Daily Tech News 11 July 2025

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Intel is no longer among the top ten chipmakers, says... Intel's new CEO. (The Register)

Not with that attitude.

It's not entirely clear what he's talking about, but we can guess. Intel is in the top three in terms of revenue, but not even in the top ten in terms of market cap. Years of losses have left it with a valuation just half that of key competitor AMD.

AMD of course spend years in the doldrums before starting a spectacular path to recovery in 2017 with the introduction of the Zen family of CPU cores.

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Speaking of Zen, Zen 6 engineering samples are already shipping. (WCCFTech)

That seems pretty early if they're targeting a late 2026 release.
And speaking of Zen 6, I previously missed these leaked slides of Zen 6 server specs. (WCCFTech)

Or did I? Anyway, I ran into this item from last month while going through the above news.

Zen 6 server CPUs will bring up to 16 channels of DDR5-12800 memory using MRDIMMs - so more than 2.5x Zen 5's current bandwidth, plus 128 lanes of PCIe 6.0 for I/O. And 256 cores.

Per CPU.
Don't use Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY streams. (Recall)

When you issue a NOTIFY it can lock the entire database.

That's bad.
Centerville, Ohio, is not scanning your trash and feeding the data into an AI to issue notices that you are a poopy-head. (Dayton Daily News)

They're scanning your recycling and feeding the data into AI.

Which seems more reasonable to me. If you're putting stuff into the recycling bin that can't be recycled, that's more of an active nuisance than sending stuff to landfill that might have been recycled.
The LPDDR6 standard for phone and laptop memory has been released. (Hot Hardware)

LPDDR6 starts out at the same clock speeds as current LPDDR5X, but is effectively 50% faster by virtue of being 50% wider - the channels are now 24 bits wide rather than 16.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Do not call me Betty.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1
Hiiiiiiii, Pixy!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 04:30 AM (UmB+t)

2 Hi there!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 11, 2025 04:31 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone
Not sure of this has been around yesterday, but saw it on ONT, a little goodbye on Jim SND
https://tinyurl.com/Jim-SND

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 04:35 AM (+qU29)

4
Okay, who left the gavte unlocked so that intensely unfunny and irritating Chevy Chase got in here?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 04:37 AM (Tv15w)

5
I had no idea my inquiry was such a poser.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 04:43 AM (Tv15w)

6 If you're putting stuff into the recycling bin that can't be recycled, that's more of an active nuisance than sending stuff to landfill that might have been recycled.

It's not so much that it can't be recycled but the likelihood that it will be recycled is pretty low. I think most "recycling" programs just go to the landfill already since China stopped "buying" the shit and dumping it in the ocean.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 04:55 AM (ExV1e)

7 Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 04:35 AM (+qU29)

I contacted Kim a few days ago to see whether he wouldn't mind a link to it. He said, "Sure!"

So I linked it in the "Absent Friends" sidebar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 11, 2025 04:56 AM (L5An7)

8 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 04:43 AM (Tv15w)

Chevy Chase is an entirely unpleasant human being, and I also think that he is overrated as a comedic actor.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 11, 2025 04:57 AM (L5An7)

9 Good morning, good people fortunate enough to live in this country. Current crop of issues aside, it remains the most exceptional there is. We'll prevail, though losses like Jim hurt physically.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 11, 2025 05:01 AM (hKoQL)

10 Morning,Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 11, 2025 05:01 AM (AN2gy)

11 CBD, I believe Ciampino rates a place on the Absent Friends list.

Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:02 AM (rdVOm)

12 "Chevy Chase is an entirely unpleasant human being, and I also think that he is overrated as a comedic actor."

I rate this comment as entirely True. No need for any modification.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 11, 2025 05:02 AM (89Sog)

13 hallooo

Posted by: m at July 11, 2025 05:03 AM (aURVT)

14 I am completely serious and don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: fluffy at July 11, 2025 05:03 AM (AN2gy)

15 Even (waaayyy back) when SNL was funny-- Chevy Chase was not.

Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:03 AM (rdVOm)

16 Didn't care much for the National Lampoon "Vacation" movies either. Chevy ruined those, too.

Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:05 AM (rdVOm)

17 "Even (waaayyy back) when SNL was funny...."

