Daily Tech News 9 March 2025

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AMD may finally be breaking the 16 core ceiling with the Zen 6, offering as many as 24 and even, well, 24 cores. (Hot Hardware)

The next generation is expected next year, and will offer 12 Zen 6 or 16 low-power Zen 16c cores on each CPU chiplet, with the standard two chiplets on desktop chips.

So 24 Zen 6 cores, or 32 Zen 6c cores which will run at about 75% the performance, which works out to... Exactly the same.

Zen 6 is expected to arrive on the AM5 platform, the same motherboards used for Zen 4 and Zen 5, so it should be a pretty healthy upgrade.
Intel meanwhile is rumoured to be preparing a 52 core desktop chip. (TweakTown)

That's 16 full-size cores, 32 low-power cores, and 4 really low-power cores.

Intel's low-power cores are a separate design and run at about half the speed of the full ones, and Intel no longer supports hyperthreading on its consumer CPUs, but with that many cores it's hard to go wrong.

Except perhaps in power consumption, and even there Intel has reduced power draw of recent parts for horrifying to merely bad.

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Micron has shown off the world's fasted PCIe 6.x SSDs, deliver 27GB per second. (Tom's Hardware)

That's not quite twice as fast as the best PCIe 5.0 models, or eight times as fast as the three-year-old PCIe 3.0 drive I'm running now.

Power consumption is quoted as "lots" and temperatures cited as "hot", albeit not by Micron. I wouldn't expect these to show up in consumer products anytime soon, but I was wrong when I said that about PCIe 5.0.

Though not about PCIe 5.0 graphics card, which only showed up this year and which only run about 3% slower when plugged into PCIe 3.0.
Snack makers are looking to remove artificial colours from, well, snacks. (Bloomberg / MSN)

But not from breakfast cereals, which you can remain assured will contain colours not found in nature, or indeed on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Burned down, fell over, and sank into the regolith: The Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander is dead. (CNN)

Not that private lunar mission, another private lunar mission. Which landed in the same week.

This one did land successfully at the Moon's south pole, but then tipped over. The solar panels are pointing away from the Sun now, and its battery is empty after a single day of operations.
Did I slip a gear earlier this week and suggest some new NAS supported 5.25" hard drives? I think I did. Anyway, the LincStation S1 and N2 definitely don't. (Liliputing)

The S1 supports four 3.5" drives and two M.2 SSDs, and the N2 supports two 2.5" drives and four M.2 SSDs.

Crowdfunding prices are $429 for the hard-drive based S1 and $309 for the SSD-oriented N2, which also offers 10Gbit Ethernet rather than the S1's slower dual 2.5Gbit.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Yeah, I know what the lyrics say. I don't look for informed political commentary from 1970s New Zealand pop groups. It's still a good song.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:02 AM

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1 Curse you daylight savings!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

2 Oh wait, Pixy's here. I'll go let the others know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)

3 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Happy Daylight Savings Time. Hope you enjoyed your missing hour of sleep.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2025 04:06 AM (XEtb+)

4 Yup, clocks are messed up on the comments. Still showing standard time.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 04:06 AM (O7YUW)

5 Staying on standard time, me. I prefer my light early by the clock.

Posted by: lizabth at March 09, 2025 05:07 AM (Jfw7U)

6 I'll get that fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 05:07 AM (BLOW1)

7 @bryan_johnson
Evidence shows that this coming Monday, there will be a ~24% spike in heart attacks from disrupted sleep and increased stress due to day light savings.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2025 05:07 AM (XEtb+)

8 I just fixed it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2025 05:08 AM (L5An7)

9 G'Day everyone
As was writing downstairs, the Gene Hackman story is bizarre. Check in on older relatives more often

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 05:08 AM (fwDg9)

10 I H8 this time shift

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 05:09 AM (fwDg9)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

12 If i could save time in a bottle,
Some dink from the Department of Messing With People would break the seal and siphon off 1/24th of it....

...

Ok, fine, it doesn't scan, big whoop.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 05:13 AM (KtIIi)

13 I have a long work day coming tomorrow, not looking forward to it

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 05:15 AM (fwDg9)

14 Mornin'

I like this particular time shift. I only work 11 hours instead of 12. Just an hour, BUT IT MATTERS!!!! In the fall, it's 13 hours and that sucks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 09, 2025 05:16 AM (byWhc)

15 8 I just fixed it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Many thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 05:17 AM (BLOW1)

16 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:18 AM (a1415)

17 @8/CBD: Thanks.

Okay, managed to get the Casio wristwatch reset right to the second with only one sip of coffee in me this morning.

It's all downhill from here today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

18 Every Mess With The Clock Day i trot out my dumb idea.

Spring Forward, Fall Forward.

Just keep ratcheting the clock the same way every time. That way everybody gets to experience being a day walker or a night owl for a while.

Or turn the clocks back each time and then every twelve years have a jubilee day where nobody has to do crap for 24 hours, so we can all catch up to the Real World.

Or just stop screwing with it altogether. That could be an option, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 05:20 AM (KtIIi)

19 Feh, i did that backwards i think. But you know what i mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 05:25 AM (KtIIi)

20 "Breath of life"- a devotional based on Ezekiel 36:33-38. God's breath can restore us in a desolate season:

https://tinyurl.com/343m5hfw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2025 05:25 AM (uDE5B)

21 The kittens are just fine with getting fed an hour earlier this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

22 I remember my cats got no clues time changed, tje old time was fine so I want supper then not now

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

23 I guess the good folks in B'More are beginning to take matters into their own hands.

https://tinyurl.com/3yjpm4md

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

24 @21/VIA: In Autumn, you will experience the hour of meering.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

25 FenSpouse and so.are having musical weekends:Several weeks ago they went to see "A Complete Unknown" ( and son was the youngest person there by far) and I think today they are going to see "Becoming Led Zeppelin. I think I'll just stay home for. a nap.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2025 05:31 AM (42Vb+)

26 Remember, Gov. Wes Moore desires to become the President of the United States.

And in the words of Joe Biden, He's clean, articulate....

https://tinyurl.com/53392une

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

27
I don't think anything will be done about eliminating the DST/Standard change. Everybody hates the change, but it's about a 50/50 issue on whether people (think, right now) which one they want, DST or Standard time.

Elon put up a poll on this a few days ago. His results were about 60/40 in favor of DST (he worded it sort of ambiguously). But that wasn't really "scientific" with a proper sample. It's closer to 50/50.

We tried permanent DST back in the early 70s. A majority was in favor, but then came winter with very late sunrises (relative to clock time), especially for those in the western reaches of a given time zone at higher latitudes. They didn't like that so we went back to switching.

