ratboy666

Yep, terrible:

I will show how Make hits every one of your complaints:

(sarcasm on)

in file hello.c:

  #include <stdio.h>
  int main(int ac, char **av) { printf("hello\n"); return 0; }

How to compile and run this? We need a build system! Download and install GNU Make.

When that step is complete:

Type in

make hello

and its done. Now, run via ./hello

See, Too much magic (didn't even have a makefile or Makefile), no standard library, Too constricting, cryptic, too basic. And, because you had to install Make, too complicated. Hits every one of your objections.

(sarcasm off)

The velop uses bluetooth for setup... you use an application on your phone, that sets up the router. Yes, it's janky too.

One snapshot would help because, if EVERYTHING collapses, and you need data recovery, the snapshot provides a basepoint for the recovery. This should allow better recovery of metadata. Not that this should EVER happen -- it is just a good idea. I use Jim Salter's syncoid/sanoid to make snapshots, age them out, and send data to another pool.

I agree that ECC is a damn good idea - I use it on my home server. But, my lappy (i5 thinkpad) doesn't have it.

They did mention ZFS, so verified hashes of each file block. I hope they are scrubbing, and have at least one snapshot.

That much sea level rise?

From New York: https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php

From Stockholm: https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/78.php

Simple: New York is sinking slowly. Stockhold is rising. Especially since the effects are pretty much linear 1880 to present.

Of course, use search and replace to change 0 to zero... etc. The OCR will (should) work better.

Either the journalist writing the article was using Dutton as a source accurately, or Science is not a reputable source of news. This is mutually exclusive.

I took the story prima facie. And, if the story (journalism) is accurate, Dutton is indeed suffering from hubris. Someone brought up the collapse 100,000 year ago in a direct comparison. It was either Dutton or the journalist. If I take Science as an accurate source, it was Dutton. Or it was not Dutton, then Science is not reputable (are they adding implications and misquotes?). If that is the case, why the HN story? HN curated it (that is, HN readers) so I have to give credence to Science magazine (because I give credence "to the crowd of HN contributors"). Again, both sides cannot be argued at the same time.

As to reading the summary for policy makers: the IPCC is a political organization, not a scientific one. Why would its publications that are for policy makers be of interest to me? I need a condensed version of science, not policy. The IPCC doesn't have anything to do with the claim -- (except CO2 causes global warming which the IPCC doesn't actually claim, but does imply, as best as I can tell). Either Dutton made the claim, or Science made the claim -- they have to back it up and defend it. I made no claim EXCEPT that Dutton is suffering from hubris. Which I just backed up and defended.

You claim that CO2 causes runaway climate change?

I do wish that was a reasonable argument. Closer: I drive a "Model Z". In the past, someone discovered a crushed Model Z. Does driving a Model Z more than 50 mph cause crushing?

To quote the article:

"The new octopus genome data, she adds, “is pretty convincing evidence that a full collapse happened.” The findings reinforce the importance of understanding how modern climate conditions are affecting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Dutton says. “This is telling us that we need to take this bigger picture seriously.” Continued ocean warming—driven by greenhouse gas emissions—could destabilize the submerged portion of the ice sheet. To lower the chance of another collapse, she says, “We can’t just kick the can down the road and wait to make emissions cuts for another 5 years, another 10 years. It really demands that we do it now.”

Emissions in the modern sense were not the cause of this. But, it happened. Is Dutton making the claim that emissions are the cause now? I'll accept all of Dutton's claims, except that one; there is no basis for that claim. Lower the chance of another collapse? By how much? Would that have actually helped 100,000 years ago? I make the claim that Dutton is suffering from hubris.

thanks -- I was under the initial impression that you intended jeeves as a "pythonic make". make isn't a command runner at all. Indeed, it relies on sh for that. It determines the DAG required to bring components up to date wrt dependencies. For example, you may have a postscript file and a pdf. Edit the postscript and you want the pdf regenerated:

my.pdf: my.ps

<tab> command to convert my.pdf to my.ps

Make makes no attempt to generate scripts, or anything like that. In general, make uses file timestamps to determine that my.pdf is out of date with respect to my.ps Make does have default commands that it can use. For example, it knows that executable w can be generated from w.c If I have a directory that contains w.c I can:

make w

cc w.c -o w

Now, because w exists, and is newer than w.c doing make w again does nothing!

make w

make: 'w' is up to date

I don't think that is what jeeves is?