I'll disagree with you on this. It was never funny. Ever. Sometimes it was mildly amusing but belly laugh out loud? Never.

IMO
YMMV
yada....

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 11, 2025 05:06 AM (89Sog)

18 LPDDR6... is effectively 50% faster by virtue of being 50% wider.

Wide lanes, an idea so old it is new again.

https://youtu.be/WPOAQHpkz7I

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 05:09 AM (NXz8h)

19 Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 11, 2025 05:06 AM

You're probably right.

Only thought it was funny (decades ago!) when I was stoned. Ordinary things can be funny, when one is stoned, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:15 AM (rdVOm)

20 Cousin Eddie made wearing bathrobes in public quite fashionable for a time.

https://youtu.be/BeskbiJjCXI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 05:16 AM (NXz8h)

21 Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:15 AM (rdVOm)

I had the benefit of being only 11 years old when it first came on tee vee. My older brother hated C.C. for some unknown and still unshared reason.

Ask him if he like to sit down and watch Fletch!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 11, 2025 05:19 AM (89Sog)

22 >>> Cousin Eddie made wearing bathrobes in public quite fashionable for a time.

Are you implying that it is no longer fashionable?

*** hides feather boa behind back ***

Posted by: fluffy at July 11, 2025 05:23 AM (AN2gy)

23 Aw, jeez... I've got to get some sleep.

Good night, horde.

Posted by: JQ at July 11, 2025 05:23 AM (rdVOm)

24 I love this psalm- Psalm 65 which a Bible I use describes as a psalm of praise to God for His salvation and providence. I like that the NKJV has this neat phrase ( verse 12) "the little hills rejoice on every side "

https://tinyurl.com/y8tsp762

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 05:25 AM (2GCMq)

25 Well look at that.

We even have them in our sleepy little town.

https://tinyurl.com/3mph62yy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 11, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

26 And a Christian devotional onPhilippians 4:4-9, "Always Listening". The note at the end has a suggested prayer focus. It says "pastors" so if you could pray not only for your priest or pastor if you have one and me and the church which I serve aswell, I would greatly appreciate that. 😊

https://tinyurl.com/2f73tzxk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 05:36 AM (2GCMq)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 11, 2025 05:36 AM (tljrc)

28 If you're putting stuff into the recycling bin that can't be recycled, that's more of an active nuisance than sending stuff to landfill that might have been recycled.

Given that the stuff goes into the landfill anyways, what's the point of worrying about this?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 05:37 AM (lXoJ5)

29 And time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 11, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

30 "Ramiro shot one of the surviving females multiple times while the others fatally killed the other two with their guns"

Fatally killed huh? Sounds bad.

The reporter must have gone to the same jeurnalism skool as our local reporters.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:40 AM (vFG9F)

31 I can't sleep anymore. It's going to be a good day. The pain in my big toe has subsided and my new tractor is being delivered this morning.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:42 AM (vFG9F)

32 My own recycling story from living in the GPROMD:

I left my bins out in the designated drop off point. The next day it had not been picked up and a nastygram from the county was slapped on the bin.

OK, fine. I'm willing to fight.

The person who answered the phone said it was because I put a bag of trash in the bin. I told them that it had been left by someone else and I was not going to stand guard over my bin to stop it from happening again.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 05:42 AM (lXoJ5)

33 "The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump.

The National Education Association (NEA), which represents more than 3 million teachers nationwide, approved the mangled proposal – aimed at defending “the survival of civilization itself” – on Sunday at the group’s annual convention. "

They must not have used AI because at least AI can spell.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:48 AM (vFG9F)

34 Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:42 AM (vFG9F)

Glad that your toe is feeling better and I hope that your new tractor works well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 05:48 AM (2GCMq)

35
Good morning, Hordians. Friday. Ugh.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 05:48 AM (HZi96)

36 If the survival of civilization itself is dependent on the NEA, we are most certainly doomed.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:49 AM (vFG9F)

37
The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump.

_________

It was likely "facism" but it would have been funnier as "fassism".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 05:51 AM (HZi96)

38 Evening and morning, all! It's Friday again, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Oddly, I feel as if I had enough sleep last night. That last extra half hour after I woke, then turned over and slid back into unconsciousness, made some difference, I guess.