But on the other end, with Standard Time, in the middle of summer, you'll have those that like the late sunsets relative to the clock.

Factor all that in, and you've really got multi sort of 33/33/33 kind of split on the question.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 05:35 AM (w6EFb)

28 @bryan_johnson
Evidence shows that this coming Monday, there will be a ~24% spike in heart attacks from disrupted sleep and increased stress due to day light savings.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2025 05:07 AM (XEtb+)

But if we don't do it then people in northern latitudes will complain that it gets light too early and there's absolutely nothing that they could do in their personal life to overcome this tragedy. Everyone else will just have to suffer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 05:35 AM (ExV1e)

29 Gene Hackman and his wife appear to have had a very sad ending to their lives.

I'm sure that family recriminations will begin to seep into the media with time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

30 @27, Yup, so the only way to go about is to switch 30 minutes next fall and leave it there forever. No one is totally happy, but it's fair to both contingents.

Posted by: lizabth at March 09, 2025 05:38 AM (Jfw7U)

31 Many thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 05:17 AM (BLOW1)

I am not obsessive. Really!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2025 05:39 AM (L5An7)

32 Factor all that in, and you've really got multi sort of 33/33/33 kind of split on the question.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 05:35 AM (w6EFb)

I like YD's idea. Everyone goes off GMT. The time is what it is wherever you are. You negotiate with your employer when your "working hours" are, and what works for where you are. We have the internet and ubiquitous cell phones. This shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 05:39 AM (KtIIi)

33 Public service announcement for those of us who use a lot of batteries, and have a membership to BJ's Shopping Club.

BJ's is discontinuing carrying Duracell brand batteries.

Our particular store is having an unannounced massive markdown on their remaining stock.

Like on the order of 30-40% off.

And with a ten year shelf life, now is a good time to stock up.

Your store's participation may vary.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:40 AM (a1415)

34 Hiking trail along the Hudson in NY inspired by the Hudson River school painters:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7x69hx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2025 05:41 AM (nnUVX)

35
Evidence shows that this coming Monday, there will be a ~24% spike in heart attacks from disrupted sleep and increased stress due to day light savings.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 09, 2025 05:07 AM

I read somewhere that the Monday morning commute after switching to DST is the most dangerous commute time of the year...the uptick in accidents rivals what is seen on new years eve or st.patrick's day

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 05:41 AM (tljrc)

36 "I am not obsessive. Really!"

Seems more on the order of a first world problem.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 05:41 AM (a1415)

37 Geez, trying to keep up with the hostage negotiations, talks with Iran and now things happening in Samaria. PDT's direct approach has kicked a lot of things in gear.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 05:42 AM (mB6WH)

38 >> Yup, so the only way to go about is to switch 30 minutes next fall

That's a compromise I see a lot. Our own Jim Sunk New Dawn (God bless you, Jim, I'm pulling for you, hang in there old buddy!) proposed that. DataRepublican posed that as well the other day on her X feed.

I could live with that. I prefer Standard. The only problem is the 30 minute, non integral hour offset from Zulu, makes the mental arithmetic a bit more cumbersome. Inside the US, it would still be an integral shift between the zones, Pacific would still be 3 hours behind Eastern, etc, so not an internal problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 05:43 AM (w6EFb)

39
Yup, so the only way to go about is to switch 30 minutes next fall and leave it there forever. No one is totally happy, but it's fair to both contingents.

Posted by: lizabth at March 09, 2025 05:38 AM

seconded

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 05:43 AM (tljrc)

40 I remember when 2005 was the last year the start and stop dates for DST were "First Sunday in April, and Last Sunday in October". Then Congress decided those dates had to be moved. Idjits.

Every embedded system that had those threshold dates hard-coded into their firmware was wrong for a few weeks, twice a year. There's a lot of hardware out there that doesn't allow for those dates to be moved with a settings change.

Scheduled overnight jobs were kicking off at the wrong time, causing havoc for various reasons.

This resulted in many people complaining that everything was all screwed up, the world was coming to an end, it it was our fault because of course it was, and demands of "Fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it!"

I am so glad I'm not working tech anymore.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 05:46 AM (O7YUW)

41 >> I like YD's idea. Everyone goes off GMT. The time is what it is wherever you are.

That sounds good maybe at first blush. We're a modern world, etc, etc, and it would eliminate all the messing about with time zones and the software problems that has notoriously caused.

However, that means you've got to completely divorce the "numbers on the clock" having anything to do with your local sense of time. And that would not easily fly.

Think about it. From the get-go, we think 12 noon means middle of the day, the sun is overhead. 6AM means "early morning" relative to the sun. 6PM is "late afternoon" relative to the sun.

Our internal circadian clocks are wedded to the diurnal cycle, and it's burned in our brains that the numbers on the clock are relative to the sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 05:47 AM (w6EFb)

42 52 cores seems like a lot of cores.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 05:50 AM (JkO4W)

43 37 Geez, trying to keep up with the hostage negotiations, talks with Iran and now things happening in Samaria. PDT's direct approach has kicked a lot of things in gear.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 05:42 AM (mB6WH)

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Jill Biden reports that Joe has never slept better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 05:52 AM (JkO4W)

44 Cicero, good morning. Sailing any?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 05:53 AM (mB6WH)

45 Evening and morning on this first day of cursed DST, Sunday toilers and early risers!

The kittens are just fine with getting fed an hour earlier this morning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025

Yes, their "appetite alarms" have not gone off yet. Another forty minutes until the "time" I usually feed them. For me, five and a half hours' sleep is a little short, but not too unusual during the work week. On a weekend, it leaves me weary and goggle-eyed. Oh, well, I'll nap this p.m.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 09, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

46 Our internal circadian clocks are wedded to the diurnal cycle, and it's burned in our brains that the numbers on the clock are relative to the sun.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 05:47 AM (w6EFb)

True, but that's really a one and done hurdle to overcome, as opposed to eternally getting jerked around every six months.

I'll make a "revolution" joke, as soon as i can get around to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 05:54 AM (KtIIi)

47 I wish we could stay on standard all the time, too. But 'my longer days' crowd won't let us.

Since I lead a simple life, I can stay on standard time pretty easily. Being self-employed helps.

Posted by: lizabth at March 09, 2025 05:54 AM (Jfw7U)

48 42 52 cores seems like a lot of cores.

Posted by: Cicero

Yeah. At that point I don't feel the need to complain that most of them are low-power. With that many most of them need to be low-power.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 05:55 AM (BLOW1)

49 Early March, and we're already at 66 F. for a morning low, 99% humidity, but little wind. So much for the "cooler" weather we were promised would follow the rain yesterday -- which we were also promised and which barely materialized.

