Hot and humid. The summer continues. We had a nice Spring, with summer actually being fairly mild compared to a couple of recent years. We haven’t had the string of 100+ degree days that we had before. But the humidity is at saturation and it’s oppressive. You really can’t cool down at all, even sitting still will bake your brains after a while.
I spent the day pecking at things. I am trying to keep moving forward, but the lure of an un-scheduled day beckoned. And the heat was discouraging. I did the minimum to partly unload my truck and I re-did the tarp over the remainder of stuff in the bed. It was threatening to rain in the evening. Never did though.
Today I’ll probably do the same, little things to keep moving, but nothing major. It’s the doldrums. I am fighting the inertia. It doesn’t help that my neck has been hurting either, but that’s an excuse.
It’s hard to keep your motivation up sometimes. The best I can offer is keep doing something, even if it’s little things. They do add up over time.
And keep stacking.
nick
I am in favour of safe storage. However could one be against it as a responsible gub owner?
However, I am against rules on safe storage, because the only way those can be enforced is by someone coming into one’s private space to check. Those someones can have pure or impure motivations. They can be on a fishing trip or a revenge binge.
There are safe storage rules in Belgium, and they are enforced. They can be enforced because there is mandatory registration of gub owners. Registration is the door to confiscation.
Not long ago, a gub owner was fortunate enough to have the constitutional court rule in his favour that the inspection visits were not also carte blanche for the inspector to also do a “morality check” on his home.
Require a culture of safe storage. Do it by punishing people who store their gubs irresponsibly and whose gubs get into a child’s hands leading to a tragedy or an atrocity, or into the hands of opportunistic thieves and ending up on the black market or used in crimes. There are existing laws on the books sufficient for that.
Yes. Apparently my deceased mother-in-law is still on the voter roll and my wife could probably cast my MIL’s vote. My deceased aunt is still on the voter rolls and my wife could probably cast my aunt’s vote. People that over 120 years old are still on the voter rolls.
When I worked at Tau Beta Pi there was a process where we mailed everyone over 100 a letter to their last known address. If they responded we kept them on the rolls. If there was no response in 30 days the individual was marked as deceased. It was not difficult. If a small organization can do that, then surely the government with their vast resources could do the same.
It would not be difficult to have the local governments, surely at the state level, to match everyone against SS information. SS knows people are deceased as the funeral are required to inform SS. Surely that information could be passed down to the state government.
I think the states don’t want to purge voter rolls. It allows the nefarious political parties to cast many votes for their favorite candidate if the candidate is in danger of losing. A small margin could be easily affected by having votes of dead people being cast by others. There really is no excuse to NOT require a valid ID at the polling stations nationwide. TN requires ID, why don’t other states?
I have had my name marked as having voted. I showed up at the polling station and could not use the regular voting machine because the poll worker stated I had voted. There was a signature across my name that was not mine. I had to use a provisional ballot. I doubt that vote ever got counted as such votes are only counted when the election in any category is closer than the number of provisional ballots.
The poll workers do not really look at the ID. They just check the name. The photograph could be of a monkey and would still be accepted. I have had them look at my ID and never once look at my face, only matching my name to what is on the printed voter role.
Yes, the US system of voting is open to fraud. The system of checking names. The voting machines themselves where the code cannot be independently audited. The system of sending votes in electronically from each machine is not a secure process with independent oversight.
It is 79 F, very muggy, and clear as a bell. It is gonna be a hot one today. Just like yesterday, just like tomorrow.
OK, mystery solved, sort of. Further examination of the shipping notification on the App for FedEx shows the label being created. That is the notification that I got on my phone. However, the label creation date is June 12. That is over two months in the past. Something hiccuped in the FedEx system as I never ordered anything from Apple on, or around, June 12. Strange. I only checked orders for this year and no further back.
@ray, maybe they brought a crowdflare server back on line, and it did something in its queue? Or something like that??
Light overcast here , but the hot and humid is right…
remember that the MSM talking points are all about how T is foundering, distracted, old, confused, and going to lose to the kamel. It’s battlespace prep. the cheat has to have a fig leaf.
n
AI writing the infrastructure code at Fedex.
A lot of money and AI infrastructure are heading to Tennessee.