Today big black Stirling goes to the the vet for a shot and flea treatment. At the moment he and Dagny are scurrying around after something that's flying in here. I hope it's not a wasp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

39 Kathy Griffin and E. Jean Carroll on YouTube yakking for an hour. It is weird. It is vacuous. Its...I really don't know what to say.

https://youtu.be/W0AoKDIC7g0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (NXz8h)

40
"It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated." - Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (HZi96)

41 Monday is my big day to be carved like a roast chicken, of course. They will call me today to confirm or change my surgery time. Naturally I'm worried (read: "scared to death"), but I guess it's not really any worse than the oral surgery I had years ago.

(I hope.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

42 Facism is what Templeton Peck used to do on the A-Team.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (vFG9F)

43
It was likely "facism" but it would have been funnier as "fassism".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025

***
Yeah, that guy Fass was a real troublemaker.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

44
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (NXz8h)

_______

I would say that in the evening of my life hours are precious, but if I were to sit and stare at the wall vacantly for an hour it would still be time better spent than watching Kathy Griffith and E. Jean Carroll.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 05:57 AM (HZi96)

45 The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump

That's as funny as Harvard misspelling "Arithmetic" when they were bashing on homeschooling.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 06:00 AM (lXoJ5)

46 "It is vacuous. Its...I really don't know what to say."

I maintain that Kathy Griffin could make a good living hosting a remake of "Tales From The Crypt".

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 06:01 AM (vFG9F)

47 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

I thought last time you said we're going to be carved like a beef roast. Now it's a chicken. Are you hungry? 😉 I think it's normal to be anxious before surgery, but do remember that the surgeons probably have performed this procedure many times, and you will have people who love and like you including Miss Linda and folks here who will be praying for you, dear brother .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

48 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 06:02 AM (dKEEs)

49 Chevy Chase was totally in character for his role on "Community"

It's almost like they wrote his personality into the script and then had Chevy be himself.

Posted by: pawn at July 11, 2025 06:03 AM (QB+5g)

50 I know it'll be hot today, but apparently we have rain in the offing. 76 F. heat index right now, way better than 90. Clouds expected around noon and some rain this p.m., the local Fox outlet says.

For whoever suggested to me I check out Duncan, OK, as a retirement place: It looks very good, except that it gets *hot* there at this time of year -- 97 yesterday afternoon with a heat index of 113, and not really that much drier, 46% RH. On the other hand it cools off into the low to mid-70s overnight. Evansville, IN, looks a bit better. I need to have a look, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 06:05 AM (omVj0)

51 I was in the local school system's HQ one day and they had a big map on the wall that displayed the district's "Elemantary Zones". I've got a picture of it somewhere.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 06:05 AM (vFG9F)

52 Kathy Griffin and E. Jean Carroll on YouTube yakking for an hour. It is weird. It is vacuous. Its...I really don't know what to say.

https://youtu.be/W0AoKDIC7g0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (NXz8h)

Are you some kind of glutton for punishment?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 11, 2025 06:07 AM (89Sog)

53 "I thought last time you said we're going to be carved like a beef roast. Now it's a chicken."

It could be worse.

Posted by: A spiral sliced ham at July 11, 2025 06:07 AM (vFG9F)

54 I thought last time you said we're going to be carved like a beef roast. Now it's a chicken. Are you hungry? 😉 I think it's normal to be anxious before surgery, but do remember that the surgeons probably have performed this procedure many times, and you will have people who love and like you including Miss Linda and folks here who will be praying for you, dear brother .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025

***
Beef, chicken, who's got the special sauce?

Thanks, Fen. Good to know I'll have your prayers. It's a minor procedure, yes -- it's just a new experience for me. And I'm first that day, so the surgeon will be fresh and less likely to make a mistake!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

55 I don't really feel like even a walk this morning. But I have a bill to mail and the post office is about ten minutes' walk away, so I can combine the errand with the exercise.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

56
Speaking from experience:

Teachers' unions protect the most slothful, unproductive, and nasty teachers.