More coffee, and then I'll go work out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 09, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

50 Self employed in an livestock job, time doesn't mean that much.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 05:56 AM (mB6WH)

51 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: We just learned a new chord. It's called "C." You'll hear a lot of it on our new album.
--The Bay City Rollers

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 09, 2025 05:58 AM (6K6Eu)

52 44 Cicero, good morning. Sailing any?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 05:53 AM (mB6WH)

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Hi Ben Had! I might take her out today. The forecast is for sun and 66 degrees, and I need to get down to the coast if for no other reason than to check to see that she's still afloat after all the rain.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 05:58 AM (dDmld)

53 Our State'a first execution by firing squad.

It seems to have worked.

https://tinyurl.com/5aeafbnr

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:01 AM (a1415)

54 Well, 4am. I best be getting along. Going on a birding trip at first light. Heard a Golden Eagle was in the area (rare for us) , and I taking my camera out for a hunt.

Enjoy your day, all!

Posted by: lizabth at March 09, 2025 06:01 AM (Jfw7U)

55
In the old days, the Before Time, "clock time" was an entirely local thing. There was no notion of time zones or standard synchronized time.

One set one's clock to noon when the sun was over the local meridian (the Equation of Time, and the distinction between mean and apparent solar time was important for navigators and astronomers, but for the local population it didn't matter). You couldn't travel fast or even communicate fast enough for it to make any difference.

The came the telegraph and the railroads. The world got smaller, and the local time differences became important, and with the railroads, a matte of life and death.

There were many collisions and accidents cause by clock problems. The final straw was an incident were one train slammed into the back of another, killing 14 people. The problem was their clocks were set to different local times, and each thought the other was nowhere near.

That's when the railroads realized they needed to synchronize their clocks, and the notion of standard time zones came about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:02 AM (w6EFb)

56 54 Well, 4am. I best be getting along. Going on a birding trip at first light. Heard a Golden Eagle was in the area (rare for us) , and I taking my camera out for a hunt.

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Hope you bag your limit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:02 AM (dDmld)

57 Cicero, may the ocean breezes favor you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:03 AM (mB6WH)

58 Brad Sigmon, 67, elected to die by firing squad, citing concerns about the suffering he would endure if he picked lethal injection.

I am concerned that my body won't appreciate being poisoned while I'm unconscious, shoot me a bunch of times instead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:04 AM (ExV1e)

59 57 Cicero, may the ocean breezes favor you.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:03 AM (mB6WH)

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And all of us!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:04 AM (dDmld)

60 So Frog, the 11.5 pound 8 month old male kitten has developed the idea that laying on his back on the floor, and pulling himself along the length of the sofa by clawing the underside of the sofa and dragging himself is fun.

So me....I figure that the good old spray bottle of water set on stream, right after a firm 'NO' is a good idea.

Forgetting that Norwegian Forest Cats are known for loving and playing with water.

So now we have a new game to play....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:05 AM (a1415)

61 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:01 AM (a1415)

This vile shitbird dared to quote scripture?

I've got a few choice quotes for him, too, regarding woe in various shapes and forms. He wouldn't hear, though, what with the furnace of hell drowning it out now.

The bullet was too good for him. Rope works just as well, and is reusable and sustainable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:05 AM (KtIIi)

62 58 Brad Sigmon, 67, elected to die by firing squad, citing concerns about the suffering he would endure if he picked lethal injection.

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So there's a cafeteria plan then?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:05 AM (dDmld)

63 I used to have a different nic, this guy sure wasn't capable of making good life choices!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:06 AM (mB6WH)

64 "So there's a cafeteria plan then?"

Yup.

Choice of foods on a tray.

Followed by just dessert at the end.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:07 AM (a1415)

65 Paging Biden's Dog. I have a question about wines from Samaria.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:07 AM (mB6WH)

66 63 I used to have a different nic, this guy sure wasn't capable of making good life choices!
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:06 AM (mB6WH)

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It's obvious that nobody has informed him of the features and benefits of being flayed alive.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:08 AM (dDmld)

67 Pixy: Did I slip a gear earlier this week and suggest some new NAS supported 5.25" hard drives?

Yes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

68 It's obvious that nobody has informed him of the features and benefits of being flayed alive.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:08 AM (dDmld)
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Paging Roose Bolton. Roose Bolton to the Atrocity Phone, please.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 09, 2025 06:09 AM (6K6Eu)

69
It was really the railroads that made Civil Time become tied to "railroad time" as it was called back in the day.

The synchronized railroad time was originally just an internal thing. And different railroads would use their own time standards. One company might use the local meridian of their HQ as their own "prime meridian", and would set time by some observatory nearby. They even invented methods of syncing clocks via telegraph, an early version of NTP you might say.

But then they had to convert their internal time into all those different local times. I remember reading at a major station in Chicago, they published time tables in several dozen local times. They hated that, and that was the impetus for switching to time zones as the civil time standard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:10 AM (w6EFb)

70 The human hubris. In March 6:00 am it is just getting light, in June 6:00 am it IS light. Mother Nature.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:14 AM (mB6WH)

71 They hated that, and that was the impetus for switching to time zones as the civil time standard.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:10 AM (w6EFb)

I suppose we already have a world where everything works off of GMT, and the question of "time" is really a localization issue, given how most databases store timestamp columns. For anything where time zones create ambiguity, just ignore them until it's time to actually show data to a human.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:14 AM (KtIIi)

72 The human hubris. In March 6:00 am it is just getting light, in June 6:00 am it IS light. Mother Nature.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:14 AM (mB6WH)

Preach!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)

73 Making the trains run on time, and getting your butt up in the morning and making it through the day, are really two different problems, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:16 AM (KtIIi)

74 I was told that Trump was wrong to claim that the government was spending money on transgender mice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ysksju5

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)

75 I used to have a different nic, which is best to go along with it. A drum or tamborine?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:18 AM (mB6WH)

76 Imagine being the person on the space station who's job it is to adjust the wall clock for each time zone that they fly over.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:18 AM (a1415)

77 I was told that Trump was wrong to claim that the government was spending money on transgender mice.

https://tinyurl.com/4ysksju5
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)

People misunderstood the complaint. When they said that Trump was wrong to claim that they didn't mean that the money wasn't being spent, they meant that you weren't supposed to be told.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:19 AM (ExV1e)

78 I am really glad that the church across the highway has a book drop. Apparently they use it as a fundraiser from something called “NewLegacyBooks.” The books just have to have an ISBN number and not be damaged. Yesterday I got rid of 15 books. Only about 1000 or more books to go, although many are old and don’t have ISBN numbers

Posted by: Hair on fire at March 09, 2025 06:19 AM (olb+p)

79 Wasn't it sometime in the early 20th century that Russia finally switched to the Gregorian calendar?

Having to accommodate different dates for the same day must have really played havoc with the train schedules.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:20 AM (dDmld)

80 "People misunderstood the complaint. When they said that Trump was wrong to claim that they didn't mean that the money wasn't being spent, they meant that you weren't supposed to be told."

