Cool and clear. After a night of storming and rain. Temps dropped 10F between when I got home and midnight, with the rain starting right around midnight. The front is supposed to move through though, and leave a gorgeous Saturday behind. We’ll see, is about all I can say so far.
Did my pickups and none of my errands yesterday. Forgot about two of them and ran out of time. I’ll be trying to get them in before I blow town today. I need to pick up some liquid slab sealer/vapor barrier. I plan to just use the same stuff we used under our hardwood here in the house. It wasn’t cheap but it was easy to install and I’m familiar with it. I already picked up a structural crack repair epoxy. Might be overkill, but where I did it here we haven’t had issues. Where I didn’t, we’ve had moisture under the floor. Store opens at 10am and is a mile from my house, on the way toward the BOL.
That is the big goal for this weekend- get the middle bedroom floor sealed, so my wife can put the floor back next weekend.
Wife and kids are at Girl Scout camp this weekend, so I hope the weather clears. I can work indoors if it’s raining at the lake. I don’t want to drive up in the rain, or have the stuff in the back of the pickup truck get wet, so I REALLY hope it’s clear later.
If I can’t work on the floor, I’ll do something else. And on the way up, I pick up the new freezer. Getting that up there is a secondary goal all by itself.
I’ll have the dog with me this weekend, so that should be interesting. We’ll see how he behaves without his girl along, and if I can keep him off the floor goo.
Exciting times ahead.
Stack some stuff, you know you wanna.
n
Currently 57F and saturated as I pry my girls from their beds. They need to head out to make the start of the day’s activities at camp. Staying here for the play and after party last night means a very early start to meet the other girls who went down yesterday.
You pays your money and you takes your chances.
n
The backup camera mandate in the US has resulted in the hardware being durable and cheap. Plus optical is mostly algorithms, and software guys think they can solve any problem if they throw enough code at it. The CPUs always get faster, right?
Across all his businesses, the common theme is that Tony sells dreams, not actual functionality,. Anyone buying a Tesla now, counting on the self driving feature being perfected and delivered through a software-only upgrade during the realistic 8-10 year lifespan of the car is delusional. Lawsuits are just getting cranked up.
It won’t matter in a couple of years whether Tesla ever delivers self driving capability. When the US CAFE goes to 54 MPG, Ford and whatever is left of GM and Chrysler will have to buy carbon credits from Musk to keep selling real world vehicles, and that’s why TSLA has a PE in the 60s (formerly 90s).
Varying stories are floating around that some Twitter stock option grants were about to vest on Friday.
OTOH, that’s pretty typical US IT management thinking. Under 40 and with the right Hot Skillz on the resume, the fired people will have new jobs within 24 hours. No loyalty exists in either direction anymore.
I imagine that the median age of the retained employee group skews older. Management at the tolling company hated the presence of Skippy on the payroll from Day One, but I got sh*t done and dug out my own answers.
I’m not a regular Rogan viewer, but this quote is all over the Internet this weekend.
“I think the red wave that’s coming is gonna be like the elevator doors opening up in ‘The Shining’.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNX0no4aWI
Real-life coding test with one exam question: Can you pull your weight working under the clock?
Again?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/04/starliner_launch_delay/
Regardless of production figures, Ford sold ~ 30,000 Mach-E Mustang’s from the beginning of the year through the end of October. Sales seemed to trickle down to 2021 monthly levels after May – gee, I wonder why.
Better than the Hummer, but still not enough to compensate for the F150 in the CAFE calculations. Tony will still get a check.
Lit the pellet stove for the first time this morning.
More of a test than need, it’s only in the low 40s outside and 60 inside.
I am reminded that I need to buy a new auger.
Sooner or later a state is going to determine the annual license fees for vehicles on something other than initial purchase price. The goobermint would prefer it be mileage so they can be up our backsides and track where we drive.
I’ve proposed a PIP Index (Pain in Posterior)–a measure of how much of a pain in the backside a vehicle is to others on the road. Sum of three values: 1) loudness; 2) size; 3) opacity. The louder it it, the bigger it is, and the harder it is to see past it, the more it costs to drive.