Highly motivated and productive teachers are treated as the enemy. And incidentally, don't need a teachers union anyway, because they do their jobs.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 11, 2025 06:11 AM (ES1Rb)

57 Chevy Chase is the grandson of one of the hero Midway pilots. I don't remember his name though. Not Chase.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 11, 2025 06:11 AM (O8Thy)

58 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0

And probably not being Mormons who don't have caffeine they will probably have had a cup of coffee.😉 What is it they will be doing again? I know you told us but I haven't woken up yet and brain is not working at its best. Sorry.

And no, this was not intended as an aspersion on wonderful Mormon surgeons.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 06:14 AM (2GCMq)

59 Wolfus, good luck to you. Don't think of the procedure. Think about the great nap you're going to have.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 06:16 AM (lXoJ5)

60 Chevy Chase is the grandson of one of the hero Midway pilots. I don't remember his name though. Not Chase.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 11, 2025 06:11 AM (O8Thy)

Not quite...

His mother, Cathalene Parker (née Browning; 1923–2005), was a concert pianist and librettist, whose father, Rear Admiral Miles Browning, served as Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Chief of Staff on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at the Battle of Midway in World War II.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 06:16 AM (ExV1e)

61 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 11, 2025 06:17 AM (hoCmQ)

62 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: How about a roly-poly little bat-faced girl?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 06:17 AM (XZ5S6)

63
Chevy Chase is the grandson of one of the hero Midway pilots. I don't remember his name though. Not Chase.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 11, 2025 06:11 AM (O8Thy)

His grandfather was Miles Browning, Spruance's Chief of Staff during Midway. A brilliant tactical officer, he was so insubordinate and unpleasant that he was removed from command of USS Hornet and sent home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:18 AM (HZi96)

64 "The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump."

Hahahahaha... that is just so rich.

This faux pas needs to be kept alive for the ages.

Posted by: pawn at July 11, 2025 06:20 AM (QB+5g)

65
Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center of Schloss Hadrian. Nothing to do this morning until the exterminator comes to take care of the ground wasp nest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:20 AM (HZi96)

66 "he was so insubordinate and unpleasant"

There's this great line about apples falling from trees that I suddenly remembered.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 06:20 AM (lXoJ5)

67 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin in Amish Country at July 11, 2025 06:20 AM (uGaBv)

68 First in line for surgery is a good thing!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 06:21 AM (dKEEs)

69
First in line for surgery is a good thing!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 06:21 AM (dKEEs)

Until you hear the surgeon come in, "Man, I really tied on on last night. Hope the coffee hits soon. Which one is the scalpel?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:24 AM (HZi96)

70 If you live in the South A/C is a must have. There is no opening the windows to let a cool breeze in. Well not in the summer anyway. A few weeks in the fall and spring maybe you can get away with that.

I see where Texas Instruments is building a mega plant in North Texas. This is the kind of things we need in the country. Too much of our basic industry has moved off shore.

Posted by: Case at July 11, 2025 06:24 AM (ilX37)

71 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

72 I see where Texas Instruments is building a mega plant in North Texas. This is the kind of things we need in the country. Too much of our basic industry has moved off shore.
Posted by: Case at July 11, 2025 06:24 AM (ilX37)

Gonna need about 10K H1B visas to staff that plant or we'll have to hire Americans. Ugh. -- TI executives

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 06:27 AM (ExV1e)

73 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:24 AM (HZi96)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 06:30 AM (2GCMq)

74 Shortened songs for ADD. Comedian Tim Hawkins:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3hja6m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 06:31 AM (2GCMq)

75
Gonna need about 10K H1B visas to staff that plant or we'll have to hire Americans. Ugh. -- TI executives
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 06:27 AM (ExV1e)

"By using external human resources, we can avoid expensive domestic staffing, increase shareholder value and raise our share price $0.02 for the next quarter." - the MBAs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:36 AM (HZi96)

76 Disclaimer: Do not call me Betty.

Don't call me dude!
https://youtu.be/NbLhHtaVIO4

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 11, 2025 06:36 AM (O7YUW)

77 Naturally I'm worried (read: "scared to death"), but I guess it's not really any worse than the oral surgery I had years ago.

