Well, maybe we’ll have a clear day again, because the weather liars said it would be raining. Yesterday was clear from edge to edge, and it got hot. Cooled right off after sunset though, and I didn’t even sweat cutting the grass. I waited, because it was 101F in the afternoon…
Did auction stuff in the morning, then pickups in the afternoon. Did some office stuff too. Got a pile of stuff for the BOL and some hobby stuff, with a few other things mixed in, mainly gifts for the kids. Gotta refill the present closet after the birthdays. After I got home I spent some time working on a piece of gear I’ll sell on ebay. I’ve ordered new parts, so that will push to next week. I’ll have to find some other stuff to list in the mean time. That WON’T be a problem as there are stacks and stacks.
Today I’ve got a couple more pickups. More BOL stuff and some household stuff mainly. I don’t really buy much outside of food at regular stores anymore. Specialty items I can’t wait for are the main thing. Everything else eventually comes through the auctions.
Then it goes into the stacks. Eventually it gets used. Or ages out…
Stack-a while you can, monkey boy.
nick
Sitting in a meeting. Blessed air conditioning. Coolth. I live here now 🙂
Lynn, still thinking of you and your parents.
Using Python:
from mpmath import mp
mp.dps = 476
print(mp.pi)
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518858
The fact that the program is only three lines means someone has way too much time on their hands.
I’m sure an equivalent exists using Boost in C++.
Or Go if you’re up to date on your Hot Skillz.
The Go debacle continues at work. The kewl kids just figured out that a hundred or so threads running on a CPU with limited cores means that that the functions reading sensor values from a web interface which are supposed to run every second can’t fire that frequently.
Of course the kewl kids are using the stock http retrieval function which is synchronous. Even if the HTTP server was 1.1 (it isn’t) reading would still take place synchronously without pipelining AFAIK.
But what do I know. Heed the words of the Shat:
“Young minds. Fresh ideas. Be tolerant.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-igbPoFhcw
“Besides, by law, pi is 3 now, right?”
One of many reasons th Democrat are doing so well.
“Young minds. Fresh ideas. Be tolerant.”
and don’t give them sharp tools to play with
Someone discovered the DBus IPC hammer in the last year.
Of course now everything looks like a nail.
I found this: ADB AppControl https://adbappcontrol.com/en/
It removes phone apps without needing root. Uninstalled apps are moved to your PC. Deleted apps are gone.
You can tinker with some phone settings. I suppose you might need to change the screen resolution.
There is a feature of pre-made lists of things “safe” to remove. Basic is free. The higher levels require you to pay for the program. I looked, it’s $9.99 for the product key. I’m thinking about it, he deserves to be paid something for his work.
My phone came with a football game. Gone! Why do I need a connector to Exchange? Or things like GMail? Audible? Google Play Movies and Google Play Music? All are gone. So is Hangouts.
There are a few more things I never use. I need to dig in and see what the Verizon stuff does other than crash when not tracking me.
Speaking of phones, the Mullah’s are cracking down on the use of iPhones to contact Starlink and get outside news in Iran.
That suggests a ploy for the Israel and the United States: drop a few thousand unlocked iPhones (with tiny parachutes) that have Starlink capability over Tehran and the other major cities.
If you can get Apple to turn off the various radio beacons they have running by default, to make them less trackable, even better.
Football gambling game?
If so, the NFL is shameless.
Have Tim put the iPod Touch back into production and drop a few hundred thousand into Iran loaded with “Cowboy Carter”, Taylor Swift, and “Anyone But You”.
Throw in “F1”, which should be huge in international markets soon.
86F sunny and clear. Hooah.
I’ve got a mug of tea steeping.
Time to get a shower and get moving.
n
Real-time programming is both an art and a science. But of course, modern Computer Science college programs don’t have time to spend on theory and history of computing. Too much Hot Skillz and PLT stuff to cover.
Also, modern H1B programmers probably don’t realize what they’re trying to do is Real-time programming, either.
