Cooler with promise of rain.
Yesterday was overcast and cool with occasional spatters of rain, but overall a nice day.
I got some more work done in the gardens and driveway. Not what I needed to do or wanted to get done, but I’m finding it harder to get blocks of time to do stuff than I thought.
Did some minor housework.
Dinner was mini hamburgers from frozen hamburger. I’d vac sealed the burger meat in 2018. Perfectly fine and delicious with some additional seasoning. The vac seal is the key to successful freezing. No air or excess moisture can get in, so no ‘freezer burn’. Chest freezer set at 0F helps too. It’s a nice DEEP freeze. Pasta-roni flavored spaghetti as a side with almost the last of the cottage cheese.
[I had a paragraph here that sounded strange from my mouth, so I cut it]
Let me just say, for all the believers here, you have my sincere best wishes on the feast of Easter.
Nick
Certain days, you miss the missing more than ever, OFD- we sure could use a benediction….
n
Ah, the Late, Great, Mr. OFD. Will always miss him.
Eggs were searched for and found in a light misty drizzle. Coffee is ready, breakfast preparation is underway, and the kids have big baskets of loot.
Not a bad start to the day.
n
Another broadcast completed. Recorded on Wednesday to an empty church.
I have an annoying problem playing the digital recording. Every once in awhile, no pattern, the system blanks the output from the recorder. Just a couple of frames. I don’t know if it is a synchronization issue or is a problem in the speed of the SSD. I will format the SSD in a different file system and increase the block size. I will also replace the ends on the RG59 cable carrying the SDI signal. I will only do one item at a time. If both those fail I will replace the SSDs (2 of them) with faster SSDs.
I really don’t like not knowing what I am doing and just guessing. I also don’t know if the issue is in the recording process or the playback process.
When I headed out to get gas for my lawn mower this morning, I saw an unbelievable line for Sunday brunch pickup as I passed this place. At first, I thought the line was for the McDonalds next door, but, once I got closer to the corner, I saw that the fast food drive thru was a ghost town.
https://moonshinegrill.com/
So much for the Greater Depression. Okay, I know, credit cards, but still.
“I also don’t know if the issue is in the recording process or the playback process. ”
If the dropout happens in the same place, you still can’t know but recording is more likely. If it happens in different places each playback then you can be almost certain it is in the playback.
I wonder if the break from going to church will have lasting impact on peoples’ habits. In TX, most of the churches seem to be the center of peoples’ public lives, with recreation facilities, and lots of events, and schools. It’s almost never just Sunday services.
n
I wonder if the break from going to church will have lasting impact on peoples’ habits. In TX, most of the churches seem to be the center of peoples’ public lives, with recreation facilities, and lots of events, and schools. It’s almost never just Sunday services.
Away from the I35 corridor and Houston metroplex, I imagine a lot of TX churches are busy today. Go where the Progs aren’t, even for wine tastings on the weekends.
A new Cannonball record!
Now we’ll see what all of the state-wide shelter-in-place orders are really worth. The fastest route goes through some states with really puckcered sphincters in charge. That kind of time requires a lot of help out on the roads.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a32092440/26-hour-38-minute-cannonball-record-coronavirus/
Had to spend some time messing with my iSpy software this morning. Only a couple of cameras were showing as online and recording.
After poking around, windows10 apparently turned on FIREWALL for my PRIVATE network as well as the public internet. This had to be a new setting with the update reboot. WTF? The whole point of declaring a network as private is to avoid firewall issues and because every device is trusted.
Turned that off, but it still didn’t solve the issue. I was able to see the cams from other computers on the networks, so not a cam thing. I figured out I could see the cams from IE on the iSpy pc, so networking not the issue any more. Restarted iSpy and it found and connected the cams. It must have failed at some point, and stopped trying.
F’ing MS and their update reboot broke software and settings that had been running fine for months.
