Feels like the Great White North here … well, not really but it is chilly. It was 41F and dropping when I went to bed. Nice during the day, with the nuclear fire in the sky, but as soon as we rotated out of its magnificent radiation, it got chilly willy. I expect today to be the same.
Good weather for working in the attic though. I got the home run for the server closet circuit, and the master bathroom circuit run. Didn’t land them in the panel, might do that today. Did more organizing and finding stuff that got brought up here but never made it out of a box… And there is a lot of it.
Finally got a chance to visit with my fisherman buddy. He’s got a new puppy that is tiny and cute and has SO MUCH ENERGY. Chihuahua and terrier mix… both he and his wife are doing well in their cancer fights. I finally asked because I hadn’t had a chance to hear anything from his wife. I’m glad it was good news.
I’m staying up today too. I’m moving slowly, sedately, with ponderous majesty, or something, but I’m moving and making progress. I don’t want to lose momentum.
So I’ll keep plugging away, and take some meds for the aches…
Stack or work, but do something.
nick
I must be getting old and jaded.
Back in January, a new open-source app (OpenClaw) hit the younger, AI-enthusiastic tech world like a bomb. It lets you give an AI full access to work on your computer: answer your mails, install programs, whatever you want it to do. Back in my younger days, I would have loved to experiment with something like that! Now, I just think of all the things it is likely to screw up.
OTOH, now that I am teaching teenagers, it is refreshing to see that young enthusiasm in their eyes. I may not have that enthusiasm anymore, but it is nice to see it.
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We have solar on the roof, but in Winter it doesn’t produce a lot. Part of it is the low angle of the sun, and part is snow on the roof. So we’re thinking about added a few more panels on the south side of the house – great winter sun and no snow issue. At the same time, we would add a battery.
The result would be – by my estimate anyway – that we would be completely independent except for about 6-8 weeks around the Winter solstice. During that time, we would have the usual problems with the rooftop solar, plus running the heat pump, so we would still have to buy power.
There’s a psychological factor to increased independence, and near immunity to future price increases. Plus we would be immune to power failures (except in Winter). On the other hand, the hard, cold figures aren’t all that great. Savings would be around Fr. 800 per year at current prices. The installation would cost around 30 times that.
Worth it? Or a waste of money?
Brad,
do you expect to be able to use the installation for 30 years? Would just investing the cost of the installation generate SFR 800 return a year?
Glad to hear that about your buddy and his wife. I am sure a puppy is good for whatever ails one.
I am so stealing that line…
In positive news, my leave until and including 10 March has been approved. First, I will sleep a lot.
Good morning!
A magic device that wakes one in the night and tells one to eat cookies? Sounds too good to be true, as long as it also prescribes milk.
Be well, Nick.
VW has been left holding the bag on the Scout EV boondoggle as it looks like Walz will be fitted for an orange suit at a Federal Prison before too long.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-group-delays-scout-motors-launch-until-at-least-2028-report
People would actually buy a Harvester Scout like Walz owns. Unlike Walz, however, many would get their hands dirty working on the engine.
For those of you who don’t understand the reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-B0_OKkeg
The latest way to keep the plates spinning on the monkey trick as well as generating Mac Mini sales for Apple.
The Real Life Tony Stark weighed in on OpenClaw recently.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2026019344602288166
The A18 Mac Book will be a hit if it has enough RAM and Tim can keep the price under $600.
8 GB will not be enough to run OpenClaw, however. I have to turn the AI tools off in Xcode on my 8 GB MacBook Pro M1.
Also, more Atom/Node.JS bloatware making the young’n’s lazy and stupid … like VS Code.
Related: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/euthanized-while-white
The majority of the buyers will never need that app. 8GB and 256GB SSD would be plenty for the majority of purchasers. Those that need more, know who they are, and will be purchasing something else more suited.
Truth be told, my M4 MacBook Pro is vastly overkill for my needs. I just wanted one, mostly for the SDXC slot and Thunderbolt 5. Other than that, the M2 Air would be fine and would still be overkill for me.
I still see HSN selling HP touchscreen laptops with 4GB and 128GB and within a show will sell a thousand. For the price of $399.99, with a mouse and a case. Windows 11 “S” Mode. There are people for which these are truly useful machines. It would work quite well for my wife except I transitioned her to the Apple ecosystem.
