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After telling its customers to "eat shit and die" and then correcting itself and explaining that what it really meant was that as long as its customers ate the shit the dying was entirely up to them, Unity has unexpectedly fired 25% of its staff. (Reuters)

The CEO of Unity is the former head of Electronic Arts.
The 1800 abruptly unemployed Unity staff have nothing to fear though, because the US added 700 tech jobs last year. (The Register)

You mean 700 thousand, right?

700 thousand, right?

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Intel announced its Raptor Lake Refresh mobile CPU lineup and showed off its upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs. (AnandTech)

So right now Intel is launching refreshed Raptor Lake and brand new Meteor Lake chips, and later this year will be launching both Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake.

I can't keep them straight and I follow this stuff every day. Normal humans have no chance at all.
Intel also announced the cheaper models of the desktop Raptor Lake Refresh 14th generation range, starting at $82. (AnandTech)

The $82 chips are kind of crap and should be avoided, but for $109 you can get something decent (if you don't need integrated graphics).
Six months in a leaky Raspberry Pi 5. (Ars Technica)

Or two weeks using it as a desktop PC, anyway.

It works, pretty much, if you don't demand too much from it.
Nvidia's "Super" range of refreshed 4000 series graphics cards is here. (Ars Technica)

In stores this month.

The 4080 Super seemed completely pointless, being only slightly faster than the 4080, but it's also $200 cheaper than the 4080. Okay then.

Which one should you get? Well, if you're playing vanilla Minecraft, consider that a Radeon 7600, the cheapest card from the current generation, can average 1000fps at 1080p.

Disclaimer: Beware the Ides of Whenever.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G' NIGHT EVERYONE

Posted by: Skip at January 09, 2024 04:00 AM (fwDg9)

2 Pixytime!

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:01 AM (mn2bz)

3 G'night Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 09, 2024 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 'Nite, Skip. Thanks for the nood

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi)

5 The Register:

"According to thge tech consultancy, entry-level IT demand is shrinking, though demand for those with AI, security, development, and blockchain skills remain desired."

Learn to write! Learn to edit! Jeez louise.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:11 AM (mn2bz)

6 The Register:

"Much of the layoff debt to hit IT jobs have come to entry-level positions"

...

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:13 AM (mn2bz)

7 Morning all!

Up bright and early to prepare for the Wintergeddon that has been promised and....

The 10 to 12 inches that were promised is now going to be about 5 to 6.

Hmmm...I could give a snarky analogy, but I won't

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 04:15 AM (vd8XM)

8 Those caught up by this year's tech layoffs seem to have a simple solution on their hands, as far as Janco's data suggests: Retrain for AI. Problem solved ... until the next big thing comes along.

No problem. Easy peasy. Just a blip....

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 04:17 AM (vd8XM)

9 The Register:

"Nonetheless, the final quarter of 2024 has been nothing but job growth"

The final quarter of what?

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:19 AM (mn2bz)

10
Good morning, Pixy.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 09, 2024 04:20 AM (KATBx)

11 "Nonetheless, the final quarter of 2024 has been nothing but job growth"

The final quarter of what?
Posted by: m

Maybe they programmed a crystal ball?

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 04:21 AM (vd8XM)

12 Train for AI. Perfect it. Rise in the ranks.

And then we'll offshore it.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 04:22 AM (vd8XM)

13 The Register; from the comments:

Only 700? Perhaps the 'software crisis' is due to not enough bad programmers?
...
"One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year."--David L. Parnas

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:23 AM (mn2bz)

14 9 The Register:

"Nonetheless, the final quarter of 2024 has been nothing but job growth"

The final quarter of what?

Uh, yeah, we weren't planning to announce it just yet, but 2024 ends on March 7.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 09, 2024 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

15 >>>Daily Tech News 9 Something

something something something

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:24 AM (mn2bz)

16 The Register, from the comments:

"Re: Only 700? Perhaps the 'software crisis' is due to not enough bad programmers?
Hadn't heard that quote before but it is excellent. I'm sure there are some "data scientists" plotting the curves."

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:27 AM (mn2bz)

17 Good morning early, early risers!

Sheesh! Don't you people ever sleep?

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024 04:39 AM (PzBTm)

18 Evening and morning to ever'body out there! I actually slept well last night. The rain seems to be over and the cool front has moved through as well. Not bad for a Tuesday, innit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 04:40 AM (omVj0)

19 Good morning early, early risers!

Sheesh! Don't you people ever sleep?
Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024

***
Rosasharn! Good to see you. I've been referring to our early rising crew as "insomaniacals." No, we sleep less than the general run of humans, the opposite of cats, I expect. What's up in your locality?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 04:42 AM (omVj0)

20 You mean 700 thousand, right?

700 thousand, right?

Learn to fry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 04:49 AM (zZu0s)

21 >>>The CEO of Unity is the former head of Electronic Arts.

"Following the controversy [which led to a "developer revolt and a steep dropoff in share price"], then-Unity CEO John Riccitiello retired, and the company appointed former IBM president [Jim] Whitehurst as interim CEO...."

Unclear from the article (I think) if there's a new CEO replacing the interim CEO.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:49 AM (mn2bz)

22 Tech... I'm not a programmer, nor do I 'code'. But my previous j*b had me operating and maintaining, sometimes repairing, a complex packaging machine.

At one end: fill with bulk product. Intermediate: add packaging components. Exit end: packages filled with specified amount of product.

