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When you put it like that I must admit there's a certain attraction to the situation.
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Not a problem. My crunchy backlog alone would take several months to work through. Then there’s all the books in my ”to read” stack. I still haven’t finished my last/latest “career” game of KSP either, and there’s a couple games in the queue after that.
As long as the toilet paper doesn’t run out and my glasses don’t break I’ll be good.
<queue Twilight Zone reference>
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Finally gave up AT&T and called Spectrum. They're definitely the second choice in terms of uplink and downlink speed and ping times. OTOH, they actually managed to get their shit working, unlike that other utility. And OTGH pretty much anything beats AT&T's old 8mbit DSL.
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hold on, are you saying AT&T never got you that internet connection you mentioned quite a while ago? what on earth were they doing?
It is such a long story. By the end the local sheriff got involved and even the AT&T supervisor who came to the house was saying that maybe it would be better if we went with Spectrum. How much time do you have?
Short version.. we now have trimmed trees - at least in the easement area directly behind our house - and Spectrum Internet. Soon we will have our old phone #s ported over and be rid of the last vestiges of AT&T. Good riddance.
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Something of a concern...
... out of an abundance of caution, and in consultation with NASA Headquarters and the NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer in accordance to agency response plans — Ames Research Center will temporarily go to a mandatory telework status until further notice.
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$55M for a Dragon ride to an annex of the space station set up for tourists...
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Speaking of rotary phones...
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Folding@Home now has an option to work on the COVID-19 virus. Looks like it is time to fire up all those cores on my 2700X. My computer room has been a bit chilly lately anyway.
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It being a mostly data-base issue, most unix systems were not (directly) affected by the infamous "Y2K" bug. However they are susceptible to a similar issue. Virtually all "POSIX" systems - including most unix systems, as well as linux - keep track of the number of seconds since the "unix epoch" began on 00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970 in a 32-bit number. If you ask a unix system what time it is you'll get back a number like (brb..) "1583616379", which corresponds to "Sat 07 Mar 2020 01:26:19 PM PST".Actually it is only a 31-bit number, with the 32nd bit indicating whether the other bits are to be interpreted as a negative or a positive number. Unfortunately this means that in only 18 years - at 03:14:08 GMT, January 19, 2038 to be precise - that 31-bit number will "overflow" into the 32nd bit and unix systems will start returning a negative number for the date. Obviously this will have various unintended and undesirable consequences.Fortunately the linux community has come up with a workaround in the nick of time. To be sure, it isn't a complete fix. In fact, it really just kicks the can down the road a bit. But we should now be good until 15:30:08 GMT Sunday, December 4, 29,227,702,659. Hopefully by then they'll have figured out how to deal with the situation once and for all.
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Took a trip to the middle of nowhere yesterday...
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Long drives can be fun if the scenery is interesting. This was just boring. 3 hours out into the desert literally halfway to Las Vegas, then just after Baker hang a left and drive for another hour until you start seeing "tank xing" signs. The first hour is Los Angeles freeways, after that it is just mind-numbing. Like a game world where they made 3 plant models and 4 rock variants then had the terrain generator scatter them randomly 10,000 times between you and the horizon. On the long stretches it seems like you're not even moving. Also, by the time I got there I had Flatbutt Syndrome from sitting too long.
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If you’re having trouble keeping track of the 4 Mars orbiters and 2 (soon to be 3) landers and who’s relaying data from whom, try this site: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/explore/mars-now/
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Drinking coffee & waking up to the sights and sound so f 1911 New York City...
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I once tried to sneak in time travel into a paper. It was something like 'given current scientific methods, it is not possible to test what would have happened if x did not take place' (it was something on 'counterfactuals'). The reviewer caught it though, and said that this was obscure (as counterfactuals are defined as not factual). Had to take it out, but I still don't think it is an impossibility.
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Something you don’t see every day*.. telemetry from spacecraft in Mars orbit lost due lunar occultation.
(*xcept maybe In old episodes of Space: 1999
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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceJust spending some time in the total perspective vortex this morning..
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Crunchy's new queue system is annoying me.
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@efaardvark I’ve seen some people on their forums complaining about it. I watch their series through VRV which I have some issues with as well.
@Seshi Which one would that be?
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I'd boycott Blizzard, but I already did that years ago.
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The word for the day is “rehypothecation”. Do you know where your deposit is?
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Looks like SpaceX's crewed Dragon abort test was a success. Only crash-test dummies on board for this test but if NASA signs off on this then no more buying seats on Soyuz from the Russians and launching from Baikonur to get NASA astronauts to/from the space station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrkdHshb3E
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Third time was not the charm for AT&T. Got another "running late" robocall/status on the tech, then a no-show. It is like they don't want my money.
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It would be so cool if we could see Betelgeuse go supernova. Probably not going to happen any time “soon” (on a human scale) though. Probably.
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Getting far too familiar with navigating AT&T's phone hell.
Still no fiber. I think the gods are having fun with me again.
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Nice talk from AMD at CES. Looks like AMD is not done yet. In fact, (CEO) Su says that 2020 will be even better than 2019. Dunno, that's a hard act to follow, but it'll certainly be interesting to see them go for it.
( CES video here: https://youtu.be/zUeo7kUzn_8 )
So far Re:Zero S2 is the main casualty. Plus the E3 Game Show was also cancelled.
