Cooler, maybe some rain, as we’re on the edge of a system. East of us should be getting slammed.
Yesterday was nice, after the rain.
I ended up taking the pickup after all, and had clear skies and sun for the rest of the day. Finished my pickups, hit the reStore and got stuff I needed, and filled a cart at Goodwill outlet. Nice clean high value items.
Today I have a couple of things to get, some shopping to do, some organizing, and I need to get the list of stuff I’m taking with me to the BOL together. Some will be coming from home, some from storage, some from Lowes, and some from a last pickup on Friday. Hopefully that last can happen as I drive up.
Might be a good idea to pick it up early and load around it though. It’s pretty big (a bathroom vanity).
Busier than a one armed paper hanger today.
Stacking, prepping, building. Get to it.
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50F with 78%RH. Yesterday's early rain might have dried us out and cooled us off a bit.
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Musk bought the former UAW hall in Fremont which served NUMI, the GM/Toyota venture that built the original Gigafactory. Part of the Tony legend is that he lived there for a while as did other Tesla execs.
These days, the legend has Tony sleeping on the floor of his office at the Austin factory or in a trailer down at Boca Chica, but the reality is that he has a compound west of town here, in a very non-diverse area closer to Lake Travis.
The core problem right now which is leading us to, among other disasters, an all EV future with very limited mobility is the detachment of most people from their household electricity service. The lights are always on and the bills get paid automatically. The cost and supply of that energy source are out of sight and, thus, out of mind.
Just 200-300,000 Jesus trucks hitting the road could consume as much as 10% of the maximum generating capacity in this state nightly. And, of course they will charge nightly.
This is Texas, son. It is my God-given right to top off my truck every day if I so choose.
Ford is limiting production to 80,000 the first year of their Jesus truck. I don’t think it has anything to do with material/chip shortages.
It is in their best interest to keep the shortage mentality going as long as possible. No need for discounts if people are *desperate* to buy your product.
Good news! The Democratic Party can be banned!
Let’s go for RICO first.
Word Salad Annie, Gator Got Your Granny:
CRINGE: Kamala Harris’ remarks about Jamaica show she ‘just keeps getting worse at this’
The Kamel is the Dumbocrat Admiral Stockale. She's just woke (LOL awake). Look out Maxine Waters.
"The weather today will be nearly perfect, a 10/10 day. We recommend playing hooky"
https://spacecityweather.com/the-weather-today-will-be-nearly-perfect-a-10-10-day-we-recommend-playing-hooky/
Heh.
Just 200-300,000 Jesus trucks hitting the road could consume as much as 10% of the maximum generating capacity in this state nightly. And, of course they will charge nightly.
This is Texas, son. It is my God-given right to top off my truck every day if I so choose.
Ford is limiting production to 80,000 the first year of their Jesus truck. I don’t think it has anything to do with material/chip shortages.
You can have them. I just want a hybrid F-150 4×4 with a huge battery. Or a total electric with an onboard generator and a 20 gallon gas tank. With a huge battery.
I drive in too many places without much civilization (most of Texas !).
I am driving up to Oklahoma City on Sunday. Just short of 500 miles. Put that on your battery.
And no, I am NOT going to get on a plane with all those crazy people wanting to make me crazy too.
Stockdale looked inept on TV once. Kamala looks inept every time she's in public.
To be fair, Kamala thinks/speaks just like the female Dem voters around here who stuck B*to! and MJ Hegar yard signs in their yards the last two cycles. She truly reflects her constituency.
Here's the thing.Trump. I'm jus' sayin'.
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/cnn-plus
I know there will be people subscribing to this. I’m scared to know how many.
I would not be in the slightest surprised to discover that Musk has a few "rods from God" in orbit, and that he has discretely made that fact known to the usual purveyors of novichok fragrances.
At least, that's what I would do…
JEP would be so proud !
Pearls Before Swine: Oh, Pullease
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/03/31
I hope he get out soon. Or has a tremendous backlog built up for us.
@lynn:
Oyyyy!
G.
