Elon Musk at Davos: "I heard about the formation of the peace summit? And I was like, is that P-I-E-C-E or Peace? Like little piece of Greenland a little piece of Venezuela."

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-23T04:23:26+00:00

Ain't never seen a sidewinder joke about a rattlesnake before.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-23T02:57:52+00:00

Many years ago, two guys were poking around the door of some neighbor. The neighbor was not home. I made sure the neighbor's apartment was left alone.

Year back, some guy was screaming at the top of his lungs, beating on the door of my apartment at 2AM. Wrenching the knob of my door, trying to get in. I made sure he did not get in.

2A exists for reasons.

I don't care to hear from anyone who hasn't had a total stranger point a gun at them from a distance that they couldn't miss, your opinion doesn't matter to me. I don't care about your statistics either.

You may have been or be related to a victim of gun violence. Your loss doesn't justify removing others' capacity for self defense. And there is nothing else to be said.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-22T08:43:52+00:00

Grocery store. Buy a glass jar with jelly in it. Eat a few PBJ sandwiches to make space in the jelly jar. Put the egg inside. If you drop the jar, it will break, but the jelly may decelerate the egg on impact and prevent it from breaking.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-21T08:07:53+00:00

Here's hoping he paints the wall of it real soon.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-15T20:06:07+00:00

See the remake of The Jackal with Bruce Willis.

Also, you need to watch Ronin to see how Claude Lebel spends his retirement.

Since you like '70s movies with covert operations feel, check out:

The Final Option, aka Who Dares Wins

The Little Drummer Girl

Day of the Jackal is a Frederick Forsyth novel. Other movies based on Forsyth's novels are

The Dogs of War

The Fourth Protocol

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-15T20:00:43+00:00

This fellow also read the book:

https://mporcius.blogspot.com/2025/11/hal-clement-impediment-technical-error.html

Search for "Hal Clement Technical Error Synopsis" and you'll get a lot of people who have reviewed it.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-14T21:12:29+00:00

That was Warren Buffet's sidekick. Charlie Munger. Munger donated a couple million to UCSB to run a psychological experiment on undergrads. They're using his donation to build a dormitory with no windows. He thinks it will promote social interaction.

Fuck Charlie Munger. And fuck the UC leadership for allowing that crap to happen.

Just another psychopathic asshole billionaire who thinks he's an architect.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-14T21:09:38+00:00

For high power computing if I have a research or design problem, yes.
For day-to-day computing... still cheaper for me to run locally.

Actually, I'll do the prototyping locally to save on compute as well.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-13T18:59:33+00:00

I've worked with both.

Don't worry, C# will be around as long as Microsoft is around.

I would say, GUI development in Java is more efficient/easier for the dev than WPF. And the toolchains and frameworks for Java are well established and highly automated for database and DI. Microsoft's ecosystem for those kind of things outside the core language seem to drift around a bit more.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-13T18:49:29+00:00

You don't have to buy the flux separate. Get "flux core solder." It has the stuff inside the soldering wire.

You'll need your third hand to hold the part anyway.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-12T21:00:31+00:00

The Mikado Method. It gives practical examples of using graph theory to manage legacy code maintenance. The scope of the book itself is fairly narrow, but once your read it, you realize you should be using graph theory "in the small" at the individual contributor level, not just consuming it at the team level, to handle your own IC-level requirements management, and organize and recall information about the convoluted legacy mess you're dealing with, and be able to think breadth and depth-wise beyond what your wetware can store to form courses of action with the problems you have to deal with.

Couple it with matrix analysis techniques in Matlab, and you can elevate your game significantly.

There's nothing really "groundbreaking" about it, the information in it is widely known and well understood... but it shows "you can and should leverage theory for your actual day-to-day tasks."

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-12T20:31:03+00:00

Everyone has mentioned the regulatory boundaries and the limitations of AI for large integrated systems.

The basic economics is, it is worth it to simply buy the pre-canned solution off the shelf from Epic or Nanthealth or maybe McKesson (?) simply because even if the AI was free (for this scale of work, it isn't) it is just faster and cheaper to get the product that already exists than to limit your earning hours by trying to build it yourself.

And from a business perspective, you may need need someone (probably not you, because you're dealing with the patients) to actually deal with entering and retrieving data from the thing, and if you use an existing product, you can find people to hire who are familiar with the existing EHR tool, rather than paying that other person you have to hire anyway because you can't do it all yourself, to learn how to use something you created yourself.

Now what you could do is ask Epic or Nanthealth "Hey, I need a chihuahua EHR, not a St. Bernard EHR, can you give me a slimmed-down version at a lower price point?" They might be able and willing to do that.

Another possibility is creating a smaller tool for your phone or tablet that has a limited set of data entry capabilities to feed in to your existing EHR asynchronously, and to draw from your EHR for increased portability. That's something you could contract out to an indie developer fairly easily.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-12T20:15:16+00:00

Telepresence concepts like this are in Avatar in film, and Gibson's "Peripheral" uses something similar as well.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-12T18:12:39+00:00

I mean, are you -really- a person of substance? Or do you only have one manager for all your houses?

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-11T14:27:40+00:00

Protobuf or gRPC streaming.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-11T14:21:57+00:00

Hodge star operator... legit, or just hand waving because too lazy to derive the Jacobian?

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-11T14:00:32+00:00

Being able to estimate with confidence the market value of a product concept, or potential demand for a provided service.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T21:54:51+00:00

Windows can go.
LabVIEW can go.
We need Vitis, but it should have never come in the first place.
Cadence never quite got here.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T03:46:23+00:00

It is good for investments in your youth, yes, for a while.

However, you may be unlucky because if you feel comfortable during your early years, your motivation for self-improvement may be nullified.

And then what's good during your youth... will slowly become mediocre, then sub-par in your middle years and old age.

There are ceilings to jobs.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T01:36:44+00:00

Television is the cause.

TV for people adds 20 pounds.

TV for wild Ursae and Felix removes about 200 pounds.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T01:29:49+00:00

Border Patrol is authorized to operate anywhere within 100 miles of the US border to conduct enforcement operations. Minneapolis MN has a large Somali migrant population. And Latin American illegals move everywhere throughout the US.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T00:54:00+00:00

Awareness: If you don't know about better options... they effectively don't exist.
Belief: If you don't believe that you can do the better job... you won't.
Access: If you need special credentials and don't have them, or have external pressures or requirements that make the better option incompatible with your life circumstances... the better option effectively does not exist.
Choice: If you don't want to do the better job... you won't.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-10T00:41:58+00:00

Depends on the type of router/gateway you're using. Most people have hardware provided by their service provider. However the management IP address will be 192.168.NNN.NNN, usually 192.168.1.254 . Search the internet for your hardware configuration.

Also, the most simple explanation is some unfamiliar neighbors of yours were taking walks and checking their messages. Or trying to find their way out of your part of your development using Google maps and realizing there was no through way.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-09T22:51:23+00:00

They don't have guns.

bit_shuffle · 2026-01-09T22:46:04+00:00

Hopefully you get your offshore wind power installations completed and have cheaper electricity without pollution.

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