A Mac on the A18 chip would be just as useful. The only unknown is what the device will sell for. Apple will need to keep the price under $600.00 otherwise Apple will be intruding on the Air, which can be had for $700.00 on sale.
If the price of the A18 model is $500.00 or less (which I highly doubt), I will buy one, in blue. Not that I need one. But for traveling where I don’t do much beyond Email and some web apps, it would work quite well. Low risk and value if stolen or damaged.
I may even buy one in yellow for my wife and brother-in-law at that price point.
I have 8GB RAM and 256 GB storage on my MacBook Pro M1. It works except for when I enable the AI code completion features in Xcode.
The newer MacBook Pro is heavy, hopefully something Apple addresses with the refresh later this year.
Plus, I got hooked on the Touch Bar working for Clapper. That company spent money for machines.
When I finally pull the plug on my 2012 Pro as my primary Mac, I will need 512 GB storage to continue to manage my photo and email archive on the platform.
Better deals are available for ~$300, even with tariffs and AI supply chain issues.
Once Apple delivers a MacBook with USB-C docking capability for $500-600, all of the big PC vendors are going to have to offer the feature at the same price point.
Existing laptops without the capability will have to be blown out of inventories cheap.
USB-C docking will be the “killer app“ this year.
I have 24GB and 1TB on my MacBook. Much more than I really need. Why? Because I wanted it and it’s my money.
Lightroom does run fast. It would probably run the same speed with 16GB, where such a statement gives the fanboys gastric distress.
up and with coffee in the pot. I think I can recommend the big moka pot, if you want to make more than two little espresso cups at a time. It’s heavy, with thick metal for the lower pot and thin stainless for the upper ‘pitcher. The design flares the bottom, so that more heat hits it, and so it’s more stable. The only real question is if the silicon gaskets are available, but they might be the same size as the name brand…
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54F, sunny and clear. another beautiful day.
I will try to get the hall bath electrical roughed in today, and get my truck unloaded and stuff put away. That should be doable.
Slept in because I could and after waking at 3, 5, and 8am, I needed a bit more. FWIW, three Lemonades cookies bumped my sugar to 140… more than a Little Debbie stick donut.
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time for breakfast, and hopefully the coffee will be done soon, the only real drawback is how long the moka pot takes.
n
Nothing guilty looking about this…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-norway-pm-attempts-suicide-after-epstein-linked-raid-corruption-charges-report
It’s a big club…
n
Can I buy a new desktop with Windows 11 Pro and a CD / DVD drive anywhere from a reputable builder ? Or will I have to use an external USB CD / DVD drive ?
I got headhunter spam from “stellantits.com”. Typical Indian attention to detail or outright spam? Who knows? Get deleted either way.
For work I just bought some Dell Pro Max towers and was able to get an internal DVD drive, though not Blu-ray. I would frankly just go with a usb external so you don’t limit your choices.
Sony discontinued production of BluRay writeable media. Others will continue to manufacture discs, but Sony holds control of the license.
Something is up with BluRay. Sony also ended production of a BluRay recorder similar in function to a VCR, a product never seen in the US, but popular in Japan.
The PC vendors know what’s coming.
BC: Pet Rocks for $2.99
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2026/02/24
Oh yeah, the monkey trick allows one to do all sorts of crazy things. For now.
“Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuits Against Energy Giants”
https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/industrynews/news/55359373/supreme-court-to-decide-on-climate-lawsuits-against-energy-giants
“The court’s decision on whether to shield energy companies from climate lawsuits could significantly impact future climate litigation. The case, involving major oil firms and local governments, raises questions about legal responsibility and federal preemption in addressing climate change costs.”
It is way past time for SCOTUS to do this. The lawyers are trying to get a free piece of the energy companies just like they got a free piece of the tobacco companies. 30% to 50% of your electricity and gasoline bills could go to lawyers retirement funds if this is not stopped now.
Feels like the Great White North here … well, not really but it is chilly. It was 41F and dropping when I went to bed. Nice during the day, with the nuclear fire in the sky, but as soon as we rotated out of its magnificent radiation, it got chilly willy. I expect today to be the same.
It was 37 F at the office last night when I left to go home at 2 am. The office is a mile away from the Brazos River which affects the weather around it a lot. By the time I got home, 5 miles away from the Brazos River, it was 40 F.
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Yah, sure, it was expressed as a means to the end of increasing social disorder.
But, considering the anarchotyrannical “social order” we now “enjoy”, would killing all of the lawyers actually make things worse?
