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NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd

Move Over GTX 1080, There’s A New Titan X In Town

Meaningless for anybody who doesn't want the general compute features. It's $200 more expensive than its predecessor, probably to avoid cannibalizing sales of more expensive Pascal GPUs intended for businesses.

The billion-dollar RNC question: What is Peter Thiel doing there?

Fun for everyone.

Before pictures of cats were popular on the Internet, we had text cows:-

$ fortune | cowsay
 ----------------------------------
| What's the major use of cowhide? |
|                                  |
| Holding cows together.           |
 ----------------------------------
     \
      \   ^__^
       \  (oo)\_______
          (__)\       )\/\
              ||----w |
              ||     ||

And now the popular cowsay utility has been cow-patched to handle multi-line input correctly, especially if it contains UTF-8. Here's the archive with a SHA1 of d3cc231704eb8575941478be3ebbc19fb6b0f5c4:-

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And here are some example uses:-

$ cowsay -f frog Hey, man. This lillipad is `df | perl -e 'while(defined($line=<STDIN>)){@field=split(/[ \t\n\r]+/,$line);if((index($ENV{'PWD'},$field[5])==0)&&(length($mount)<length($field[5]))){$mount=$field[5];$avail=$field[4]}}print $avail,"\n"'` full. Ribbit.
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| Hey, man. This lillipad is 99% full. Ribbit. |
 ----------------------------------------------
     \
      \
          oO)-.                       .-(Oo
         /__  _\                     /_  __\
         \  \(  |     ()~()         |  )/  /
          \__|\ |    (-___-)        | /|__/
          '  '--'    ==`-'==        '--'  '

If you're particularly inclined, you can chain/nest instances of cowsay:-

$ ls -l / | cowsay | cowsay | cowthink
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( | | total 84                                               | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 23:11 bin        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 boot       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  3240 May 28 11:17 dev        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 111 root root  4096 May 28 23:31 etc        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 10 22:57 home       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  4096 May 10 23:12 lib        | | )
( | | drwx------   2 root root 16384 May 10 23:38 lost+found | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 media      | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 mnt        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 May 10 23:30 opt        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x 104 root root     0 Jan  1  1970 proc       | | )
( | | drwx------   5 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:04 root       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   320 May 28 11:17 run        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  1 05:17 sbin       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 srv        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root     0 May 28 11:17 sys        | | )
( | | drwxrwxrwt  17 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:53 tmp        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 10 23:27 usr        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 28 23:27 var        | | )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( |      \                                                     | )
( |       \   ^__^                                             | )
( |        \  (oo)\_______                                     | )
( |           (__)\       )\/\                                 | )
( |               ||----w |                                    | )
( |               ||     ||                                    | )
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
(      \                                                         )
(       \   ^__^                                                 )
(        \  (oo)\_______                                         )
(           (__)\       )\/\                                     )
(               ||----w |                                        )
(               ||     ||                                        )
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
     o
      o   ^__^
       o  (oo)\_______
          (__)\       )\/\
              ||----w |
              ||     ||

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Pakistani QT killed by brother for what would be usual vanity stuff for Westerners on social media:

Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by her brother

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called "honor" killing in the city of Multan in the country's province of Punjab. Azhar Akram, Multan's chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family's home after he had protested at the "kind of pictures she had been posting online."

[...] She had nearly 750,000 followers on Facebook, where her videos went viral but were also the subject of much debate and discomfort. In recent weeks, several of her posts encouraged her audience to challenge old practices of Pakistani society. In a July 14 post, Baloch referred to herself as a "modern day feminist."
Hamna Zubair, the culture editor of Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told CNN that she had received much criticism for carrying pieces on Baloch. One commentator asked her if she would be "reporting from a brothel" next.
Baloch tightly controlled her narrative in the media. She shared little about her personal life and was something of an enigma; nobody really knew which city she was based in.

She found fame and slipped into the national consciousness after declaring that she would perform a live strip tease online if Pakistan won a cricket match against arch rival India.
As her media profile grew, Zubair said Baloch became aware "of her power to deliver a certain message about being female in Pakistan," and that she had become a "burgeoning activist for increasing women's visibility" in the country. She made more headlines after posting selfies on her Instagram account with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a senior member of the clergy. The bizarre pairing led to frenzied media coverage and resulted in Qavis's suspension from his post on one of Pakistan's religious committees. After news of Baloch's death, while waiting to go on air on a local channel, Qavi told CNN that "her death should be a lesson for all those who point fingers at someone's honor."

[...] A couple of days ago, local media reported that Qandeel Baloch had married at 17 and left her husband about a year later. After the reports were published, she confirmed that her legal name was Fouzia Azeem and that she had been using an alias for safety reasons. Earlier this week Baloch had stirred up more controversy by releasing a kitschy music video on YouTube called "Ban," which mocked some of the restrictions that she had been subjected to. Behind the scenes, however, things were a bit different. Hassan Chaoudhry, a reporter for local paper Express Tribune, told CNN he had spoken to Baloch on the phone just two days ago, saying she was sobbing and "feared for her life." On the morning she was murdered, Qandeel had shared a picture of herself staring defiantly into the camera, wearing a pair of leopard print pants and a black tank top. She had written that she was a fighter. "I will bounce back," she said, adding she wanted to inspire women who have been "treated badly and dominated by society."