I did real-time stuff for a major aerospace company’s flight simulator in the lat 80’s, and for the motor lab of a major electric motor manufacturer. The motor lab was pretty cool, used PDP-11’s, and was used for QC from the assembly line and checking prototypes agains specs. Measured a bunch of parameters in millisecond windows during test runs.
If you don’t know your frame rate, and don’t know you’re breaking your window, you’re doing it wrong.
Legend is a bit of a reach.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14867433/Star-Trek-legend-Peter-Henry-Schroeder-dies-surrounded-family-tributes-pour-popular-actor.html
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Maybe it’s not extreme for me to only wear natural cotton outer layers when flying…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-14864985/doctor-plane-passengers-warning-flight-clothing-leggings-jeans.html
Doc doesn’t like tight pants because of circulation issues. Then adds–
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“unless it’s invisible to the user, I don’t use it, so am not affected.”
I saw a teeshirt:
“My password is the last 8-digits of pi”
so I changed mine to the next-to-last 8-digits.
ROTFLMAO.
I needed that.
Most CS programs offer Embedded Systems as an elective, but, as of late, it isn‘t very popular.
Most don’t offer any Control Systems at all, and, unless the CS student is ambitious, they won’t have the Linear Systems prerequisite to take it from the EE catalog.
I’m normally not a stickler for prerequisites at the undergraduate level, but going into Controls without that background will be a problem.
If you can‘t derive the formula for the nth Fobonacci number on a piece of paper without a reference or the Interwebz, you don’t have the background to take the class.
What really surprises me is that the developer from our group who took on the project to learn the Hot Skillz is a Mech E who evidently worked in that field for a while.
Ah, control systems. I did some of that when I came here in 1972. We had a hardware in the loop simulation that was run by analog computers, because digital computers were too slow, and the hardware couldn’t be made to run artificially slow. Fun times. We also had an all digital simulation. It was not as well developed.
The only computer course offered in college was one divided into analog and digital. The analog lab was a blast, but the digital part was run on an IBM 1400 (?) series mainframe in noninteractive batch mode. I hated that, because it was a lot of trouble for little learning.
I had previously designed HF and VHF hardware, so analog control systems were a bit unfamiliar. Since I had also done some mainframe hardware design, I brought some digital techniques into the mix. Fun times.
I’ve never encountered the Fobo sequence in my maths degrees.
Hello, fellow rectal-orifice friends.
Didn’t Dr Pournelle used to advocate bombing them with weapons of cultural mass destruction – blue jeans and Walkmans of rock music?
Cultural weapons of mass destruction.
They still work. If you want proof go watch “Juan of the Dead”.
Someone saw a decadent Western movie, part of a trilogy themed around flavors of a mass produced ice cream novelty item.
A wannabe quant friend says it is meaningful in stock analysis, and I think the sequence is useful for biology.
I’ve never played with it outside of a programming class assignment on recursion or Linear Systems test, however.
That reminds me — the trailer dropped for Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man”, but I don’t mess with YouTube at work.
Or deriving the time-value of money equations.
That group of formulas was a huge part of the EIT the year I took the tests in the 80s.
It’s Fibonacci.
That‘s what I get for typing on my phone during builds at work.
i should be taking an AI training.
You need “alignment”?
While I never wrote code for control systems, my time at National Bancshares provided an interesting opportunity in main frame coding that I had never done.
The bank was joining the PULSE network. No code existed and it was my task to integrate the holding company’s ATM and accounts into the PULSE network. This was not going to be batch processing.
PULSE had a heartbeat transaction that would come in every so many seconds. Just respond and move on. It was also necessary for the holding company to issue heartbeat transactions to PULSE so that the holding company knew PULSE was alive. It sometime irritated the PULSE people when the network people at the holding company knew PULSE was having a problem before PULSE knew.
There foreign transactions (ONUS) from the PULSE network that were not a big problem. Get the transaction, do what it wanted, return the response. If the transaction failed due to an ATM fault write another transaction to the log reversing the amount and place the offending amount back into the account.