Just make sure to bundle in all of the lobbyists and activists. Many but not all of them are lawyers and we don’t want to miss any.
Golden Moment: Men’s Olympic Hockey Team Descends on White House, Prepares for the SOTU
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/24/golden-moment-mens-olympic-hockey-team-descends-on-white-house-n2199533
Too bad the women’s team had prior commitments–I hear Shakey’s is a booger with their non-refundable pizza party deposits.
After Massive Loss To USA, Entire Canadian National Hockey Team To Be Euthanized For Being ‘Sad’
https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/24/after-massive-loss-to-usa-entire-canadian-national-hockey-team-to-be-euthanized-for-being-sad/
So we have chinese harvesting organs on demand for western clients. State assisted suicide, essentially for anyone that wants it. Experimental surgeries for all…
JEP thought it wouldn’t come, but it has.
n
Pournelle was an optimist.
“Despair is a sin.
We haven’t seen human flesh at the supermarket … yet.
We haven’t seen human flesh at the supermarket … yet.
You havent been to the “special” market.
As I proposed before, energy companies should announce that they are suspending sales in Boulder while litigation is pending “out of an abundance of caution” to meet their fiduciary duties to their shareholders.
During the same press conference they can note that they are considering expanding the policy to the entire state of Colorado. They can assure reporters that they have checked the official capacity figures for wind, solar, and other non-fossil fuel sources in Colorado, and found that there is enough capacity there to meet demand. When asked what will happen when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow, they should state that they are sure that the governor and legislature will have to explain their plans.
Yes, though I’m not christian and don’t accept christian framing of sin. (I’d express it more as, If you give up, you’re a dumbass and a coward.)
The problem comes in taking an objective view of a very bad situation. The effort to avoid despair can lead one to downplay the seriousness of the situation or to reject logical projections of trends.
“Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal”
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/learning-from-minnesotas-somali-fraud-scandal/
“The massive public programs fraud committed almost entirely by Somali perpetrators has recently exploded in the national news. The controversy is centered in Minnesota, where the amount of money bilked from American taxpayers could prove to be as high as $9 billion. But the scandal is spreading to other states as well. When Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo published an article in the November 2025 issue of City Journal linking the fraud to the funding of Al-Shabaab—a Somali-based Sunni Islamist organization that is designated a terrorist group by several nations, including the U.S.—President Trump took notice and announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants. In late December, YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a 42-minute video that showed him knocking on the doors of Somali-run day care centers in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that seemed to have no children in attendance. The video went viral, quickly garnering more than 130 million views on X and 2.5 million views on YouTube. But while this story is new to most Americans, it is anything but new to Minnesotans and others who have been paying it the attention it deserves.”
Are any of the Somalis not involved in defrauding the USA ?
It is obvious that Walz is involved somehow. You don’t participate in that level of fraud without a payoff.
“A long overdue update to legacy computer software?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-long-overdue-update-to-legacy.html
“That being the case, Anthropic claims to have developed an AI system that can update legacy COBOL systems, convert them into modern coding languages, and replace the old systems with the new. This means it will have to read and understand COBOL (not always an easy task with rambling, much-modified legacy coding), break it down into more understandable chunks, rewrite each chunk in modern computer languages, test them for accuracy, produce easy-to-understand flow charts or other technical documentation for each of them, and gradually replace all that clunky stuff with modern software.”
My engineering software package that I write and sell for a living is 800,000 lines of Fortran 77 code and 650,000 lines of C++ code. I never could get my Fortran 77 code to work with the Fortran 90 compilers so I have been limping along on a 1990 F77, C, and C++ compiler from Watcom. I am now biting the bullet and converting my Fortran 77 code to C++ using a customized version of F2C that I modified to do about 80% of the work for me. I have about 150,000 lines of the F77 code converted to C++ now and am converting 5 to 10 subroutines a day when I do not have distractions known as customers. The hardest part is the indexing of arrays starts at one in F77 and starts at zero in C++. And the character strings are a total rewrite.
Sadly, the 1990 update for the Fortran language started the path of converting from a professional language to a hobbyist language. Every time I mention this, the Fortran language lawyers start screaming like banshees. None of them know what is like working with over a million lines of code in your desktop software.
Tuesday. Bedtime.
How nice it was to have a day off. I got lots of stuff done that had been back-burnered because of work. I did some banking stuff, talked to the glass fibre Internet people for the BOL, went to the pharmacy, bought some music online, had lunch out, went to the range.
