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ke7yxz

@ke7yxz@mastodon.social

Washington (state), USA. #Outdoors, #photography, #travel, #technology, #computing, #cycling, and #wine and #food. Retired #computer weenie. Bitcoins are a Ponzi scam.
he/him - omnivore - eternal student

The header is the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Avatar is a burning pile of tree trimmings. No message - I just like the images.

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ai6yr, to random

Strange how large companies have a "corporate pecking order" -- almost like castes. ๐Ÿคท

ke7yxz,
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@ai6yr Lords, barons, earls, marquises, and the like.

It is like a two-story outhouse with the Peers on the top and the Pee-Ons on the bottom.

ke7yxz,
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@ai6yr I am out of it now, but I spent nearly 50 years in the corporate world on the engineering and engr-management side. Besides all the stuff going on in the other departments, engineers loved to pull the caste structures into their own lives with layers and layers of titles. At Bell Labs (decades ago), the MTS Member of Tech Staff title included people from newly graduated to Nobel Laureates. Other companies had titles that encompassed 5% salary deltas. Goofy gradations.

gbhnews, to random
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bonus q: should the T have googly eyes ๐Ÿ‘€?

video/mp4

ke7yxz,
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@gbhnews The trains are going to need names, like on Sodor.

Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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with the Alignements Lagtjar, Brittany

my goodness Brittany seems a long time ago now ๐Ÿ˜” am about 5 years overdue for another visit

ke7yxz,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective We will be there in about two weeks. Any highlights to recommend? We visited several sites in Portugal last December. Walking in the steps of deep historyโ€ฆ.

chris, to spain
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The Bombing of Guernica happened today in 1937. It was a new and horrible cooperation between fascists states (Francoist Spain, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) to bomb civilians and ultimately lay the blame for the mass casualties on "guerrillasโ€, โ€œterroristsโ€... in this case โ€œRedsโ€.

https://euskalkazeta.com/bombing-of-guernica-the-number-of-dead-revised/?mc_cid=190edb545d&mc_eid=1bc0052ab5

ke7yxz,
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@thepoliticalcat @chris this?

https://youtu.be/BjRqj_STFFM?si=TKVOdnBQrdO-G-OD

rebeccawatson, to random
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This is super weird...today I noticed my video about Richard Dawkins had zero comments (previously it had hundreds) and digging into the settings, YouTube turned off comments somehow. I've turned them back on but did the algorithm just fuck me over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWRZPi67Mc

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@rebeccawatson โ€œNever assign to malice what mere incompetence can explainโ€ - does that apply here?

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@rebeccawatson I apologize if I am being argumentative, but your wording is stronger: โ€œbut did the algorithm just fuck me over?โ€ I do not think I am being thin-skinned or puritanical.

But back to my point, I suggest it is an inept programmer acting under deadlines rather than a focused attempt to fuck over or protect any individual. I have no data to support this beyond anecdotal experience.

stshank, to random
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WashPo reports on California's duck curve: too much solar energy production in the middle of the day has over the years depressed electricity prices, sometimes below $0. (California's net metering incentivizes solar + battery for that reason.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/

ke7yxz,
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@stshank I do not see the problem. California is not an island. There is a large national grid. Sell the excess to the cloudy places. Charge electric cars. If anything, this is not a solar problem but a transmission problem with a storage annotation.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Haberman does fancy herself the Trump whisperer, interpreting the state of his eyelids:
"But right now, he has partially closed his eyes--something he tends to do in court when he seems to be trying to keep from lashing out."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/18/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/b536e55a-486f-51c5-bb9d-0d113192ef6d?smid=url-share

ke7yxz,
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@jeffjarvis Two words I expect I will never use in a sentence are "self-control" and "Trump".

LRRRonEarth, to random
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I FED A CYBERTRUCK AFTER MIDNIGHT AND, UH, WE GOT PROBLEMS Y'ALL.

ke7yxz,
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@LRRRonEarth @trochee
A cybertruck eeds to be destroyed? Have you thrown a rock at it? Have you run it through a carwash?
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-no-match-for-car-wash-1851417011

Green_Footballs, to random
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reuters Live Feed: Donald Trumpโ€™s Criminal Trial Begins https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/53570_reuters_Live_Feed-_Donald_Trumps_Criminal_Trial_Begins

ke7yxz,
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@Green_Footballs That is the most neutral photo of SD that Reuters could find? Not very complimentary. How about a similar photo for Don?