The difficulty was the transactions that were not ONUS from our ATMs. Those had to be carefully tracked. A transaction was initiated to PULSE, the state of the ATM stored, and the code waited for another transaction, either from PULSE or from the ATM controller. While doing this it was also necessary to monitor those transactions to PULSE for timeout. This required a response to the ATM controller, and the failed transaction logged. Well, in fact all transactions were logged.
This required the code to wake up every 3 seconds at a minimum, look through the ATM tables for any pending transactions. This same code was run through for every transaction from PULSE or the ATMs. Several timers were involved, well sort. It was time stamp that was checked to see if the timeout had been reached for an ATM. The 3 second clock was provided by another program did nothing but send a message to my program every 3 seconds to trigger the ATM table scan.
My program could not continuously loop as that would have had a severe impact on the mainframe performance. My program would do its deed, then wait for a message, thus not active all the time. When my program did process the needed tasks it was done in sub-second range.
Each transaction had a fee associated with the transaction. Transactions ONUS incurred a fee to the holding company from PULSE. Transactions the holding company handled for foreign cards, cards from other banks, etc. the holding company was paid a fee from PULSE. Transactions that were authorized were at one rate, denied transactions at another rate.
I. had the exceptionally brilliant idea to track every denied transactions from foreign cards to PULSE. PULSE was running on STRATUS systems which were fairly reliable. When PULSE failed to respond to a transaction, the failed transaction was stored in a “store and forward file”. When PULSE became active again as recognized by the heartbeat transaction, the contents of this file was slammed to PULSE in one massive burst.
This on occasion had the effect of bringing PULSE to its knees again. I was told to stop doing that. I modified the code to send five transactions every 3 seconds until the “store and forward” file was empty. This significantly increased the holding company’s revenue from PULSE. PULSE was not happy, but it was well within the rules.
Two other banks in Texas, Broadway National Bank, and some bank holding company in Austin purchased my code for $25K a copy, paid to the holding company. I never received a dime for the code. Selling on my own would have abruptly ended my career with the holding company.
This entire event processing scenario was entirely new to me. Process one transaction doing one thing, the next transaction was an entirely different kind, and keeping track of dozens of ATMs and the status of the ATM transactions. Add in the S&F file processing and it was fairly slick code that I was proud of creating.
I decided to download a “snapshot” of my BackBlaze B2 Bucket. That’s where my NAS is backed up. The zip file is about 1.3TB. The download says 11hrs, but the process stops after a certain time. Fortunately it resumes when I hit “Try Again”. I’m using Cyber Duck on Mac since it has a built in process for BackBlaze. I’m using a Sabrent docking station with a bare drive in it for storage.
Murderer Kohberger has admitted his guilt to avoid the death penalty. I wonder if part of the plea is to detail how he did it. He may not survive long in prison, unless another part of the plea is Club Fed somewhere.
Investigators never found the weapon, and the whole case rested on DNA on a knife sheath found near one body. The guilty plea saves the DA a lot of time and money.
A hung jury was not impossible in Boonies, Idaho.
IIRC, the defendant’s family had money.
The Old Guard 2 comes out today on Netflix. D5 and I are picking up cheese popcorn for viewing since the rest of the family will be out eating shrimp and crawdads at Hot ‘N Juicy.
Man, it has been, what, four years since TOG1? Charlize Theron isn’t helping the movie with her woke attitudes and her misandry. Men are for f**king and that is it for her. Letting her 3-year old son be a girl. That is bad parenting. A 3-year old can barely do anything.
I’m messing around with antennas in the backyard, and got stung by a wasp.
Between HOAs and wasps, I don’t know which is worse.
Tough to figure.
Neither one is sentient, but wasps are not evil…
I have seen more tattoos in this hospital than I have in the last year. Mainstream society has left me.
When you arrange your clothing to display your tattoos, something is crazy.
The OBBB has passed the Senate. However, we the no good dirt people, have no idea what remained in the House version. “We have to pass it to find out what is in it.” There better be language cutting off all bennies to crimmigrants. Defunding PP and NPR. No more tax on suppressors, etc. I have my doubts about all of that.
Looks like all of the spending cuts were removed in the Senate.
