media influencers, though.
Thanks Gavin! I saw this link where it says the physical store is now closed. I didn’t realize that online purchases were not affected. I will buy there online again and I never went to the physical store anyway.
https://www.google.com/search?q=monoprice+rancho+cucamonga&rlz=1C1AVFC_enUS998US998&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQkyMTM3ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Counting her divorce settlement/hush money on some Caribbean island.
No. “South Park” has the capability to go from concept to screen in less than a week, which they have demonstrated multiple times. The only restriction on the “specials” is the contract with Comedy Central.
Look into Dylan Mulvaney’s resume. The answer to why “South Park” doesn’t touch … her … is there.
Dig a pit for a Cuban style long pig roast.
Cue the old Dennis Miller material consisting of variations of “sommelier at the Donner Party” theme mixed with other obscure cultural references.
In a past life, I was sommelier at the Donner Party …
Did the sommelier at the Donner Party serve a fine Chianti?
…
Adam Sandler has made a science fiction movie for Netflix, “Spaceman”, watching it now.
Meh. I did not understand the movie or it did not make sense.
It is getting panned online. I guess it is more of a midlife crisis movie with a touch of the macabre.
“Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/03/supreme-court-rules-states-cannot-remove-trump-from-ballot-for-insurrection/
“The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices held that only Congress – and not the states – can enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was enacted in the wake of the Civil War to disqualify individuals from holding office who had previously served in the federal or state government before the war but then supported the Confederacy, against candidates for federal offices.”
“All nine justices agreed that Colorado cannot remove Trump from the ballot. But four justices – Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a separate opinion and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in a joint opinion – argued that their colleagues should have stopped there and not decided anything more.”
America is fast becoming a strange combination of ghetto culture and Arkansas.
We, the USA, are converting from a high trust society to a low trust society. This is just another symptom.
BTW, my HEB is now playing 1990s hip hop on the loudspeaker system. I am not a fan. But most of the workers are Amish.
Dylan Mulvaney’s resume. The answer to why “South Park” doesn’t touch … her … is there.
–I’m not sure what’s on it, but I was thinking earlier today that he looks like a real life version of a south park character. Something about the art style…
n
You have a friend? 🙂
I just received my router for testing. I really don’t want to disable my mesh network so I connected the test router to a port on my production router. Seems to work because the IP subnet on my main router is 192.168.50.1, the test router is 192.168.1.1. So no conflict in the IP address range.
Go to the Business Center and ask to speak to the MIC. Wait, that’s a waste of time. Better, around 10 AM and ask for the Unit Director, aka Big Boss of the store and complain to him. That might work but doubtful.
Send e-mail to San Antonio complaining about the music.
Hey, they sometimes pay attention to e-mails. …. I got chewed out (like we gonna fire your ass) for being rude to some woman that complained via e-mail. I read her e-mail, it was a wall of text, and said “Well, I run a few e-mail lists and this woman is drunk on wine and I never did what she says. Sure, I can be a jerk.”
So, blah blah blah from my dumb female manager and finally, “Hey, I was off that day. Besides that, I get off work at 2pm so I sure wasn’t there at 7pm. I didn’t do it. Find another reason to fire my ass.” Yeah, bitch escalated.
Had the same conversation with the Unit Director and he was was just shaking his head. That was the end of it.
There’s so much stupid out there. It hurts.
My HEB put up a big sign about giving preference to hispanic farmers. Oops. That’s some racist shte right there… sign was down in a day or two. They probably still do it, but at least they’re not bragging about it.
Someone complained.
n
I forget how to talk to the UniFi wi-fi thing. So, I can’t see what kind of network speed it has. Shrug. Don’t really care, the Roku steams just fine.
The Nanobeams are another thing. One is connected at 1000 and the other is at 100.
Moa says it’s connected at 1000 and Emu says it’s connected at 100. So that ~600 speed ain’t gonna get here.
So. I have at least two “not great wires”. One between Emu and switch and another from a Nanobeam to switch.
Yeah, I’ll get this sorted. I’m having fun.
Adam Sandler had his midlife crisis/Jerry Lewis “King of Comedy” flick with “Funny People”.
Geesh, Sandler is only two years older than I am.
Film comedy is dead. Can’t Sandler enjoy an early retirement and consider behind the scenes work like Mel Brooks in the 80s?
Brooksfilms delivered “The Elephant Man”, “My Favorite Year” starring Peter O’Toole, and David Cronenberg’s “The Fly” among others within a six year span.
“World War Z” should have been a triumph for Brooksfilms, but the father probably told the son — who is my age — to take a big check and worry about the art later.