Each scale is non-linear, so the Harley rider whose precious sounds like Chili Night at the Gay Farmers Alliance pays as much as a quiet Rammer 3500 with dualies that takes up darn near two lanes.
And yeah, do license the EV’s based on mileage.
This lawsuit was inevitable. So much for the code-free development future.
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
@EdH
5P’s (6th Optional)
Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance
Best to test before you need it, and get the parts ordered, if you can.
About ten years ago I looked for a basic part for a U.S. Stove Company wood burner. “Dealers” in the area were just box openers. Had to figure a Plan B. Still liked the stove well enough that the same brand replaced it when the time came.
Virginia has a property tax on vehicles based on a variety of factors, and WA State used to have onerous tag fees based on the age and class of the vehicle IIRC.
I found it ironic during our sentence -er- tenure there that the most hated and harassed political figure in WA State seemed the guy who masterminded the tag free reduction to (at the time) ~$70.
Oregon had a plan in the works to surcharge vehicles more than 20 years old, but that may have been put on the back burner until after the election. The term-limited unelected* incumbent in OR is so unpopular that the state may elect a *Republican* Governor for the first time in 42 years.
(BTW, Oregon is home to the hotel seen in the beginning of the film version of “The Shining”. Dunno if the elevator doors inside are the same.)
What’s coming which will be new, as I’ve posted about before, is tolling of surface streets as state and local governments sell off the roads to private interests in return for a cut of the profits as VA has already done and MD is implementing now on the express lanes of the freeways around DC.
* I don’t care if she won the special election and re-election. Kate Brown will always be the unelected Governor of Oregon to me.
@Greg
The disconnect to the actuality would have been a lot less if Sweaty Billy had been thrown in jail after lying to the court about the indivisibility of IE from the OS.
Microsoft didn’t win the anti trust case. The Feds stopped persuing it after “Shrub” was sworn in, much like the anti-trust problems IBM had went away when Reagan took office 20 years earlier.
I’ve always believed that Microsoft 2.0, based in Issaquah, split from the rest of the company and focused on the OS and development languages would have been a much more dangerous company than what Redmond has morphed into as of late.
Since copilot tends to regurgitate whole pieces of other people’s code, MS should lose. I have code on Githib, and I don’t recall giving MS the right to sell it.
Also: anyone who trusts whatever Copilot spits out must be desperate. You have no idea of the quality. Does it have bugs? Security holes? What happens if it is a direct copy of copyrighted code, and you get caught using it.
IIRC, goobermint hired Dershowitz to work the case against MS. Then case was on recess after the election while Dershowitz was filing lawsuits in Florida to help Al Gore steal the election. The Florida Supreme Court ruled against Gore, stopping the steal and Shrub fired Dershowitz and cancelled the suit against MS.
>> “I think the red wave that’s coming is gonna be like the elevator doors opening up in ‘The Shining’.”
To be followed by an encore escalator ride in a certain 5th Avenue building?
Re: Pellet Stove.
I actually had a line on a free replacement unit this summer, but in the end the guy didn’t really want to part with it, so it is back to a new part.
Currently it is just noisy once per revolution (1rpm), not a functionality issue, probably a bit of ash and a gall spot on the upper bearing. But I do mean to address it.
The cool kids all trust whatever comes out of pip (Python) or npm (Node). Hot Skillz!
The Feds hired David Boies to go after Microsoft. Boies won the case and the appeal, but the appeals court ordered the complex relief – splitting Microsoft – back to the trial court for further detail work. Meanwhile, the clock ran out on the Clinton Administration before the court could reconsider the case, and the Justice Department under Bush 43 settled with Redmond.
After former US Attorney in Miami Kendall Coffey botched the Bush V. Gore case in Tallahassee Circuit Court in front of Democrat Judge Sanders Sauls, Boies took the case to the Supreme Court, squaring off against Ted Olson.
So, pulled out a step stool and looked at the ceiling fan.