It was 94F int he shade an hour ago. So, yeah, hot.
n
Require a culture of safe storage. Do it by punishing people who store their gubs irresponsibly and whose gubs get into a child’s hands leading to a tragedy or an atrocity, or into the hands of opportunistic thieves and ending up on the black market or used in crimes. There are existing laws on the books sufficient for that.
Wait, are you advocating punishing people who guns were stolen by thieves ?
There is no storage of guns that are kept ready for defense.
I have been reading up on the Rust programming language. It does not appear to be a good candidate to me as a direct replacement for the C++ language as it does not have direct support for inheritance. Why not ? I have 168 classes in my Windows app that use inheritance extensively.
I do like the fact that all variables are constant unless declared to be mutable (variable) by the programmer. That should catch a lot of bugs.
The cameras I ordered arrived today. Crazy how fast that happened, and from NYC.
n
Rust is intended for system-level development, a replacement for C in projects like the Linux Kernel or GLibC.
Inheritance presents memory management challenges. Java allows one inheritance but many interfaces.
Rust still lacks a “killer app” to justify the investment of time and money which will be required to adequately develop a talent pool. Rewriting the GNU environment is pointless, and even a project like System76 COSMIC is really just reinventing the desktop wheel.
I was reading on The Market Ticker and someone said they don’t use mayonnaise. They use sour cream. Someone else said he uses sour cream when he makes blue cheese dressing, just add a bit of lemon juice for flavor.
Well. I have sour cream. I have eggs. I have an egg cooker. So I called the neighbor and asked if she wanted to “do Science” on a Sunday afternoon. She’ll be down the hill in a couple of hours.
Deviled Eggs with sour cream instead of mayo. Call it “Low Fat Deviled Eggs” for now. I can see adding a tablespoon of melted butter might work. Next time..
I’ll see how it goes, the eggs are cooling in a bowl of ice water.
If the experiment fails, the dogs will have Super Treats.
What? This isn’t from The Onion? He’s serious?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-covid-lab-leak-claim-100050448.html
BTW. I don’t think Linus Torvalds is thrilled about Rust being in the Kernel, but, at this point, I don’t think he believes he can win the argument with the Hot Skillz crowd who might be emboldened to try forking the Kernel if he didn’t allow the runtime integration.
“Dems Given Security Warning Ahead of DNC as 100,000 pro-Hamas Agitators are Set to Descend on Chicago, “Very Concerned””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/dems-given-security-warning-ahead-dnc-as-100000/
“The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is scheduled to take place next week from August 19-22, 2024 in Chicago.”
“However, the city is bracing for the chaos of up to 100,000 pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets and has instituted new courtroom procedures to streamline the process in the event of mass arrests.”
“It is also hoping to avoid the bad optics of the 1968 DNC convention that saw then-Mayor Richard J. Daley ring the convention site with barbed wire and ultimately call in the National Guard to quell the violence.”
This could be bad, real bad.
>>Looking back at the US, I don’t recall any similar process: If you move, you don’t have to tell any government office about it.
Don’t have to, but updating your address change with the USPS makes it easier to make sure your mail gets to your new address. Notifying them gets your new address added to their master database which makes changes available covering all of the mail classes.
Rust still lacks a “killer app” to justify the investment of time and money which will be required to adequately develop a talent pool. Rewriting the GNU environment is pointless, and even a project like System76 COSMIC is really just reinventing the desktop wheel.
Firefox is being rewritten in Rust in an effort to get some better memory management, apparently the memory and resource leakage in Firefox is amazing. I am not sure what amount, if any, has been done so far.
It’s been years now since I abandoned Firefox for Chrome, mostly due to memory issues causing freezes.
Funny, though, just how many tasks and how much memory Chrome consumes. Probably as bad now as FF used to be.
I haven’t had a problem with FF. Sure, Task Manager says it’s using a bit more than 3GB memory. So what? I have 32GB memory, it’s there to be used.
It’s been years now since I abandoned Firefox for Chrome, mostly due to memory issues causing freezes.
Funny, though, just how many tasks and how much memory Chrome consumes. Probably as bad now as FF used to be.
It was the Java scripts in the advertising killing Firefox. Once you killed those with the old uBlock Origin addon, Firefox ran just fine. The new uBlock did not kill those horrible Java scripts.
