Re: Honestly I'm bilingual
We do use tons. 1 ton = 2000 pounds.
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I have a "ALL big deployments happen on a Friday, unless it's a holiday, then they happen on Thursday instead" rule. Holiday weekends are preferred.
Then I schedule no non-emergency work for the following Tuesday - Thursday, with Monday being a planned "just in case troubleshooting" day. I get the weekend to handle the new stuff without annoying users bugging me, and time off when annoying users are around.
As noted in the article:
"Victims of spyware are advised to contact organizations such as Access Now, Amnesty International's Security Lab, and The Citizen Lab, which have teams dedicated to helping individuals work through their cases."
Is it running current iOS, or an older known-vulnerable version? If it's current, they'll be VERY interested in taking a look at it.
"[I]magine Hypercard as the whole OS".
No. No I will not. HyperCard is an absolutely brilliant program, incredibly useful, easy to use, let almost anybody create really nifty stuff. But it was NEVER going to be enough to be an entire operating system. Computers can do a lot of things, creating HyperCard Stacks was only ever going to be one part of that. And that goes to my next issue with what you're saying....
"They're so insanely hard to program only autistic geniuses can do it."
And that's inherent to a complex system. At some level, computer development is always going to be hard, because it's inherently hard. You're making a VERY complex machine do things. The autistic genius can abstract that out to get to a program like HyperCard, but at the lowest level it's always going to be taken down to the level of individual transistors being told to turn on or off. That can't be worked around by anything that could conceivably be called a digital computer. And current reality is that it has been abstracted out quite a bit, nobody is programming with machine code by flipping front panel switches any more, operating systems aren't written in machine code or even assembly any more. But it's inherent that the simpler you make the front end, the more limited it inherently has to be. Don't get me wrong, I do still bemoan modern systems not including BASIC front and center any more, but even that's a pretty clear demonstration of what I'm saying, you could do a lot of things in BASIC, but you were going to be doing some PEEKs and POKEs to do things that weren't so easy to abstract.
I won't argue with you about the garbage that is LLM. The whole concept is a disaster, and I keep hoping the idiotic bubble will pop soon. I don't like being lied to by machines, and as far as I can tell there's never going to be a way to fix that with an LLM, it's inherent to the concept. They're not going to do good things for code. But that people are doing it anyway instead of 'fixing' the way computers work is not because
But C is what it is because it has to talk to the machine at a fairly low level. And I'm not saying that as one of the autistic geniuses, I don't particularly enjoy programming so I do very, very little of it, and none at all in C.
Where I very much do agree with you is that there should be an easy way to do what HyperCard did that comes with every computer. I'm still angry with Mr. Berners-Lee for only implementing the user-facing half of HyperCard and making a royal mess of the back end. It should have been nearly as easy to create a web page as it is to view one, and that should have been there from the beginning, not left for others to do, and particularly not left for MicroSloth to try to co-opt with their horrid FrontPage abomination. HTML was a mess from the beginning, which is why I was very much in the Gopher camp.
It's so funny how we used to consider 19" a really large monitor. I was so happy when they got cheap enough I could afford one.
And now the only time I install something smaller than 27" is when it needs to fit a small space, and they're light enough to pick up with one hand.
The readership of this site is, the general population is very definitely not.
Adapting does not always happen, even among experts. I lost a client last year, he was a computer science professor. He did not understand modern computers well at all. I have no doubt that he understood the inner workings of a PDP-7 better than I ever will. But at 92, he just couldn't quite get macOS. He was still giving it his best effort, and really didn't seem to have the kind of cognitive decline that I see in so many people younger than he was, but compared to his previous experience a GUI just never really worked for him. Yeah, he was older than a boomer, but it does carry over.
My experience with boomers has been that skill level varies from "expert" to "barely learned enough to know what to click to keep a job".
My experience with millennials has been about the same, though they usually are better at using a phone.
Elmo has built a data center near Memphis that has "portable" gas turbine generators running 24/7. They've asked TVA for power, but he's not managed to bully the TVA board into approving it. And because the generators are "portable" they don't have emission controls. It's literally putting people in the hospital with the pollution.
‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
I quit dual booting anything years ago. I've got enough computers that it's just not necessary, and since "old" computers that aren't really very old at all can be had for free, playing with something just means grabbing a spare laptop from the stack - or firing up one of the spare servers in the rack, or just spinning up a new VM on one of the active servers.
That reminds me, I should stick a Haiku VM on one of the servers. The Proxmox one isn't doing much yet, so probably there.
And time to update the Xubuntu play laptops I guess.
I've been pretty happy with my ecobee. Can control directly from Apple HomeKit, so less being treated as the product.
HVAC companies are slime. Lots of price gouging by the manufacturers, and the service companies are almost all run by crooks. Throw in the EPA screwing around with refrigerants all the time, and it's a mess. Just go to hydrocarbon refrigerants already, they work well and there's not enough in the system to be a serious fire or explosion risk. (I know a guy who charged his car system with grill gas after R12 got stupid expensive - it's mostly just propane. Worked better than R12.)
Generally yes, it's typically 24VAC for HVAC systems. Kinda dumb these days, ethernet would make more sense, but at least manufacturers can't do stupid proprietary shit with protocols on 24V. But that means "smart" thermostats don't have the ability to control variable speed compressors and blowers directly. About the most granular it gets is 2 stage cooling and 3 stage heating.
Not that I'd hesitate to play with 240V wiring, I did wire up my heat pump and EVSE, no point in paying an electrician when I can do it myself. But yeah, scares some people.
Why would you NOT want zoned control?
It's MUCH easier to live in a house that's got every room at the appropriate temperature.
But NONE of that is inherent to heat pumps, or even related to heat pumps. Zoned gas systems are very much possible, a friend did that recently with his underfloor system, automated valves at the manifold, on demand tankless gas 'boiler' (hot water, never boils anything). Kind of silly if you ask me, i'd have ditched the hot water and put mini-split HVAC units in every room, but that's what he decided to do. He's still using window AC units.
But as far as heat pumps? Nah, utterly unrelated to the fancy controls. Had heat pump HVAC at my parents house in the early '70s. Bimetallic strip and mercury tilt switch thermostat controlling the thing.
One problem you run into with road construction is that soil takes time to settle. Sure, you can compact and speed up the process somewhat, but no matter what if you build too quickly your road is going to fall apart. It varies with different soil types, but there's always going to be some "walk away and leave it alone" time with road construction, because you're virtually never taking the road subsurface all the way down to bedrock.
They're better at hardware than they are at operating systems or word processors. Admittedly that's not saying much, but they're still better at it.
Some of their mice have actually been decent. I seem to remember a Z80 card for the Apple ][ that worked. Everything else they've ever done is utter shit.
Nah, that's useless. To have it work, you'd have to let the fridge know what's in it, and I don't know about you, but I'm NOT gonna punch in everything I come back from the grocery with, I ignore the pointless dates on food (I have a working nose), and I'm always tired and grumpy when I get back from the grocery anyway, I'm annoyed enough at having to put the stuff in the fridge.
And I'm also not gonna punch in what I've taken out. Just way too much of a pain.
Oh, and the fridge doesn't need internet for that anyway, there's a computer just a few steps away from the fridge, if I wanted a food database I'd already have one.
I can easily think of a use case - failure conditions.
"Oops, I just flooded the floor, might wanna grab the shop vac!"
"I'm dangerously warm, might want to move your food to the aux fridge now before it spoils!"
Sure, both could be handled by a separate water detector or temp probe, but why not just build them in?
sudo spctl --master-disable
In macOS 15 Apple's stupid Gatekeeper pissed me off enough to finally disable it. Yes, I know I downloaded an unsigned app, and I fully intend to run it, DO NOT offer to put it in the trash, and forcing me to go a couple layers deep into System Settings to run an unsigned app was a step too far.
Tried that, had issues with DHCP on the pi-holes. Nope, separate DHCP server it is.
No, my old age brain fog won't let me remember exactly why it kept breaking, but it kept taking the network down.
My pi-holes are VMs on 2 separate servers so I've got redundant DNS on my network. And because I caught my ISP hijacking port 53, they're running a proxy that does DNS over HTTPS to get clean lookups.