The first "home computer": Altair 8800. The first peripheral: an AM radio: Steve Dompier - https://www.futurefarmers.com/superfund/gazette/Pop-Ups/Armi...

The Altair had a 2Mhz clock.

I have a collection of five watches (2 digital, 3 mechanical):

Seiko 5 SNZG09K1 $245 Vostok Amphibia 420059 $154 Casio A158W-1 $30 Orit CS201 $34 Wilk Classic Skeleton $970

All prices in Canadian dollars. Each of these has a place in horology; meaning; or use for me. The Wilk is a custom piece; there will never be one that is the same. The Casio is for "geek cred". The Orit is for health monitoring. I normally wear two watches. Both the Seiko 5 and the Amphibia have cemented their place in watch history.

They make me happy... these watches are, in general, not looked down upon by "watch snobs".

This story (making an Apple watch into a mechanical) makes me smile... now I want one!

Note that the Seiko 5 SNGZ09K1 is now $281 (Canadian) from Amazon. But the Vostok is $148 now (again, from Amazon).

4 gigabytes per second? Ok, and no.

Sixel is defined for two purposes: the first is to allow display of bitmaps. the second is to allow the definition of characters glyphs (which xterm does NOT have -- due to graphics limitations). If the glyph definition could be done, your bandwidth requirement would be reduced. Back in the 80's we generated custom fonts for PostScript (the Apple laser printer PostScript would cache the glyphs). As needed, the printer would request glyps and these would be supplied by an external driver or box (we called this the "Robin Box" for fairly obscure reasons). This system provided pre-press proofing for many customers (which would include publishers like Ziff-Davis). Please note that the speed of the communication was 9600baud (1000 cps). The image of that printer was 300x300 dpi, with some printers doing 600x600. Sixel would have been good... we used ASCII.

I like sixel -- I use xterm which gives me the option. For everything? No. but if I need a graphic, it is easy enough to use. The alternative for most would be to simply generate PostScript, and run GhostScript to view the results (typically on another system). I have NEVER contemplated watching a video with sixel... I could do it, but the player would be a "labour of love" - I would use a common decoder to produce an uncompressed bitmap (scaling and colour reduction) then convert that into frames of sixel... Just to show StarWars on a 340. But, no urge.

The main issue is that sixel offers the feature. No real reason to NOT have it... and it exists.

Try pbmtoln03, ppmtosixel, imagemagick convert and lsix

sixel is not a protocol: just an encoding. Your idea conflates the two things.

The purpose of the Robin Box? The publishers typically had hundreds or thousands of typefaces. The PostScript Printer? 15 to 50. Since RAM in the printer was limited, this approach allowed the scanning of the target typeface, conversion to outline form and production of dynamic programs executing in the printer. That are discarded but results cached. (and note that technology is within a period that, in this case, was bounded by RAM space, and typographic conventions -- all of which changed fairly rapidly).

That approach allowed hundreds of typefaces to be used on a single page! With "standard" PostScript; on a printer with only a megabyte or so of RAM available. Sixel is simply a similar tool. You really can't predict how something like would be used if it were generally available.

You could well be right (I am not American). I do recall discussing the GDR with some USA people... a "democratic republic". Was told, back then, that the term had been co-opted. But then, I don't know much about the John Birch Society.

The USSR did call itself democratic. In a sense, since it was central control for all. The USA did NOT call itself democratic -- the preferred term up to the '70s was "constitutional republic". To avoid the flattening that "democracy" was perceived to produce. The argument is that democracy ALWAYS leads to tyranny and collapse.

To quote "Both are anti-democratic". Which I don't understand. Is your claim that both systems (as practiced in the USSR and USA) led to extreme wealth concentration? Did the economy increase during this concentration? If so, do you still consider this "anti-democratic".

