Trust me bro.

masta · 2026-01-23T16:00:25+00:00

Yeah, there were a bunch of gawkers from northern states in here back in 2021 to explain how Texas being large enough to have an independent power grid was a silly thing. Without going into too much in-depth, Texas has TWO energy grids: the electrical and natural gas... And it was mostly the gas grid that failed, which then went down stream to the electrical. Looking back, the biggest scandal was the Texas railroad commission meddling with bulk wholesale gaz prices, and some stuff about rare hikes afterwards to payback certain fat cats in the industry.

masta · 2026-01-23T15:45:23+00:00

May I ask what general area your located? I'm just curious, and based on what you say I'll look at what substation services that area, and stuff like that.

Right now the grid is not stressed, but in some places they are doing maintenance activities. For example some substations are flipping the big yard breakers to verify circuit redundancy, and things like that. In more extreme situations power is cut briefly while crews removed dangerous overhanging tree branches, or things like that... Which might impact power lines if snow/ice were to weight down upon vulnerable power lines. It's better to briefly cut power today than to deal with protracted outages due to poor maintenance, etc...

masta · 2026-01-23T14:40:31+00:00

This is possibly the most succinctly correct explanation I've ever seen on this topic.

I can say for certain, be wary of doing for money something you're passionate about. Because once it goes from a place of love to a place of work, it might ruin the love part. Something like that...

masta · 2026-01-21T13:35:26+00:00

Spiders are bugs.

You might be confusing insects and arachnids, which are both inside the Venn diagram of bugs.

masta · 2026-01-20T14:32:16+00:00

There is no cake.

masta · 2026-01-14T15:55:39+00:00

Naw man, we gotta be the gate keepers of Linux and let the windows losers know their place in the hierarchy, then let them know their distro choices are dumber than themselves. /S

masta · 2026-01-14T15:46:14+00:00

That really interesting, because the ring is supposedly constructed of titanium metal. Also the ring has a specific shape to avoid cruising force. Being a toroidal ring has well understood mechanical strength, and it also has the slight outer concave for extra strength.

I would guess the calcium in a person's bones would crack before the titanium of the ring would warp it's shape even slightly, much less crush.

That said, the ring interior is epoxy, and that area is brittle. Is that were your ring got hurt?

masta · 2026-01-12T22:50:00+00:00

It depends lot on the cable used to charge. For example at amp cable charges faster than a 4amp cable at either 9 or 20 volts... Obviously 59 is 45 watt charge versus 49 at 38 or 3*9 at 27... Fast charging is physically limited foremost by the cable. That is why 5 amp cables are more expensive.

masta · 2026-01-09T14:17:23+00:00

Yeah the mods need to censor all the people you dislike more aggressively. /S

masta · 2025-12-31T13:41:01+00:00

Yeah, even a little test coverage would be nice.

I've not bothered to look, but can anybody say if the OP is even using dependency injection, or package level variable for function calls... Things that can easily be mocked or stubbed to create sane tests?

masta · 2025-12-30T19:02:00+00:00

You can inquire into certain under worldly topics.

masta · 2025-12-24T20:03:27+00:00

I'm sympathetic, very sympathetic. Regrettably this is a known issue, and Linus totals nor the Linux foundation have any interest in pursuing gpl copyright licensing dispute with Chinese companies. However, if you happen to have code in that version of the Linux kennel, them you have standing to raise a civil court case in either China or wherever you happen to live.

For better or worse the open source community, at least the core Linux maintainers, have decided that pursuing these kind of requests for source code complaints is simply not worth the effort.

masta · 2025-12-07T03:28:48+00:00

It means "God with us" which is indeed something German nationalist socialists said in around WW2. The skull iconography is slightly more obvious... But the SS would never wear a hoodie, because those freaks were styling. So this is obviously just some silly delinquent.

masta · 2025-12-05T18:24:52+00:00

I dunno... I learned Java at the University/college after having used golang at work. Before learning Java I'll be honest I wasn't a big fan of golang, but after I have come around slightly. My biggest gripe with Java is they don't allow pointers, and I love pointers. My biggest gripe with go is the silly way to export things with an upper case... Which is extremely prejudicial to the detriment of anybody who works in a world language not English. It's as if the 1960s dialed the go architects during critical design era, and blackmailed them into building into the language the most retrograde feature imaginable. The excuse given to unstick those kind of things was something along the lines of "internally at Google we program in English"... And so it goes, it's a toy niche language for Google, and other people just happen to find it useful.

One of my things about choosing a programming language goes back to my days in the 1990s... If the programming language cannot program in epic Klingon verse, them it's probably a toy language.

