- Gotta get those gasoline prices down before the midterms.
- As Japan's economy weakened, Abe and now Takaichi have promoted remilitarization. The big money in military hardware can sway any election. The US is a obvious example. The best "democracy" that money can buy.
- A Data Center is a Crypto Miner in disguise. Understand that fact, and you understand the future.
- This saved me a lot of money! After checking the price, I bought a new broom, mop and a bucket.
- Maybe he needs a new, low cost supplier?
- No problem. They can use some of that data center compute power to mine bitcoin.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/esta...
- Here is the wastewater treatment plant at McMurdo. https://brr.fyi/posts/wastewater-plant
- And, where is the septic tank?
- Some folks say this book helped them
Sight Without Glasses - Harold M. Peppard
https://archive.org/details/sightwithoutglas00haro/page/n1/m...
- Some folks say this book helped them and it's a free download.
Sight Without Glasses - Harold M. Peppard
https://archive.org/details/sightwithoutglas00haro/page/n1/m...
- Software that could potentially endanger consumer safety should be 100% open source and subject to public review when released or modified.
- My recommendation to Bosch is to blame any problems on floor mats.
- Do a search for "MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit Bundle" and you will find a stand alone version of the same circuit along with photos. Although the PCB has a "High Voltage" label, it is powered by 2 X AAA batteries which are might be very lethal if ingested.\s
- You might want to factor latitude into your calculations.
- The late Patrick Henry Winston was well aware of his eating problems and wrote extensively about his very successful effort to reform them. He even stopped eating at his desk in an effort to lose weight. As part of his "General Patton Diet", he subsequently lost 60 lbs in 100 days.
Before: http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/pensees/welcomethen.jpg
After: https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/pensees/welcomenow.jpg
"I learned to eat and drink veeeeeery slowly at the table meant for eating, not in front of my computer screen. I used to cram in a day's worth of calories in a few minutes, before my body had any idea I was eating anything, which experts say takes 20 minutes."
https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/index.html
His description of the "General Patton Diet" is no longer on his website but may be archived somewhere.
Here is a copy that I made when it appeared on his MIT webpages:
The General Patton diet
http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/favorites.html
Fall 2012, first day of class, 255 lbs
Fall 2013, first day of class, 195 lbs
My doctor said I had three choices: take blood pressure medication, lose weight, or drop dead. My wife said I had turned into a fat blob. After thinking about all that for a couple of years, I decided to lose weight.
When I had tried to lose weight before, nothing worked. But I had never tried everything all at once. Many years ago, I watched “Patton,” and I think there was a scene in which he said with pride that he was attacking in all directions at once. So I decided to try what I call the General Patton diet, attacking in all directions at once.
First, I quit drinking cream in my coffee. I drink a lot of coffee, and I used to drink it with a lot of cream, so with that, I cut back 400-500 calories per day. Black coffee tasted terrible for a week, but I got used to it, and now the idea of cream in my coffee seems disgusting.
Then, I started exercising, almost daily—just fast walking and a little jogging at first, but then, around day 80, just jogging. Another 400-600 calories accounted for in my endorphin-generating exercise.
So, exercise and a change in the way I drink coffee constituted a 1000 calorie swing every day.
Then, I learned to eat and drink veeeeeery slowly at the table meant for eating, not in front of my computer screen. I used to cram in a day's worth of calories in a few minutes, before my body had any idea I was eating anything, which experts say takes 20 minutes.
Then, I substitute fruit for hypoglycemic foods that take blood sugar on a roller coaster ride. I used to get so hungry by 5 pm I could eat my own hand. Now I eat apples instead of junk and the 5 pm problem has gone away.
Then, the screwier things. Being interested in why we excel as a species, I note that fire is part of the explanation. Cooked food is partially digested before it goes in our mouth, so we can march more calories into our bodies in less time. That used to be a good thing, but isn't now, so I substitute raw fruits and vegetables for some of the cooked stuff I used to eat.
