“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

“trust thermocline”

(in the uncensored version, she also intentionally gets his name wrong)

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

from Mastodon:

The EU president isn’t attending.
The US president isn’t.
China’s president isn’t.
India’s president isn’t.
France’s president isn’t.
Germany’s chancellor isn’t.
Brazil’s president isn’t.
Russia’s president isn’t.
South Africa’s president isn’t.
Canada’s PM isn’t.
Japan’s PM isn’t.
Australia’s PM isn’t.
The Netherlands PM isn’t.
But hundreds of oil company lobbyists are attending
and plenty of representatives from fossil fuel investment firms.

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

nothing says safety like a Sony rootkit

too true, Trump is much closer to Mussolini, weaponized incompetence writ large

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

• with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
• there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
  • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
    • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
  • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
    • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
  • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
    • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic

Olauncher

more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

the real horror is the ennui we made along the way

it’s time to return to the roots, FORTRAN and LISP and COBOL – C is the new technology

oh, this isn’t going to end well …

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Pëtr Kropotkin (1902)

• “Self-defense is not violence!”
• “No tolerance for intolerance!”
• you don’t want your place becoming a Nazi bar