It isn’t a Hunter, it’s a Regency “Marquise” from the 80s, and there are bearings kits on eBay, for $20, so I will try that before replacing.
Because you can’t really get 80s era faux antique bronze smoked glass fittings for your house any more.
Now where did I put that fondue pot?
The cool Python kids use conda, not pip, you antediluvian hack.
Rolled up in 12′ of shag carpet to protect it.
I was searching the web for instructions on replacing a lawn rake handle, and came across ads on the Zon for carpet rakes. I remember those. I was surprised it’s still a thing.
Further research shows the new version is for normal carpet, to loosen dirt/pet hair before vacuuming. I remember the ones from the shag carpet days, to fluff up your carpet.
I finally got around to using Winaero Tweeker. Dang thing can do a lot.
I found the setting for scroll bar width. Then somehow i stumbled into Win11’s Accessibility puree (add the accent mark yourself) and found “don’t hide scroll bars”. I’d tell you the exact wording but I can’t find the setting again.
The GUI for tweaking colors and scroll bar and button sizes and icon spacing/sizes is totally screwed up. It’s like being ten years old again and going to the Haunted House at Halloween and getting all turned around with the weird shaped mirrors and a-holes jumping randomly jumping out to yell “boo!”. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for any of the changes…. to things we have done since the days of Windows 2 and Windows 3.11, for sure.
Anyway. I haven’t found yet the setting to move the TaskBar to the top of the screen. Maybe tomorrow.
“Ballistic (The Palladium Wars)” by Marko Kloos
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1542090075?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number two of a three book military science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by 47North in 2020. I am now reading book three in the series. I suspect that there will be more books in the series as there are eight books in his Frontlines series.
The Gretians lost the system wide war to the Alliance of the Gaia system several years ago. With a half million dead and trillions of ags expended, feelings still run high even though it has been almost two decades since the armistice. And the fifteen percent of Gretia GDP being paid as war reparations and the Alliance occupation of Gretia are breeding continual resentment against the Alliance.
Somebody is fomenting terrorist incidents on the ground in Gretia and in the Gaia system using piracy. And now nuclear weapons are involved. BTW, the series reminds me a lot of the time period on Earth between WWI and WWII.
The author has a website at:
https://www.markokloos.com/
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,653 reviews)
Ok. Perhaps running the vacuum more often should be a thing?
I installed a whole house vac system. All by myself. It’s not perfect, the long hose is a pain in the you know where, but all of the dust that escapes the filter goes outside.
Got tired of buying batteries for the Roombas and got tired of them getting stuck in strange places. The Oreck, yeah, I found its problem while cleaning it up and changing the beater bar belt before giving it away. With about 30 spare bags.
Crazy to have to dust the heck out of the house the day after vacuuming. The Oreck, if you have one, you know how the handle attaches to the motor. The same handle that the machine uses to blow the dirt into the bag. Yeah, that one. Three screws, just a hair loose. Locktite to the rescue.
“Alarm on Capitol Hill over Saudi investment in Twitter”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/saudi-twitter-investment-us-national-security-risk
“Possible access to users’ data could pose national security risk and could be used to target kingdom’s dissidents”
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Britain Missed a £260 Million Climate Finance Payment Deadline”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/04/britain-missed-a-260-million-climate-finance-payment-deadline/
Britain is broke. Bankrupt. Out of money.
Yet, Britain is not willing to frack their natural gas wells. How strange. And they just fired a Prime Minister who was set about to frack their wells.
In the same box as your bell bottom jeans?
I run my Shark Robot Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Empty the box on Saturday. Self cleaning version. I like Roborock better but it uses a bag, the Shark does not. The bin is half full every week with a little dirt and a lot of dog hair. The Roborock in the basement runs two days week, gets emptied every other week. No self emptying on that one, just a dust collector.
I have had good luck with both. I know the places they get stuck, only a couple, and not often. Roborock mapping is superior to the Shark and Roomba. In fact, Shark sucks, Roomba is just bad. The Roborock will tell you where it is on the map. Shark, nope.
