Probably mid 70sF with the possibility of rain showers, and even T storms. Like yesterday. Although the rain was localized and sporadic, with periods that were almost nice in between. Definitely April showers. Still pretty nice for Spring.
Did sleep in a bit, and then did some stuff. Auction stuff first, then a couple of estate sales that had stuff I wanted to look at. I spent the afternoon doing that. Did score some boots that should resell in the $300 range, which made up for not finding anything made of silver.
Took one load from storage to the shop. If you have the chance to pick up Metro (wire) shelves, avoid the kind with “quick adjusting” clamps for the posts. If they are missing, they are a LOT more expensive to replace. Grainger had the best price and they were still about $12 per shelf. The classic style is available from many sources and is much cheaper.
Spent the evening doing mileage for taxes. Ugg.
Today should be more home stuff, working the list. And more mileage paperwork will definitely be on that list. Near the top if W has anything to say about it, and she does…
Other than that, it’ll depend on the weather mostly. And I’m sure something will come up that needs urgent attention. It usually does.
It would be nice to get some gardening in… W’s tomato plants are growing like crazy and she thinks that makes her a gardener… but we don’t really EAT tomatoes. Unfortunately, tomatoes are the only thing she ever wants to grow.
There is a steep learning curve to growing your own food.
So many things to do, get started on something. And stack, because growing your own food is a good way to go hungry.
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Sunday. Good morning!
Last day at the BOL. Back to base later, and back to work tomorrow. Meh. Ah well.
Lots to do before I leave, chiefly tidying the house and garage, plus gathering and loading stuff that needs to go from the BOL back to base.
Hmm. Try insalata caprese, perhaps – everything tastes better with mozzarella, basil and good olive oil… or give it an Hellenic twist as a Koriatiki – feta cheese, kalamata olives, cucumber and oregano.
Is it hot and sunny enough to dry your tomatoes? Dried tomatoes have a totally different taste (more umami) and mouth feel – you might find you enjoy them even if you’re not big on fresh ones.
QFT, and put better than I could have.
This nonsense was just ramping up when I entered the workforce post-Army, late 1980s. I had a front-row seat as my manager, a typical spineless corporate middle manager, explained that the various useless people in the division, every one of whom was either a woman or non-White, could not be fired because “we have to keep our numbers up”, could not be sidelined and kept away from important projects because that would be discriminatory, and in fact got larger than average pay increases “to encourage them to try harder”.
Not coincidentally, the whining about “pay gap” was also ramping up. Either IEEE or ACM did a study of salaries and found that women in tech were actually paid a couple percent more than men when controlling for years of experience etc. Not that that stopped the whining, of course.
Denis, I suspect that Nick meant that tomatoes are not a staple crop. They’re a side dish or an additive, not something to keep you alive over the years.
Lunduke has been chronicling the woke assault on Linux and FOSS for some time now.
The biggest threat to Linux right now is the code bloat introduced with Rust and the resume requirement for the language in HR departments considering anyone for Kernel/system developer positions on the platform.
Rewriting the GNU utilities in Rust is going to lead to a critical security issue.
A couple of percent?
Last year, when my employer applied a lot of pressure for me to learn Go and bail out the diversity hire developer driving the efforts centered on that language and runtime, my quick estimate at the time was that the salary discrepancy was a few percent.
The reality turned out to be more like 20%.
71 F and very moist and very cloudy this morning. The big fusion reactor in the sky may take a while to burn through. If, it burns through today at all.
I am convinced that our current sun models are not good for the invisible wavelengths. The big guy really generates an incredible amount of energy and Earth absorbs a very small amount of that energy. Probably way less than 1%.
The minimum Ubuntu memory requirement going to 6 GB RAM is a “Ruh Roh” moment, the proverbial canary in the Linux coal mine.
The install of the Ubuntu-based Rust-heavy Pop! OS that keeps my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro from being tossed on the scrap heap hasn’t been usable in 6 GB for at least a month.
Total output of the Sun absorbed by the Earth?
That would be way less than 1%
Time to build the Dyson Sphere.
Also seen on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, the first exposure to that theory for most in my age range and the demographics running behind us watching in reruns.
