Another cool-ish Fall day is headed this way. I hope. Yesterday was actually pretty nice as long as I avoided the sun. In the shade, in the breeze, it was pleasant. Oh, it was sweaty, but much less so than recent days. I spent some time working in the garage, and it was ok.
I did sleep in and get a bit of a late start, and I was a bit overwhelmed when I finally got out and walked through some of the stuff that needs doing…
So I decided to just get started by removing a first layer, stuff for the scrap man. Unfortunately, that led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I did break down a pile of stuff that was in the driveway, and actually blocking the gate, but it was a VERY small change overall. I’d have been better off moving some big stuff around, and making big visible changes.
So that’s what is on today’s agenda. Yes, things need to got to the scrapyard. But things also need big moves and rearranging. The plus is that it will actually complete some things that have been in process for a while, and should make a visual improvement too. IF I get them done.
Which is still kinda up in the air.
Stack some stuff. Do yourself a favor, and stack it neatly the first time…
nick
911 is the stated reason I had to experiment with OpenBTS in a shielded room in my first pass at grad school.
I wouldn’t leave the jammer on all the time if I had one, just short bursts to resolve an annoyance in a restaurant or at a movie. Discreet.
The big problem would have been my wife wanting to borrow and use the jammer all the time at her job in Florida. The incompetent office manager kept the clinic in terrible space with paper thin walls and an ever-present smell of garbage to anyone who wasn’t “nose blind”.
Professional all the way.
Yikes, CNN is now calling the Humper “Potential President” rather than “Presidential Candidate”. I wonder how many pre-printed ballots CNN has stashed. The bias is showing.
@Ray – MeTV has a new contract with Kabletown (NBC/Universal) for “Emergency!” reruns.
In the past, the package has included the TV movies which wrapped the series, including the finale in which the guys surrender their paramedic licenses and reminisce (clip show).
Don’t worry, Gage and DeSoto were promoted to Captain.
The shame of it is that MeTV may have done a better job with the 50th anniversary than Cozi, Kabletown’s own ripoff of MeTV.
“Tampa region emerges as epicenter of Florida’s death toll from Helene”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA1rlsjh
“Throughout Treasure Island, a community of 6,500, nearly every house on the island appeared flooded on Friday.”
Well that sucks.
The Pinellas barrier islands have been poster children for the downside of nationalized flood insurance for over 50 years.
Crystal Beach too.
Private carriers haven’t touched anyone west of “Alternate” US 19 in Pinellas since the March ‘93 “No Name” storm. It isn’t as if anyone in that story wasn’t clear on the risks.
They all moved down there wanting that “Cheeseburger in Paradise”.
Thank you *Mississippi native* Jimmy Buffett. You ruined a nice place.
Between cr*p construction and insane zoning, most of the coastal communities of the Tampa Bay region have lived on borrowed time.
Y’all were talking about health insurance yesterday. I have a neighbor who is demonstrating how health costs explode towards the end of your life. He has Parkinson’s, which makes him unstable on his feet. A few months ago, he fell and broke his hip and pelvis. After treatment and many weeks of therapy, he recovered…just in time to fall and shatter his femur. Surgery, with many more weeks of therapy to come. After that, well, he clearly cannot live independently any longer, so some sort of care is likely in his future.
I feel for him. He’s a great guy, and this has got to be frustrating and painful. At the same time, it really does demonstrate the crazy costs that one racks up towards the end of one’s life.
What? I’m shocked. Shocked!
Based on what I’ve seen in code reviews from younger members of my group who use the tools, they aren’t reading the output of the AI with understanding before comitting the changes to our source tree.
The AI running on our internal repositories also seems really fond of regurgitating my code, and I don’t use the “assist” technology beyond the minimum.
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
The article isn’t touching on what I believe the companies are really going to do with the metrics from the AI providing the “assist”.
The tech is about firing people, and developers will not be spared.
When the time comes, I don’t do severance.
As with the jabs, we’ll see who rusts first.
“Starlink Hits 4 Million Users As Elon Musk Leads Space Race”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/starlink-hits-4-million-users-elon-musk-leads-space-race
“Merritt said, “SpaceX has announced that @Starlink now has ~4 million customers across 110 countries, up from 3 million in May, and 2.3 million in December 2023.’”