There was *a lot* happening in between Start and Finish! A real PITA sometimes LOL

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 04:49 AM (njWTi)

23 Whitehouse appears to have still been interim CEO as of yesterday:

“We are … reducing the number of things we are doing in order to focus on our core business and drive our long-term success and profitability,” Whitehurst wrote in the memo to all Unity employees on Monday.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:51 AM (mn2bz)

24 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing in order to focus on our core business and drive our long-term success and profitability,” Whitehurst wrote in the memo to all Unity employees on Monday.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:51 AM (mn2bz)

You mean after you set things on fire, now you are going to remember you actually need to serve your customers and not try to blackmail them? That's big of you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 04:56 AM (zZu0s)

25 Example of one portion of "my" machinery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf09dordsik

Doesn't cover the product I was packing or how it was oriented for placement into packages. (Had a different robot arrangement.) Top & bottom of cartons were glued, had a check-weigh upon exit...

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 04:58 AM (njWTi)

26 24 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing in order to focus on our core business and drive our long-term success and profitability,” Whitehurst wrote in the memo to all Unity employees on Monday.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:51 AM (mn2bz)

You mean after you set things on fire, now you are going to remember you actually need to serve your customers and not try to blackmail them? That's big of you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 04:56 AM (zZu0s)

“We are … reducing the number of things we are doing”
The ellipsis was in the original; I wonder what words were in there?

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:59 AM (mn2bz)

27 Here's an archive.is link for the Reuters article:

https://archive.is/a4NCw

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:01 AM (mn2bz)

28 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing”
The ellipsis was in the original; I wonder what words were in there?
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 04:59 AM (mn2bz)

Probably more waffling and obfuscation over what he did. Lots of passive voice as though this was a natural disaster and not entirely of their own making. You know, the usual.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:01 AM (zZu0s)

29 Example of one portion of "my" machinery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf09dordsik

Doesn't cover the product I was packing or how it was oriented for placement into packages. (Had a different robot arrangement.) Top & bottom of cartons were glued, had a check-weigh upon exit...
Posted by: JQ

Does yours play music also?

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:02 AM (vd8XM)

30 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing”
The ellipsis was in the original; I wonder what words were in there?
Posted by: m

"how you say in American"?

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:04 AM (vd8XM)

31 "The CEO of Unity is the former head of Electronic Arts."

Heh.

Good old corporate incest rears its head once again.

I'm telling ya, just incorporate literally any company, call yourself the CEO, and the world is your oyster.

If you can somehow manage to make it look like you lost your company a couple billion dollars, that's just a nice little resume builder for ya.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:05 AM (9UlRk)

32 No, Bruce, no music. But I think the control panel had Angry Birds on it... somewhere

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:08 AM (njWTi)

33 30 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing”
The ellipsis was in the original; I wonder what words were in there?
Posted by: m

"how you say in American"?
Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:04 AM (vd8XM)

But seriously, might be some newsy stuff in there.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:09 AM (mn2bz)

34 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 09, 2024 05:10 AM (ju2Fy)

35 Robot was similar to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuYgh4iRlg

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:12 AM (njWTi)

36 Dumb question:

If you multiply some things, you've done multiplication.

If you take the exponent of something to the something-th power, you've done exponentiation.

If you take the logarithm of something base something, you've done.... ? Logarithmication? That can't be a word.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:13 AM (9UlRk)

37 Here's the SEC filing for Unity's expected revamping:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/
Archives/edgar/data/0001810806/
000181080624000006/unity-20240108.htm

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:13 AM (mn2bz)

38 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 09, 2024 05:14 AM (T4tVD)

39 If you take the logarithm of something base something, you've done.... ? Logarithmication? That can't be a word.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:13 AM (9UlRk)

You've done math, Warai. You've done math.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:15 AM (zZu0s)

40 Robot was similar to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuYgh4iRlg
Posted by: JQ

I worked for a place that produced a buncha candy bars a year. They had switched over to high speed packaging similar to that. The poor mechanics received some training on the machines, the supervisors, none at all.

If the machines pooped the bed, upper management would blame the supervisors.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:15 AM (vd8XM)

41 You've done math, Warai. You've done math.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:15 AM (zZu0s)

Lord, i apologize, and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:16 AM (9UlRk)

42 36 Dumb question:

If you multiply some things, you've done multiplication.

If you take the exponent of something to the something-th power, you've done exponentiation.

If you take the logarithm of something base something, you've done.... ? Logarithmication? That can't be a word.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:13 AM (9UlRk)

Logarithmics?
Based on modern Latin logarithmus; Greek logos+arithmos.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:17 AM (mn2bz)

43 "If you take the exponent of something to the something-th power, you've done exponentiation."

Plus, I've never heard this term. You can look at doing exponents as a shorthand for multiplication anyway. 9^2 is just 9x9. I would say terms should only be used for unique operations like Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, derivation, integration, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:18 AM (zZu0s)

44 Good morning!

36>> Have you un-exponentiated?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2024 05:18 AM (YRsIm)

45 The 1800 abruptly unemployed Unity staff have nothing to fear though, because the US added 700 tech jobs last year. (The Register)

I would bet that roughly 5000 of those 700 new tech jobs went to H1B Indians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 09, 2024 05:18 AM (1Z8zZ)

46 I don't much like it, either, but:

exponentiation
noun Mathematics
the operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:20 AM (mn2bz)

47 If the machines pooped the bed, upper management would blame the supervisors.
Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:15 AM (vd8XM)

Because a good supervisor should know his job is to know how things work. That way you can understand what is reasonable, what is bullshit from your guys or maintenance and what is the truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:20 AM (zZu0s)

48 exponentiation
noun Mathematics
the operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:20 AM (mn2bz)

People have too much time on their hands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:21 AM (zZu0s)

49 If the machines pooped the bed, upper management would blame the supervisors.
Posted by: Bruce
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....and.... the supervisors would then blame the mechanics, who would then blame the operators. LOL

Been there!