The provider of care gets paid "a reasonable amount". The care is provided. No bureaucratic nonsense. Sound ideal. Except... someone invents a novel care. They can choose to provide it "for a reasonable amount". But it can ONLY be provided by the entity paying "a reasonable amount". That entity has to make the call "novel care/old care". Old care is ALSO provided at a "reasonable amount" and has entrenched interests. There is no way that novel care wins. Without setting up an alternate system, or going OUTSIDE the system. Then, consumers of old care can see novel care and its benefits. They can then demand novel care. This happens within the American system, and the American system provides that "outsider status" to other systems (like the one we have in Canada). What does the Canadian system eventually go? Without sufficient external force, it is less expensive to provide MAID (medical assistance in dying) that actual healthcare. The current debate in Canada is whether mental illness is a sufficient trigger for MAID. Depressed? Best cure is death. And, yes, Canada has been mocked for that.

The pinnacle... huh.

What about assigned goto? hollerith?equivalence? Please look at the following:

C THE CALLEE

SUBROUTINE X(I)

GO TO I

END

C THE CALLER ASSIGN 10 TO J

CALL X(J)

C THIS IS NEVER REACHED STOP 10 WRITE(3,100)

100 FORMAT(8H THIS IS)

END

Why would this work? Because recursive calls are not allowed, There should NOT be a stack. So allow rather arbitrary jumped around (setjmp/longjmp) is um... ok?!? And what happens if a normal integer is passed to that code? (and it is separately compiled). Yikes.

Judges do NOT legislate from the bench! That is incredibly anti-democratic, and a collapse of our system. Judges do NOT tell politicians that they cannot make abortion illegal. That right, and yes, it IS a right, is reserved to the electorate. Who gets their will expressed through politicians. Judges judge against the body of legislation (and common law). And, yes politicians LITERALLY have the ability to do anything that the electorate want. That includes Global War.

Let us take the word as published by the CBC (pick another source). The idea (tldr) is that "At this point, no mass grave has been discovered, but more than a thousand potential unmarked graves have already been located, with many more Indigenous Nations just beginning their investigations."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-residential-schools-...

Like I said, offensive, and apologies are in order. I do not know the issue in Ireland. Since I am a first-generation immigrant to Canada, I have no stake in this. But "denialism"? Since when is a demand for proof a denial? Especially for something as sensitive as making the accusation that a Religion is Genocidal. I am not Catholic. I am not Muslim. Nor am I Jewish (no, I am NOT going to bring my own faith into this discussion). But I would not level that accusation against any believer.

Now to continue:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7996606/cranbrook-residential-sch...

Yes, people died. Quite a few from TB. and...

"The concern for Pierre is that the term “unmarked grave” is now so closely associated with victims of Canada’s residential school system.

“To just assume that every unmarked grave inside a graveyard is already tied to a residential school, we’ve got to be a little bit more respectful of our people who are buried in our graveyards,” Pierre said.

The graveyard near Cranbrook originally dates back to Christian missionaries who settled in the area in the early 1800s, prior to the construction of the school. A church and a hospital were also built in the area.

It eventually became a graveyard for the community, which it remains to this day."

There is no suggestion of "foul play" here. Wooden markers will disintegrate. Mass grave? Burial yard? Yes, words do matter.

Thank you for that insight. I wish to mention that I live in the North and have been told by the "power" that I have to reduce my carbon footprint by 50% -- actually more like 75% to accommodate immigration (between now and 2100). If I am no longer allowed to burn stuff for heat, I will have to come south. I will be a climate migrant. I assume that Florida is willing to accept me? Perhaps somewhere in South America? Or Mexico?

The weather here just wants to kill people a lot of the time...

Thank you. And... as a note. The following statement has been down-modded in the past (this is truly an "uncomfortable truth"): If we go with no-CO2/no fossil fuel policy, we will reduce farming production, leading to famine and the likely death of (many) people. Of interest is that solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear cannot help.

Your comment was extremely offensive. Let me take but one example: How many unmarked graves of children and infants behind "care homes" in Canada are there? How does that have to do with nuns?

(yes, Tuskeegee, and syphilis is a known example of very bad behavior. However, that does not include Canada or Ireland) Please apologize for that comment. Or, back it up with data.