FWIW, I can’t find the update settings at the moment to change that either. Where the freak did they hide them?
n
Eggs were searched for and found in a light snow. Youngest dog found and devoured first egg, much to child’s outrage. Dog was awfully pleased with self. Deep snow, hard and crusty, still a couple feet deep in places. Late slow thaw this year. Snow is supposed to change to rain in a few hours.
Easter eggs, bacon, and steel cut oats for breakfast. Online church service experiencing technical difficulties so we switched over to the church associated with our child’s school.
We are unaccountably fatigued today. I’ve got a couple chapters of “Understanding Programming Languages” (Ben-Ari) to read, and a modest lamb dinner to prepare. A walk would be a good idea.
Happy Easter, in whatever form that holds meaning for you.
Happy Easter to all!
Happy Easter to all – enjoy that ham (and/or bacon or pork chops) while you can:
Although the Charmin TP factory is still running all-out:
(The above article bears repeating… sorry…)
We are unaccountably fatigued today. I’ve got a couple chapters of “Understanding Programming Languages” (Ben-Ari) to read, and a modest lamb dinner to prepare.
I spent Good Friday and a good part of yesterday on somthing almost as tedious as the textbook, squash-merging about five months of Git commits and branching into a single path for our main project.
Our Canadian divison was off for Good Friday. A national holiday — imagine!
I wonder if the break from going to church will have lasting impact on peoples’ habits. In TX, most of the churches seem to be the center of peoples’ public lives, with recreation facilities, and lots of events, and schools. It’s almost never just Sunday services.
Yes. I have not been in a church since early February. I am missing the congregational worship terribly. And I am missing my church friends. We group email occasionally but it is not the same.
The wife and I will go back the minute that the doors are open.
Christ is risen indeed !
Is it possible you made a pot of decaf by mistake?
If I remember correctly, while he shows a couple different ways of accomplishing a task in a couple different languages (C for procedural and Ada95 for object-oriented is what I remember, but don’t have any great faith in that) there are a lot of different paradigms for designing a language. UPL isn’t bad for a start, but when you’re done, think about how you’d handle a data selection task in SQL as contrasted with C or Ada, not only from a user’s perspective but from a language implementor’s. Look at rules engines (PROLOG is the standard, but a few “business rules engines” are available, too) and how the world looks if you’re defining everything in terms of verities and relationships. Functional programming’s main selling point is allowing a massive, repetitive task to be split across a large number of processors; think about how you as a user would structure a problem so that it could be split up. And many more.
@RickH
You’ve ruined my “How Bad is It?” for today! 🙂
In some tragic business news yesterday, Mr. Whipple’s factory has burnt down. In a statement to the press he said, “I was completely wiped out, but sheet happens and you just have to roll with it”.
Although the Charmin TP factory is still running all-out:
P&G’s largest U.S. factory making Charmin toilet paper cleared to stay open https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/20/coronavirus-factory-making-charmin-toilet-paper-stay-open/2885041001/
Our HEB had Mexican label toilet paper yesterday. It ain’t Charmin Super Soft but I bought my limit anyway (2 bags of four rolls each). But, it did not have wood chips in it. My dad visited Poland back in the early 1980s. Their toilet paper had wood chips in it.
Ah, good old mainframe philosophy. Backups and tested restores too. I bet that was learnt the hard way many years ago. 🙂
We are unaccountably fatigued today. I’ve got a couple chapters of “Understanding Programming Languages” (Ben-Ari) to read, and a modest lamb dinner to prepare.
I spent Good Friday and a good part of yesterday on somthing almost as tedious as the textbook, squash-merging about five months of Git commits and branching into a single path for our main project.
Why did you work on your holiday ?
This is why I do not allow branches in our code repository. At some point, the branches have to be committed to the main line. And when they are committed, all hell breaks loose. Little commits equals little pain, big commits equals big pain.
I almost went to work for another engineering software company back in 1994 who wrote and installed software for catalytic crackers in refineries. I was going to be a field engineer for them. Supposedly four weeks per install in the field, when I talked with another field engineer he said six months. Basically each software install never got committed back to the main line of the software so they had the same bugs over and over again. I turned down the job.