(I hope.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

As a veteran of 3 surgeries I can assure you that you'll be fine. A nice nap while the the surgeon does his thing and then nice nurses to assist you as you wake up.

Posted by: Tuna at July 11, 2025 06:40 AM (lJ0H4)

78
Must have missed something. What are you having surged, Wolfus?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 06:41 AM (HZi96)

79 "Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are teaming up with Seinfeld creator Larry David for a new HBO TV show"

What a steaming pile that promises to be. Unless it's a cage match between the three.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

80 Don’t much care for Chevy’s politics and neutral on Simon. But it is a good tune.

Posted by: Eromero at July 11, 2025 06:43 AM (jgmnb)

81 @74/FenelonSpoke: "Shortened songs for ADD. Comedian Tim Hawkins:"

His one-verse version of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was absolute perfection!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 11, 2025 06:44 AM (O7YUW)

82 Well we should not be relying on the basic things we need from foreign countries. We need to have those industries here. We have shipped too many of those jobs overseas. Our people can do them.

Posted by: Case at July 11, 2025 06:50 AM (ilX37)

83 I remember that video mainly for the face Paul Simon makes when Chevy Chase blows the trumpet in his face, and Chevy Chase thinking the drum stand was a table and dropping his coffee cup through it.

It came out at the height of Chase’s popularity around the time of Vacation and the first Fletch film.

His best stuff was in the late 70s & early 80s.
I particularly like Seems Like Old Times, but you can give Neil Simon and Goldie Hawn a lot of the credit for the charm of that film.

Chevy was good at one thing, playing a bumbling, clumsy, goofball. He could be an idiot, Clark Griswold, or a smartass genius, Fletch, but he always screwed something up and then spent several minutes hiding it or playing it off afterwards.

That’s the entirety of Chase’s comedy.

I liked him when I was a kid/teenager but soured on him instantly watching Nothing But Trouble which is one of the grossest, unfunniest things I’ve ever seen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

84 Nnnnnnggghhhh..... Lil Pooky woke up due to a noise machine malfunction and Pooky's brain being fuddled. Not a fan of Pooky's reaction to these new meds, he makes the DMV sloth from "Zootopia" look fast.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying not to be a bear at July 11, 2025 06:53 AM (PPB1b)

85
Don't use Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY streams. (Recall)

When you issue a NOTIFY it can lock the entire database.

That's bad.

--------------

As a former Oracle DBA, I say this:

Make PostgreSQL 8.0 Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 06:55 AM (E2cCq)

86 They're scanning your recycling and feeding the data into AI.

----------------

Shredding and incinerating your paper documents is not enough.

Ask me how I know (about the HIPPA laws and "compliance" by feral government organizations like The VA) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 06:57 AM (E2cCq)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 11, 2025 06:57 AM (XQo4F)

88 Ugh. Close tags FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 06:58 AM (E2cCq)

89 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

90 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 11, 2025 06:36 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks; I enjoyed that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 07:00 AM (9WCm3)

91 ShainS

Close. Too close. You probably heard the Barrel slavering for your soul.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

92 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Have fun on your walk.

Good to know Chicago residents want to stay at your fair city.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

93 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Thanks. That was a funny summation. The ship sank and everyone died. Bummer.

Hope you are enjoying your summer off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

94

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 11, 2025 07:05 AM (5hfjS)

95 >>>Which seems more reasonable to me. If you're putting stuff into the recycling bin that can't be recycled, that's more of an active nuisance than sending stuff to landfill that might have been recycled.