More like a fraction of 1%. Consider the size of the sun with energy emitting from the entire sphere. Then the earth, 93+ million miles away, catches a very minuscule portion of output. Just a tiny sliver of the output of the sun.
Should hit 60F with rain, today. No complaints, California desperately needs some more rain and snow.
Lows in the 30s and highs around 70 for the rest of the week.
I set up the little diesel heater again yesterday, this time with a slightly better layout where the 12 V transformer is inside the house and power runs out to the heater proper. This way I don’t have to worry about weatherproofing.
Off to do my grocery shopping.
The minimum Ubuntu memory requirement going to 6 GB RAM is a “Ruh Roh” moment, the proverbial canary in the Linux coal mine.
Is this the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Linux ?
Is any part of the Linux kernel going to Rust from C ? Or is the Rust portion in the system shell utilities ?
I don’t know what varieties you grow, but the modern “water bombs” really are not very interesting. Try old varieties, expecially the samll tomatoes. More flesh, less water, and the different varieties each have their own flavor.
That’s the story basically everywhere. The feminists look at studies that only check for the age of the person, ignoring years spent out of the work force. Compensate for that, and there is no salary gap. So the next trick is to compare completely different professions. Women working in child care earn less that men working on oil platforms, or whatever.
Fact is: society has overcompensated. Boys are at a significant disadvantage in school now. Most college students are women. Most new doctors and lawyers are women (at least here, dunno about the US). Yet the pressure remains to give women advantages because of their gender.
Ubuntu is just being realistic. Ubuntu will install on less – I’m pretty sure 2GB would work. But open a browser on a couple of modern websites, and you will need that 6GB.
Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure that Win-11 won’t even install on a system at the very bottom of the Microsoft minimum requirements (due to the processor). And if it does, having only 4GB of memory will leave to massive swapping as soon as you try to do basically anything…
I suspect that Nick meant that tomatoes are not a staple crop. They’re a side dish or an additive, not something to keep you alive over the years.
– this is true, but at the time I meant that we don’t eat them at all. W will occasionally buy some for hamburgers, or thinking she’ll put them on a salad. I end up throwing the soggy shells away. If we have fresh, we will do the tomato, mozz, and basil w/onion salad, but only once or twice. It’s like fruit. We always have some in the house, but unless I send it with the kid to school, it goes uneaten.
We don’t eat or use red sauce either, so no real need for making tomato sauce.
We don’t really eat olives or pickles either.
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78F and overcast. Street is dry so no rain yet, but it looks like it’s coming if you look at the sky. Looking at the radar map, no rain for us today, and forecast is for sunny tomorrow. Huh. The pattern is moving NE past us to the north. Bryan looks like it’s gonna get hit, and the BOL might get hammered too. Checking the weather station there, looks like we got 0.3 inches of rain in the last 24hours.
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Time for some coffee
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Sure there is. Women are paid more than men, once you adjust for position, years, etc. In most fields, women are paid more than men if output can be (and is) quantified.
That doesn’t even take into account the way that, at least in the technical fields, barely-competent women tend to be promoted to less-hands-on positions at a much higher rate than men. This almost always comes with a pay raise and increased authority over the people actually doing the work. What is not allowed to be spoken is that this gets Barbie Bumblefingers away from touching the database, which she screws up at least once a month, while Ken Can-do is stuck as an “individual contributor” because they can’t afford for him to be taken away from keeping the system running.
Yes.
The trick is to pick a distro whose maintainers have said that they will not be adopting the Rust-based kernel.
I switched to Devuan a few months ago. No regrets. They’re staying away from the rusty kernel as long as possible or until it’s been battle tested, sticking with GNU utils, using init rather than systemd, aren’t forcing snaps or flatpaks, aren’t forcing GNOME, no forced updates when Ubuntu thinks you need them rather than when you want to pull them.
I just had to repair some of the aluminum facing (?) at the roof of the house. I noticed a few days ago that it had come loose – wind, no doubt – but today was the first time the wind settled down enough for me to go up a ladder. Speaking solely for myself, I won’t have my feet 17′ off the ground with 20MPH winds, gusting to 30, unless it’s an emergency.