OK, thanks.

Now it makes sense.

/s

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:20 AM (a1415)

81 Imagine being the person on the space station who's job it is to adjust the wall clock for each time zone that they fly over.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:18 AM (a1415)

I could imagine that the time thing is more difficult to get used to than the gravity thing up there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:21 AM (KtIIi)

82 I used to have a different nic, which is best to go along with it. A drum or tamborine?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:18 AM (mB6WH)

I would say drum because you feel that to your core but drum circles are lefty hippie things so tamborine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:21 AM (ExV1e)

83 >> For anything where time zones create ambiguity, just ignore them until it's time to actually show data to a human.

That's pretty much the way things are now, and have evolved to be. Systems keep time in UTC/Zulu, where there is no ambiguity and messing about with time zones and infernal DST switching. The time zone shit only is "how to display this time to the user".

But, there are little problems that still come crop up into that. For example, imagine alarms and local schedules. You've got to take into account the local time zone for that.

Imagine we're programming something for "every day at 8AM". We've got to account for the DST switch and realize that now were at Zulu - 4h, and not Zulu -5h.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:22 AM (w6EFb)

84 I could imagine that the time thing is more difficult to get used to than the gravity thing up there.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:21 AM (KtIIi)

Once you, like, accept that time is all in your mind and we totally just exist in the eternal now it really frees your perspective, man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:24 AM (ExV1e)

85
And also, at orbital speed on the ISS, they have 16 sunrises and sunsets per 24 hour period.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:24 AM (w6EFb)

86 85
And also, at orbital speed on the ISS, they have 16 sunrises and sunsets per 24 hour period.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:24 AM (w6EFb)
---------

I'll bet it confuses the hell out of the chickens.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 09, 2025 06:25 AM (dDmld)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 09, 2025 06:25 AM (dg+HA)

88 "Sergei?!?! Why you bring that clock on space station?!?!"

"Is heirloom. Sergei not go without."

"Is grandfather clock!"

"Is not.... Was grandmother's."

"Durok!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 09, 2025 06:25 AM (KtIIi)

89 I used to have a different nic, on the ONT last night Bers said he was sipping an unknown Scotch and said he didn't much about Scotch because he mostly drank Bourbon. Shall we introduce him to Balvenie in Oct?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:26 AM (mB6WH)

90
On the ISS, they just use UTC/Zulu as the clock time and do their "day/night" schedules accordingly.

NASA used to use Houston time for missions, I think, but with the Russians up there and everyone else, just use Zulu, so no fussing about whose time zone to use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:27 AM (w6EFb)

91 I used to have a different nic, on the ONT last night Bers said he was sipping an unknown Scotch and said he didn't much about Scotch because he mostly drank Bourbon. Shall we introduce him to Balvenie in Oct?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:26 AM (mB6WH)
-----------
"But one half-pennyworth of Scotch to this intolerable deal of bourbon?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 09, 2025 06:28 AM (6K6Eu)

92 Speaking of lost skills, there was a time when the Federal government was able to house detainees.

Large numbers of detainees.

https://tinyurl.com/5ahbp2m7

Might be an answer to what to do with arrested illegal aliens waiting removal from the country

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:29 AM (a1415)

93 I used to have a different nic, on the ONT last night Bers said he was sipping an unknown Scotch and said he didn't much about Scotch because he mostly drank Bourbon. Shall we introduce him to Balvenie in Oct?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:26 AM (mB6WH)

Balvenie is always a fine choice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:30 AM (ExV1e)

94 Good morning folks.
Grateful for another day.
Put me in the standard time column ,please.
Moar coffee ☕️

Posted by: OkJohn at March 09, 2025 06:31 AM (NC/it)

95 Life has smiled on me. Texas changed the every other DL renewal in person rule. Providing you meet all the requirements you can now renew online instead. I love it !

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:32 AM (mB6WH)

96 I see the powerline didn't do a week in pictures this week so here's a link to Sarah Hoyt's memes.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:32 AM (ExV1e)

97 >> Having to accommodate different dates for the same day must have really played havoc with the train schedules.

And has played havoc with historical dates as well. The period between when the Gregorian was first instituted and the time when most everybody adopted it is a period of ambiguous dates.

There have been more than a few screw ups where they thought two major historical events happened on the same day, but really didn't because they got confused over Gregorian vs Julian and who was using which.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:33 AM (w6EFb)

98 I used to have a different nic, I am forever grateful to you for introducing me.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:34 AM (mB6WH)

99
I see the powerline didn't do a week in pictures this week so here's a link to Sarah Hoyt's memes.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:32 AM

Powerline's WiP:

https://tinyurl.com/379vekmb

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 06:36 AM (tljrc)

100 Happy Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 06:36 AM (gbOdA)

101 AltonJackson, good morning, hon

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:37 AM (mB6WH)

102
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 06:37 AM (tljrc)

103 26:And in the words of Joe Biden, He's clean, articulate....

and can't manage a lemonade stand.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 09, 2025 06:39 AM (sAmhv)

104 In my long day tomorrow between jobs will have a hour to kill, planning on a alcohol shopping trip at Total Wine, new bottle of scotch and a few wines I think

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 06:39 AM (fwDg9)

105 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 09, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

106 Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2025 06:36 AM (tljrc)

Weird, it doesn't show on the series page.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)

107 "planning on a alcohol shopping trip at Total Wine, "

You do know that David Trane is an anti-gun-rights asshole, right?

I swore to never give that butt-hole another penny of my money.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:42 AM (a1415)

108 79 Wasn't it sometime in the early 20th century that Russia finally switched to the Gregorian calendar?

Having to accommodate different dates for the same day must have really played havoc with the train schedules.
Posted by: Cicero

So much so that the October Revolution didn't start until November 7. (Really.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2025 06:42 AM (BLOW1)

109 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

110 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

My dairy cattle cousin from Wills Point said "The cows don't care about DST."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 06:44 AM (u82oZ)

111 Russian dates are always a problem

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 06:45 AM (fwDg9)

112 And it's still dark out

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 06:46 AM (fwDg9)

113 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

The local cows are happy with the new warmth, still below seasonal averages. I see new calves in the fields, not far from Mom. But a lot fewer calves than expected. I think the local ranchers are thinning their herds.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

114 NaCly, so very true. Dairy cows are only concerned about cold hands !

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 06:48 AM (mB6WH)

115 Salty!

Glad to hear you both are surviving out there.