The Saudis practice state level Internet censorship with extremely high end routers. Very sophisticated. My guess is that they’ve had signing keys to intercept Twitter SSL feeds for a while, probably handed over by the previous management in return for permission to operate in the kingdom. Pretty standard practice.
If your life depends on your crypto and you’re dealing with a state-level adversary, don’t depend on SSL.
Sam’s Club run today.
Passing by the clothing tables, I noticed that the winter apparel is extra heavy this year.
They must know something in Bentonville. Maybe the Cray systems get loaned out to the weather service.
Afterward was a Home Depot stop to pick up a ceiling fan order. Of course the morons in the warehouse dropped the box at some point and one end was crushed. That must have been loud since the shipping box was empty except for the retail box of the fan, no packing materials.
“Are you sure you don’t want to open it at home and try it?”
“I’m sure.”
Got groceries and car parts* this evening, first time leaving the yard in a week. Gas is up half a dollar per gallon. What happened while I was working 14-hour days?**
* A month and a half ago I rolled over a piece of road crap, probably construction debris, on the highway. It ripped apart my exhaust system. Took a while to get the replacement parts and then a while longer to get a nice day so I could put it all together. Worked great … for about three days. Then I was driving back from dropping off a kid last Saturday and I rolled over something which tore my exhaust system apart. I was pissed. Not much was lost, just the metal o-ring between the long pipe and the muffler, but I also needed bolts with bigger heads to hold that pipe on better. I already had a spare u-clamp to put the tailpipe back on the muffler.
** Something that was supposed to be easy and not too time-consuming turned out to be challenging and a total time sink. Vendor documentation was not exactly wrong but was severely lacking, plus the published API doesn’t provide a way to do a couple of necessary steps. The vendor’s tech people are of course non-responsive. I was very surprised a few months ago to learn that we pay the various vendors buckets of money for support.
This lawsuit was inevitable. So much for the code-free development future.
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
I don’t understand this.
Ha! Sounds like RSA circa 2000-2010. They tried to get me fired after I discovered that BSAFE was simply wrapping OpenSSL with new function names by the end of that decade. The Death Star paid them a seven figure sum so we could use that logo.
Of my recent experiences, Splunk rates right up there among the worst.
Copilot is a service provided by Microsoft to furnish blocks of code to developers in Visual Studio/VS Code to accomplish certain tasks on the fly, recognizing what the developer might be trying to accomplish and providing suggestions. It is similar to the autocomplete in Eclipse for various programming languages or XCode on the Mac but much more elaborate, doing more than simply populating a blank template for a function call as the developer types.
The questionable legality comes from mining the Github code base for example code and sanitizing it for the service. This lawsuit has been coming since Microsoft bought Github.
>> What’s coming which will be new, as I’ve posted about before, is tolling of surface streets as state and local governments sell off the roads to private interests in return for a cut of the profits as VA has already done and MD is implementing now on the express lanes of the freeways around DC.
There’s also congestion pricing planned for access to the lower half of Manhattan in NYFC. ‘Planned’ for “real soon now”… except for the lawsuits and the Mayor not able to walk and chew gum with rampant violent crime running out of control. My younger son is finally seriously considering leaving the state.
Today’s best Tweet about Liz Cheney:
Pooka Luck @MuchLuck
Replying to @catturd2 and @Liz_Cheney
tied with:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG
@Lynn
But they can feel good about their diversity while they freeze to death.
@SteveF
used to call it a donut gasket
“Propaganda Warfare”
https://areaocho.com/propaganda-warfare/
“Back in June, I wrote about the Biden administration establishing a Ministry of Truth to police anyone online that would distribute facts that the government finds objectionable. This is one of the reasons why my server isn’t in the US. Anyway, the idea isn’t dead. A leaked document from DHS (pdf Alert) details how the Feds are going to police wrongthink and limit what people have to say. The Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Homeland Security is endeavoring to stop “dangerous” ideas from spreading on the internet. They claim that they won’t be preventing free speech, but I don’t trust that any further than I do a promise from Obama that I can keep my doctor.”