We had a Come To Jesus meeting today with 3 doctors, a PA, an RN, and us. Mom, me, middle brother, and my son.
2 months to stregthen for endoscopy for gall stones.
1 month to recover for gall bladder removal.
1 month to recover for move to rehab.
Dialysis three or four times a week.
Well that plan went out the window.
My expectation finally showed up. Dad’s white blood cell count has changed from 10 to 27 over the last 48 hours.
The gastro nurse practioner has a plan. She is going to crash his INR Thursday with vitamin K and plasma. Then do an ERCP endoscopy on Friday to remove the gall stones from the common bile duct.
We are starting dialysis right now using the jugular vein.
I do not expect Dad to survive the ERCP. Better than dying of sepsis though.
I was on yesterday for the first two comments. Smartphones are very disorienting.
If the nurse walks in wearing a thermal under her scrubs, chances are she has plenty of “ink”.
Tattoos are a serious midlife crisis thing for women my age and younger.
My friend’s divorce attorney always starts with an audit of any “ladies only” trips to Vegas, working her contacts in the tattoo parlors and weed stores appearing on the credit card statement, which usually leads to discovery of other activities which fall under the category “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
Yeah, right.
“Commiefornia-Based Canned Food Giant Files for Bankruptcy After 140 Years of Doing Business”
https://thelibertydaily.com/commiefornia-based-canned-food-giant-files-bankruptcy-after/
We buy Green Giant, not Del Monte, anyway.
Prices will be going up regardless.
Watch Pearl on youtube to see what the “ladies” are up to. littlepearlythings
80% of divorces are initiated by the women, who is usually bored or thinks she can do better because she “settled”. Most of the time, she’s already with someone else when she files.
Pearl has some good reaction vids of women regretting their tattoos.
n
Price has doubled since 2020. Used to be $1/can, now $2.
n
Still, Del Monte going under is bad.
If the brand fails to survive, this country is in serious trouble.
I finished Voyager a couple of nights ago. I didn’t expect it to end like it did. I don’t know how I expected it end, really. They tied up most of the loose threads.
The last few episodes had a bit of a “hurry up, we’re out of time” feel. After seven years, I suppose so.
I’ll watch it again in a couple years.
I think Del Monte makes the house brands for Kirkland and Safeway but I am not sure at all.
I finished Voyager a couple of nights ago. I didn’t expect it to end like it did. I don’t know how I expected it end, really. They tied up most of the loose threads.
Try Stargate SG1 next. It is very good until the last two seasons when the Oreii show up.
“Picard” is a continuation of all three mid 24th century “Star Trek” series and wraps Seven of Nine’s story nicely along with the rest of the Borg, including the Queen.
Robert Beltran passed on appearing in “Picard”, but Chakotay’s story was brought up to date in “Prodigy” along with Janeway’s.
I’m not going to spoil who else appears from “Voyager” in “Picard”. Lets say at least one more major character gets brought up to date at the end of Season Three.
The Doctor appears in “First Contact” and will appear in the upcoming “Starfleet Academy”, set 1000 years after “Voyager”.
Ensign Harry Kim finally gets promoted in the penultimate “Lower Decks”.
By the end of “Voyager”, Stage 8/9 era “Star Trek” had lost its most talented writers and was beginning to circle the drain.
“Enterprise” is good, with a cast much better than their material, but Paramount pulled the plug early, ending the 20 year run.
My aunt and uncle had a place just south of Salem after I had already left for the service. Next to their small farm was a large field with corn. Del Monte leased the field. Some guy came by when I was home on leave and told my aunt and uncle they were harvesting the field the next day. He said they were welcome to all the corn they wanted for personal use. We went and picked about 20 ears. Cooked that evening. That was really good corn.
The next day, early, four or five trucks showed up, a couple of harvesters, the harvesting began. It only took a couple of hours for probably 30 acres of corn. I asked one of the guys working how long before the corn was canned. He said most of the corn would be sealed in cans within two hours.
I wish we had picked 40 or 50 ears of that stuff.