Peanuts: Anvils Are Hard
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2022/03/31
Yes, they are. I have a small anvil that I use to beat metal straight. The anvil always wins.
WTAF!!! It's tRump, tho.
"Forensic Files" has quite a cult following. I wouldn't be surprised if they got decent numbers just to stream that program.
"Will Smith Was Not Formally Asked to Leave Oscars Following Chris Rock Slap, Sources Claim"
https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Will-Smith-Was-Not-Formally-Asked-to-Leave-Oscars-17048366.php
You know, I have not heard of Chris Rock apologizing to Jada Pinkett Smith. My wife had her head shaved for a year from her waist length blond hair when she was undergoing chemotherapy 17 years ago. Two thirds of her hair fell out after the second of sixteen treatments. I held her hand as my wife cried while the barber at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center shaved the rest of her hair off. Don't tell me that Jada Smith is not upset about her hair.
That one is: Yeah, Biden. Trump tho'.
It might get updated: Yeah, Biden. Fool and his laptop. Trump tho'.
Say “Fool and his laptop” like Mr. T in his prime.
That one is: Yeah, Biden. Trump tho'.
It might get updated: Yeah, Biden. Fool and his laptop. Trump tho'.
Say “Fool and his laptop” like Mr. T in his prime.
Is Biden going to pardon Hunter ? Lots of smoke over there, there may be a fire.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-federal-tax-new-details/
"The federal investigation into Hunter Biden's business practices is broader than previously known, with multiple sources telling CBS News the probe is exploring whether the younger Biden and his associates violated tax, money laundering and foreign lobbying laws."
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
"Texas power grid, energy sectors facing elevated Russian cyber threats during war in Ukraine"
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-energy-grid-russia-cyberattack-hackers-17048082.php
"Utility companies and key oil and gas transportation hubs are on high alert as Russian hackers have been probing energy infrastructure’s digital networks for weak points"
I keep on saying that you do not connect critical machinery to the internet so the plant engineers can connect to the control systems in their jammies.
I can just see Dad walking to the kitchen for a snack and junior playing on his home pc, clicking the big red SCRAM button on the screen.
I can't recall if I've said on here, but one of Lynn's book recommendations late last year was Louis L'Amour's "Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir". My mother enjoys biographies, so I bought it for her birthday.
She really enjoyed it. She was also very surprised at how interesting it was, and told me she is going to pass it back to me to read. We only do that with the "cream of the crop" of our reading. L'Amour was my great grandmother's favorite author, but neither Mama nor I read westerns so we've not read his fiction.
It may not even be the obvious system. In our IoT they could be getting access to the network through the environmental controls, breakroom TVs, VoIP phone system, or, ironically, the security system.
TeamViewer and a USB Ethernet dongle on the "isolated" PC connected to the company's insecure network.
RDP requires more assistance from IT and it generates packets which will pop intrusion detection systems.
@lynn
Curious, if you can comment, how US sanctions against Russia are affecting your business, and any customers in Russia.
It may not even be the obvious system. In our IoT they could be getting access to the network through the environmental controls, breakroom TVs, VoIP phone system, or, ironically, the security system.
I had to turn off cell phone forwarding in my office PBX to keep the hackers out. Really a pain in the rear.
Any facility should have two networks, internal and external. Nothing should go between the two networks except a single wire headed to a read-only server on the external network.
@lynn
Curious, if you can comment, how US sanctions against Russia are affecting your business, and any customers in Russia.
Nothing so far that I know of. Of course, the Russian hackers are continuously trying to hack my latest software. I made some serious changes in a recent release and they have not been able to get through it yet. They have tried a couple of times though since then.
I doubt that I could collect any funds from Russia though so no new sales.
My main Russian sales agent has left Russia with his family for an unknown designation. He and I talked a week or so ago and he was leaving very soon after that. I will not try to contact him again as I imagine that things are being monitored. He is a good guy and we have been doing business together for almost twenty years.
Somebody tried to DNS my website on Monday but I have a very high bandwidth limit. They did not even get close. My server can serve over a TB an hour of transactions, we done it before when I was attacked. My host is fairly good, they will start blocking IP addresses at their firewall after a while as DNS attacks are detectable.