I couldn't do y'alls winters.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 06:50 AM (a1415)

116 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 09, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)

117 >> Systems keep time in UTC/Zulu, where there is no ambiguity and messing about with time zones and infernal DST switching.

And I just remembered, this is true, save for leap seconds, which tends to wreak havoc with that. 86,400 seconds per day has been hard-wire programmed from the get-go.

Really, it shouldn't be the problem it turned out to be, and that's a complicated mess to understand. There are a few notorious incidents of systems crashing during leaps seconds. I think the Asian stock markets delayed opening by hours one time for fear of what a leap second would do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:55 AM (w6EFb)

118 Good morning! Currently 44 out on the patio here in Cowtown and its gonna be cloudy with a little rain early this morning, but that's gonna give way to some sun later on. Next week is gonna be scooter ridin' and golf weather all week. Probably won't get much done.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2025 06:56 AM (3Ope8)

119
Now, are you ready for a negative leap second (a day with only 86, 399 seconds)? They are predicting that we'll need one in 2029 now.

The Erf has stubbornly sped up by a smidge. They thought it was temporary and would settle back down, but now it looks like it's going to keep up and UT1 will get ahead of UTC by the .6 second threshold sometime in 2029.

A negative leap second has never been done, and I imagine the entire Internet would crash when they do it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 06:57 AM (w6EFb)

120 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

That has to do with shenanigans in the Earth's core, right.

And please give my customary greeting to Her Grace, Duchess of the Carolinas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

121 I was going to wait until Monday for this but things are developing rapidly so I must inform the public now in a series of tweets. Here is what’s happening:

https://x.com/elleonCEOTK/
status/1898486527916720188

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 09, 2025 07:04 AM (KjLnc)

122 CrotchetyOldJarhead, is all your remodeling done?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 07:04 AM (mB6WH)

123 >> That has to do with shenanigans in the Earth's core, right.

That's what they think. Something about the differential rotation between the solid inner core and liquid outer core. Some complicated angular momentum coupling going on that is poorly understood.

The long term trend is the mean solar day is slowing down, due to tidal action by the moon. But there are all sorts of unpredictable random fluctuations that ride on top of that. Then there are seaonsal fluctuations, primary again due to the Moon and then the tidal interaction of the Sun as well as the Moons tidal fields.

Anyway the result it the length of the day is a function with a predictable term that is gradually slowing, plus an unpredictable term.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 07:04 AM (w6EFb)

124
Here's a little graph from Wiki about what the length of the mean solar day has been doing since 1962, when the atomic clock scheme was put in place (UTC didn't come about until 1972, in between there was a different time standard, still based on atomic clocks):

https://tinyurl.com/hk6sxps5

The green line is the moving yearly average. The gray lines are the daily values.

Since about 2020 or so, that moving yearly average has dipped below 86,400 SI seconds.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 07:09 AM (w6EFb)

125 Ciampino's version of a camel's hump

Methinks the security of the President needs boosting.

Why do we have to wait for another assassination attempt? Preemptive strike is fine by me.

But then, I have been observing the evil Dems for a long time. Their refusal to be out of power is not American, nor a surprise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

126 Posted by: Ben Had at March 09, 2025 07:04 AM (mB6WH)

First bathroom is complete and in service, and the better half and the granddaughters are getting mileage out of the whirlpool tub!

The second bathroom is nearing completion. Gonna cut in the electrical boxes, wire the floor heat and put in the lights today. Paint and vanity stain will happen next week. Pretty excited about the rainfall/wall spray shower.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2025 07:11 AM (3Ope8)

127
We haven't needed a leap second since Dec 31, 2016. So roughly 10 years.

At the time UTC was put into place, the mean solar day was about 86,400.003 SI seconds (call these "atomic seconds") long. That translated to a leap second need about every 200 days on average.

And then the moving average sort of sped up, but still was longer, meaning less leap second frequency. But now it has speeded up enough to get less than 86,400, and will start added up the other way, UT1 getting ahead of UTC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 07:13 AM (w6EFb)

128 Thanks, publius.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

129 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Nap with someone you like.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

130 A heated shower floor?
I guess that's how the other half lives.

Posted by: The half who shower with cold feet at March 09, 2025 07:20 AM (dg+HA)

131 >Nap with someone you like.
----

and if you can't nap
with someone you like
nap with the one you're with

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2025 07:29 AM (AOsQT)

132 Posted by: The half who shower with cold feet at March 09, 2025 07:20 AM (dg+HA)

No, only the bathroom floor. To do the shower, the shower pan would need to be excavated and re-poured. But yeah, wifi connected, touch screen programmable heat. And a heated towel bar.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2025 07:30 AM (3Ope8)

133 Momentary confusion when I saw the appliance clocks one hour out of sync with the smartphone.

It's that time of year again.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 09, 2025 07:31 AM (nFYA2)

134 At Duke, the current rate for these “indirect costs” — expenses such as utilities and laboratory maintenance — is about 61%. Last month, President Donald Trump's administration set the rate cap at 15%, significantly less than most universities receive.

My guess is there are 4X more admins than really needed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

135 “Russian dates are a problem”
——-

Nah. Just don’t try to outdrink them

Posted by: Common Tater at March 09, 2025 07:34 AM (r09E4)

136 I would like to make a trivial complaint about DST. Because everything is delayed by one hour,bathed papers have t arrived at the stores yes. Yes; I am one of those weirdos that still likes an actual copy , of a newspaper . I read the “NY Post” which generally has some stories in favor of Trump and his agenda

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2025 07:34 AM (JcsQ8)

137 I read and enjoy The Tech Thread every morning, Pixy.

Thanks for the Word of the Day: "regolith"

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at March 09, 2025 07:35 AM (AQ9kW)

138 At Duke, the current rate for these “indirect costs” — expenses such as utilities and laboratory maintenance — is about 61%. Last month, President Donald Trump's administration set the rate cap at 15%, significantly less than most universities receive.