ChrisPirillo, to random
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who needs the stress of visitors

ke7yxz,
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@ChrisPirillo Everybody is on zoom, right? So all you need to clean is the space in front of your backdrop curtain.

QasimRashid, to random
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    ke7yxz,
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    @QasimRashid Done!

    nixCraft, to random
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    Debugging code in production ...

    Old Silent film clip: The man is sitting infront of a railway engine. He sees a wooden log on the track and he tries to remove the log from the track.

    ke7yxz,
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    @nixCraft Agile, innit?

    MissingThePt, to random
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    skinner am I so out of touch meme. โ€œAm I so bad at math?โ€ โ€œNo, itโ€™s the calculator that is wrong.โ€

    ke7yxz,
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    @MissingThePt That feeling when Xitter does your job for you.... ๐Ÿ‘Œ

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    sorry, i'm looking for the other kind

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo Ice9 ?

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    gmail turns 20 years old tomorrow

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo And to think I still have some unread messages from that initial week. On my to-do listโ€ฆ.

    BrianJopek, to random
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    Another take on Elon Muskโ€™s brilliant solution to the Key bridge disaster in Baltimore.

    ke7yxz,
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    @BrianJopek is this why you never see damaged Tesla cars after a crash? The old parts get recycled into new Teslas?

    scy, to random
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    Eek. Apparently liblzma (part of the xz package) has a backdoor in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, causing SSH to be compromised.

    https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

    This might even have been done on purpose by the upstream devs.

    Developing story, please take with a grain of salt.

    The 5.6 versions are somewhat recent, depending on how bleeding edge your distro is you might not be affected.

    ke7yxz,
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    @scy Is it not sufficient to review the older commits by the questionable actor rather than roll back?

    nixCraft, to random
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    Modern software development be like: I wrote 10 lines of code to call an API that calls another API, which calls yet another API that finally turns on a lightbulb. Pray that Cloudflare or AWS will not be down during this operation; otherwise, there will be no light for you.

    ke7yxz,
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    @nixCraft Those 10 limes of code compile down to 52.9 megabytes of executable and you have to reboot the operating system after installing the app.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    OMG, I didn't know that the ticker symbol would be DJT. The ego never ends. I can't wait to see red numbers and down arrows next to DJT.
    Truth Social owner Trump Media will begin trading under DJT ticker Tuesday https://cnb.cx/3TutLtD

    ke7yxz,
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    @jeffjarvis the Dow Jones Transportation Index is ^DJT. Confusion starts at tomorrowโ€™s opening bellโ€ฆโ€ฆ..

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Done.

    's Truth [sic] Social is going public after winning DWAC merger vote

    https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/trump-truth-social-dwac-merger-public

    ke7yxz,
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    @GottaLaff Wall Street Creates New Way For Dimwits To Self-Identify
    In a turn of events surprising absolutely no one, a Wall Street group has created the newest way for naive economic lambs to fleece themselves and to identify as being subpar thinkers. Red hats and Never-Surrender surrender shirts were not enough. Film at 11.

    ryanhoulihan, to random
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    My health insurance company is having me mail them emails through the postal service.

    ke7yxz,
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    @ryanhoulihan Counterpropose that you fax them.

    snarkysteff, to random
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    So, Iโ€™m taking a break from writing for a living because Iโ€™m & burnt out & I want to focus on me.

    But I was asked by an editor to write this.

    Iโ€™m not a fan of this title. โ€œSmall changesโ€ makes it sound easy but it is an entire lifestyle change that I kept expanding on over the course of 4 years. Year 1, I lost 35 pounds, next year was 30 pounds. Then 25, & last year was 20 pounds.

    So, clearly staying consistent pays off, with mindful changes.

    Anyhoo. Words for you!
    https://www.eatingwell.com/how-i-lost-110-pounds-8606674

    ke7yxz,
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    @snarkysteff Regarding item 4 - follow J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt on Instagram or your favorite medium. https://www.instagram.com/kenjilopezalt/

    That is, if you do not already.

    As a +1 point, I would suggest portion control. You (I) do not have to clean the plate. This is a VERY hard lesson for me.

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    be honest

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo Bad arithmetic.

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