"US to release largest-ever oil reserve supply"
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/article/14270293/us-to-release-largestever-oil-reserve-supply
"According to an official fact sheet, the White House will release 1 million b/d from the SPR over a 6-month period, for a total release of about 180 million bbl, dwarfing previous emergency releases."
Ok, Biden is officially a fool. The USA crude oil reserve is there for times when we cannot get oil at all. He is using the reserve to manipulate the price of crude oil. Foolish, foolish, foolish.
There is only 700 million barrels in the SPR. Correction, was only 700 million, it will be 500 million now.
"Fauci Says Americans Need to be “Prepared” For Another Round of Covid Restrictions (VIDEO)"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/fauci-says-americans-need-prepared-another-round-covid-restrictions-video/
Would somebody please shut Chicken Little up ?
>> These days, the legend has Tony sleeping on the floor of his office at the Austin factory or in a trailer down at Boca Chica, but the reality is that he has a compound west of town here, in a very non-diverse area closer to Lake Travis.
Says Grimes: “We move and move and move,” she’ll tell me later, “because people keep finding where we live.”
So will the next kid be named Three?
He certainly isn't allowed to admit to having made a mistake shutting down Keystone construction by allowing it's completion.
Why would he? The Oscars hired a comedian as acerbic as Ricky Gervais. I think Rock made it clear it was a joke about Pinkett's shaved head, not her condition of alopecia. Not many people are against Rock's joke. I got it. He probably didn't even know of her condition.
Geebus to the max. Our President and Air Force:
Ratio on US Air Force’s tweet marking ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ soars to new heights
I miss tRump.
Six months should cover through the last round of primaries for the Midterms. Florida was August for both US Senate and Governor when we lived there.
Warren Buffett's oil tanker rail cars are going to be busy this summer.
>> These days, the legend has Tony sleeping on the floor of his office at the Austin factory or in a trailer down at Boca Chica, but the reality is that he has a compound west of town here, in a very non-diverse area closer to Lake Travis.
Says Grimes: “We move and move and move,” she’ll tell me later, “because people keep finding where we live.”
"“But at the same time…” I can physically observe her brain cells saying screw it. “Like, bro wouldn’t even get a new mattress.” This was back when they were both living in Los Angeles. Her side of the mattress had a hole in it. When she raised the issue, he suggested they replace his mattress with the one at her house. The mattresses are fine now. Still: “Bro does not live like a billionaire. Bro lives at times below the poverty line. To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?” She is well aware that many see Musk as some embodiment of luxurious excess, and Grimes is here to tell you she f****** wishes."
I read the article. That was freaky. She calls Musk "bro". Their son is "X". Their daughter is "Y".
Musk is cheap, really cheap. I get it. His goals need 2X the amount of cash that he can raise. Maybe 10X, who knows ? And raising cash is expensive because of Senator Karen (Warren) and others like her.
So will the next kid be named Three?
Cyber.
Outside of IT, every corporate issued laptop except for those belonging to Windows developers should have Administrator access turned off, and "appropriate use" policies should be rigidly enforced with firings, even in the C suites.
The C suites are often the source of most of the problems from what I've seen over the years, especially with regard to bringing their kinks to the office.
Jesus. Though, my guess is that they will want the truck forgotten quickly.
It is kind of a shame that we won't have "All right, all right, all right" running for Governor. His brother, Rooster (I'm not kidding) is arguably more qualified to hold the office, despite using his favorite beer brands to name his kids — Miller and Olympia.
IIRC, Rooster had a reality TV series on CNN.
Vanity Fair. Calling BS on Tattoo Woman would mean they don't get another interview and photo spread.
"15 minutes from downtown, … and a short drive from the Tesla factory" could mean a lot of places. Right around the factory is really ugly — I used to work nearby at the previous previous job, and Musk has nothing on that management in terms of being cheap.