"My" machine also had a vision system, but it wasn't for the robot (robot programming had merely 'pick' and 'place' coordinates), it was for product orientation before robot pick up. Very important, due to safety during shipment. (am.mo)

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:21 AM (njWTi)

50 definition via
New Oxford American Dictionary

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:22 AM (mn2bz)

51 Hey Wolfus! I took a minute and had breakfast. It is 34 and raining/snowing here. (It's either thick rain or thin snow)

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024 05:22 AM (PzBTm)

52 Because a good supervisor should know his job is to know how things work. That way you can understand what is reasonable, what is bullshit from your guys or maintenance and what is the truth.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

True. But if you don't get any training on the machines, how they work, and what needs to be done to fix them, you'll agree to "we need to replace the blinker fluid and order new muffler bearings"

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:22 AM (vd8XM)

53 52 "we need to replace the blinker fluid and order new muffler bearings"
Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:22 AM (vd8XM)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:24 AM (mn2bz)

54 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 09, 2024 05:25 AM (WsTvr)

55 the operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:20
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And dats why maff be rayciss11!!1!!1

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 09, 2024 05:26 AM (ju2Fy)

56 “We are … reducing the number of things we are doing”

because our appeal has become more ... selective?

LOL (spit)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 09, 2024 05:26 AM (WsTvr)

57 The wobblin pin has come out of the the knibblin shaft.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2024 05:27 AM (YRsIm)

58 mathematics
pl. noun [usually treated as singular]
the abstract science of number, quantity, and space. Mathematics may be studied in its own right (pure mathematics), or as it is applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied mathematics). It is frequently discussed in AoSHq comment threads.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:27 AM (mn2bz)

59 "supervisors" who are ignorant, with shiny college degrees

where have I heard this before?

LOL (spit)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 09, 2024 05:28 AM (WsTvr)

60 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 09, 2024 05:29 AM (lwOKI)

61 It is frequently discussed in AoSHq comment threads.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:27 AM (mn2bz)

I was told there'd be no math...

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024 05:29 AM (PzBTm)

62 Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, derivation, integration, etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:18 AM (zZu0s)

Everything is ultimately addition. Repeated addition is multiplication. Repeated multiplication is exponentiation. Repeated exponentiation is tetration... then pentation, etc etc etc.

I was just musing on how English deals with the inverse operations. Subtraction and division are quotidian enough to get their own Englishy words in that "-(t)ion" form, but taking a logarithm isn't, and the inverses of the higher order ones no one even bothers to have a name for at all because no one has ever had to do it and if they did no one knows how to yet anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:29 AM (9UlRk)

63 the predicted snowpocalypse for this part of the world (8-12") has petered out at about an inch of fluffy stuff, barely worth deploying the shovel.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 09, 2024 05:30 AM (WsTvr)

64 "supervisors" who are ignorant, with shiny college degrees

where have I heard this before?

LOL (spit)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Ha!
Yeah, those were the one's they were hiring. Last about 2 years, then move on to another company.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:30 AM (vd8XM)

65 I received training from the machine manufacturer. Lord knows, they didn't cover all the things that could (and eventually DID) go wrong.

Mechanics would come over when called, but then they'd shrug and say "but gee, JQ, it's YOUR machine..."

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:30 AM (njWTi)

66
yo wut sup

sup? The price of meat, and your old lady has just gone down.

Posted by: Frank Zappa at January 09, 2024 05:31 AM (3qE2b)

67 Everything is ultimately addition. Repeated addition is multiplication. Repeated multiplication is exponentiation. Repeated exponentiation is tetration... then pentation, etc etc etc.

I was just musing on how English deals with the inverse operations. Subtraction and division are quotidian enough to get their own Englishy words in that "-(t)ion" form, but taking a logarithm isn't, and the inverses of the higher order ones no one even bothers to have a name for at all because no one has ever had to do it and if they did no one knows how to yet anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:29 AM (9UlRk)

My point is always when trying to explain technical matters: KISS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:31 AM (zZu0s)

68 "Did you try turning it off and then back on again?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:32 AM (9UlRk)

69 62 Everything is ultimately addition.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:29 AM (9UlRk)

Nice.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:32 AM (mn2bz)

70 I received training from the machine manufacturer. Lord knows, they didn't cover all the things that could (and eventually DID) go wrong.

Mechanics would come over when called, but then they'd shrug and say "but gee, JQ, it's YOUR machine..."
Posted by: JQ

The biggest problem seemed to be jamming. Well, jamming up the machine, taking 20 minutes to clear the jam. Grabbing a couple of people off the line to clean up the mess the jammed machine cause upstream.

And still meeting production quotas

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:33 AM (vd8XM)

71 My point is always when trying to explain technical matters: KISS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 05:31 AM (zZu0s)

Boooo. I have to do that all day. CoffeeTime is the only party of the day i get for idle flights of nonsense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:35 AM (9UlRk)

72 I am fairly mathless. I remember in, maybe, second grade, third grade, we were being taught negative numbers, something like 4 - 7, and I was absolutely certain that could not be done. If you only have 4, you can't take away 7; that's it. LOL

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:35 AM (mn2bz)

73 Log or base for logarithmic actions. Squared, cubed,t n to the -th power. Nothing fancy
Log sine theta
The log of -
103 base e
4^5 four to the fifth

Posted by: Jamaica at January 09, 2024 05:35 AM (Eeb9P)

74 "Did you try turning it off and then back on again?"
---------

THAT would turn out to be the WORST thing that could happen, to "my" particular machine! Unless it was properly *parked* before shutdown. Surprise power outages were... fun. With a capital F.