UPDATE: Ok, so maybe the track record of Happy Madison Productions isn’t so hot.
Our HEB was heavy on Sting for a while, particularly “Soul Cages”, a very dark ablum which the artist made after his parents died.
The bouciest song on the album is about giving his father a Viking funeral.
Lynn:
The explanation given, later on, was that there was no court that had standing to take up the issue; only the CONGRESS could do that. And they haven’t done so. In fact, NO congress since 1870 has ever done so, even in the case of former Confederates running for state offices. Which was part of the reason why the ruling was 9-0.
I’m proud to call SteveF a friend, even though we’ve never met in person.
Having said that, the 1700 miles distance might be a good thing for both of us.
Pixels was a lot of fun.
n
>> I started going to the gym 3 times a week back in October, and I’ve kept with it.
It’s amazing how much time that takes away from my life.
You’re not accounting for all the time spent mentally cataloging what passes for female workout attire these days. 🙂
>> Woke in the evening feeling much better.
@nick, perhaps “Awakened” would have been a better choice…
>> Redmond wants everyone living on Teams. Big companies in the US like Teams over Zoom and Slack because they maintain ownership of the data for use by HR when mining for grounds to fire people.
Everyone has done something on their corporate drone laptop which could be grounds for firing.
Always stop screen-sharing before you say something about somebody who is still in the meeting. I did it once and fortunately it really wasn’t too negative a comment and I got by with just an apology.
Intense pressure came down from the top of the company today to start using an AI code “assistant” in our IDE of choice.
Of course, I don’t use an IDE generally, but I downloaded VS Code and put it on my laptop along with the “assistant” so that my name was removed from the naughty list for not having any interaction with the AI.
Intense pressure came down from the top of the company today to start using an AI code “assistant” in our IDE of choice.
Of course, I don’t use an IDE generally, but I downloaded VS Code and put it on my laptop along with the “assistant” so that my name was removed from the naughty list for not having any interaction with the AI.
Stupid on a stick.
Hey “Doc” Jill, maybe getting an early start on spring cleaning would be a good idea?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1jjbxe
I went to an Active Shooter Training tonight put on by a Harris County (Houston) constable in Katy, Texas. Katy is 20 miles north of me with a million cars between us. The session lasted a little over two hours and about 50 people showed up. The church auditorium was about 500 seats with a great big screen for his talking points.
Was very good. Very very good. A lot of things to think about. At minimum, if you barricade a door, wait behind the door for the shooter to engage them at arms length. Otherwise, you are just in a shooting range with no gun.
The most interesting thing is that he said that he used to tell people to not go back in the place with the active shooter. Now he says it is a gray area. And, he says be careful not to become active shooter #2 when the authorities arrive in 14 minutes (average) from the first call to 911.
“Biden Regime Abandons Israel: Kamala Harris Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza for At Least 6 Weeks But Does Not Demand the Release of the Hostage Jews, including American Jews (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/democrats-bow-mob-kamala-harris-calls-immediate-ceasefire/
After all, Kamala needs to time to rearm the Gaza insurgents.
“Stupid on a stick.”
Sphincter-locked.
“After all, Kamala needs to time to rearm the Gaza insurgents.”
And send in a UN team to help Hamas count the hostages that are still alive.
“Electric cars release MORE toxic emissions than gas-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment, resurfaced study warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13155147/ev-pollution-worse-exhaust-emissions-study.html
“EVs weigh 30 percent more than gas cars, causing tires to wear out faster”
“The tire tread releases toxic particles 400 times greater than exhaust emissions”
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Tires are modern engineering marvels, having been made out of plastic (natural gas) and carbon black (under combusted natural gas = soot) for 80+ years now.
And where can I find future such events? The constable’s website is promising, but when I drill down I get an “under construction” webpage.
Adam Sandler has made a science fiction movie for Netflix, “Spaceman”, watching it now.
Meh. I did not understand the movie or it did not make sense.
It is getting panned online. I guess it is more of a midlife crisis movie with a touch of the macabre.
OK, there was one funny part. The alien creature kept on calling Adam Sandler “Skinny Human”.
BTW, the movie is based on a Czechoslovakian science fiction book, “Spaceman of Bohemia” by Jaroslav Kalfar.
https://www.amazon.com/Spaceman-Bohemia-Jaroslav-Kalfar/dp/0316273430?tag=ttgnet-20
Active Shooter Training
And where can I find future such events? The constable’s website is promising, but when I drill down I get an “under construction” webpage.