BTW. I don’t think Linus Torvalds is thrilled about Rust being in the Kernel, but, at this point, I don’t think he believes he can win the argument with the Hot Skillz crowd who might be emboldened to try forking the Kernel if he didn’t allow the runtime integration.
Then why is the Rust crowd now saying that Rust is a replacement for C++ ? I am seeing articles all over the place that Rust is better and faster than C++. “Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 3: Inheritance”
https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/oop-3-inheritance/
I imagine that government grants are at stake since this press release dropped.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/
“However, the city is bracing for the chaos of up to 100,000 pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets and has instituted new courtroom procedures to streamline the process in the event of mass arrests.”
“It is also hoping to avoid the bad optics of the 1968 DNC convention that saw then-Mayor Richard J. Daley ring the convention site with barbed wire and ultimately call in the National Guard to quell the violence.”
This could be bad, real bad.
You know, we really need an internship program with Hamas in Gaza. We could send 100,000 demonstrators XXXXXXXXXX young idiots to Gaza for a three month experience that would blow their minds.
Travel notes from a quick trip for college housing check-in this weekend:
– After being written off as having zero value by Warner recently, Sunday mornings on TBS is all “Friends” reruns, similar to every night on Nickelodeon, also recently written off by its corporate parent.
The rerun we saw this morning in the hotel breakfast area was the classic episode featuring the gang urinating on one Friend’s jellyfish sting. Yes, that is appropriate viewing for the kids in the room at 8 AM.
– All the Disney toys have vanished from Tar-jay except for a few “Star Wars” figures and Lego sets. Are they just skipping the middle step in the retail foodchain and sending the merchandise straight to Ollie’s from the factories?
— UHaul in New Braunfels was so desperate for trucks that we got a $50 discount on what was originally a $190 quote just for driving the truck another 10 miles south after unloading in San Marcos.
“Michelle Obama to address Democratic Convention on Tuesday”
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/18/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-night
“Former First Lady Michelle Obama will address the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, a Democratic source tells Axios.”
Um, could it be ?
Nah, no way.
– All the Disney toys have vanished from Tar-jay except for a few “Star Wars” figures and Lego sets. Are they just skipping the middle step in the retail foodchain and sending the merchandise straight to Ollie’s from the factories?
Do today’s kids even know what Star Wars is ?
The middle aged nerds XXXXX unmarried guys with no girlfriends have got to have thousands of “action figurines” in their original boxes already .
– Pilot is still a creepy place at night. Not as creepy as some Love’s I’ve stopped at, but it will take a while for the Gecko to start making significant changes.
– All the Disney toys have vanished from Tar-jay except for a few “Star Wars” figures and Lego sets. Are they just skipping the middle step in the retail foodchain and sending the merchandise straight to Ollie’s from the factories?
Wait, is Disney’s target crowd the LGBTQIXYZABC crowd now ?
If so, Disney is going to go broke.
the memory and resource leakage in Firefox is amazing.
– I occasionally look at the resource monitor and ffox especially with videos, has an outrageous number of memory faults.
n
Replaced two cams with new higher rez, better low light, and IR illuminated versions… Just standing in the shade sweat was rolling off me. It’s still 92F and the sun has been down for over an hour.
n
I have a Gina Carano as Cara Dune figure still in the packaging. She is going to Space Con in San Antonio in November for an autograph.
The woman who may yet bring down Disney.
Even if she doesn’t, the autographed figure will go on a shelf with my R2D2 cookie jar from 1977– the first and last “Star Wars” collectibles.
John Lasseter of Pixar has the same cookie jar. My mother bought one at a department store in Florida that Summer, and we actually used it to store cookies for 20 years.
I have five other “Star Wars” action figures still in the packaging, three of which were purchased as an adult in the late 90s.
The real prize of my collection, however, is the USS Defiant. That came out of the box as soon as I unwrapped it that Christmas.
I was 30.
Big Mike is coming.
I remember that night in 1980 when Uncle Ted spoke and the pressure on Carter started to release the delegates committed to him in the primaries.
Remember, Kamala does not have delegates committed to her by primary votes.
If there is a revolt about voting for Kamala, however, the firewall will be the Superdelegates, who will generally do what the Clintons want.