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:36 AM (njWTi)

75 22 my previous j*b had me operating and maintaining, sometimes repairing, a complex packaging machine
Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 04:49 AM (njWTi)

Super-cool.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:37 AM (mn2bz)

76 71 CoffeeTime is the only party of the day
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:35 AM (9UlRk)

w00t!
*streamers*

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 05:38 AM (mn2bz)

77 God is our guide . A Christian from Argentina reflects on one of the psalms:

http://tinyurl.com/bdfah5np

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:39 AM (Edj++)

78 Oh, yes... the damnable production quota... Pie In The Sky Predictions LOL.

The Machine could handle it, if *numbnuts* on the weekend shifts would just leave it the hell alone & not grab wrenches when all they needed was fresh vacuum cups or to change the filters. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:39 AM (njWTi)

79 Rabbi's daughter reflects on gratitude to God and a portion from the Book of Exodus:

http://tinyurl.com/mw9e93eu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:42 AM (Edj++)

80 The Machine could handle it, if *numbnuts* on the weekend shifts would just leave it the hell alone & not grab wrenches when all they needed was fresh vacuum cups or to change the filters. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ

Hmmm.. all this remembering how much fun automation is making me do a rethink on getting a robot vacuum for the house.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:44 AM (vd8XM)

81 rethink on getting a robot vacuum for the house.
Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:44 AM (vd8XM)

Some absolute monster decided one day to make a lawnmower version of those things....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:45 AM (9UlRk)

82
Good morning, Hordians.

Puppies slept all night, not even needing a 11:00 PM run-out and feeding. But they let me know at 4:00 that they were hungry. Ran them out, fed them, changed their water, ran them out again, extracted a piece of mulch from Spark's mouth, brought them back in and they still haven't settled down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 05:46 AM (MoZTd)

83 Some absolute monster decided one day to make a lawnmower version of those things....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

A small factory near us has those things. Kinda cool seeing them when you drive by.

Posted by: Bruce at January 09, 2024 05:47 AM (vd8XM)

84 I thought this was interesting. I realize that I may be the only one who does.😊. The actor David Soul was the son of a minister. ( I didn't know that) . He apparently returned to his faith as he got older

;http://tinyurl.com/3zdz547s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:48 AM (Edj++)

85 Hmmm.. all this remembering how much fun automation is making me do a rethink on getting a robot vacuum for the house.
Posted by: Bruce
-----------

Automation is fantastic! Until it isn't.

Manual Override FTW!!!

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 05:49 AM (njWTi)

86 One idle morning i "invented" a lawnmower that was basically one of those Segway things with a small mower deck underneath. Basically the tiniest zero-turn you could imagine, for small yards, or whatever.

GF laughed and said "why do you hate people having feet attached to their legs?"

It was a fair point.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 05:50 AM (9UlRk)

87 I thought this was interesting. I realize that I may be the only one who does.😊. The actor David Soul was the son of a minister. ( I didn't know that) . He apparently returned to his faith as he got older

;http://tinyurl.com/3zdz547s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:48 AM (Edj++)

And then he invented Soul Music, right ?

Posted by: JT at January 09, 2024 05:52 AM (T4tVD)

88 Not really a joke, but seems appropriate for the tech thread:

How do you know when the NSA is monitoring your computer?

The power is on and you're connected to the internet.

( I hope they derive some value from the devotionals)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:53 AM (Edj++)

89
Interesting audio only interview with 'America's Shaman' which is an hour long but kinda interesting about his persecution at the hands of the election thieves:

https://t.ly/W2cNb

/ He's now running for office as an (L)

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 09, 2024 05:54 AM (3qE2b)

90 Posted by: JT

Very good for this early in the morning. I salute you, JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:54 AM (Edj++)

91 Non tech joke

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?

Because the chicken wasn't born yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 05:56 AM (Edj++)

92 Hiya Fen !

(Salute returned )

Posted by: JT at January 09, 2024 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

93
Just got the computer restarted from last night's power outage when we had another brief power outage. Life in Biden America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 05:57 AM (MoZTd)

94 Hadrian! How are those puppies doing!?!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024 05:57 AM (PzBTm)

95 puppy report above, @82

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 09, 2024 05:58 AM (WsTvr)

96 51 Hey Wolfus! I took a minute and had breakfast. It is 34 and raining/snowing here. (It's either thick rain or thin snow)

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024

***
Brrr. On the other hand, I'm sure you and your neighbors know how to dress for it and drive in it, and your houses are built for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 05:59 AM (omVj0)

97 If I could relive my 'career'-- I'd be an electronics tech. You know, one of those folks who would hook up a laptop to "my" machine, and make the software adjustments or view the images that weren't possible for me to accomplish on my own.

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 06:00 AM (njWTi)

98
How are those puppies doing!?!

Posted by: Rosasharn

__________

Growing like weeds. Eating like little horses. Really looking nice right now from a structure and movement standpoint. All handsome redheaded devils.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 06:00 AM (MoZTd)

99 For heavy rock fans- Today is guitarist Jimmy Page's ( from Led Zeppelin) birthday. He is 80 years old

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 06:02 AM (Edj++)

100 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 05:46 AM (MoZTd)

It's always a blessing for parents when babies sleep through the night. I assume it's the same with baby dogs. You really care very much and lovingly for the dog. Hadrian. So Francis of Assisi would approve, I think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 06:05 AM (Edj++)

101 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 06:00 AM (MoZTd

Yay!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 06:06 AM (Edj++)

102 >>Electronic Arts.

Used to be the defecto standard in gaming.

Sad.

I must have played 10000 hours of The Bards Tale on the Amiga.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 06:08 AM (XV/Pl)

103 Cat wanted in, finally. The wind is really kicking up now.

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 06:08 AM (njWTi)

104 Thanks for the puppy-tales, H7! Good job

Posted by: JQ at January 09, 2024 06:09 AM (njWTi)

105 Hadrian - might you have a future show prospect - or two or three?

Wolfus - I prefer cold weather to hot. I can always put on MORE clothes!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024 06:13 AM (PzBTm)

106 >>Six months in a leaky Raspberry Pi 5.

I love RPi's for what they are, but they are extraordinarily expensive and not powerful enough to be a suitable desktop replacement.