Sorry dude, I figured that Nick told you. Nick send me an email last Friday.
It was done by the public affairs officer ??? of Harris County Constable, Precinct 5. He said that he does the training several times a year since he is trying to reduce the number of people shot and killed by active shooters.
https://constablepct5.com/
“Michael Moore Says Israel Should Stop Fighting Hamas As White Christians Are the Real Enemy”
https://redstate.com/benkew/2024/03/04/michael-moore-israel-should-stop-fighting-hamas-as-white-christians-are-real-enemy-n2170925
I thought Michael Moore was dead.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
X Users Didn’t Like a Paper’s Tone and Findings, So They Got It Rejected
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/03/x-users-didnt-like-a-papers-tone-and-findings-so-they-got-it-rejected/
Next Up:
“Pi Should Be 3 But Whites Make Math 2 Hard”
“I thought Michael Moore was dead.”
Necrotic mound of flesh re-animated by aliens.
I figured that Nick told you.
– dang it, I should have put it up here, ECH lives near there too, iirc. Just forgot.
Roy Guinn is a pretty good presenter and teacher. We had some great exchanges.
n
Just finished watching Red Dawn with the kids.
The pace is a bit slow by modern standards, and they didn’t understand the cold war commie stuff, but it’s still a compelling movie.
No grrrl boss. No super strong fighting. Even the bad guy, the Cuban commander, has a story arc and comes to reject what he’s doing. Love without it being a love story. Filios as well as eros.
Patrick Swazye, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, Alan Dean Stanton… great players in an ensemble movie.
Wag the Dog and Dave in the queue.
n
I’ve been poking at my hobby website all day off and on. Thought I’d give image galleries a go, since a lot of the existing content that the old timers want available is old pix…
I would have thought file management and folders were pretty mature concepts, but no. Wordpress has ONE folder for all uploaded media. 100 pix, or 10000, they all live in one folder. Can’t sort by size or date either. Well, there are plugins for that. Hundreds of them. The first one was awkward, but the second one has been working so far.
You’d think making galleries would be a common thing. ONE native gallery in WP. Yep, there are plugins for that. Hundreds. I tried several. Have a demo page with the one that seems ok. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either. Everyone wants to be too damn artsy. So they all look similar, and the design dominates instead of the images. Showoff designers mixed with programmers who know better than you. THAT’S a winning combination. /sarc
Arrggg. Pullin’ my hair out, I be.
n
There was some reason I didn’t put the Active Shooter class up generally, but I can’t remember now.
n
Nathan Wade’s Former Law Partner Privately Made Statements That ‘Directly’ Contradicted His Testimony, Witness Claims
https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/04/nathan-wades-law-partner-terrence-bradley-testimony-contradicts-witness-claims/
Why GA Judge Won’t Disqualify Fani Willis
https://spectator.org/why-ga-judge-wont-disqualify-fani-willis/
McAfee has the Georgia State Bar and the Georgia Assembly already investigating, and if he ignores the overwhelming evidence that Wade, Willis, and Bradley have not only committed perjury, but have engaged in a conspiracy to do so, chances are he won’t survive as a judge.
It’s “unprecedented” that the Fulton County DA’s office should be considered a “global laughingstock”. If Fulton County in the form of Judge McAfee chooses not to start cleaning up the mess, then the GSB and GA may decide to move with “unprecedented” swiftness. Bradley in particular is in deep do-do and if there is a way to offer him immunity for testimony in the face of more evidence of perjury seemingly coming to light every few days, he might well take it.
>> Adam Sandler has made a science fiction movie for Netflix, “Spaceman”, watching it now.
@lynn, have you seen “The Travelers,” also on Netflix. Time travel sci-fi. Three twelve-episode seasons.
“I can’t remember now. ”
Memory is the second thing to go…
Hah, almost got me.
n
tricksy
I’ve never had any such mistake but my team members have. One time the guy who’d been insulted laughed it off, thinking it was a joke. The other time, I had to scramble to do damage control. Reason #200 that I didn’t like being a manager.
Sometimes this is just some whim by a person not qualified for the position he’s in. (Or she, more likely than not.) But sometimes there’s a hidden motivation behind the senseless order. Does the company want to help train the code assist AIs with your input? Collect metrics on increased – allegedly increased – productivity in order to reduce headcount next year?
They can be convenient but generally aren’t worth the aggravation, in my view. Any increase in productivity is likely to be offset by the time wasted in fiddling with the code color settings or getting an older version of a plugin installed because the current version has a bug.