My ladder was (barely) long enough for me to reach the part of the roof I needed to work on. It’s a Werner flexible stepladder or whatever they call it. Straightened into a long ladder it’s about 22′ long, just enough. I have a 32′ ladder at my brother’s house, brought up there at least ten years ago when he needed it for something and never brought back because I didn’t need it, but that would involve several hours of driving during an already-full day.
The problem I hadn’t allowed for was the damned bushes and trees right where I needed to put the ladder. Had to be off to one side rather than centered on the problem area. Luckily, I have long arms, 6 ½’ tip to tip, so I could reach to where I needed to.
I got the facing attached to the roof beam sorta-kinda well enough for now. I had to use a screw because I couldn’t get both hands over there to hold both a nail and a hammer. The facing is not fully tucked under the plastic lip (?) to keep the rain out because the aluminum facing was pretty badly bent and, again, I couldn’t flatten it well enough with only one hand. I should figure out what to do with this at some point, but the edge of the roof with shingles overhangs it enough that not more than a few drops of water should get in if the wind is from the right direction. (Famous last words, I know. Next thing we know, the entire front of the house will fall off because of water damage.)
The reason the facing came loose is that the builder held up an 8’x8″ length of thin aluminum with three finishing nails. The small head was small enough that the facing popped right off it. Crappy construction from foundation to roof.
An additional nuisance was that I had put the chickens in the garden to scratch for grubs just before I got the ladder out. Not long after I got up to roof level I saw a hawk circling. Had to put my tools back in my belt, go down, get the fluffheads to safety, and go back up. Nuisance, not the end of the world.
Also, the wind started picking up again just as I was finishing.
Could have been worse. Wife could have come out to help.
Wife could have come out to help.
— could have called 911 after you fell… or stood on the ground yelling at you how to do it. That’s helping, right?
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(quirk of the text box today- if you drag and drop into the box, the insert marker goes away so you have no idea where the focus is, or what you insert point is.)
“quirk of the text box today”
Nah. This “feature” comes and goes. Sometimes F5 is the cure. Other times, close this page. And other times, re-start Firefox.
It does not seem to be OS related. I’d get it on Win11 and now on Mint.
Seems to me the U.S. went with that same dog and pony show using a different attribute that reflects the ability to not be seen in a dark corner. It made no difference except to eliminate some qualified people and promote the less than qualified.
I wonder how Malt-O-Meal or Cream of Wheat would work as breading on something like pork chops. Bread, fry, simmer in gravy until the meat is cooked. Or simmer in wine and lemon juice ala Chicken Picatta.
Store bought bread crumbs work. Panko, a kind of bread crumbs works. Why not Malt-O-Meal?
I need to dig in the freezer for pork chops.
Hmmmm, pork chops….
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Hmmm. Just a couple hours of sprinkles, maybe a few minutes of light rain. California needs more.
Malto Meal? I think I would be more tempted to use corn flakes. I the past I have used crushed saltine crackers. Always add lots of black pepper and garlic powder.
“It made no difference except to eliminate some qualified people and promote the less than qualified.”
Fun story time! At a job I had, the boss had an idea for something. I figured it out and made it work. Then he died and I had a new boss. I could generate all of the reports with maybe an hour of my time. I had my other job duties down to about 3 hours a day. Multitask, right? I mean, while the computer is doing its thing, one can be filing crap or working the Xerox.
So they decided to make this function a Real Job. Well, I trained a couple of folks. They posted the job. I applied because hell yeah, it was a $1000 a month raise and maybe a way out of the dead end job of File Clerk. Nah, gonna give it to the black chick that’s here as a temp worker. “We need to make a quota.”
Fine. Did you know she’s 4 and half months pregnant? Stunned silence.
Well, this position requires a college degree! Ok, whatever, I didn’t finish college because of my motorcycle wreck, but I figured this process out, I taught her how to do it. I can get in done in an hour, she takes six hours.
Hey, make me a File Clerk 5 or whatever level is higher than what I have and give me a $500 raise. You’ll save money.