For the price of an 8gb pi with media pro case, you could get a renewed sff hp g4 i7 for... looks at Amazon... $240 bucks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 06:14 AM (XV/Pl)

107 Cold and damp here. Raining, but above freezing at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 06:17 AM (zZu0s)

108 Just got back from a mile walk in 19 degree/17 mile an hour wind and snow to the top of my snowboots. I figure going 1 in the snow is the equivalent of 2 without. There is a lot of snow out there! Then i had to rescoop everything I scooped last night. I'm ready for spring!

Posted by: Molly k. at January 09, 2024 06:32 AM (j/yko)

109 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports 3 people murdered in separate incidents in Oakland within 24 hours beginning last Saturday night.

Happy New Year Oakland!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2024 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

110 102 >>Electronic Arts.

Used to be the defecto standard in gaming.

Sad.

I must have played 10000 hours of The Bards Tale on the Amiga.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 06:08 AM (XV/Pl)

And now, how many hours on the tech thread? (I wonder if They know.)

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:34 AM (mn2bz)

111 I got laid off twice in 2023. I started the year helping build the Frontier supercomputer and I ended the year telling everyone that I helped build the Frontier supercomputer.

Let me tell you. Getting laid off in November really sucks. Things are starting to move now, though.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 06:35 AM (iZEhM)

112 Mornin'

Suppose to rain today in Babylon DC.

My tech job isn't coding. More Transport level stuff. I checked IT job listings in another part of the US, out of curiosity. DC is a bubble and doesn't count. I checked my hometown region (Western PA/Eastern OH). Pay is lower than DC but that's expected. Lots of tech jobs, even in that area, are available. So, either AI hasn't caught up to the Rust Belt yet or its all overblown.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 09, 2024 06:36 AM (sAmhv)

113 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 09, 2024 06:38 AM (NBVIP)

114 109 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports 3 people murdered in separate incidents in Oakland within 24 hours beginning last Saturday night.

Happy New Year Oakland!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2024 06:34 AM (RIvkX)

http://heyjackass.com (Illustrating Chicago Values) should add a Bay Area site.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:38 AM (mn2bz)

115 Hat tip to the early morning crew.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2024 06:39 AM (4I/2K)

116 Oakland residents are demanding a military response to crime.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2024 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

117 I can't keep them straight and I follow this stuff every day. Normal humans have no chance at all.

I stopped being able to keep track when "80486" became "Pentium"

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 06:39 AM (iZEhM)

118 116 Oakland residents are demanding a military response to crime.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2024 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

That sounds promising! Admitting they have a problem etc.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:40 AM (mn2bz)

119 116 Oakland residents are demanding a military response to crime.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 09, 2024 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

Didn't California implement the use of social workers to respond to domestic issues? Not working well?

If they don't like it, maybe take a look at voting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 06:42 AM (zZu0s)

120 That sounds promising! Admitting they have a problem etc.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:40 AM (mn2bz)

I am sure that civilian defense force will get right on it.

Antifa could be used maybe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 09, 2024 06:42 AM (zZu0s)

121 @111

>>Let me tell you. Getting laid off in November really sucks.

Getting laid off anytime has got to suck.

I've only ever been laid off once and I had a new job lined up for me by my Chief Engineer who was doing the laying off, the company was going through a post Sony lawsuit restructuring.

It basically was, I got a guy and he's gonna come work for you situation.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I've only interviewed for one job in my entire life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 06:43 AM (XV/Pl)

122 When I think of the innocent Gazans I think of Deborah.

Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
“I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.
“Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?’ say ‘No.’”
But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 06:44 AM (zzBMk)

123 heyjackass.com:

As is usually the case this time of year, Officer Weather is putting a lid on the usual nonsense.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:45 AM (mn2bz)

124
Hadrian - might you have a future show prospect - or two or three?

Mind you, they're all well built and all of them can finish their championships but right now only Phoenix and Zeus can go beyond that level and be campaigned.

Spark is a little small and some judges are prejudiced against that. Both George and Puff have short tails; not too short, but Her Majesty likes them to extend well below the hock.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 06:48 AM (MoZTd)

125 What it means is that all your support folks now live in South America/Phillipines and aren't employees of the company. This includes support at business level. And they are all chasing the cheapest they can find. Businesses will learn that voip was not a good idea and long for landline phones.

We get to train a whole new batch because reasons.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 09, 2024 06:49 AM (L8hCM)

126
Let me tell you. Getting laid off in November really sucks. Things are starting to move now, though.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 06:35 AM (iZEhM)

The MBAs prefer to have year-end purges to improve 4Q and earn extra bonuses for holding down costs. Also, just because it's cruel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 06:50 AM (MoZTd)

127 The humor at heyjackass.com is in some ways similar to that at

https://thepeoplescube.com

Both highly recommended.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 06:51 AM (mn2bz)

128 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

129 MBAs are good at bankrupting companies.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 06:53 AM (zzBMk)

130 MBAs are good at bankrupting companies.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 06:53 AM (zzBMk)

They're not actually Masters at administering a business, are they? Hardly even Journeymen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2024 06:57 AM (4I/2K)

131 Snow on the ground and cold. No school today.

Yesterday brought the kids home with roads a mess, lots of falling snow, and amazingly clueless drivers. Took a while, because I only went a little less than conditions allowed.

The Superintendent waited until snow was falling to schedule early release in another hour. In this case snowfall started 2 minutes after the NWS prediction.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

132 Mornin' Horde. Good to see y'all this rainy morning. We're supposed to get 3 inches of rain today. I'm glad I have a brand new roof on the palace at SiD (Half) Acres.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 09, 2024 06:57 AM (CL9FV)

133 Good morning all! A lovely blanket of snow is on the ground. I'm guessing 6 inches. I hope that fella we talked to last year remembers to come and shovel the driveway. Also, Moose needs a path shoveled from the door to the yard.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 06:58 AM (iF0sF)

134 Getting laid off anytime has got to suck.

I've only ever been laid off once and I had a new job lined up for me by my Chief Engineer who was doing the laying off, the company was going through a post Sony lawsuit restructuring.

