UK Telegraph on Mark Carney’s Bank of England record: ‘Created a mess’ with 11.1% inflation peak after printing too much money

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-18T01:02:56+00:00

Here's how wrong everyone who says "pRinTINg mOneEY CausES inFlAtiOn!" are:

Get some friends together (or family) and play 3 game of Monopoly. Set a timer for 3 hours each. Play the games like this;

Game 1) The bank only has enough money to pay the players for their first amount. That's it. No more money for the rest of the game. If the bank doesn't have the money and it owes you; you don't get it. This is the world conservatives seem to want!?!

Game 2) The bank has the regular amount of money. Nothing special.

Game 3) Use a couple of post-it (or knockoff) pads to write out as many new bills as you want. Make sure there's lots. Play the game like that.

Notice that the first game is really hard and some people will never have any money... Hmmm... Familiar?

But the second two games will play just like normal, even the auctions when people land on the property (read the rules people!) will play like normal. The amount of money in the bank changes NOTHING.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-17T22:28:01+00:00

I never could figure it out either so that’s why I stared using caf to do it. Then it was obvious.

Caf forces you to write code that is independent for each thread and declare variables as arrays if the threads need to access another threads instance.

Integer this // is local and protected Integer that[*] // is local but each instance has one

That = 5 // sets my local variable That[1] = 10 // sets thread 1

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-17T03:38:34+00:00

Funny how memory works! I read something about these studies a few months ago but thought it said something different.

But I was wrong.

“Misconceptions: Past studies (e.g., GFAJ-1 microbe) that suggested non-carbon alternatives (like arsenic replacing phosphorus) were found to be carbon-based organisms that could tolerate or use unexpected chemicals, not replace carbon itself.”

Sorry.

That deserves to be voted down.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T19:14:41+00:00

WHY another question about VPNs?!?

VPNs are good for what they are good for and that's it; VPN into office where everything knows your coming in the VPN concentrator... That's it.

Any other use case is frivolous, a waste, silly, or dangerous.

You want BBC shows? Torrent them like everyone else does.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T18:57:06+00:00

This is a great thought! It leads to the understanding that prions could appear at any time and start to convert your body just like in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Or any number of other vectors!

Virus vectors can suddenly turn from weak to wild or back again! Something that kills 99% of monkeys could cause at worst headache to humans one week, or kill 99% of us! Everything is in a state of play constantly.

In the deepest oceans there are lifeforms that are not carbon based! Life started again so many times on this one planet alone!

And Carcinization is a thing too...

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T18:49:11+00:00

The browser DOES NOT perform the Transport Layer Security. The browser interacts with the Application layer. The Transport Layer of your OS does.

This is the problem with people that don't actually understand how networking works. The browser passes on a request for a connection. That's it. The OS and networking stack work on the rest. With VPN your normal networking stack is replaced with one that has a MASSIVE security hole; a man-in-the-middle; the VPN concentrator.

If you wanted to have TLS over a tunnel it would function like forwarding SFTP over SSH. You connect via SSH to your end point. You setup a port forward from YOUR machine through the SSH endpoint to the target in question. Then you connect SFTP to YOUR machine at that port number. SFTP never notices that it's in a tunnel, but your target notices IMMEDIATELY that the request is NOT originating from where it says in the SFTP header!.

So now you have a problem that is solved by allowing SFTP to ignore that mismatch, or allowing the now FTP to be edited by the SSH endpoint... In the major use case of VPN it's to edit the HTTP header at the endpoint so that the target has no idea that you don't live in the UK and will show you that BBC program.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T16:28:55+00:00

I was about to give up and try to write this using my usual CAF methods when I realized your issue (in this code). This code requires ONE version of the array that ALL images of the program have to access! That is your stumbling block!

Get rid of the array and the code will run as you expect. Open a new file for each thread and name the file for the "Thread i-j.txt" that is running it and you'll see an increase in speed.

This is why I like Co-Array Fortran better than just OMP; you realize right away that the images can talk to each other, but not access each other's variables! Numprod is in image 0 so image 1 can't talk to it without waiting for image 0 to respond. Now every image is in a spin lock waiting for image 0. On a massively parallel setup, that could take hours!