Sounds commie to me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 11, 2025 07:05 AM (i24o9)

96 81 @74/FenelonSpoke: "Shortened songs for ADD. Comedian Tim Hawkins:"

His one-verse version of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was absolute perfection!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 11, 2025 06:44 AM (O7YUW)
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down to the pegleg they call Gichegoome.

Posted by: Eromero at July 11, 2025 07:06 AM (jgmnb)

97 I think Wolfus said he’s having surgery for a hernia.

I was born with one and had surgery on it at 19.

The surgery was a breeze.
In and out in about four hours.

Then spent the next two weeks lying around on painkillers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

98 Hillary Clinton

Please run for office as the next Mayor of New York. You can't get enough humiliation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

99 I actually have a couple of taconite pellets from the Fitzgerald.

They are kind of illegal to own but proving it is impossible.

Posted by: pawn at July 11, 2025 07:08 AM (QB+5g)

100 Hasn’t it been proven that recycling is a net loss endeavor? It’s wild to me that recycling is still even a thing. I think for anything other than aluminum cans it’s just a pat on the back for consumer guilt.

Posted by: H at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (2gjbv)

101 From the " keep an eye on it " dept. Arab Sheiks in the Hebron area are rejecting the PA and the two state solution and look to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (HFcKg)

102 I think I am truly done with Rising of the Shield Hero.

My affection was on pretty shaky ground with the 'reveal' that Raphtalia, the tanuki-girl he had bought from slavers, was in fact royalty and assassins where now after her in Season Three.

Now with episode one of Season Four I am done. Naofumi is on the way to clear up the matter with Raphtalia when Fitoria, one of the most powerful creatures in the land, asks for his help. Naturally he refuses. And instead of telling him what her request is so Naofumi could make an informed decision and coincidentally raises the stakes for the audience, she just folds with the ominous words of 'you may regret this.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (T/yKs)

103 I'm sooooo ooooold. Last I remember, Intel was the big dog, AMD was trying hard to catch up, and NVidea just made crap for video games.

Now I don't know WTH is going on, except that everything is made by somebody in Taiwan, which is always on the brink of being taken over by Communists, and Trump is working to change that (Thank God).

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (hOOi9)

104 “ Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.”

Psalm 150:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2025 07:12 AM (P7SgQ)

105 For some reason, my insomnia has returned.

I'm watching the end of the 1963 film "Jason And The Argonauts
-- thanks to the moron(s) who recommended it yesterday as I've never seen it (although the wifey had as a young'un).

Wow, Honor Blackman AND Nancy Kovack? They don't make babes like that anymore ...

Anywho, I just stumbled onto the scene where Jason (after Acastus) finally sees The Golden Fleece ... and it immediately reminded me of course of both Pulp Fiction and then Hitchcock's "MacGuffins" -- and of course Ace's famous & classic 2013 post about "The MacGuffinization of American Politics" and insight into "The Hero's Journey" (I remember it being mentioned on air by both El Rushbo and Dennis Prager) -- to eventually be infamously & notoriously plagiarized by one Jonah Goldberg.

acecomments.mu.nu/?post=345514

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 07:12 AM (E2cCq)

106 Facism is what Templeton Peck used to do on the A-Team.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 05:54 AM (vFG9F)

That's facist!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 11, 2025 07:13 AM (i24o9)

107 Hasn’t it been proven that recycling is a net loss endeavor? It’s wild to me that recycling is still even a thing. I think for anything other than aluminum cans it’s just a pat on the back for consumer guilt.

Posted by: H at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (2gjbv)

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I remember learning -- after a couple of decades of conscientious separation of trash from recycling --- that the Waste Management companies in Califzuela were simply dumping all of it into the same landfill.

That was some serous Gaslighting (pun intended) before Gaslighting was cool ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 07:16 AM (E2cCq)

108 @103

>>Now I don't know WTH is going on, except that everything is made by somebody in Taiwan, which is always on the brink of being taken over by Communists, and Trump is working to change that (Thank God).

That's what 30 years of outsourcing will do to a country.