A good day. Now for a good night. Goodnight!
They’re trying to satisfy 80% of the market. With “the market” being the number of people talking about it, not the number of lines of code or the number of people maintaining legacy code.
As for LLMs translating COBOL or other old code to new languages, libraries, and frameworks, let’s just say that I have my doubts. It would be great if it works, but that’s a mighty big if. If I were a vice president in charge of a corporation’s COBOL-based payroll system, I’d insist on 100% coverage by unit and integration tests and 100% successful pass rate by the new system. I suspect that what will be delivered will be similar to the replacement of C-based Linux command line utilities with Rust-based versions which pass “a significant fraction” of tests.
@Denis says:
Me too. Not much fun today. I’m right eye dominant, and in order to hit the target, I had to close my right eye. If I tried both eyes or right eye only, Nothing worked right. Left was clearer and sharper, and I was reasonably accurate.
I guess it’s time to move forward on that cataract thing. And see if there’s another, different problem.
I have managed to avoid all AI’s, except those forced on me by products like gmail and my android phone, and even those I don’t use. I just see their scat all over my screen.
If I wanted to play with one, specifically for app development code, all new, which is recommended? What should I expect to pay?
Say I had an existing webpage with paypal order code, and I wanted to spiff it up? Or I wanted a from-scratch iPhone and Android app that used the GPS and camera? And bearing in mind I’ve never even done so much as “Hello, world” in a phone app. I don’t even know what the tools and frameworks are.
Use the force, lpdbw.
Use the force, lpdbw.
Get a bigger caliber. .50 sounds nice.
12 ga. pistol, that’s what you want. Aiming is optional.
I’m happy that I managed to retrain during the months my right eye was healing from retina surgery, so I can hold a pistol right handed, but shoot left eyed. I was happy to go back to my right eye, and did ok with both eyes for a while, but now the right eye is degraded again.
Well, at least I have excuses to go to the range and train.
GodSteveF forbid I should be bored.“Supreme Court Halts Mail Delivery Lawsuit”
https://thelibertydaily.com/supreme-court-halts-mail-delivery-lawsuit/
“(The Center Square)—The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld a law that shields the United States Postal Service from liability when mail is intentionally not delivered.”
“The case, USPS v. Konan, centers around a Texas woman who sued the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly withholding her mail and interfering with its delivery. Lebene Konan cited the Federal Tort Claims Act, a law that allows U.S. citizens to sue the federal government for negligent or wrongful acts of federal employees.”
So, the Post Office is not required to deliver the mail that somebody pays them to deliver and the cops are not required to protect us, the citizens, who pay their salaries. So who the heck is required to do their jobs in this enlightened age ?
LMAO
Democrats Pounce: NPR Reports the DOJ Hid Epstein Files of Trump Sexually Abusing a Minor
Get tRump! GET HIM!
This has been debunked before, but now NPR (No Proven Record) claims there are pages and pages missing from the files about tRump. No sources, they are just missing because the DOJ deleted them. No proof of anything.
Epstein, tRump, tho.
The Dumbocrats are doing anything to negate the awesome photo of the US Men’s Hockey Team standing behind tRump in the Oval Office holding their Gold Medals. Some PLTs are trying to spread the rumor that the team won’t show up for the SOTU address. I’m sure the Dumbo’s will have their little white paddles with “F tRump” on one side and the “Maryland Man” on the other. I hope there are many chants of “USA! USA! USA!”.
Meanwhile, the US Women’s Hockey Team is reported to accept an invitation to a party in Vegas hosted by, checks note, Flavor Flav. LOL LOL ! I doubt this is happening. The team can’t be so dumb to hang with this misogynist piece of has been crap.
Men who “acted as” the father of a child, or who were identified as the father but did not contest the identification within some arbitrary time window. Paternity is irrelevant. They’re forced to work so that they can pay an arbitrary monetary amount per month, and often so that they can pay health insurance premiums and other add-ons. The payment amount is seldom reduced, regardless of economic conditions, so-called father’s physical condition, so-called father’s incarceration status, or other considerations.
Anybody not on the taxpayers dime, grifting off the taxpayer, or just plain ripping the taxpayer off.
Hi, Somalia.
As for the Post Office lawsuit, note that Thomas voted with the majority in stating that PO workers are shielded. I trust his judgment of Constitutionality and legal issues above all others, so I suspect the problem is with the law(s) that Congress passed.