It basically was, I got a guy and he's gonna come work for you situation.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I've only interviewed for one job in my entire life.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 06:43 AM

You lucky bastard. I hate interviewing.

Getting laid off would be like this awesome extended vacation if the money I'm using to live on wasn't a finite resource. Fortunately, I'm pretty frugal so I'm living on the first severance package.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 06:58 AM (iZEhM)

135 They're not actually Masters at administering a business, are they? Hardly even Journeymen.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2024 06:57 AM (4I/2K)

They're people persons, dammit

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 09, 2024 06:58 AM (lO6Ut)

136 Notsothoreau

Hope you are cozy. Heard I-70 was closed due to snow out your way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

137 43 and gusty winds up to 30 mph.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 09, 2024 07:00 AM (4I/2K)

138 {{{jewells45}}}

Moose can't take a harness and a plow? /s

The snow sure makes things pretty. Stay warm, you two turtledoves.

And fuck cancer!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

139
MBAs are good at bankrupting companies.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 06:53 AM (zzBMk)

Finance, I'm told, is the art of moving money from place to place until it disappears. MBAs are in the business of realigning and restructuring until the company disappears.

Organic growth is a mystery to them. So they just reach for the only tools in their boxes. Improve earnings? Buy someone. Cut costs? Lay people off.

Back in the day, robust R&D departments producing advances were run by actual scientists and engineers. Then the bean-counters assumed command. Now if you're not operating a machine or managing money, you're useless.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 07:02 AM (MoZTd)

140 The MBAs prefer to have year-end purges to improve 4Q and earn extra bonuses for holding down costs. Also, just because it's cruel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 06:50 AM

That's not, quite, what happened to me. The end of year timing was pretty much coincidental. When I worked for Baker, I used to say that nothing happened between Thanksgiving and New Year's. If you're trying to do anything there's always some critical person who's out of the office.

January is like the Monday of the year. People are back in the office and things can finally happen.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 07:03 AM (iZEhM)

141 Salty! I actually just let Moose out. He found a spot that the snow hadn't covered by the deck, so he's good to go.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 07:03 AM (iF0sF)

142 @134

>>You lucky bastard. I hate interviewing.

I've worked in two very insular fields, television/movie production/post production and Broadcast System Integration, and basically the slogan, I got a guy or I got a girl, is all that needs to be said, if someone's got a position to fill.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 09, 2024 07:07 AM (XV/Pl)

143 Cybersmythe, good to see you. Hope you find your perfect job soon.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 09, 2024 07:09 AM (CL9FV)

144 Hadrian the Seventh

There is so much research these days that seems to be finding ideological backing for persistent memes.

Politics has ruined science and engineering by sidelining the most productive and correct of the researchers. C&E News is full of bad science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

145 Nothing better than a personal recommendation.

I turned the heat up to 75 for a while.
Hospitals keep the temp at 68 to discourage bacteria so I figure that I will turn up the heat, for a while, to kill off any virus floating around the house.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 07:13 AM (zzBMk)

146 Good morning to one and all.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2024 07:16 AM (Z1/eR)

147
C&E News is full of bad science.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

I'm afraid the only reason I'm an ACS member is because I've been one for 45 years, would like to get to 50 and I get 25 free SciFinder searches and 50 free reprints. I took Emeritus status this year, so it only cost me $50.

I read C&E News for the obituaries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 07:16 AM (MoZTd)

148 >>>Politics has ruined science and engineering by sidelining the most productive and correct of the researchers. C&E News is full of bad science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog
----------------------

It's another leg of manufacturing that they are trying to offshore.
===> they're trying to kill us

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 07:16 AM (zzBMk)

149 No schools, but chores await.

May you all be warm and cozy, with safe travels.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 09, 2024 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

150 {{Ben Had}} good morning!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 07:19 AM (iF0sF)

151 Somehow I ended up listening to a Mark Knopfler interview this morning, and that led to Dire Straits songs. Pretty good morning music.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2024 07:20 AM (hhbb/)

152 mornin yall. What a stupid story:

"Parents of a 12-year-old and seven-year-old will not be charged in the case where the boy got ahold of a loaded handgun.

According to the incident report, the siblings were in the garage where the guns were. The guns were on top of the refrigerator in the garage.

The boy climbed on top of the fridge to grab his toy gun but grabbed the real one instead. They were right next to each other.

The boy accidentally shot his sister in the shoulder, the report says."

According to the article, the guns appears to be virtually identical.

Posted by: fd at January 09, 2024 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

153 jewells, is there anything that tastes good? You mentioned coffee was out but how about food?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2024 07:22 AM (Z1/eR)

154 The heat is on!

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Frey at January 09, 2024 07:23 AM (4I/2K)

155
1. Do not store loaded guns where a 12 year old can get to them

2. Do not store toy guns and real guns together

3. Do not store guns in the garage on top of a refrigerator.

Thankfully, the little girl is going to be ok. Who knows if the rest of the clan learned a lesson.

Posted by: fd at January 09, 2024 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

156 Cybersmythe, good to see you. Hope you find your perfect job soon.

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 09, 2024 07:09 AM

Thank you for the kind wishes. I've been around but haven't had much time to comment here so I've mostly been on Sarah Hoyt's Discord server.

The last week or so, I've gotten a half dozen good job leads and I've been telling them that I'm quite far along in the process for two positions, but they want to continue anyway. The last interview of the "early stage" for one of them, something I think I would quite like, is early tomorrow morning because the interviewer is somewhere in Asia.

I know that I have a rather unique skill set, and one which is in demand in a variety of industries so I'm optimistic, but impatient.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024 07:25 AM (iZEhM)

157 Wolfus - I prefer cold weather to hot. I can always put on MORE clothes!
Posted by: Rosasharn at January 09, 2024

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Exactamundo! Layering is the thing. People here in Da Swamp all want to dress like Bart Simpson year-round, and are shocked when temps actually dip below 70. I see people waddling into Walmart all the time:
It's 45 degrees and they're wearing a light shirt or T-shirt, lightweight pants or shorts, and sometimes sandals. Uh, you think that might be why you're cold????