If we put the right policies in place, it will take roughly that long to move everything back to the US.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 07:16 AM (XV/Pl)

109 I think Wolfus said he’s having surgery for a hernia.

I was born with one and had surgery on it at 19.

The surgery was a breeze.
In and out in about four hours.

Then spent the next two weeks lying around on painkillers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

Had one fixed in '88. Went well except for some truly nasty nausea caused by the anesthesia. The medical profession has improved on that issue considerably since then.

But the potential to lie around for a stretch on painkillers is still true. And don't get to thinking you're ready to really resume all activities before you should.

Here's to smooth sailing, Wolfus.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 07:17 AM (/HDaX)

110 Have a great day, eveyone.

May you be cool in your local environs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 11, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

111 I think I am truly done with Rising of the Shield Hero.

Reads the rest.

You would think that after everything he's done, the people there should realize that talking to him is the quicker approach to getting things done.

And why the princess has not been made a horrible example of earlier is annoying to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2025 07:17 AM (lXoJ5)

112 The only items that get recycled in any meaning full way are metals and paper, everything else goes into a landfill or is dumped into the ocean by the Chinese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 07:20 AM (XV/Pl)

113 109 And don't get to thinking you're ready to really resume all activities before you should.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 07:17 AM (/HDaX)

So true.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2025 07:21 AM (aURVT)

114 I'm sooooo ooooold. Last I remember, Intel was the big dog, AMD was trying hard to catch up, and NVidea just made crap for video games.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate!

Posted by: IT Guy 1966 at July 11, 2025 07:21 AM (lX1hk)

115 I'm watching the end of the 1963 film "Jason And The Argonauts
-- thanks to the moron(s) who recommended it yesterday as I've never seen it (although the wifey had as a young'un).

Wow, Honor Blackman AND Nancy Kovack? They don't make babes like that anymore ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 07:12 AM (E2cCq)

It was on TCM the other night and I only caught the last 40 minutes of it, which is what I always seem to watch.

I’d never watched the entire movie and Nancy Kovack caught my interest as Medea, so I looked to see if it was on HBO Max (a lot of TCM movies included on it) but it wasn’t on the list.

I may have to buy/rent it on Amazon Prime or find a torrent just so I can finally watch it all the way through.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)

116 And probably not being Mormons who don't have caffeine they will probably have had a cup of coffee.😉 What is it they will be doing again? I know you told us but I haven't woken up yet and brain is not working at its best. Sorry.

And no, this was not intended as an aspersion on wonderful Mormon surgeons.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025

***
It's a mild hernia. No real pain, I could probably live with it for a while, but it won't get any better and might get worse. So here I go.

Oh, yes, the nap! The oral surgery years ago resulted in the best I'd had in a long time. I'm laying there, saying, "Am I supposed to be this cold . . .?" And the next thing I knew they were helping me out of the chair, all done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

117 100 Hasn’t it been proven that recycling is a net loss endeavor? It’s wild to me that recycling is still even a thing. I think for anything other than aluminum cans it’s just a pat on the back for consumer guilt.
Posted by: H at July 11, 2025 07:10 AM (2gjbv)

Some years ago I thought I heard that recycling paper might be worth it, or at least almost worth it. There are stories that it all gets thrown into the same pile as garbage anyway. I don't know if that's universally true or not.

But yeah, aside from aluminum it DOES seems to be some sort of exercise in virtue signaling or maybe some sort of PysOp to train us to be compliant without question.

I do it anyway, so I don't know what it says about me. I guess I just like the idea of stuff being reused, instead of sitting around for centuries in a giant man-made mountain, even if I can't be sure that it will be.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 07:26 AM (hOOi9)

118 Must have missed something. What are you having surged, Wolfus?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025

***
Hadrian, a mild hernia. See me at 116!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 07:26 AM (omVj0)

119 Had one fixed in '88. Went well except for some truly nasty nausea caused by the anesthesia. The medical profession has improved on that issue considerably since then.

But the potential to lie around for a stretch on painkillers is still true. And don't get to thinking you're ready to really resume all activities before you should.