The oft-heard story around here is 5-6 bedrooms out in Bee Cave, Austin’s answer to Marin County. Not the biggest house he could have bought, but not squalor.
Many people use pseudonyms when referring to their family members.
Like @Nick here, who says "D1" and "D2" for his daughters.
Or those who use "SWMBO" for their wife.
It would seem that using "X" and "Y" for biological female/male would be the same thing.
It is kind of a shame that we won't have "All right, all right, all right" running for Governor. His brother, Rooster (I'm not kidding) is arguably more qualified to hold the office, despite using his favorite beer brands to name his kids — Miller and Olympia.
My friend's daughter named her four kids Grizzly, Buckshot, Meadow, and Daisy.
Earlier in my career,I once was called to the CEO’s office to fix a problem. He knew I was coming (he called me), I knocked on his door, he said come in, and as I enter his office and can plainly see his monitor. Only then does he close out his online gambling site. There was other stuff on there too..
I am releasing version 16.13 of our software today. A couple of additional features and a bunch of fixes. We are approaching 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++, easy to have bugs in corners that rarely get bright lights shown in them. The first release was back in 1969.
Good luck! No matter how much you test, there are still unknown 'features' that crop up in a new release. (He said as he prepared yet another update to his plugins.)
Just back from Rite Aid store after receiving my 4th anti-KungFlu Moderna shot. Regardless. still will not go to a LGBT bar in West Hollyweird tonight.
“Neither Princess Nor Bride: Why Buttercup Is the Hero of Her own Story” by Rachel Ayers
https://www.tor.com/2022/03/28/neither-princess-nor-bride-why-buttercup-is-the-hero-of-her-own-story/
“The Princess Bride is a damn near perfect movie, and contains one of the greatest sword fights of all time, some of the best onscreen chemistry of any love story, and a stellar blend of comedy, action, and romance that is hard to find anywhere else. But… let’s talk about Buttercup. The world’s most beautiful woman. But also so much more. Although she is the titular character (even though most of the action centers on stopping the marriage that would make her an actual Princess Bride—more on that in a bit), she’s often overlooked in discussions about the movie; she rarely gets the recognition she deserves for being a well-crafted female character in a male-dominated story.”
>> It would seem that using "X" and "Y" for biological female/male would be the same thing.
"X" is just his nickname. So is "Y." Their real names are…well, it's complicated.
Good luck! No matter how much you test, there are still unknown 'features' that crop up in a new release. (He said as he prepared yet another update to his plugins.)
I am still in the middle of my port to Intel Fortran, the third time that I have attempted this. My first goal for our version 17.00 is a working 32 bit version of our calculation engine using Intel Fortran. The second goal is a working 64 bit version of our calculation engine using Intel Fortran. The 32 bit port is not going well, I may have to hardwire the make process instead of using Microsoft's Visual Studio.
@lynn … another 'lprogramming aw', which affects me often :
Changing one thing in a program to fix something will break something else. So will adding a new feature.
Jesus. Though, my guess is that they will want the truck forgotten quickly.
Tesla was supposed to start delivering the 18 wheelers with four 250 kwh batteries in January that can supposedly go 500 miles without charging.
https://www.globalfleet.com/en/fleet-strategy/global/article/pepsico-receive-first-15-tesla-semi-trucks-january?t%5B0%5D=Tesla&t%5B1%5D=Pepsico&curl=1
and
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43812/pepsico-readies-for-delivery-of-tesla-semis-with-megacharger-installation
BTW, there is reputedly three million orders for the cybertruck.
Microsoft's Make, included with the VS command line tools, is awful.
MinGW MSYS is a solution I’ve heard that some developers use successfully since it is GNU Make with Bash and support tools. Still, a lot of profanity will be involved.
Geesh. $100 isn't a real amount of money to most people right now. In August, prior to the child tax credit advances, the numbers were somewhere ~ 1.2 million.
I'm getting a lot of "we can't find that server" when I reload this page.
?Everyone else ok?
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I'm getting a lot of "we can't find that server" when I reload this page.
Ditto.
going to bed, short post tomorrow, talk amongst yourselves….
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