"In reality the license just puts extra restrictions on distribution of the software and how derivative works can be licensed."

Actually, copyright is now implicit. There is NO right to distribute software and NO right to create derivative works. Copyright gives those rights exclusively to the copyright holder.

The GPL makes it legally possible to distribute and create derivative works. Without that license, you have no such right, and can be sued (for damages) by the copyright holder. Proving damages can be difficult.

In any case, the license is the only thing that allows that behavior. Without it, there is no right to do it, and thus restrictions are moot.

I agree with you. But I caution -- shipping lng is not something that Canada does or will do. Canada's stated goal is to TRY to ship hydrogen. Dangerous as that is. Yes, fertilizer production becomes "one of the last sectors to use fossil fuels". I see no other path. Of course, THAT has to be transported. As does the food produced... That entire chain relies on fossil fuels. A simple bet -- I invest in NatGas and pipelines. The IPCC may not advocate fertilizer reduction... Canada does. No LNG to Europe (for now). Canadian farmers are told to cut fertilizer use by 50%... or else. Market and production controls will be put into place.

And, it is NOT CLEAR that the current perturbations are CO2 related: Snow in Miami on Jan 19, 1977 would be an interesting case (in my lifetime, anyway).

As to the IPCC reports AND the local media reaction -- the Toronto Star reports that Canada will have to CUT CO2 emissions in half.

Here are the numbers:

2T per year for each human:

840lbs to 6710lbs (resting to active) exhalation. Which means, not below 0.5T/year/human.

We are at 20T/year/human here in Canada -- but, of course, at 8953 trees/human, with each tree absorbing 48lbs of CO2/year, Canada absorbs 215T/year/human (carbon negative in Canada by 195T/year/human).

Cutting in half? 10T/year pure human, or 205T/year. But, we are on track to "100 by 100" that is, the Federal Govt here wants 100M people in Canada by 2100. With an additional 30M people (putting the immigration growth in line with the climate objectives), the budget for each human is... well under 5T/year. Not just 1/2, 1/4 (by the specified date) How is THAT to be accomplished? What is interesting (if you have been following the numbers here) is that EVEN at the target date, NO MATTER WHAT the Government does, Canada is still "Carbon Negative". Go figure. It isn't even a problem here.

Solar, I guess... Won't be wind here... Oh, we are too far North for Solar to be that effective. Burn trees , just like our ancestors. That goes over really well... My bet is NatGas. Maybe Nuclear.

No they are not "surprisingly accurate". I have actually made more money in direct bets AGAINST climate models. From 1970 to present. Indeed, the challenge I make to climate doomsayers is simple: make one prediction in the 5 year out timeframe and stick to it. I'll simply take the opposite. So far, I have won... every time. Let me have a look at my trading accounts: cenovus up, pembina up, taiwan semi up, everything else down. And that is the current recession. Now, I am worried about china, so I may trade the tsm. The only "surprise" for me is that alcoa is down. I'll ride that one.

The "no oil" people may be right; that would make me a horrible person. But, make the prediction -- I'll "convert" if it comes true. Science for the win.

It has been the "mean, bad Capitalist" vs the "nice, social minded Socialist". I tend to go with the Capitalist. Why? Because it has never been good to kill the consumer of the product. In general, this particular principle does NOT hold with Socialists. They (and again, not all) generally do not care.

Not hyperbolic. What is NOT factored in by the IPCC is the effect of NOT using "fossil fuels". Agriculture is affected. NOT using fossil fuels simply means no fertilizer. Famine killing 1 billion would be expected. So -- bad if you do, bad if you don't. My "bet" is simple. I simply purchased natural gas stocks. The bet is that the need for fertilizer will beat the "stop fossil fuels". Because, if it doesn't, the money is worthless. If it does, I will be "sitting pretty". If a billion people die "one way or the other", I am going with my comfort, and my childrens comfort.

Chris: I would really love it if you would publish the source for your cp/net server in turbo pascal? That would seriously make my day...

But, bash has this... (job control)

: root@llana fred #; dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null

^Z

[1]+ Stopped dd

if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null

: root@llana fred #; bg

[1]+ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null &

: root@llana fred #; jobs

[1]+ Running dd

if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null &