I am still working on our income taxes. I’ve got the income finished, now am working on the deductions. Got the commercial property fully documented EXCEPT for the mileage on the Expedition. I have managed to LOSE my Expedition log book. Knowing me, I put it up in a careful place during the move. It shoud show up in a year or two. Bummer, I hate estimating, almost as bad as the IRS does.
Our HEB had Mexican label toilet paper yesterday. It ain’t Charmin Super Soft but I bought my limit anyway (2 bags of four rolls each). But, it did not have wood chips in it. My dad visited Poland back in the early 1980s. Their toilet paper had wood chips in it.
The US generally has so much quality pulp available that the consumer grade TP doesn’t even see recycled fiber. About 20 years ago, I took a day trip through the back roads of SW WA State, expecting “Twin Peaks”, and the reality was mostly sterile, well-managed tree farms.
Costco in Cedar Park was extremely well stocked yesterday. I didn’t look too closely down that aisle, but the paper goods looked full. We didn’t need anything from that area, and I don’t want to contribute to the problem that US has probably borrowed a couple of years of TP production from the future to meet the present demand.
“The Greatest Event In Human History” by Erick Erickson
https://theresurgent.com/2020/04/10/the-greatest-event-in-human-history/
“We have arrived again at the anniversary of the greatest event in history. Around 1,987 years ago, in a rather routine and inconsequential act for that time, Roman authorities nailed a man to a cross. What happened next is subject to dispute. But since then, most of the world has believed that on the third day, after his execution, the man named Jesus came back to physical life.”
“Whether one believes it happened or not, indisputably the first Holy Week fundamentally transformed civilization. Today, several billion people globally will celebrate Holy Week. They believe Jesus died for them, rose again from the dead, stayed on the earth for forty days, then ascended to Heaven “from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead,” as the Apostles’ Creed proclaims.”
“Christians are prone to look at the number of people executed in the last two thousand years for accepting Christ and think no one would die for a lie. That is simply not true. Nineteen men flew planes into tall buildings, the Pentagon, and a field for a lie. People will die for a lie.”
Why did you work on your holiday ?
This is why I do not allow branches in our code repository. At some point, the branches have to be committed to the main line. And when they are committed, all hell breaks loose. Little commits equals little pain, big commits equals big pain.
The US employees do not get Good Friday, Christmas Eve, or “Boxing Day” as paid holidays. The tradeoff is that we get MLK and Presidents’ Day along with Black Friday.
Git makes branching and merging/rebasing extremely easy but the system works best with a hierarchy of benevolent dictators roughly log10(number of developers) deep, with each dictator evaluating merge requests in his area from subordinate dictators/developers until the full time job of the guy at the top — Linus Torvalds in the case of Linux — is to make the final decision as to what goes into the main branch after having the changes vetted by trusted lieutenants. Ideally, developers should never merge their own work into the main branch, but, in reality, shortcuts happen and parallel paths develop. That’s why Git has “merge –squash”.
Git was designed by Linus for his needs. He doesn’t care if it works for anyone else (or not) as is, and each organization has to plan accordingly if they go that route. Most haven’t given their strategy a lot of thought, but we luck out in that our team is still small.
Our big branching problem right now is that a new hire came in with a Fancy Lad U diploma and convinced management that we needed a coding standard beyond “make it look like the code present in the file before you touched it”. Since management tends to be “flavor of the month” and generally ascribes more ability to newer hires, especially from expensive schools, regardless of the truth, they allowed the individual to make formatting changes across a large swath of our code base, making merges between pre-reformat and post-reformat a painful exercise with lots of time spent in vimdiff.
Egg pie for breakfast (quiche for you girly men), bacon, ham, and cheese.
Easter candy for lunch.
I’ll have to start thinking about dinner soon. That ribeye roast won’t cook itself.
In the mean time, I’ve been sorting and loading cans into my new system. I’ve got a LOT of canned corn. Did I mention that? Also putting stuff in bins, and moving it around on the shelves. Still have what’s left on the garage shelves and what’s in the new shelf tower to look at. Two more black bins too. PLUS several bins under the tarp in the driveway. Better too much food than too little. Any day of the week.
