vxbush 5/26/2021 5:28:59 AM

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* Looks at the number of knives on the table and thinks maybe eating with these folks would keep the Karens away *

Morning, campers. Microsoft continues to be reside in my own person ninth circle of hell. 

doppelganglander 5/26/2021 5:34:59 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Mornin'. I only got about 4 hours of sleep. I think I ate dinner too late and it upset my digestion. Unfortunately I have too much to do today to contemplate a nap. 

vxbush 5/26/2021 5:56:34 AM

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In #2 doppelganglander said: Mornin'. I only got about 4 hours of sleep. I think I ate dinner too late and it upset my digestion. Unfortunately I have too much to do today to contemplate a nap. 

Oh, bummer. Days like this are really hard sometimes! I feel your pain--er, drowsiness. 

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 5:56:42 AM

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I have been enjoying using a decent Linux system (took a 4 1/2 year old computer with a failing disk, put in a new drive, installed Linux, and it works well. Rarely does an update force a reboot. Never, actually. It can update the kernel and keep going.  The new kernel will get used on the next reboot, but the old one will work until then.

However,  Linux has its own set of problems. A while ago, I was looking at the PYgame package (Python arcade game package). It took a newer version of Python, so I installed that - broke the Ubuntu desktop (and this was 3.x to 3.y, not Python 2 to 3)

vxbush 5/26/2021 7:28:14 AM

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In #4 Kosh's Shadow said: I was looking at the PYgame package (Python arcade game package). It took a newer version of Python, so I installed that - broke the Ubuntu desktop (and this was 3.x to 3.y, not Python 2 to 3)

Oh, yuck. That seriously sucks. I moved from Sun SPARC to NeXT RedHat to CentOS to Ubuntu, and of those I really liked the neXT systems (so I was thrilled when NeXT merged back into MacOS), but some upgrades can seriously disrupt the OS. I saw that happen with a library system I was managing; the library database ran on Postgres and was working fine until I had to install updates and then I could never get the problem fixed. We had to roll back everything to get it working again. 

No, Microsoft resides in my 9th circle of hell not because I'm dealing with my own machine (which is MacOS, thank you very much), but because it is just too easy for a user to mess up a machine. I had one go down this week because the user rebooted the machine at just the wrong time. So frustrating!

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 7:29:03 AM

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Howdy.  I've had Billy Joel's "Sleeping With The Television On" as a persistent earworm for about week now.

In other news: I just heard from a friend in Paris, in terms of Covid madness, they are happy because.the curfew was recently relaxed... from 7 pm, to 9 pm.  

 Liberté*, égalité, fraternité

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*pas tellement

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 7:29:59 AM

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In #2 doppelganglander said: I only got about 4 hours of sleep

Think of it as a trip down Memory Lane, to early motherhood. 

JCM 5/26/2021 7:32:10 AM

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Mine is Siemens Expedition. I live in the library tools which is CAD too to make schematic symbols and footprints for when a board is fabricated.

We have 50 licenses, plus the database licenses. At $70k a pop, a year.

The graphical tools it provides are on par with Windows 3.0 paint. I'm constantly chewing on the FAE (field application engineer) about why aspects of the tool are so obtuse.

JCM 5/26/2021 7:40:23 AM

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Taking pure and simple.

vxbush 5/26/2021 7:45:15 AM

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In #8 JCM said: The graphical tools it provides are on par with Windows 3.0 paint.

Oh, what a word picture! That sounds awful! 

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 7:47:54 AM

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In #8 JCM said: Mine is Siemens Expedition.

Reminds me of a meeting I attended several years back at a NY law firm, about a complicated project-finance matter involving the construction of a power plant.  Siemens was the primary contractor.

At one point, one of the lawyers passed around a set of copied documents, saying they were sample contracts for the installation of gas turbines.

Lead lawyer for one of the parties gets his copy, but then holds it up and asks, "are these Siemens samples"? 

I look around and notice, to my relief, I'm not the only one struggling to contain my adolescent guffaw. 

JCM 5/26/2021 8:07:29 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 10:

On of my favorite weirdnesses...

To change units, you have to exit the drawing tool, go to a different tool that manages library structure and 3 menus deep change units, exit that tool and relaunch the drawing tool.

Every graphical tool I know units can be changed on the fly not this one.

vxbush 5/26/2021 8:08:03 AM

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In #12 JCM said: To change units, you have to exit the drawing tool, go to a different tool that manages library structure and 3 menus deep change units, exit that tool and relaunch the drawing tool. Every graphical tool I know units can be changed on the fly not this one.

*shudders*

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 8:15:21 AM

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Reply to JCM in 12:

They should just rely on the FSF standard - Furlongs, Stones, Fortnight

JCM 5/26/2021 8:16:15 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 13:

We chose the tool for a good reason, designs the schematic and board layout tool can have multiple users at once making changes and you see in real time what they are doing. We have projects that have 8-10 people working on them full time for several weeks, very complex circuits.

The library tools where I live haven't been updated in eons.

Because we are one of the largest single users of the tool, and we've logged so many issues with it. They've assigned us a dedicated support team.

JCM 5/26/2021 8:16:56 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

I'm all in on Smoots myself.

buzzsawmonkey 5/26/2021 8:20:44 AM

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Since NPR has been celebrating the Martyrdom of St. Floyd, I found myself wondering about a few things.  

First, the Left has been yammering for some time about "the opioid pandemic," and the evils of the pharmaceutical companies that have promoted opiods, which as I understand it includes fentanyl, the drug which was actually responsible for St. Floyd's death.   Yet Floyd's death was not used to promote the Evils of Opiods, but rather the Evils of Policing---even though I am sure opiods affect "poor communities and communities of color" far more than the odd "bad cop" does.