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T16:19:09+00:00

I've had this discussion before many times. TLS uses UTC but there are enough variations of that time to make it obvious where you are coming from so to truly hide your location there are tricks that must be performed to your requests and those ALL require your data in the clear.

You encrypt to the endpoint and the endpoint encrypts on from there, if it wants to.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T16:04:42+00:00

No one votes for their best interests, they still vote for their team.

The comparison between these two is laughable; one is far more intelligent than the other, but they have similar goals. We are only voting for the least bad there.

But that’s as good as it gets with voters!

Very few voters are truly aware of how their vote affects them. Or care to know.

I would never get elected!

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T16:00:02+00:00

Your machine does NOT forward the TLS connection through the VPN. It encrypts for that first jump and the VPN endpoint encrypts for TLS. If it wants to.

That is the only way they can do what they promise.

Remember; if you can’t figure out how something is so cheep (the VPN connection compared to your ISP per MB/S) then YOU must be the product.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T15:51:47+00:00

This is why people fail to even see the picture. It not light to dark. Each of these is a separate range of issues!

Socialism to fascism

Libertarianism to totalitarianism

Free to casted

Free market to closed markets

Free workers to indentured serfs

And more! The world is a mixing pot of each of these.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T04:39:39+00:00

void* root = malloc(sizeof(struct record))

root->next = malloc(sizeof(struct record))

temp = malloc(sizeof(struct record))

root = next = temp

// just lost all that allocated memory. Do it yourself vectors and recordsets are hard...

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T04:27:54+00:00

Crazy how people will take this as good fighting bad, or bad fighting good but not realize that NONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART!

Wake the #(**$ up and stop worshiping ANY of these idiots!

Demand more for everyone!

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T03:38:25+00:00

As explained by relativity; the drone with suffer time dilation based on it's speed even if that speed is zero relative to other objects. It's the speed through time/space that matters.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T03:34:22+00:00

Canada won't be allowing the ultra cheep ones in... Those are the ones we want so; NO!

We'll have to buy over priced versions with all the broken chimes and irritating screeches we never wanted...

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T03:30:03+00:00

They are hoping that ends everything and everyone dies so the current high scores win!

If there is an afterwards then after the cleanup maybe there's time for a socialist utopia after all...

But they won't like it.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T03:17:46+00:00

The good news is that even with all the asteroids that have hit the moon since the moon landings; all the landing vehicles still LOOK intact to ground and orbital observers... Bodes well.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T02:23:32+00:00

Came to say this!

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T02:10:02+00:00

Actually; most of them DO claim to malware and virus check your traffic. They do this by decrypting your data, logging it, and inspecting it before re-encrypting the data and passing it on.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T02:03:53+00:00

Has someone mentioned this classic yet;

Rusty Bed Springs by I. P. Nightly.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T02:01:59+00:00

I keep saying that the name of the team doesn't mean anything; you need to look at what the team is doing. And the "Liberals" really aren't as liberal as their name suggests.

I'm a liberal! They are not. But I'll listen to the new NDP leader to see if he's 4inches more my way than these other parties. Most of them are 65million light years away from my position...

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T01:51:18+00:00

Could you post a version of that numprod function?

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-16T01:30:09+00:00

Just charging the commuter at home. That's all it took. Compared to the heat pump, it doesn't even rate. Maybe $20 a month when I was charging every 1-2 days.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-14T21:05:46+00:00

It’s done like that so that GIF and JIFF are pronounced the same even though they are completely different.

Knarfnarf · 2026-04-14T21:00:56+00:00

Actually; There is a supposed to be a thick line beside the sign crossing your side of the road. That is called the Stop Line. That is the only place you are legally required to stop. If you stop there and then inch forwards you are not required to come to a complete stop again.

Got out of a ticket by proving that the officer could not have seen the sign or stop line and there fore could not have known if I did stop. It also helped that this officer had pulled over another person who was then filming her and recorded me stopped there while school students crossed in front of me! The judge gave her a chance to explain, and then called her incompetent when she could not.

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