My guess is there are 4X more admins than really needed.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

One of my wife's relatives was his town's school chief, I forget what title they had, for 20 some odd years with only a secretary. When they retired, the person who replaced them came in with 5 assistants who each had 2 secretaries. So the town went from carrying 2, to carrying 18 overnight. I assume that all the lower level administrative positions saw similar bloat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

139 Be safe, Salty!

Church preps await.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2025 07:38 AM (a1415)

140 One of my wife's relatives was his town's school chief, I forget what title they had, for 20 some odd years with only a secretary. When they retired, the person who replaced them came in with 5 assistants who each had 2 secretaries. So the town went from carrying 2, to carrying 18 overnight. I assume that all the lower level administrative positions saw similar bloat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

Schools are for the teachers and admins, not the students.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

141 Best current New Zealand Pop Group: The Beths.

Thanks MZH!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 09, 2025 07:39 AM (PiwSw)

142 Best current New Zealand Pop Group: The Beths.

What ever happened to Benee? She kinda disappeared.

Posted by: What Ever Happened To? at March 09, 2025 07:43 AM (R/m4+)

143 After four months of being wrong, the clock in my car shows the correct time again.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 09, 2025 07:44 AM (Y1sOo)

144 So Trudeau added 200 models to the government firearm confiscating program. Now Carney is saying he intends to shut down X in Canada.
You would have to be blind and retarded not to see this. They're Communists.

https://x.com/SemperVeritasX/
status/1898413074496794929

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 07:45 AM (KjLnc)

145 Maestro, hope you're feeling better...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 09, 2025 07:47 AM (PiwSw)

146 Morning peeps.

For once in all these years we set our clocks before going to bed. It was a bit weird last night, but it doesn't seem as jolting this morning, waking up and all the clocks or or about the right time.

I still wish our betters would make up their collective minds about it and go with standard time or DST. Either or. Pick one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2025 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

147 Damn. Not sure whether I should go back to bed to try and get back that hour or just say 'ef it and crack open a beer.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2025 07:48 AM (mH6SG)

148 Woman threatens to pull off an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol if her Social Security check goes missing.

https://x.com/CRRJA5/status/
1898551666460520698

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 07:49 AM (KjLnc)

149 147 Damn. Not sure whether I should go back to bed to try and get back that hour or just say 'ef it and crack open a beer.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2025 07:48 AM (mH6SG)
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Myself, I could use a shandy.

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 07:50 AM (KjLnc)

150 145 Maestro, hope you're feeling better...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 09, 2025 07:47 AM (PiwSw)
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Si, ho ancora la diarrea ma la salute è migliorata.

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 07:56 AM (KjLnc)

151 After four months of being wrong, the clock in my car shows the correct time again.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 09, 2025

***
I reset that one last night. But the time readout on my sport watch has been right for four months; now it's wrong again. Since the stopwatch function is pretty much all that watch is for, I haven't worried about resetting the time.

The wall clock in the kitchen still shows yesterday's time. It's easy enough to take it down and reset it. It's hanging it back up that's the challenge. Hard to see the nail and line it up with the socket on the back of the clock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 09, 2025 07:58 AM (omVj0)

152 this 'time' yesterday, it was getting light out

Posted by: Don Black at March 09, 2025 08:04 AM (AOsQT)

153 Sarah A. Hoyt, bringing the meme-y goodness:

https://tinyurl.com/memeygoodness

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 09, 2025 08:05 AM (PiwSw)

154 I've now deployed my own local AI bot using Ollama, Docker and Open-WebUI.

It's pretty damn awesome but slow, I'm going to have build a serious rig to get the full benefit, also I've integrated it into Obsidian, so pretty much have a replacement for OneNote and CoPilot.

This stuff is getting close to approximating magic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 09, 2025 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)

155 151 The wall clock in the kitchen still shows yesterday's time. It's easy enough to take it down and reset it. It's hanging it back up that's the challenge. Hard to see the nail and line it up with the socket on the back of the clock.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 09, 2025 07:58 AM (omVj0)

That's one for the First World Problem file!

Posted by: m at March 09, 2025 08:07 AM (CQE5S)

156 I've been using the digital wall clocks from the Marathon Watch Company. These use the WWVB radio signal out of Colorado to automatically set themselves every night to the proper time from NIST's atomic clocks. Very handy and I never have to play with these around DST changes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 08:09 AM (O7YUW)

157
Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.

Posted by: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at March 09, 2025 08:10 AM (dg+HA)

158 I just noticed the billionaires video babe is standing behind a Bentley, I think. At least that's fitting.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 09, 2025 08:11 AM (n4GiU)

159 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Ordered the paperback version of Something in the Fall. Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

160 > Hard to see the nail and line it up with the socket on the back of the clock.
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I have one of those. It's in a corner, behind a big flat screen TV. I have to get a step stool to reach it.

* I may just take it down in the fall and forget about it

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2025 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

161 Does anybody really know what time it is?

Yes. Call me.

202-762-1401.

Posted by: The US Naval Observatory Master Clock at March 09, 2025 08:13 AM (dg+HA)

162 @159/NaCly Dog: You're welcome! Also, I have some more John Van Stry updates/news I'm saving for the book thread this morning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 08:14 AM (O7YUW)

163 From about That Time

Elon Musk proves hypergamy is real. 14 kids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 09, 2025 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

164 27 degrees. Will Spring ever get here?

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 08:15 AM (fwDg9)

165 Did anyone read The Verge article Pixy linked yesterday? Oh mylanta, it was so over-the-top in its pearl-clutcing. JD Vance is 9NLINE! He ENGAGES with people! He uses MILLENNIAL LANGUAGE! He follows a wide array of PERSPECTIIVES!

(Yes, I made it sound like Bender trying to wake up the Professor, because that's what it sounded like: a woke middle-aged writer trying to sound the alarm and wake up Boomer liberals.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to Wookie-like gurgling at March 09, 2025 08:16 AM (Wt5PA)

166
*Will Spring ever get here?*

Just you wait.

Posted by: Mosquito larvae everywhere at March 09, 2025 08:17 AM (dg+HA)

167 The birds are alive and well here in my neighborhood. Chirping like maniacs this morning. Guess they've been wearing their beak diapers.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 09, 2025 08:18 AM (mH6SG)

168 >> Yes. Call me.

Click on me:
https://tinyurl.com/yytyh6el

Posted by: NIST at March 09, 2025 08:19 AM (w6EFb)

169 In January 2022, a poll showed that 59% of Democrats favored requiring unvaccinated citizens to remain confined to their homes, 55% of Democrats supported fines for the unvaccinated, 47% of Democrats favored a government tracking system for the unvaccinated, and 45% of Democrats supported internment camps for the unvaccinated.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

170 Ok, I'm finally awake. The clock on the coffee maker says no you're not.

Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2025 08:20 AM (Oy/m2)

171 I remember Vic used to complain about DST vehemently. I miss him.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:21 AM (SfhV1)

172 Me, I do the happy dance when DST rolls around.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:22 AM (SfhV1)

173 >> Does anybody really know what time it is?