And the Clintons do not like sharing the spotlight with the Obamas even though Chicago is Hillary’s original hometown.
Got popcorn?
Word salad of the day…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13755911/Kamala-Harris-avoids-answering-economic-policy-cost-childcare-tax-housing-pennsylvania.html
This woman is scary.
the memory and resource leakage in Firefox is amazing.
– I occasionally look at the resource monitor and ffox especially with videos, has an outrageous number of memory faults.
n
That is the sign of a memory mapped file. Why read in parts of a video file when a memory manager will do it for you automagically ?
RCP has Harris by 1.4%.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Word salad of the day…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13755911/Kamala-Harris-avoids-answering-economic-policy-cost-childcare-tax-housing-pennsylvania.html
This woman is scary.
How in the world did the Harris / Walz campaign have all of these things so setup like busses with the new campaign logo on them ? I am simply amazed at how smooth their campaign is running.
Wag the Dog. There are surely crews of people out there doing those jobs, pulling that sort of thing together when needed, building contingencies …
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I have a Star Wars poster, signed by Darth Vader at a comic shop appearance in the Disney Shopping Village. I thought about getting it out and framing it just this week. I’ve been carrying it around since the 70s. I’ve got other stuff, the best is an iron on transfer book that was intended to be used to make T shirts, but I never used it; and a super 8 reel with a couple of quick scenes from the movie. It’s not super valuable, they must have sold a LOT of them. The movie is on my shelf, about 10 feet from me. Dunno where the poster is, nor the iron on book, but I’m certain I still have them.
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Time for bed, if I can resist the siren song of the Edge book 3…
n
I was watching one of my youtube treasure hunter channels this week and the lady was in a Goodwill in Vegas. She mostly picks glass and ceramic stuff, decor, smalls… but she always looks for original art too.
She looked at a framed and signed poster of Gina Carano, noted it was signed, but didn’t recognize her. I would have been shouting at the screen if I was more invested in modern crep Star Wars… I almost left a comment suggesting she go back and get it, and I never comment. I don’t think it’s worth much but it would be neat to pick up…
n
@Lynn: I haven’t used Rust, but younger son has used it quite a lot. Small things like variables being constant by default – that’s nice, and easy to understand. However, other aspects apparently require a *very* different way of thinking. Inheritance is one, because inheritance means that you can pass various object types (with potentially different attribute types) at run-time, but Rust requires definite types at compile-time. Apparently, there are also fun aspects of parameter passing, where the calling function no longer has control of parameters that it has handed to the function it called.
@Lynn: I haven’t used Rust, but younger son has used it quite a lot. Small things like variables being constant by default – that’s nice, and easy to understand. However, other aspects apparently require a *very* different way of thinking. Inheritance is one, because inheritance means that you can pass various object types (with potentially different attribute types) at run-time, but Rust requires definite types at compile-time. Apparently, there are also fun aspects of parameter passing, where the calling function no longer has control of parameters that it has handed to the function it called.
A language is a language is a language. I have written software in IBM 370 assembly, IBM PC Basic, Fortran 66 on 12 platforms, Fortran 77 on 7 platforms, Pascal, C on 5 platforms, AutoLisp, Smalltalk, C++, etc. Each language has its rules.
However, many people are advocating abandoning C++ for Rust. The problem is that Rust does not support inheritance, it supports traits. Rust did support inheritance at one point but they removed it.
https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/cpp-fix-problems/
I have an incredibly complex set of classes: just one is ObjPtr → DataGroup → CompreGroup. Each one of them has over 100 functions and a dozen instance variables built up by each class. Every one of of my classes is descended from ObjPtr which builds a base set of functions that can do many things. Duplicating this functionality in Rust sounds difficult. So converting apps from C++ to Rust is going to be difficult.
This is why Rust is so fast. It is just a variant of C. Traits are just a different version of typedef. The real difference between Rust and C is that variables are constant by default, a major change in the way things are done, a vast improvement IMHO.
@Lynn: Not having tried Rust myself, I can’t say. But it is supposed to be fast, and a lot more memory-safe than C or C++. Anyway, I thought most of your stuff was in Fortran? Or is there such a thing as Fortran++? I haven’t used Fortran since Fortran-77 (and, later, RatFor).