There’s Been an Update on Deporting the Boulder Terrorist Suspect’s Family
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/07/02/theres-been-an-update-on-boulder-terrorist-suspects-family-n2659858
spoiler: buh-bye
The immigration status of the family (wife and 4 children) is “still not clear” but since the father overstayed his visa, and since the fact of their impending deportation makes it clear that they have no status inhibiting that said deportation, it’s moot.
The twist is that the article makes it sound like the suit might have had a different outcome if it had been brought in immigration court, not federal court.
Although the deportation of the family may not be “fair”, it’s a whole lot more so than being burned to death at a truly peaceful demonstration by some hate-filled foreign zealot. Maybe USA Today can do a follow-up on the family a year hence and keep the “horrible example” story going.
I grieve for the real victims.
Pearl has some good reaction vids of women regretting their tattoos.
I have seen a lot of women visitors wearing shorts with weird tattoos on the front of their thighs. Looks like something to be regretted when one is a grandmother.
My friend’s ex-wife got a job as head of HR at a international boutique hotel management company and thought she could do better.
Weed edibles and (my guess) low dose testosterone were also factors.
Like a lot of X-er women pushing 60, she felt her time was running out to live that John Hughes dream in Shermer, Illinois, but, as Jay and Silent Bob found out in “Dogma” there is no Shermer, Illinois for real, only a dream spun by a failed ad man who may or may not have sold his soul to the Devil.
Serendipity has a point about “Home Alone”, but Hughes went from writing “Class Reunion” and “At Ease” to “Vacation” and “Mr. Mom” in the space of a year, which are more damning. Literally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQ_QUFwRzs
The way trends are headed, many or even most will not be parents much less grands.
I decided to stay home tonight. I’ve got an hour worth of truck pack, and other stuff to do before I can leave, and I don’t want to get in at 1am.
I was at Lowes and was surprised by how many trees they have left. They have crepe murders in several colors, and even weeping willow! They have lots of apple, some fig, a couple of limes, and some olives. I want to plant the olives, but it wasn’t clear if they are edible. Olive oil as a renewable resource sounds good to me. The limes aren’t cold hearty, but the satsuma oranges and the apples are. They had persimmon trees too.
They also had a nice “clearance” rack of plants half off or better. Unlike most times I’ve looked, they weren’t in bad shape, just mostly having bloomed for the year already. I picked up two rose bushes. Several of the original owner’s wife’s rosebushes have died under my care, so I’d like to replace them. Bonus that they were $12 a bush. I did go with yellow, while she had all red. They may not survive the deer or the year, but I’ll give them a try. There were several other things I’d have bought if I was in the pickup truck.
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Denaturalizing Citizenship For Immigration Fraud Comes Into DOJ Focus
Omar’s “father” brought her into the country as a child, but there is strong evidence that she was not his child. She married her brother to get him into the U.S., so two separate cases. Whether the latter case of clear immigration fraud is enough to put her citizenship at risk is a good question. Let’s try it.
“”The nature of the enemy””
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-nature-of-enemy.html
“HMS Defiant warns us that our fundamentalist enemies in the Middle East and elsewhere are very likely to take advantage of public celebrations to attack those attending.”
Be aware and stay away from crowds.
One comment “I am in favor of decreasing the number of nuclear weapons we have. Best way? Use them on the billion goat f’ers.”
I am pretty sure that after our boat parade, when everyone floats down to be near the two neighbors that spend a few thousand on pro level fireworks across the lake from me, and we rock thru an hour of fireworks, that there will be no goat f’ing terrorist attacks.
Call me an optimist, but if you try something in that neck of the woods, you’re gonna see the pink mist come out…
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I’m going to update wordpress now, might be a brief period of weirdness.
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Guess it went ok.
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Edit works.
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Test Comment one two three four five six.
Edit works here too…
I’m pretty sure that if we have an issue it would be with the commenting or the comment editing. Those are both complex add ins that do a lot more than just put text into a box.
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Or the amazon linkinator… https://www.amazon.com/Sweep-Me-Innkeeper-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B082TVGFPW?tag=ttgnet-20
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I think we have a successful update. Now I can sleep.
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