Date: 03/09/2025 Local Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -01:28:41
DUT1: 44.00020 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.14000 s

Terrestrial Time : 12:24:18 TT
Universal Coordinated Time: 12:23:09 UTC
Universal Time 1 : 12:23:09 UT1
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 08:23:09 AM EDT
Local Mean Time : 06:54:28 AM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 06:44:01 AM LAST (UT1 base)

Julian Dates (TT base): 9199.01688 JD2000
: 2460744.01688 JD
: 60743.51688 MJD

Grnwch Mean Sidereal Time: 23:32:56
Local Mean Sidereal Time: 18:04:15

Current Equation of Time: -10:26.83

Daylength delta inst: -15.2036 cum: -15.2014

Posted by: NIST at March 09, 2025 08:24 AM (w6EFb)

174 DOGE has cancelled a $600,000 grant to Southern University and A&M College. The money was going to fund a study on the menstrual cycles of transgender men.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

175 Is there a webpage where all the crazy stuff uncovered by DOGE, is added to every day?

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:28 AM (KjLnc)

176 Has there been a case of a transgender (fake) man competing in men's sports? Or is it only the one way?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:31 AM (SfhV1)

177 No StarDate!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

178 > Is there a webpage where all the crazy stuff uncovered by DOGE, is added to every day?
---------
Maybe... doge.gov?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2025 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

179 Is there a webpage where all the crazy stuff uncovered by DOGE, is added to every day?
Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:28 AM (KjLnc)
----
Are you *trying* to break the internet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 09, 2025 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

180 176 Has there been a case of a transgender (fake) man competing in men's sports? Or is it only the one way?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:31 AM (SfhV1)

Maybe that dancy thingy with balls and ribbons.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

181 >> Is there a webpage where all the crazy stuff uncovered by DOGE,

Try this:
https://tinyurl.com/2b2pfr2a

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 08:33 AM (w6EFb)

182 178 > Is there a webpage where all the crazy stuff uncovered by DOGE, is added to every day?
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Maybe... doge.gov?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 09, 2025 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

183 177 No StarDate!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)
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Ans: Captain Kirk's Log

Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?

Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:34 AM (KjLnc)

184 In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.

Now we know why they keep the old numbers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

185 Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?

Oh, my!

Posted by: Sulu at March 09, 2025 08:36 AM (mH6SG)

186 Good morning everyone. Happy Sunday. Thx Pixy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 09, 2025 08:36 AM (2Km7O)

187 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:31 AM (SfhV1)

I think so. NCAA swimming.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2025 08:36 AM (L5An7)

188 Credit Card Update!

Pilot program across 14 civilian agencies to audit unused/unneeded “P-cards” (~700K accounts with ~$30B of spend in FY24)

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

189 I never gave clock time vs nature time a second thought.
If working, on clock time because schedules.
If not working, basically window time.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 09, 2025 08:37 AM (n4GiU)

190 Thanks CBD.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:37 AM (SfhV1)

191 >>Posted by: NIST

Ironwood, Michigan - eastern time
Mexico Beach, Florida - central time

You are stupit

Posted by: one hour sober at March 09, 2025 08:39 AM (Y1sOo)

192 mornin yall. I guess it's morning, somewhere.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2025 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

193 Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?
Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:34 AM (KjLnc)

Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a plumber.

Posted by: What Bones said when he got there at March 09, 2025 08:39 AM (PiwSw)

194 Daylight savings time is stupid. That is all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 09, 2025 08:41 AM (2Km7O)

195 So far mentioned looting the Republic about a dozen times, but that's what it is.
And people are living high off taxpayers.

Posted by: Skip i at March 09, 2025 08:42 AM (fwDg9)

196 "What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?"

It wasn't logical.

Posted by: Spock at March 09, 2025 08:42 AM (i0F8b)

197 I think so. NCAA swimming.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2025 08:36 AM (L5An7)

I think the question was Woman playing a Man competing against MEN.

Top Female NCAA 100 M FS
1
46.25
Camille Spink
Tennessee
47.06
Bella Sims
Florida
47.38
Erin Gemmell
Texas
47.44
Brooklyn Douthwright
Tennessee
47.46
Ava Longi
Texas

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

198 publius,

Being a chromophile and mentioning leap seconds I was wondering if you knew about the need to adjust the clocks on the GPS systems. Even though they are corrected for Relativistic Effects, the tiny errors remaining accumulate.

The last time I recall was sometime about 5 years ago. The FAA released a bulletin about it and some airlines grounded their planes at that time for fear of what might happen.

Posted by: pawn, proud Engineer, MEGA at March 09, 2025 08:43 AM (QB+5g)

199 Our State'a first execution by firing squad.

It seems to have worked.

https://tinyurl.com/5aeafbnr
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Is he dead or not?

Posted by: lin-duh at March 09, 2025 08:43 AM (VCgbV)

200 And the Bottom Mens Times
89 thru 92
89
44.44
Manning Haskal
Texas
44.44
Piotr Kowalczyk
Kentucky
44.53
Simon Casey
LSU
44.54
Leyton Roe
Alabama

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

201 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:31 AM (SfhV1)

I think so. NCAA swimming.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2025 08:36 AM (L5An7)

I believe you have that backward. Transgender women (i.e. men) have competed in swimming. Transgender men (i.e. women) have not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

202 Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?
Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:34 AM (KjLnc)

Space VD

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

203 Elon was right
All of the extra SS # are used to get real money, not a social security check.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)

204 "Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?
Posted by: Ciampino"

That's the trouble with Tribbles. They don't flush so good.

Posted by: fd at March 09, 2025 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

205 Question: What did Spock find in Kirk's bathroom?
Posted by: Ciampino - humbled at March 09, 2025 08:34 AM (KjLnc)

Yeoman Janice Rand?

Posted by: dantesed at March 09, 2025 08:46 AM (Oy/m2)

206 The only time I can think of that a fake man could dominate in real men's sports is the gymnastics floor routine.

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to Wookie-like gurgling at March 09, 2025 08:47 AM (Wt5PA)

207 >> Being a chromophile and mentioning leap seconds I was wondering if you knew about the need to adjust the clocks on the GPS systems.

Sorry, only vaguely in the big picture sense. The satellite clocks themselves can be off. Relativistic corrections are being done (both gravitational and SR), and they try to keep the error down to about 40 ns. I think.

By definition GPS time should be TIA + 19s.