The only time I wear shorts is when I'm working out. T-shirts are for exercise, washing the car, or wearing under proper shirts for warmth. I don't own sandals. Moccasins are for house wear, boat shoes for car washing and errands, cowboy boots when it's cool enough or cold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 07:26 AM (J2vNu)

158 Ben Had, it's been a little better. I still can't have anything real spicy but I managed grilled salmon and some broccoli last night. The special mouthwash they prescribed seems to be helping. I'm even sort of enjoying a cup of coffee right now.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 07:29 AM (iF0sF)

159 Cybersmythe, the right job is going to find you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2024 07:30 AM (Z1/eR)

160 I'm even sort of enjoying a cup of coffee right now.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 07:29 AM (iF0sF)
===================
Progress!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2024 07:31 AM (IJ2nI)

161
Getting laid off would be like this awesome extended vacation if the money I'm using to live on wasn't a finite resource. Fortunately, I'm pretty frugal so I'm living on the first severance package.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 09, 2024

***
My boss has begun the new year by being loudly disappointed in his staff, including me. He wanted a report from me last week, and I delivered it minus some data I informed him that I couldn't get yet. His reply was, "I don't want excuses." He's warned us all that there "will be consequences" for not giving him the report he asked for.

I'm ready to retire -- and who knows, I might have to move sooner than the end of March. If I bug out this month, he'll be stuck for someone to compile and enter the budget for next year. Heh, heh, heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 07:32 AM (J2vNu)

162 jewells, that's good to hear. Can you do a protein supplement?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2024 07:33 AM (Z1/eR)

163 I just had a lovely experience at the convenience store. I got to see a beautiful sunrise on my way there, and as I was getting a paper and a coffee I met a woman looking at the headlines which unfortunately was about anti Israel nutcases blocking the road in NY. She was saying how terrible it was -all the anti semetism-and I agreed. She said that she grew up in WWII which had to make her at least in her early 80's, I think. She was very vibrant and takes a walk in the morning in the local park to center herself. Anyway, we had a nice brief chat and she gave me her info. She works with non profits bringing people together. I think that's wonderful. I'm really an introvert who can function as an extrovert, but it's good to have conversations with nice people I hadn't known before.

Oh, yes, the coffee type is "caramel cream" which is very good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 07:34 AM (RSbhh)

164 Morning peeps.

Rainy dayz here in Bourbon Country. Supposed to be windy too. A little of 1.25" so far. And the neighbor's sinkhole looks like a pond.

Well, what I can see of it. It's still dark...

Posted by: The Rag at January 09, 2024 07:34 AM (Q4IgG)

165 I'm even sort of enjoying a cup of coffee right now.

Glad to hear that, dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 07:35 AM (RSbhh)

166 On the way in this morning, I thought I might download the fed tax form for last year and maybe get a jump on my prep. I don't think I need H & R Block this year. But I don't have any of the forms telling me how much I made and how much was withheld, etc. Kind of pointless to start until I have that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 07:35 AM (J2vNu)

167 news'ish

Secretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken
15h
Even as we focus on immediate goals, we also must work toward enduring peace and security.

The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people.

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 07:36 AM (mn2bz)

168 off sock

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 09, 2024 07:36 AM (Q4IgG)

169 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 07:35 AM (J2vNu)

Don't you have a signed copy of it from last year?

Posted by: dantesed at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (88xKn)

170 ecretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken
15h
Even as we focus on immediate goals, we also must work toward enduring peace and security.

The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people.
Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 07:36 AM (mn2bz)
==================
The worst incompetents in the Junta announces more war.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (IJ2nI)

171 Where is Lloyd Austin today?

Posted by: Know one knows at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (NBVIP)

172 Left a message with my CPA last week. He hasn't returned my call.
Hope he's OK.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 07:39 AM (zzBMk)

173 Yes I drink a nutrition drink every day.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 09, 2024 07:39 AM (iF0sF)

174 "The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people."

The graft must flow.

Posted by: Greed Navigator at January 09, 2024 07:40 AM (SYTee)

175
Where is Lloyd Austin today?
Posted by: Know one knows at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (NBVIP)

Today: A "slight cold"

Tomorrow: Chopin's Funeral March on the radio

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 09, 2024 07:40 AM (MoZTd)

176 Where is Lloyd Austin today?
Posted by: Know one knows at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (NBVIP)
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"working from home"

Duh.

Posted by: DR! Jill Biden at January 09, 2024 07:40 AM (IJ2nI)

177 Where is Lloyd Austin today?
Posted by: Know one knows at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (NBVIP)
---
Does it really matter?

Posted by: No one cares at January 09, 2024 07:41 AM (7fElN)

178 Blinken has a bad case of anal glaucoma.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 09, 2024 07:41 AM (Z1/eR)

179 The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people

------

This is just saying "the United States has a vision that we can continue telling everyone they can have their cake, and eat it, too."

It's the core notion of American governance... I've heard hundreds of versions of this statement on every conceivable topic since I was a little boy.

Delusional fantasy world stuff. But it's what people like to hear, so whatevs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 09, 2024 07:42 AM (0FoWg)

180 Hadrian,

It's hard. I've spent most of my career in labs doing "new" stuff and watch as it was gradually phased out and sent elsewhere. It's going to bite the US in the ass someday soon. Other counties are learning fast, just like Japan did in the 70-80s.

I saw an article last year that really depressed me. Samsung is building a $15 billion mega lab in S Korea dedicated to fundamental R&D.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the next big scientific thing is going to come from somewhere else.

It's almost impossible to get a job in either little or big R&D these days.