In my case, I use Emacs for most of my coding because I regularly program in half a dozen languages and less often in half a dozen more. Rather than fumble with the quirks of three IDEs, I stick with reliable ol’ Emacs.
Back to the workplace, the real problem is the developers who can’t write anything beyond Hello, World without the IDE prompting them for packages to include, giving hints for the parameters needed in a function call, and so on. And asking them to build an executable or a library other than by right-clicking in the project explorer? Are you kidding?
What a concept!
Has anyone studied the relative effectiveness of
Lot of defensive gun usage, just not a lot of reporting….
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oh, The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane is on the list. I think the role is Robin Williams at his absolute best… and Lane is crazy funny.
n
Training people in how to behave if there’s an active shooter nearby
– note that it’s the Constable’s office doing the training. They are directly employed by the people they serve, and they still remember that. HPD’s version emphasized the Run and Hide aspects, and didn’t address armed response at all.
n
@lynn, have you seen “The Travelers,” also on Netflix. Time travel sci-fi. Three twelve-episode seasons.
I have watched Travelers on Netflix three times now. Most awesome scifi series there is. Even beats Star Trek. Freaking amazing.
I keep on hoping for a fourth season but it has been too long now.
The best episode is the one where the computer keeps on rebooting the time machine and sending them back to the parachuters.
Training people in how to behave if there’s an active shooter nearby
– note that it’s the Constable’s office doing the training. They are directly employed by the people they serve, and they still remember that. HPD’s version emphasized the Run and Hide aspects, and didn’t address armed response at all.
He also emphasized blocking the door with bodies along the floor, heels to shoulders four deep, kept all of the people in one of the classrooms at Virginia Tech from getting shot.
>> Why GA Judge Won’t Disqualify Fani Willis
So if he rules to not to disqualify her, can the Defense (Trump) appeal that decision immediately or only after he’s found guilty?
>> I think the role is Robin Williams at his absolute best… and Lane is crazy funny.
Such a tragic loss of an amazing talent.
I got the same number as Brad, 933699, working with the assumptions of three matching numbers had to be adjacent and sequentials were only ascending. Note that numbers starting with 012, 123, etc only eliminate 1k at a time.
Thanks for checking Jeff, seems like it would be 10K at a time, but I was a bit scattered this morning.
Hope it provided some interesting thought.
It’s not as big a reduction in the solution space as I thought, but it’s still silly, in my opinion. And it breaks my personal pin generator (in mah brains). No one is going to brute force even a three digit pin in a call with phone support, so 6 doesn’t add any security, again IMHO.
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And some Rafi in Ecuador is trying to break the security in my software tonight. I get so tired of these people, they make it past the obvious traps and then start crashing all over the place in the hidden traps. He has not even made it out of the user interface program into the calculation engine executable yet.
“Nah, I just string wires on the side of my house for decoration”
Hey, at least they called!
It absolutely is silly. Security theater. Like the new password restrictions at our school: I have finally given up trying to create a password I remember, especially since they still require regular password changes, and the rules about CAPS, digits, special characters keep changing. I now let the KeepassXC deal with it. Makes logging in a bit more of a pain, but I get less grumpy. Meanwhile, I don’t want to know how many people have their passwords written on post-its.
Speaking of KeepassXC, I just discovered that it can also store SSH keys and tie itself into the SSH service. It always bothered me, having my SSH keys sitting around in a directory, and now I don’t have to.
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Spring semester is my “easy” semester. So why do I feel like I have more balls in the air than I can count?
Kickoff for about a dozen student projects. Revising course content for a course I’m not even teaching this year – that was unexpected, but the guy who should have done it just left the school. Completely re-doing the Android development course I teach at the local trade school, because last year I went **way** too fast. Meanwhile, a neighbor is in the hospital, so I’m taking care of his house. Etc.
Hey, at least I can grouse about it here 🙂
Colleagues of mine giving the “run, hide, fight” talk pointed out the value of having a simple hardwood wedge on hand in one’s office or classroom (or hotel room). If the door can’t be locked, it can at least be wedged shut. In a pinch, a stapler or a hole punch can function as a wedge, assuming one doesn’t have four people to hand to make a human barrier.
@nick – re images in WP
Images (uploaded files) are stored via the media settings. You don’t reference them by file name or location, but through the admin, media screen. They are stored in the uploads folder by ‘year/month’ folder according to the date you upload. But you add them via the Media tab in admin.
As for slide shows – I like the ‘Smart Slider 3’ plugin. Works well, multiple slide shows. Lots of tutorials on the wpbeginner.com site about media and slide shows.