Note that all of the Democrap-appointed “justices”, plus Gorsuch, a squish, voted to allow the lawsuit. I imagine that’s because they voted for the result that felt good rather than in accordance with the law as written.
It’s crazy how many Dumbos/PLTs/LSM are denigrating the US Men’s Hockey Team. These idiots won’t be happy until we are all squashed under PLT feet. A bunch of men winning the hockey gold means they are misogynistic, racist, losers.
Wake up, sheeple. You are going to be lined up with the rest of us. Listen to your PLT leaders.
Oh, yeah, the US Women’s Hockey Team not showing up at the White House is a BIG mistake.
Can you imagine the photo op behind POTUS with the women first, the men behind them, all holding their gold medals? A priceless memory and the sports endorsements would be through the roof.
I wouldn’t doubt the women were threatened with sanctions. All of them couldn’t make it. Bull.
Even I went to the White House when MrsAtoz was invited. I already knew Shrub was a RINO, but I still went. Who turns down an invite to the White House? Idiots, that’s who.
I would, unless I had a really strong reason to go. I’m not interested in dealing with security.
We are supposed to love our country and not necessarily our government, and respect the office, no matter which butt is temporarily sitting in the seat.
But tha’s ol’ fashioned.
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Time to shower and hit the road.
n
Apple devices use Xcode. Of course, that only runs on a Mac.
You will want 16 GB RAM at a minimum.
Two frameworks exist for the iPhone, Objective-C and Swift.
Google or use the Duck to find the lectures from Stanford CS193P if you want to get up to speed quickly.
The Stanford course, unfortunately, has emphasized Swift for a while. The old lectures for the Objective-C version may still exist.
If you are an experienced C/C++ programmer, you may like the Objective-C framework better, especially if you have existing business models in C++.
Understanding the MVC concept and OO development is a must with either framework. That was the conceptual leap my lead at the Death Star could not make.
Of course, he had two patents and I had none.
If you were a corporate VP you’d have not the slightest idea what those things are or how they work. That kind of knowledge is for the peons.
Yep. Thus:
Agreed.
Stallman is not happy about the propellerheads rewriting the coreutils in Rust.
I use the Pop! OS Ubuntu derived Linux to keep my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro off of the scrapheap, but the Rust-based Cosmic desktop environment is a noticeable drain on resources.
I’m sure an invite to you wouldn’t be because you are another bald white guy. It would be for a significant service to the country and to honor you. And I’m sure you would go for that.
Stallman is not happy about the propellerheads rewriting the coreutils in Rust.
Grep is already not fast enough me in perusing 6,000+ source code files. I would hate to have a 10X slowdown.
That many source code files means breaking out cscope, but using that tool is a mixed bag when dealing with C++.
My father-in-law had an encyclopedic knowledge of the legacy COBOL AT&T billing system, but instead of rising to the C-suite level, he traded the knowledge for bl*w jobs from the Asian women with whom he worked. That went on for decades, even after he left the company.
“If you had asked me five years ago, I would have told you that it was literally impossible for one man to cut the throat of every liberal professor in America. I am standing here to tell you that I have never been happier to be wrong.”
I’m using Devuan Linux with xfce. No GNOME bloat (though GNOME desktop is available on installation if you prefer it), no Rust utilities. SysVInit, not SystemD, though I didn’t much care about that. You don’t get Snaps on installation, which I did care about.
The Santa Rosa Mac Book Pro is a very peculiar piece of hardware, and I assume someone at System76 has one as a test system. Pop! OS is the only Linux which comes close to working properly.
The only feature not working right now is the ability to adjust the keyboard backlight using function keys, but, apparently, that is a common issue across a bunch of laptops.
I generally install Fedora if I don’t have to deal with Nvidia graphics hardware. The Gnome desktop is not terrible and mostly stays out of the way.
From what I understand, Linus himself uses Fedora since his working style is similar to mine — open a big terminal window and go.
Trump just mentioned “Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim “Trump Accounts””
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/02/michael-dell-susan-trump-accounts-donation/
“The Texas billionaires want to incentivize parents to claim investment accounts created under President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.”
Wow.
That many source code files means breaking out cscope, but using that tool is a mixed bag when dealing with C++.
I have a custom 32 bit version of grep written in assembly language that runs at the speed of light.