I'm reduced to babysitting 20 YO test stations that have seen no regular maintenance. Like the Fire Department, waiting for a production halt that costs the company money.

Posted by: pawn at January 09, 2024 07:42 AM (QB+5g)

181 Good news! The New York Times is now in a fight with Taylor Swift's insane fans, so hopefully there will be heavy casualties on both sides!
The NYT started it with an editorial that the public had forced TayTay into a very public hetero relationship, when, come on, we all know she's gay, right? This is consistent with the Alphabet crowd's belief that we're all gay, but damn those Christian morals!
But Swifties will permit no criticism of their God, especially when the criticism is essentially that she's a coward and a publicity hound.
So, fight on, losers!

Posted by: Wally at January 09, 2024 07:43 AM (hqVaF)

182 > The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people
_______________

Somebody has a "vision."

It's not "the United States."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 09, 2024 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

183 Imagine the graphic for the ad we would see here for anal glaucoma treatment.

Posted by: Heh at January 09, 2024 07:44 AM (NBVIP)

184
Fani Willis might be up to her ears in dirt. Just like Jack Smith with some foreign dealings.

Makes one wonder if Trump prosecution is to keep themselves out of trouble.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 09, 2024 07:44 AM (3qE2b)

185
Don't you have a signed copy of it from last year?
Posted by: dantesed at January 09, 2024

***
No, I mean the 1040 I have to file this April covering last year's income. The form says at the top "2023." That's what I meant by "last year's taxes" -- the taxes I'll have to pay this spring on last year's income.

My copy of the 1040 I filed in '23 for '22's income is stashed at home.

I do expect a good-sized refund this year. My '23 income did not go up that much, but I had SS take out withholding this year -- and that amount was comfortably larger than what I had to send in last year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 09, 2024 07:44 AM (J2vNu)

186 "Where is Lloyd Austin today?"

Rich Lowry (Yes; I know. I know) wonders the same thing in an editorial in the NYP. He considers that nobody knew about or addressed this another indictment of the Biden administration's uselessness and sneakiness:

http://tinyurl.com/4rpwszjx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2024 07:45 AM (RSbhh)

187 182 > The United States has a vision for a regional approach that delivers lasting security for Israel and a state for the Palestinian people
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SNL's happy thoughts from Smiley

Posted by: Braenyard at January 09, 2024 07:45 AM (zzBMk)

188 "After Back-To-Back Losses, Chiefs Replace Taylor Swift With Selena Gomez"

Posted by: Babylon Bee headline at January 09, 2024 07:47 AM (NBVIP)

189 Rich Lowrey voted for this shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2024 07:48 AM (IJ2nI)

190 TODAY’S WEATHER FORECAST
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Posted by: rhennigantx at January 09, 2024 07:49 AM (lwOKI)

191 .

NOOD

J.J. Sefton's Morning Report is now available.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recaclitrant at January 09, 2024 07:50 AM (qPw5n)

192
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Posted by: rhennigantx at January 09, 2024 07:51 AM (lwOKI)

193 NY Post: "Epstein did not kill himself" (paraphrasing)

https://shorturl.at/jkKU5

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 09, 2024 07:52 AM (IJ2nI)

194 The United States has a vision where they promise both parties each the world, and provide no workable solution for any of that while also demanding that no other options be explored.

It's happened like this so often. Who still believes these fork-tongued devils?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 09, 2024 07:54 AM (0FoWg)

195 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 09, 2024 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

196 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 09, 2024 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

197 171 Where is Lloyd Austin today?
Posted by: Know one knows at January 09, 2024 07:38 AM (NBVIP)

Know one noes!

Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 08:17 AM (mn2bz)

198 by extension the 73 million of us who voted for him (and probably close to 200 million in total who, if they don't support him are against Democrat-Leftism)

200 million? I think that is wildly wishful thinking. The majority are below average intelligence and buy into everything the left is selling. The left's message is designed to appeal to the very dumb. The left's policies defy logic and common sense, which makes them seem "intelligent" and "virtuous", which appeals to the stupid and ignorant. And, the vast majority of Americans are stupid and ignorant.

1/2 have to be below average intelligence. And, average intelligence is fairly low to begin with. Add to that bad education (i.e., minds filled with leftist rot through public education or "higher" education) and ignorance and you have a stew of really, really stupid people.

Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at January 09, 2024 08:19 AM (ky+MF)

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Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 09:10 AM (mn2bz)

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Posted by: m at January 09, 2024 09:10 AM (mn2bz)

201 Security experts at CloudSEK have reportedly identified a new form of malware that exploits third-party cookies, allowing unauthorized access to Google accounts without the need for passwords.

The Independent reports the alarming security breach, first announced on a Telegram channel by a hacker in October 2023, exploits vulnerabilities in third-party cookies. Specifically, it targets Google authentication cookies, which are normally used to streamline user access without repeated logins.

Posted by: SMOD at January 09, 2024 10:06 AM (RHGPo)

202 Could I get a recommendation on a gaming desktop in the $1500 range?

Posted by: jt2 at January 09, 2024 10:07 AM (kcUnF)

203 The 4080 Super is just a stealth price cut on the 4080 so nVidia doesn't have to admit the f-es up the pricing.

On the Intel plethora of chips confusion, you assume Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake are actually releasing end of this year, and not end of next year instead.

Posted by: Voyager at January 09, 2024 10:29 AM (PVUR/)

204 >Unity has unexpectedly fired 25% of its staff.

"Unexpectedly". I don't know what it is, but gamers (video, board, miniatures, etc) are weirdly myopic about how companies work.

No one stopped playing D&D, no one actually cares whether there are female space marines, and Unity didn't lose tons of money because they p*ssed off their customers with a cash grab. They went for a cash grab because they were already in dire financial straits and the CEO thought they had a captive market. Companies price gouge if they're desperate for cash flow.

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