Probably more oppressive humidity and moderate heat. Yesterday I was sweating through my clothes just standing in the driveway poking at my new/old golf cart. The sun wasn’t even particularly broiling, since we had partly cloudy skies. It was just thick. At least there was some cooler gusting wind at night.
I didn’t volunteer yesterday. The lack of sleep clobbered me, and I had stuff to do at home, so I called off. I won’t go in today either.
What I did get done was some poking at the cart. I got all the parts out that I’ve accumulated stacked and I had a bunch of stuff that should be useful. Of course, some of the boxes of stuff were returns fraud, with an old used part returned to amazon. They’re still better than the fire damaged pieces. I also topped up the liquid level in the batteries, but I was missing the cord I needed for the charger. I’ve got one at my secondary location, so I’ll get that today. Other than the fire damage, it’s in pretty good shape.
Today I need to order parts for the cart, and also for my Ranger rear end project. I might order the parts I need to finish my BOL vent fan projects too, rather than roam the aisles at Home Depot. It’s faster to just go pull them off the shelf, but that can lead to unnecessary spending and time wasted shopping.
I also need to do a pickup, and a run to my secondary location. I can almost combine those trips. All in all, I think today will be busy.
Stack what you can.
nick
Wednesday! Good morning. Today is Thursday for me, so hooray. Still lots of work to do, though.
I learned something the other day. If one is making a small metal gub part that has both a bend and a hole in it, make the hole after making the bend, otherwise the bending will distort the hole. Ah well, no doubt I will get it right on the third try, maybe. Learning by doing is fun.
Nick, I am constitutionally opposed to golf carts, not only because they make golfers fat and lazy*, but because golf courses are a dreadful waste of what could and should be fine ranges.
Have a beautiful day!
* I will reluctantly allow those trollies for rolling a golf bag, rather than carrying it, although they definitely lead to gear inflation. Better to have a small, light, shoulder bag with a minimum of clubs, but know how to use them. The trollies are very good for long gubs, though.
In an academic context, what is “achievement” if not “knowledge and acquired skills”? Do those words have a special meaning in this context?
How is homelessness the concern of an HOA? Is there some reasonable and actionable connection or was this just an instance of bleeding heart spongeheads getting worked up and wasting everyone’s time?
Decompiling DOS x86 binaries.
The translator recognizes the Turbo Pascal object code patterns and translates to Rust.
Output from Borland’s compilers wasn’t exactly optimal.
The article gets the Phoenix BIOS reverse engineering technique wrong. The developers worked backwards from the BIOS spec in the PC AT reference manual. IBM even provided annotated source code in an appendix, but the personnel involved had to be “virgins”, never having seen that chapter of the manual and willing to sign affidavits to that effect.
Find Cringely’s “Triumph of the Nerds” PBS special from 30 years ago.
Reverse engineering from binaries does not produce great software. Linux ate the world because one developer started with the Posix spec and worked from the document, producing a “clean sheet” implementation of the environment which the major Unix players could not do being saddled with legacy customer requirements to run binaries without recompiling.
Legacy Unix vendors had to shoehorn Posix into their kernels, and, most of the time, the shoe didn’t fit.
You haven’t interacted with a Florida HOA in an area dominated by active duty and retired military personnel trying to squeeze a tenbagger out of their last off-base housing stipends using zero down VA loans from PenFed Credit Union and other financial institutions associated with the various services and wholly dependent on that customer base.
To paraphrase “Supertroopers”, once they get that off-base housing allowance in ‘em, they get all antsy in their pantsy, especially if they’re involved with one of the commands that involve a … flexible … morality.
Some people can’t turn it off.
Re ASVAB:
With disparate scales according to gender, the opportunity to inflate the score for the males declaring that they “identify as” female would be too good to pass up.
Last weekend one such “athlete” took first in a girls x-country meet a mere few weeks after competing as a male.
There are many people in the desert southwest where water is becoming an issue, that don’t like golf courses for the massive amounts of water it takes to maintain a golf course. When people are told they cannot water their lawns, then drive by a golf course with sprinklers running, it produces some wrath against the golf courses.
Even when I was a child, about 9 years old (1960), one of the years I spent with my mother, we lived in Victorville California. Everyone was encouraged to create a yard using desert fauna, something that did not require water. Many people had “rock yards” with colored rocks in a pattern. Others had basically dirt with desert plants. Yucca plants were common but had to be installed by a licensed person. The plant had to orientated in the same orientation as it was when it was dug up. I don’t think they can even be dug up anymore.
Our front yard was of the plant variety. I don’t ever remember having to water. The back yard was just dirt and weeds that could survive the desert. We did not own any yard machines, just some hand tools. A few of the neighbors had grass and it was glorious to be able to play on the grass.
In San Bernardino where my grandparents lived, everyone had lawns. Across the street from their house was a very wide strip of land all in grass. Running down the middle were the railroad tracks used by Arrowhead Springs to transport water from the springs to the bottling plant. There was a daily train, up to the springs, and then down from the springs. The huge strip of land, miles long, had sprinklers run by the city, I guess.
Edge of the Outback. Nick, did you see that Nathan was in a helicopter crash?
– I did. I wonder if it was work related? It’s a reminder that you never know what can happen.
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How is homelessness the concern of an HOA? Is there some reasonable and actionable connection or was this just an instance of bleeding heart spongeheads getting worked up and wasting everyone’s time?
– the residents complain about it, so the HOA “leadership” brings in someone to deflect the complaints and anger. Average age at the meeting was 60-70 and ¾ female. One even asked the cops if they should still be giving beggars money or should they give it to an org? FFS, don’t give to either.
Houston has more NGOs than homeless, by their own numbers. AND claim each homeless costs taxpayers ~$98K per year in services consumed, ie. cops and ER bills, public works clean up efforts, etc.
At least the lawyer running part of the city’s effort admitted that most of them are substance abusers or crazy. He flat out said they won’t go into a program or shelter with rules. That leaves a few that they can actually help.
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The second half of the meeting was with local .gov about drainage improvements we were supposed to get in 2018. Then new plan is to have “shovel ready” plans by EOY 2028.
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Flooding and crime are the two biggest complaints from our homeowners despite the HOA not being able to do anything about either. Aside from spending ~$550K per year on Constable patrol.
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In an academic context, what is “achievement” if not “knowledge and acquired skills”? Do those words have a special meaning in this context?
– apparently. Remember that “their goals are not your goals” applies in spades to “educational” institutions.
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Still 80F and still humid. A bit overcast at the moment.
Time to decide, nap or power thru?
n
If the ‘leaders’ were actually leaders and not retards, they would have responded to complaints not with bringing in someone but with kicks in the crotch. Feel free to come in tomorrow with more complaints. My boot is ready.
And if the HOA leaders were true leaders they would suggest that HOA funds be used to set up a paintball training course. And offering a free guest pass to the swimming pool for anyone who could hit an “unhoused” person in the eye from at least ten feet away.