Here's to smooth sailing, Wolfus.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025

***
Yes, I've got some Tramadol and plenty of ibuprofen. With any luck I'll be able to get up and move around, fix meals and feed the cats, etc., within a day or so. Just no exercise for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 07:29 AM (omVj0)

120 Do not fold, spindle or mutilate!
Posted by: IT Guy 1966 at July 11, 2025 07:21 AM (lX1hk)

True confession:

The year I learned to program a computer I actually used punch cards. I had to go down to the college's computing center, and submit it into a batch queue for the school's massive multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art mainframe (built by IBM). I still remember seeing grad students feeding giant stacks of punch cards into the card reader. My programs undoubltedly used less than 100.

Fortunately, by the next year that crap was obsolete.

Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 07:31 AM (hOOi9)

121 That was some serous Gaslighting (pun intended) before Gaslighting was cool ...

Training people to obey stupid without question.

Remember when you had to put the bins out 6 feet apart so the contents of one bin wouldn't infect the others? Wait, maybe that was some other thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

122
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 11, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

123 79 "Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are teaming up with Seinfeld creator Larry David for a new HBO TV show"

What a steaming pile that promises to be. Unless it's a cage match between the three.
Posted by: fd at July 11, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

Lol. Larry David already did a show about a nothing.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 07:33 AM (OA79/)

124 They’ve never made us separate recycling out here.

You get one garbage bin for trash and one bin for yard waste.

I’ve never had to separate out recyclables.

The most I ever did was take back glass bottles as a kid for the deposit fee - when several bottles could buy some candy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 11, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

125 Recycling paper can be profitable. I started a side business turning used feed sacks into bedding. Worked great until they couldn't keep my industrial shredder functioning

Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2025 07:35 AM (HFcKg)

126 Fortunately, by the next year that crap was obsolete.
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 07:31 AM (hOOi9)

Ahh, fond memories. /sarc

My first FORTRAN programming was on Michigan State's CDC Cyber 750. One small error in a stack of punch cards and your time allotment burned up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2025 07:35 AM (/HDaX)

127 Speaking of recycling, in Florida in our little condo every condo was given a bin. The HOA said you had to use it! Little condo, big bin. I watched the waste pickup guys come and dump whatever was in the bin in the back of the trash truck. I was assured that somehow the truck separated trash from recycled stuff. I watch one morning and that truck had no separate place for recyclable things, just a ordinary waste truck that crunched it all together. Last year the bins were taken away. Now in New York State they will never do that. Probably all goes to landfill but the state will never, never admit that. So the trash company has to send a separate run just to pickup the bin contents. Which has to add to the cost of trash cost.

Posted by: Coliin at July 11, 2025 07:37 AM (wlQdF)

128 127 Speaking of recycling, in Florida in our little condo every condo was given a bin. The HOA said you had to use it! Little condo, big bin. I watched the waste pickup guys come and dump whatever was in the bin in the back of the trash truck. I was assured that somehow the truck separated trash from recycled stuff. I watch one morning and that truck had no separate place for recyclable things, just a ordinary waste truck that crunched it all together. Last year the bins were taken away. Now in New York State they will never do that. Probably all goes to landfill but the state will never, never admit that. So the trash company has to send a separate run just to pickup the bin contents. Which has to add to the cost of trash cost.
Posted by: Coliin at July 11, 2025 07:37 AM (wlQdF)

Wish these could be issues people would campaign on.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2025 07:43 AM (aURVT)

129

And don't call me Surely.

Posted by: Shirley at July 11, 2025 10:12 AM (uN5L6)

130 You can debunk municipal recycling with one single question: if recycling is so much better than throwing things into the landfill, why isn't anybody paying me for my garbage? Once upon a time, bauxite was easier and cheaper to recycle than mine, so discarded aluminum cans were worth money. Bottles could be steam sterilized and reused for less money than making new ones, so they were recycled. Improvements in the processes mean that's no longer true.

If no one is paying you for your recycling, you're being scammed.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 11, 2025 10:25 AM (xBngO)

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