Especially wrt the food processing disruptions (which will get worse, before they get better).
n
And jeez guys, quit going into the stores!
My wife’s coworker who tested positive and is sick, got it from her husband who works in a big grocery store. Odds are VERY long that he didn’t give it to anyone while at work, since he only had mild symptoms, he went to work.
Stay home!
n
Our big branching problem right now is that a new hire came in with a Fancy Lad U diploma and convinced management that we needed a coding standard beyond “make it look like the code present in the file before you touched it”. Since management tends to be “flavor of the month” and generally ascribes more ability to newer hires, especially from expensive schools, regardless of the truth, they allowed the individual to make formatting changes across a large swath of our code base, making merges between pre-reformat and post-reformat a painful exercise with lots of time spent in vimdiff.
You have got to be freaking kidding me. That is borderline irresponsible. No telling how many “improvements” that he made in the code along the way. Man, that is worse than me, I only reformat one subroutine at time when I am having extreme trouble debugging it.
I have learned the hard way.
@Lynn,
I think both you and Erick Erickson are guilty of projecting your lack of belief in fundamentalist Islam onto such as the 9/11 attackers. They did believe, sufficiently strongly, that the fight against apostasy was worthy of the ultimate sacrifice. The fact that we do not share their belief does not invalidate that belief, and the actions it led to, to them. We in this forum, of course, feel otherwise.
The problem, as I see it, is that fundamentalist Islam is backward-looking, to a time when life was nasty, brutish and short, and all religions shared a violent, “you are with us, or you are damned” outlook. Christianity has, mostly, outgrown that. Islam, not so much.
G.
Speaking of ‘food sealers’ (I am sure somebody was..) which ‘sealer’ device would be recommended? My intent is to use it mostly for meats in the freezer to prevent ‘freezer burn’, not for very-long-term storage.
I recall some posts in the past about using plastic-type bags for sealers, as they don’t fully seal against ‘incoming’ air over a period of time. And recall RBT saying something about mylar bags, and using oxygen absorbers.
So, what brand sealing device, and bags, does the ‘hive mind’ here think is best for freezer storage?
For the avoidance of doubt, I was raised in the Anglican faith, specifically Church in Wales,but am now agnostic. I find too many inconsistencies in accepted Christian beliefs to fully subscribe to them.
I don’t doubt that there is something Up There that is responsible, I just don’t believe that something has more than a passing interest in events on this Earth. Probably a limitation in me.
G.
You have got to be freaking kidding me. That is borderline irresponsible. No telling how many “improvements” that he made in the code along the way. Man, that is worse than me, I only reformat one subroutine at time when I am having extreme trouble debugging it.
I have learned the hard way.
My rule of thumb is that the fancier the school, the stronger the belief in the necessity of a “coding standard”.
Oh, I’m a strong believer in coding standards. But “three spaces for an indent” isn’t it.
Instead:
– meaningful names for method names, arguments, and variables
– useful comments describing the purpose of any non-trivial method, any expectations it has of the system state, and any changes it makes to the system state
– unit tests if appropriate
Things like that.
I’ve got a LOT of canned corn
Fritters! Good cooking example for the kids, too. Got to get the egg whites whipped to the right consistency and then practice folding. Even if they come up bad they still taste good.
I have a FoodSaver and recommend it. You can get them, and bags, at Wal*Mart. Fancier FS ones have the built in suction hose for sealing Ball jars and FoodSaver vacuum containers.
God must have loved coding standards …
I’ll second the Foodsaver. Whenever it goes on sale at Costco, it’s usually about $30 off retail. I only buy the foodsaver bags when they are on sale at costco too. Of course, the machine and the bags are never on sale the same month….
Mine has been good. I had the capton tape come loose over the heating element, but just taped it back in place. I’ve never used the canisters or attachments. Someone swears by the uline bags, but I’ve never tried them.
wrt RBT’s comments on the bags and permeability, I read that day earlier today! I was not looking for it, I was using site search and, nick dirty bomb plan as keywords.
n
Over The Hedge: What does cat taste like ?