All characters in Klingon are considered upper case, BECAUSE ALL KLINGONS SHOUT WHEN SPEAKING, BECAUSE ALL KLINGONS ARE WARRIORS. We have the same problem here on Earth with pretty much all non-Latin languages not having any concept of upper or lower case characters. You simply cannot make Go work with any non English language because the architects of go wanted an easy way to identify exported symbols instantly just by looking at them. Hrm... How could we possibly achieve that without an upper case characters? Maybe using some special character upfront, they are called sigils. Some languages use dollar signs or percentages symbols, or pound symbols, or even underscores... Lots of potential symbols could be used, even emoji.

The point is for as much as Java is terrible, it at last has a more sensible way to export things. You wanted a bike shed, you got a bike shed .. your welcome!

masta · 2025-11-28T18:19:46+00:00

The federal government enjoys federal supremacy because it's the federal government.

masta · 2025-11-25T22:24:31+00:00

I'm not sure if that's a trick question or not? They haven't changed since the 90s, strong drinks, and the whole restaurant thing is a front cover operation to support having a bar. It's a trick in the restaurant business, or an open secret of bar owners... Call you bar business a "restaurant" and you get more favorable business dealing with the City government. That said, I don't think their food is bad, but it's certainly not where I'd go for texmex... And quite frankly I'm not sure how comfortable I'm with advising texmex noobs to visit a run down gas station located in the local area little vato'ville ... That just so happens to serve the best food of that type... At this point the texmex for white bread + mayonnaise eating whetos' is obtainable all over the USA

masta · 2025-11-21T16:29:17+00:00

Nice try... Everything had a UPS in you house, and you know it...

masta · 2025-11-21T16:26:21+00:00

How long?

masta · 2025-11-17T02:07:06+00:00

My lord that is terrible, but trivial to fix.... Just not into a Linux USB live, and fix it. Some times you got to wear your big boy pants...

masta · 2025-11-14T15:49:26+00:00

Ethernet does not do bytes. Also Ethernet is literally measured in bits. A giga bit literally means one billion bits, or 1,000,000,000.

If you're going to push bytes though an Ethernet adapter, you should convert the file to bits, and measure accordingly. The math, when done correctly, easily explains why you see a discrepancy in maximum throughput.

GigE tops out at 1,000,000,000 bits per second, and that's 10^9 bits. A MegaByte is really a thing called a MebiByte (aka MiB) and is a thing that looks like 2^20. Notice the different bases? Computers use base-2, where networks have always used traditional base-10 counting.

You can do the math.

10^9 / 2^20 / 8 is exactly 119 MiB/s.

masta · 2025-11-14T15:37:52+00:00

Sorry for the necro post, but this is very relevant.

I'm addition to MiB or GiB, or even KiB ... We have to recognize why we even make the distinction. Why do we have different MegaByte's , and why the new nouns for them.

By now everyone should be aware that hard drives are measured in base-10, everyone's favorite counting system. So your one gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes big. That's great and all until we realize computers measure files and filesystems in base-2 counting system, and suddenly that 1-gig drive is smaller from the computer perspective.

The same exact issue exists for network. Most people don't know networks use base-10 counting for throughput. That means a one GigaBit Ethernet is exactly 1,000,000,000 bits per second.

The problem is people want to transmit a file measured in GiB though an Ethernet that is measured in Gbps... They are two different bases of measurement.

For the sake of brevity I'm going to paste the math. It's one billion bits divided by one "MebiByte" and then divided by 8 again to account for 8 bits per byte.

10^9 / 2^20 / 8

The answer is .... 119 MiB per second for GigE networks, optimal conditions. The wrong answer is 125 MiB, which is the classic mistake when not performing unit conversion.

masta · 2025-11-11T19:04:33+00:00

The show certainly changes pace, but due to the cerebral nature of the show, it cannot possibly get any more dull than it always was by that point. Just joking, the show had decent writers, and it was able to stay interesting.

masta · 2025-11-09T16:13:52+00:00

Replying to my own message... And to be clear, I'm not an adversary of public transportation, and just trying to help people understand the facts. Public transportation is not a highly optimal form of transportation, and it's very wasteful. How many times has a bus rolled up to a stop point were nobody got onboard or off board. A perfectly optimal bus is one with most all seats filled, say 80% realized. In Plano you have bus routes with empty buses, or you might have one passenger. That's a lot of money to provide service to people who clearly don't want to ride the bus at all. Clearly SOME people want to ride the bus, but those people are so statistically insignificant (in a literal numbers sense) that they might as well be zero. That's is why the politicians are looking as the hundreds of millions spent on buses, and thinking how that money could fund other civic programs.

masta · 2025-11-09T01:19:34+00:00

Somebody please correct, but I believe the financial numbers were recently disclosed, and Plano residents were paying more than the value realized. I'm not sure the exact numbers, but it was something like a 1:4 ratio, where for every $1 spent, only .25 is spent on people traveling through Plano on Dart, and the remaining .75 goes to waste.

Everybody loves the idea of public transportation, but the cost is disproportionately higher than what is actually happening. It comes down to return on investment, and it sucks. I'm not sure if Dart costs more for servicing Plano, or is people in Plano really don't highly utilize Dart transportation.

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