Many times I do not even know if the code that I am looking for is in my Fortran or C++ source code.
I asked the author a couple of years ago if he was going to make a 64 bit version but he is not going through that herculean task again.
USA! USA! USA!
Al Green running around with a sign “Blacks aren’t apes” shoving it peoples faces. Steve Scalise rips it out of his hands and has him thrown out. One of the Dumbo’s finest.
The hockey team arrives to a standing ovation, but only half the Dumbo’s stood.
USA! tRump, tho.
Who is the REALLY tall gentleman in the third row of the SOTU that Trump says named the Trump accounts ?
Meanwhile, BillyG uses his billions to buy farmland to control every thing we eat and stick mRNA clot shots in our butts. He is as bad as Soros.
Like to see them both on the Dec 31 headstone roll.
Well, about that, I hear the reason the rose garden is so great is the poop from the chicken coop hidden in back, might be worth the trip.
In December, Dell and his wife, Susan, announced that they would donate $6.25 billion to fund Trump accounts for up to twenty-five million children, providing $250 each for children below eleven years old who live in ZIP codes in the United States where the median family income is $150,000 or less and were born before January 1, 2025. Since they are for children who are older than those covered by the federal $1,000 grants, the Dell contributions will be for children who do not receive the federal grants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_account
Very nice touch, Mr.&Mrs. Dell. Thank you.
I note that while honoring the Olympic Gold-winning USA hockey team, Presdient Trump gave a nod to the Canadian team. He also mentioned that the women’s team will be visiting the White House in the future. Nice, but not the same.
If all the noses cut off to spite Trump were laid end-to-end, would anyone care?
I think that Baron Trump is now a foot taller than his 5’11” mother.
And Melania is gorgeous!
LMAO tRump is shitting all over plugs and the Dumbos.
We ended DEI. We closed the border. The Affordable Care Act sucks. We cut taxes. We cut fentanyl traffic. We’re getting 80M barrels of oil from Venezuela.
Zoom in on traitor Kelly and it looks like he is shitting his pants.
America first gets an ovation, except from the Dumbos. That speaks volumes.
JD Vance is now the Somali fraud czar.
Some of the Dumbos are wearing “Fuck ICE” buttons.
Crimmigrants GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE FAST!
Home. Only one car with no lights on the way home. Usually there is one, and often two or more.
Not too many cops on a Tuesday night either, not like a weekend.
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Got the truck unloaded and stuff sorta put away. Ran the homerun for the hall bath, but didn’t bring it down into the room. Got some decisions to make with the Mrs about switch placement, and space heater location.
The talc powder I rubbed on my arms mostly kept the fiberglas out of my pores. There were one or two that itch and poke, but it’s a huge difference from just bare arms.
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Had a bit to eat, now time to do a quick interwebs catchup and then bed.
n
“President Trump to the Hateful Democrats During SOTU: “THESE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!”
https://rumble.com/v768pdo-president-trump-to-the-hateful-democrats-during-sotu-these-people-are-crazy.html
WOW ! He told them to their faces that they are crazy and thieves.
You can hear Ilhan Omar screaming in the background.
“Democrats Hate Americans; Trump Proves it Live During SOTU”
https://rumble.com/v768ou0-democrats-hate-americans-trump-proves-it-live-during-sotu.html
“Those remain sitting are traitors to the United States of America”
“The democrat party is the party of death, and they hate the American people.”
Aesop lays out some thoughts on if the cartels decide to bring the war home to us…
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2026/02/if-you-live-south-of-canada-best-pay.html
Spicy times might arrive suddenly. Keep a watchful eye.
n
Cool, I got down voted again !
That is a lot of hot air. Claude can do some pretty nifty stuff, sure, but so can human programmers. These systems haven’t been touched for decades, not because no one could re-program them, but because of the simple adage “never touch a running system”.
These systems handle huge numbers of transaction and huge amounts of money. There is a lot of risk, no matter how the code is handled. As long as the old code can continue to get new hardware to run on, it’s going to keep on running.
It’s been a long time since I wrote Fortran, but: isn’t it also the case that multidimensional arrays are indexed differently? Row-major vs. column-major? Or does your code not need multidimensional arrays?
I have been using Xubuntu (also xfce) for years now. It’s 99% great. I do have occasional issues with my multi-monitor setup. Apparently XFCE has a few known and long-standing issues with Nvidia drivers. Never had a problem on a laptop, presumably because they just have the one display.