Leap seconds are a separate field in the data stream, I think, to allow a local receiver to properly convert to UTC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 08:49 AM (w6EFb)

208 DOGE has cancelled a $600,000 grant to Southern University and A&M College. The money was going to fund a study on the menstrual cycles of transgender men.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

I wonder if the point of the study might have been to see what happens to a woman's reproductive cycle when she's put on massive doses of testosterone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

209 I wonder if the point of the study might have been to see what happens to a woman's reproductive cycle when she's put on massive doses of testosterone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

And, of course, the answer is that it stops when she goes crazy-er and is killed trying to shoot up a school.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

210 208 DOGE has cancelled a $600,000 grant to Southern University and A&M College. The money was going to fund a study on the menstrual cycles of transgender men.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

I wonder if the point of the study might have been to see what happens to a woman's reproductive cycle when she's put on massive doses of testosterone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

They are putting 14 15 16 YO girls into menopause.
We know what happens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 09, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

211 I wonder if the point of the study might have been to see what happens to a woman's reproductive cycle when she's put on massive doses of testosterone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

If they're so interested, they can study it on their own dime.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:51 AM (SfhV1)

212
Sorry, that's GPS time = TIA - 19s. Minus. They try to keep that in sync as close as they can.

UTC = TIA - leapseconds (37 at the moment), so GPS = UTC + 18s.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 08:52 AM (w6EFb)

213 If they're so interested, they can study it on their own dime.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 09, 2025 08:51 AM (SfhV1)

I don't disagree, I just wonder if they were thinking about a rational study and worded it with tranny to ensure they got funding or if they were lunatic from the get-go. Maybe I should apply for some federal funding to study that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 09, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

214 I keep the gubbmint website with the Naval Observatory Clock bookmarked. I like setting the self winding watch to the second every morning. Get off lawn, please.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 09, 2025 08:59 AM (gm9Sb)

215 This stuff is getting close to approximating magic

I've been looking in to CrewAI to change AIs together for the "agent workflow." Not sure how I'll apply yet.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 09, 2025 09:00 AM (nFYA2)

216 .
NOOD

Book Thread is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 09:00 AM (O7YUW)

217 change = chain

Posted by: Halfhand at March 09, 2025 09:00 AM (nFYA2)

218 Opps!...chronophile not chromophile

Anyway, Grok to the rescue:

"The last significant event related to GPS timekeeping that might be interpreted as a "clock adjustment" occurred during the GPS Week Number Rollover on April 6, 2019. This wasn’t a direct adjustment to the satellite clocks themselves but rather a system-wide event where the GPS time counter, which counts weeks in a 10-bit field (allowing for 1,024 weeks or roughly 19.7 years), rolled over from 1,023 to 0. This required updates to receiver software to interpret the time correctly, as the satellite clocks themselves continued running without interruption. The previous rollover was on August 21, 1999, indicating these events happen approximately every 19-20 years."

Posted by: pawn, proud Engineer, MEGA at March 09, 2025 09:00 AM (QB+5g)

219 @NaCly Dog: Okay, I've posted that news in the book thread I mentioned in #162.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 09, 2025 09:03 AM (O7YUW)

220 Yup, so the only way to go about is to switch 30 minutes next fall and leave it there forever. No one is totally happy, but it's fair to both contingents.

There are quite a number of countries that have their time 30 minutes off from the usual hourly increments. I think Nepal is UTC+5:45.

Why we aren't on UTC is silly. Get rid of the damned time zones, will reunite 13 states and none of this east vs west whining about early/late sunrises/sunsets.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 09, 2025 09:06 AM (a4flb)

221 Airlines were worried that the updates wouldn't work or would crash the receivers.

We had to do a bunch of testing spoofing the GPS signals received to our company's GPS LRUs.

GPS spoofing was very new then. Cost about $200K then. I worked on getting the spoofing box testing automated.

You could make a receiver think it was at the bottom of the Marianas Trench on June 12, 1955.

Posted by: pawn, proud Engineer, MEGA at March 09, 2025 09:08 AM (QB+5g)

222 >> We had to do a bunch of testing spoofing the GPS signals

You got me interested in this, thanks. I got to wondering where the 19 second offset came from. They set GPS time equal to UTC in 1980, when TIA was ahead of UTC by 19s.

Apparently, the satellite clocks should be accurate to around 14 ns, but receiver error can be up to 100ns.

And the leap second field is just 8 bits, so no more than 255 leap seconds can be added.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 09, 2025 09:20 AM (w6EFb)

223 I'm impressed with Grok on this subject, ChatGPT just spewed out garbage:

Here's Grok's summary:

Summary of Corrections
Special Relativity: -7.2 μs/day (slows clock), pre-corrected by frequency offset.

General Relativity: +45.6 μs/day (speeds clock), pre-corrected by frequency offset.

Net Effect: +38.4 μs/day, largely eliminated by setting the clock frequency lower pre-launch.

Eccentricity Residual: Up to ±50 ns, corrected via navigation message updates.

This dual approach—pre-adjusting the clock rate and providing residual corrections—ensures GPS accuracy remains within 10-20 nanoseconds, translating to positional accuracy of a few meters. Without these relativistic corrections, GPS would be useless for navigation within hours.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at March 09, 2025 09:31 AM (QB+5g)

224 18A process node is officially ready for customer projects!
This marks a major milestone in Intel's bold roadmap to reclaim process leadership and sends a clear signal to the industry: we're in the game to win.
With tape-outs slated for the first half of 2025, Intel 18A is set to redefine advanced chip manufacturing, challenging TSMC and Samsung while unlocking new opportunities for Al, HPC, and next-gen computing.
This isn't just about making smaller transistors - it's about redefining the future of compute. And as we enter the angstrom era, continuing to push Moore's Law forward, it's clear: what can be done can be outdone - and we're still here making that happen.
#lAmIntel #Semiconductors #Al #Innovation
https://Inkd.in/gvdWj2iX

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2025 11:49 AM (GITLP)

225 Chip designers Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab and Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab are running manufacturing tests with Intel (INTC.O)
, opens new tab, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, demonstrating early confidence in the struggling company's advanced production techniques.
The two tests, which have not been reported previously, indicate the companies are moving closer to determining whether they will commit hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of manufacturing contracts to Intel. The decision to do so could generate a revenue windfall and endorsement for Intel's contract manufacturing business that has been beset by delays and has not yet announced a prominent chip designer customer.

Posted by: SMOD at March 09, 2025 11:51 AM (GITLP)

226 The 9070 and xt models were sold out in Houston and Dallas there were rtx 5070s around...I decided to keep the 7900gre until things settle.

Posted by: sven at March 09, 2025 01:19 PM (X0I7i)

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