Nope. Ok, man. When she goes out on maternity, I’m not doing her job. “sputtering noises”
I didn’t. I got a couple of complaints from folks that knew I could do this. Hey, go talk to my bosses boss and ask why I got skipped over for a black woman temp worker. And besides, even though I taught her, I’m not a college graduate and so, I’m too stupid to do this task.
She was out on maternity for three months and then only worked three days a week for the next six months because of “childcare”.
My only regret is that I pulled my retirement money. I needed funds to build fencing here. My dad said, hey, you should have left the money there. might not pay much more than the electric bill, but that’s not a bad thing.
Shrug.
I’ve used crushed saltines. They work great! Taste better than store bought bread crumbs, too.
I just had an idle thought that if corn bread mix works, malt-o-meal or cream of wheat should also work.
I guess I need to fry up some eggs for supper or maybe breakfast for the next few days. Downstairs fridge has almost 15 dozen eggs; probably will be a full 15 dozen or even over when I gather eggs later today. That’s after my wife brought 2 ½ dozen to the upstairs fridge a couple days ago and I made several batches of cookies for The Child yesterday. (Her friends and classmates at college have noticed that she always hands out cookies after she’s come here. They’ve encouraged her to go home more often. To date, none has offered to pay for gas or for the ingredients.)
A couple weeks ago I had half a dozen eggs for supper (plus a slice of chicken breast or whatever meat I had in the fridge) for most of a week to bring the count down to a reasonable number. Guess I can do that again, though standing and frying them is more nuisance than I usually want to bother with. If I have oatmeal for breakfast I’ll throw in three to six eggs or put the same number on top of a can of hash in the skillet if I have that. And despite all this, the hens are laying more than we normally eat.
re pork chops, I commonly bake them with a healthy layer of stuffing on top, usually served with steamed vegetables on the side.
Recently MrAtoz brought up the kerfuffle between Alan Ritchson and a neighbor.
Here’s a lawyer, who specializes in self defense criminal cases, analyzing several videos of the incident.
Bakery in the local grocery typically puts stuffing on deep discount after Thanksgiving. I usually get a bag or two and process it into bread crumbs. 1-1/2 cups into a ziploc bag, push the air out, and put a stack into a tupperware container and into the fridge. Gives me bread crumbs for pork chops, tenderloins, and grandma’s meatloaf recipe.
Forgot to mention above that The Child will be taking not only two batches of cookies but 2 ½ pounds (42oz) of jerky with her in a day or two. Don’t remember if I mentioned it previously. She was grumbling about the price of jerky in the grocery store so I found the dehydrator and the meat slicer (ref yesterday’s comment about not having storage space in or near the kitchen, so we have to tuck things away where we can) sliced up and marinated 5 pounds of fresh beef and chicken, plus coated half a pound of bacon in dry seasoning, and made four batches over the next couple days. Then had to work to keep the wife from stealing it all.
An interesting way to get breading, or anything, to stick to chicken (or pork) for frying; dip the meat in melted ICE CREAM, and then dredge it in seasoned flour, or Panko crumbs, or whatever. We haven’t tried this yet, but plan to. I expect that the sugars in the ice cream contribute to the stickiness that helps hold the coating to the meat.
https://x.com/heyitsmeCarolyn/status/2035747948978471097
I expect that the sugars in the ice cream
– more likely the carrageenan gum.
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A contract I worked on was an 8A federal contract, for small disadvantaged firms. Lot of points on contract award for affirmative hiring. We had a lady, black, handicapped in a wheelchair. Heavy duty wheelchair, maybe built by Caterpillar, eight ply tires, perhaps 3 phase drive motors. She was worth a lot of money in the DOE hiring game. She did nothing all day. Everyone knew it. She kept the company in the contract. She got job offers from other companies almost weekly. One of the higher paid employees.
Now, I don’t want to say that the government screws up everything it touches, but…
64 bit. I don’t think any major distribution ships a 32 bit version anymore.
The Linux Kernel has support for Rust drivers, but I don’t think a lot of work happens in the Kernel space in Rust right now.
The fastest way to a Hot Skillz resume entry is to use an AI to rewrite the standard utilities available from GNU in Rust. Somehow, using AI avoids copyright problems.
My understanding is that using GPLd code as the basis for a rewrite, even in another language, is viewed as a derivative work and thus still subject to the terms of the GPL. Whether a civil court judge would agree is probably down to chance.