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2020/04/12
Not like chicken !
Pu$$y!
You knew it was going to happen.
arrg. It’s not in the results for dirty bomb plan nick.
Although there is some good reading in the older 2017 RBT posts. A nice list of food for the beginning prepper forex.
I read the danged thing this morning….
n
@rick, it’s in this thread
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2017/07/10/monday-10-july-2017/
read down thru the comments.
n
keywords were nick port container bomb and I still haven’t found the post I was looking for.
“Kashkari Says U.S. May Face 18 Months of Rolling Shutdowns”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/feds-kashkari-says-us-may-face-18-months-of-rolling-shutdowns/ar-BB12wqGD”
“”Without an effective therapy or a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the U.S. economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes and flares up again, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said.”
““We’re looking around the world. As they relax the economic controls, the virus flares back up again,” Kashkari said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Kashkari is a voter in 2020 on the Fed’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.”
16 million people have lost their jobs in the last four weeks. 16 million people. I’ll bet this guy gets his paycheck no matter what.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Bob Iger Thought He Was Leaving on Top. Now, He’s Fighting for Disney’s Life.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/media/disney-ceo-coronavirus.html
“The former C.E.O. thought he was riding into the sunset. Now he’s reasserting control and reimagining Disney as a company with fewer employees and more thermometers.””
“This all means the company is losing as much as $30 million or more a day, the media industry analyst Hal Vogel estimated in an interview. The company borrowed $6 billion at the end of March, a sign both of its desperate plight and lenders’ confidence that it could rebound.”
“In an emergency like this, Mr. Iger said, he had no choice but to abandon his plan to pull back.”
If an immensely well run company like Disney is in such financial trouble, how about the rest of us ?
Welcome to the Greater Depression. My father-in-law has told me a few stories about the Great Depression. I have no desire to live in it.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
If an immensely well run company like Disney is in such financial trouble, how about the rest of us ?
Iger was fired. Go back and watch the CNBC announcement/interview again carefully.
The virus simply moved forward into the space of a few weeks what was eventually going to happen at Disney over the next couple of years. Now the decisions have to be made much quicker, faster than Chapek can handle alone.
Disney isn’t beyond saving, but the Fox library will have to go for starters.
The wife has been bingeing Deep Space Nine all day. The daughter saw this and noted that a friend of hers has decided to model all of her relationships as a Ferengi. All of her relationships are transactional.
16 million people have lost their jobs in the last four weeks. 16 million people. I’ll bet this guy gets his paycheck no matter what.
Kashkari has already been through the revolving door once. Goldman Sachs to Treasury to Pimco to the Fed.
He ran TARP at Treasury, from which Pimco benefited in a huge way.
My F-150 has been ejected from the garage after the wife had trouble extricating her Highlander. She volunteered to leave her Highlander in the driveway and let my F-150 stay in the garage but, we all know where that was going.
We still sometimes have to do the “spouse shuffle” with our vehicles. I mostly leave my Expy in the street, with the Ranger and my wife’s Honda in the driveway. Sometimes though, we still have to move one to get to the other. Haven’t been able to park one in the garage in more than a decade, let alone two.
n
Lynn, maybe your wife should binge watch some of these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-kC1Rr1ARs&app=desktop
Precision and pride!
Lynn, maybe your wife should binge watch some of these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-kC1Rr1ARs&app=desktop
Precision and pride!
Uh, my wife has no idea of the 3-D relationships of the vehicle that she is driving. Now me, when I went to truck driving school, had to drive through a pair of barrels with the truck and trailer at 40 mph to pass. I passed. The dude behind knocked a mirror off the truck. He failed.
Hey, if my business fails then I can go grab my CDL and drive a truck for a few years ! There seems to be a lot of demand for truck drivers at the moment.
TARP. 43’s final act as he plunged into Progtard land. After, “I regret doing that…” Thanks for spending my money.