“The Global War on Terror has effectively ended. Terror won, in case you didn’t know. The US got its ass kicked, and the Afghanistan airlift proved that to the world. Anyway, all of those Federal Employees have to find something else to do in order to mark time and fulfill budgets until they can retire, so the war on
freedominconvenient factsdisinformation is just the ticket.”I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Did my pickups and shopping and made it up here. Got the stuff unloaded. Put the new freezer in the garage but propped the door open and left it unplugged. No food to put in it atm.
Dog was great on the ride up. 5 hours in his crate without complaint. Lots of running around and yipping once here.
Lid fits on toilet in the master bath. Hooray, one task off the list. Got up here late so didn’t do much more than unpack and get settled. Chatted with the next door neighbor, who is making great progress with his remodel, and with my fisherman buddy. They got almost three inches of rain up here. There is more settling around my septic tank. I’ll be adding dirt to that tomorrow. Lots of high wind but the hail and tornadoes missed them last night. Lake is up slightly.
I’m set up for my fire and drink tonight. Almost full moon, so there won’t be a bunch of stars but it will be nice to have the fire. I moved the patio heater to the dock to keep me warm while I’m watching the fire go out. It’s chilly on the water.
It was sunny and clear by the time I got here.
n
@Nick
Dipped into YT and this popped up from Rick Beato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5l6gk_jtI
Sitting here tearing up watching a guy I don’t know, but am already learning to respect, pay tribute to a friend that he met through the power of the internet.
Thanks, man.
Could well be the correct name. “Metal o-ring” was descriptive rather than definitive.
We looked at that a year or two ago. It looked promising, based on claims of what it can do, but we decided it was more trouble than it was worth.
I was fired after dropping two F-bombs in a meeting following a disastrous demo of new camera technology for the congestion pricing project in New York. All of the surface streets in Manhattan below Central Park will be tolled eventually. My previous previous employer makes the only all optical ORT technology that works, no digging required.
Who knows whether they are still involved. The annual report indicates that they lost a major customer on the way to losing $180 million for the FY ended six months after my exit.
Splunk is expensive and twitchy. One of the quirks that floored our young’n’s at last year’s employer was the way it used signal driven IO for the TCP streams. Python works, but Node was No-go.
I did manage to feed it data at 640 Mbps on a 10 Gb Ethernet line with all of the Json overhead, both in terms of bandwidth and CPU cycles. The servers have the performance, and a friend who works for DTCC says their groups are into it big time.
My friend then asked how I pulled off the data transfer speeds. I told him I have reasonable consulting rates.
Ironically, working on transferring images in parallel from the new camera tech for the NYC project gave me the background in C/C++ libcurl to do the Splunk work. However, the bottleneck is not the network so even PyCurl turned out to be capable of very high speeds.
Or they read the Old Farmers Almanac:
“Winter will be colder than normal, with the coldest periods in early to mid-January and early to mid-February. Precipitation will be below average, but snowfall will be above average in the north, with the best chances for snow in mid- to late January and early February.”
I now have 23,000 lines of my Fortran code converted to C++ and compiling. I have not reached the second benchmarking stage but expect to get there next week. Only 677,000+ lines out of 700,000 lines of Fortran to go !
The biggest problem that I am having is converting Fortran character strings to C strings, the two are just very different.. And I/O.
You’re a better asset than I was. I got canned after one f-bomb and one cretin.
The Houston Astros just won the World Series against the Phillies.
Mattress Mack just breathed a sigh of relief! ‘course his vegas bet covers his bet with the customers who now get free furniture if they signed up for his “if the Astros win the series” deal…
Wonder if there will be looting and car burning in Houston. Somehow I think probably not.
n
52F and condensing out by the water. Nice fire, some good radio. Patio heater works great.
>> Wonder if there will be looting and car burning in Houston. Somehow I think probably not.
No, just in Philly… but then pretty much the same any Saturday night there.