Then, I lift dumbbells while my coffee is brewing, which means I exercise at least five times a day, albeit briefly. It doesn't consume a lot of calories, but it seems to keep my appetite down and maybe keeps my metabolism up.
Then, I keep repeating to myself two quotes: from my friend Jay Keyser: “food is an addiction;” from Thomas Jefferson: “no man ever regretted eating too little.” Playing these quotes in my mind, I push away quite a lot of after-I-am-actually-satisfied food.
So I attack in all directions at once.
Of course what worked for one person doesn't work for another, and you really must talk to your doctor about whether what you are thinking of doing to lose weight is right for you.
Anyway, all this happened over the summer, so many of my friends had not seen me for a while, but strangely few asked me if I had lost weight. I finally figured out why when I broached the subject with a friend, Scott Vanderhoof, from whom I buy my hardware, who himself had once lost a lot of weight.
“Scott,” I said, “haven't you noticed that I have lost weight?”
“On purpose?”
“Yes, of course,” I said.
Then, with a great sigh of relief, he explained that he hadn't said anything because he thought I must have contracted something terrible to lose 60 pounds in 100 days.
25 September 2013 Epilog
Now, Registration Day, 2014, has rolled and my weight is the same as a year ago.
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- The SpaceX Falcon Heavy is just a next evolution of the Bicycle.
- ValiDrive was designed to be fast and nondestructive -
In a random, non-repeating sequence, at each of 576 separate evenly spread locations on any drive, ValiDrive reads the current contents of that region. It then fills that region with random “data noise” then reads back the region's contents to verify that the “data noise” was actually stored. ValiDrive then always rewrites the region's original data to restore whatever data may have been originally stored there.
For in-depth analysis, Gibson's "SpinRite" can be used -
The two programs are complimentary but very different. ValiDrive quickly checks for the presence of any storage at 576 locations across a drive's storage media. SpinRite thoroughly, deeply and fully examines, verifies, and exercises any drive's storage media, while also performing comprehensive data recovery if necessary.
So, ValiDrive is a “quickie” test to see whether any storage is present, whereas SpinRite is the heavy hitter that verifies every byte of a drive's storage to verify its integrity and reliability.
SpinRite is a data professional's tool at a hobbyist price - inexpensive, but not free.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
Validrive is less than 100K bytes! You could download and test it in 10 minutes. That should answer any questions you may have.
- Amazon's problems with fraudulent memory products were well documented in 2023 when GRC published their test results for a dozen such drives purchased from the site. In response, GRC developed a free program, called "ValiDrive", to scan and test drives for this growing problem.
ValiDrive performs a quick, random-sequence spot-check across the drive's entire declared storage space. At every location it verifies the successful storage and retrieval of random (unspoofable) test data.
https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
The program has been extensively tested, is freely downloadable and comes from a well respected site with a long history in the security business. Steve Gibson announced this development in 2023 and it has been downloaded over 600,000 times.
https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm
In addition to this effort, Steve has been creating an in-depth weekly podcast called "Security Now" for over 20 years. An archive of all 1039 podcasts and transcripts can be found online where they are freely downloadable.
- Validrive - Free from Gibson Research
Quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for fraudulent deliberately missing storage.
- So, users should stay with Windows 10 and not upgrade to Windows 11?
- That may be the most useful thing I've seen on the internet in months.
Thanks much!
- Dan Hildebrand (1961 - 1998) was an amazing guy.
- Nobody wants to address the fact that we are sitting on vast, widespread stockpiles of nukes.
They will be used.
Anything else is just wishful thinking.
- I am surprised that the Purkinje effect and the degree of illumination are not mentioned. For example, should the primary colors be shifted depending on illumination?
- A Medal of Honor is actually worth a lot on ebay
A Presidential Medal of Freedom has value as scrap metal.
- A demonstration of the Bernoulli effect by the Flying Bernoulli Brothers.
- This is not new.
Does anyone else remember the good old days when the Secretary of Defense would fly to Redmond to meet with Bill Gates?
Don't count on either changing soon.