Second, despite the constant drumbeat about the Evils of Opiods---when pharmaceutical companies are involved---the Left seems hell-bent on legalizing, not only pot, but, in some jurisdictions, hard drugs like cocaine, heroin and, one must assume, opiods in some form, for general recreational use/abuse.  

As a side note, as New York heaves and bubbles towards legalizing pot, there is talk of "setting aside" a certain number of licenses or something for "minority companies," in a sort of tacit recognition that drug-dealing is endemic in certain "minority" communities; is one of the few businesses that succeed there; and that this legalization push is, in part, a payoff to the gangsters currently engaged in this business.

I find these things both confusing and somewhat racist.

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 8:26:20 AM

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In #16 JCM said: I'm all in on Smoots myself.

Ah, yes, the Mass. Ave bridge across the Chahles Rivah at MIT. I have walked across it and seen the smoot markings.

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 8:28:50 AM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: Yet Floyd's death was not used to promote the Evils of Opiods,

Of course not, because it's all about The Narrative, not what actually happened. 

doppelganglander 5/26/2021 8:33:32 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 7:

That's a trip down Nightmare Alley. Four hours is still better than the night a few weeks ago when I didn't sleep at all. I can't pull an all-nighter like I used to.

JCM 5/26/2021 8:42:22 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

Our internal wiki page for design guidelines, includes Smoots as acceptable units. It also says this about space...

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

When a an automatic door was malfunctioning some wag slapped a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation sticker on the door.

It nice working where there is a sense of humor, and everyone is a geek.

lucius septimius 5/26/2021 8:53:09 AM

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In #16 JCM said: I'm all in on Smoots myself.

How many Hawleys to the Smoot?

JCM 5/26/2021 8:56:24 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

That is measured in extra fortnights of depression.

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 8:57:42 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

Leftism/wokeism IS racist.

It is a new way for elite to maintain their control.

JCM 5/26/2021 9:01:43 AM

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vxbush 5/26/2021 9:04:04 AM

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In #21 JCM said: It nice working where there is a sense of humor, and everyone is a geek.

To be honest, that sounds kind of heavenly. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/26/2021 9:13:12 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 9:31:23 AM

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In #27 buzzsawmonkey said: Peter Cook:  The World Domination League.

I'll have to watch that later, but the people pushing Wokeism are certainly trying to make everyone dumb - the World Dumbination League

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 11:26:07 AM

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Smoots as a unit of measurement:

As I said, the sidewalk of the Mass. Ave bridge from Boston to Cambridge goes to MIT on the Cambridge side. The sidewalk is marked off in Smoots.

Story goes, MIT frat boys were spending a night drinking in Boston, and one of their number, named Smoot, was too drunk to walk back, so they rolled him across the bridge, marking the number of times he rolled over. Thus, a smoot is the circumference of a Mr. Smoot at one time in his life.

The markings get repainted every year by the fraternity.

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 11:30:11 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

That's the story as I remember it, but it isn't the official one - link

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 12:44:19 PM

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Biden regime OK'd flying "BLM" flags on Federal buildings.

Related: As someone at Insty noted yesterday (I think quoting Scott Adams), "[fill in blank] LIves Matter" is about the least-aspirational thing one can say about a given group.  The slogan encapsulates perpetual victimhood. 

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 12:54:39 PM

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In #31 Occasional Reader said: Biden regime OK'd flying "BLM" flags on Federal buildings.

Given BLM is a Jew-hating group, I wonder if the feds can be sued for making those buildings hostile environment for Jews?

Fat chance that would work, though, and at best I'd lose my job if I tried.
They could drag out many "Jews" who would agree with BLM. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/26/2021 12:55:23 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: Given BLM is a Jew-hating group, I wonder if the feds can be sued for making those buildings hostile environment for Jews?

The Secretary of State would be Blinken at it.

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 1:06:46 PM

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Hamas doesn't even hide it - they consider children combatants.

Their children.

But the world doesn't care unless they can demonize Jews. To be fair, the world doesn't care about children in terror groups and armies in Africa, either.

Occasional Reader 5/26/2021 2:46:22 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 34:

I knew this certain blog that used to have a regular feature titled "Palestinian Child Abuse".

Of course, that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. 

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 2:58:15 PM

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In #35 Occasional Reader said: I knew this certain blog that used to have a regular feature titled "Palestinian Child Abuse". Of course, that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. 

A blog that long ago turned to the dark side.

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 4:11:58 PM

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Der Boston Shturmer. (NOT a link to them, may they get hit by a meteor)

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 4:13:42 PM

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Eight warning signs you might be sharing office space with terrorists

1. You notice suicide vests hanging on the coat rack. - This could be a hint.

2. The tenants upstairs are constantly disrupting things with their loud footsteps and their rocket launches off the roof. - Upstairs tenants are the worst!

5. They only play CNN in the lobby. - The surest sign something is up.

JCM 5/26/2021 4:39:34 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 38:

Don't you just hate it when #8 happens.

JCM 5/26/2021 4:50:18 PM

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Noticed in my email from my alma mater. Lifetime member of the alumni assoc. so I get a lot which I ignore but this caught my eye.

Ashley Paynter, UW Biology Ph.D. candidate, hosts “Decolonizing Science” podcast

Kosh's Shadow 5/26/2021 4:58:53 PM

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In #40 JCM said: Ashley Paynter, UW Biology Ph.D. candidate, hosts “Decolonizing Science” podcast

I guess we need to go back to tribal magic. Funny how all that superior African magic was so easily defeated.