During my tour at the PinHeadAgon, I ran across many civilian useless turds given lifetime employment due to their various handicaps. Mostly fat females.
Another problem with firing DA civilians is that the process takes longer than the typical posting of a responsible officer. I saw that where my boss, a Major, knew that one “worker” didn’t even pretend to work. There had to be counselling, plans for improving (I don’t think they were called PIPs back then but they were the same idea), three month wait, more counselling, wait, more counselling, then start the termination paperwork, more wait, next phase of paperwork, filing a grievance with the union, meetings between the officer and the union rep, which the union delayed as long as possible, and probably more steps. It took several years and my boss was transferred to his next posting before the meeting with the union rep. His replacement was familiar with the situation but would have had to start over from the beginning rather than pick up where the previous boss left off.
Remind me to find JFK’s grave so I can piss on it.
Which is the weirdness I mentioned last week. Cool, independent confirmation.
On major cases, I no longer believe in chance. Judges are bought and sold.
My lawsuit against the Covid mandate demonstrated abuses of due process and their own rules at the district and appeals level. But the USSC declined to hear it.
Prime example: District court held no hearings, and no discovery, and yet made a finding of fact in our case. Dismissed it, and the appeals court ignored rule 12(b)(6), which is supposed to be hard-and-fast.
I read about an ai operated store (from concept to setup to opening to operation) and the impression I got was the ai acted like an autistic pre-teen, notably with the confabulation of purchasing tea from a vendor when the store does not stock tea, and the explanation generated by the ai. Other interactions the article described reinforced that impression, like vendor and employee hires, and then monitoring employees. Things that make me go Hmm…
Windows 11 home or pro makes you input an email address for each user unless you have a domain controller. And then it validates the email address by send a pin to it.
Evil.
You’re, like, all cynical n stuff.
I asked DDG about this:
And it responded
Although you don’t have to use OneDrive afterwards, as I recall. And the PIN requirement is part of the increase in use of “Two Factor Authentication” that is almost everywhere. 2FA helps prevent unauthorized users – unless they have access to your phone and/or email.
If love bugs were biters , I would be out in the backyard with a flamethrower. There are millions of love bugs out there.
Last time I set up a Windows 11 installation – I opted for not having any internet connection which then let me install with a local account.
One occasion I installed with an internet connection, used a throw away Microsoft account, then created a local account and deleted the Microsoft account.
No need to go further, any further qualifiers.
On my contract in Oak Ridge, Marietta had dumped five of their most useless employees on the contract. My company was a sub to Lockheed Marietta, who was a sub to DOE, who was a sub to the Navy, who was a sub to the Air Force, who was a sub to someone else. The LM employees were useless, did nothing useful, and what they did was incompetent.
The “Cracker Jack, top notch” programmer assigned to the project, was a horrible programmer. Her code rarely worked, changes broke what worked. I could code rings and circles around her best effort. She got really ticked at me for fixing her code and filed complaints against me which I had to defend.
Which is the weirdness I mentioned last week
– I thought someone might have mentioned it. I remember the comment about weirdness, but couldn’t remember the specific weirdness.
I rarely drag and drop, preferring ctrl keys.
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>>We don’t eat or use red sauce either, so no real need for making tomato sauce.
We don’t really eat olives or pickles either.
That all will slowly(?) change as the ITEOTWAWKI zombies still want to eat…
To expand on @PaulTheManc’s comment, this guidance is from Microsoft via DDG on how to bypass the need to setup Win11 without using/creating a Microsoft account.
The point of a Rust rewrite would be to get the experience and the resume entry.
Commercial Unix OS development is dead.
Linux is a clean sheet Posix environment without the legacy commercial OS baggage.
OS X is essentially FreeBSD.
Well it rained off and on all day. So much for my prediction or the local weather guy. And even though the bulk of the storm went over the BOL, they only got about ⅓” while we got almost a full inch.
Slow and steady wins the race?
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got my mileage and my invoice for my client done.
cleaned up and put some stuff away. Puttered around.
Not a super productive day but the paperwork is done.
Yea!
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bed and a book, I think.
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