I would be writing Mac OS X security software. That is, if I get the job.

A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn quite a long time ago. I don't check LinkedIn very much at all. I apologized for my late response then asked her to email me. She and I spoke on the phone a few days ago, then I emailed her my resume this morning.

The manager responded just one hour after she submitted me. She said he was very enthusiastic.

She called to ask when I could interview on-site. I said "anytime". She must now ask the manager when he wants to see me, but she expects it will be late next week.

Happily I just bought a new dress shirt at Nordstrom Rack. It looks really sharp with a tie. I'm going to wear blue jeans with the dress shirt and tie; I used to have a suit, a really nice one that I enjoyed wearing, but I donated it to a thrift store because I got the impression that no one believed I was really a coder.

Real coders don't wear suits, see.

My shoes are thrashed. I'm hoping saddle soap and shoe polish will make it less apparent that I live in poverty.

My new apartment is working out well. Happily it is close to the best bus line in Vancouver. I can stay out late in Portland, then get home at one in the morning.

I've developed a problem with sleeping excessively. I'll be up for one day, sleep round the clock the next day, up for one day then round the clock again. In part it's because I have no commitments of any sort, in part it's because the bus doesn't run during the early morning.

If I go out after waking up, I have no problem staying awake, but if the bus isn't running there's no where to go. Eventually I go back to bed.

A friend is going to lend me a bicycle. That would enable me to go to a 24-hour restaurant if I wake up early in the morning.

I don't know yet but the kind of work I'd be doing, I expect they'd be cool with me working at night. It's uncommon that employers object to that, but sometimes they do.

I have grown weary of eating rice and beans.

This is a story that can only be found on NextBigFuture and wire services:

Super controversial Brilliant light Power aka blacklight power claims to be generating bursts of megawatt power and claim independent validation

Wikipedia article.

One of the cruftier parts of Unix is the obtuse format for setting date and time. However, it is a deficiency which be trivially overcome. Rather than refer to the manual *every time* I set date and time, I wrote this:-

echo
echo 'date and time is believed to be' `date -u`
echo
echo 'specify date and time in UTC in format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'
echo
echo -n '? '
perl -e '$line=<STDIN>;print "\n";if($line=~/([0-9]{4,})[ \t]*[.\-\/:]?[ \t]*([0-9]{1,2})[ \t]*[.\-\/:]?[ \t]*([0-9]{1,2})[ \t]*[.\-\/:]?[ \t]*([0-9]{1,2})[ \t]*[.\-\/:]?[ \t]*([0-9]{1,2})[ \t]*[.\-\/:]?[ \t]*([0-9]{1,2})/){system(sprintf("date -u %02i%02i%02i%02i%04i.%02i",$2,$3,$4,$5,$1,$6));print "\n"}else{print "date and time format not valid.\n\n";exit 2}'

This performs a modicum of validation before invoking the date command. date provides further validation and, rarely for a Unix utility, provides feedback.

I had to set Unix time quite frequently when evaluating a Raspberry Pi. Due to the extreme and counter-productive cost-cutting of this design, it has no clock. Superficially, it seems to have a source of montonic time. However, /etc/init.d/fake-hwclock, /etc/fake-hwclock.data and, most notably, /etc/cron.hourly/fake-hwclock indicate that attempt to maintain monotonic time has been bodged. On Debian derivatives, it is typical for an hourly system cronjob to run at 17 minutes past each hour - or, in this case, what a system *thinks* is 17 minutes past each hour. This is because Raspberry Pis which incur unexpected loss of power generally gain the impression that the time is about 17 minutes past an hour shortly after booting.

I've mentioned this to a few people and the reaction is usually revulsion. Even writing the *next* hour would be preferable to the current configuration because this would ensure no slippage, no time loops and no locally ambiguous timestamps. But, no.

Actually, I've just edited the script /sbin/fake-hwclock and changed one line from:-

date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > $FILE

to:-

TZ=UTC-1 date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > $FILE

C'mon. You've gotta be cringing now. I'm abusing a locale setting because it is the laziest method to specify one hour ahead of the current time.

Thankfully, more accurate time can be sourced from a variety of places. NTP [Network Time Protocol] is the favorite. However, this assumes that a network exists (and that a secure system can be presented to a network). Time can be sourced via I2C but you'll have hard-code the I2C device ID and poke around two parts of the privileged memory map because the wiring changed between revisions. And it would be fair to assume that any solution which covers current variations will fail to work with future revisions.

It is also possible to obtain time via GPS via USB. In some regards, this reduces the task to a previously solved problem.

Anyhow, if you want something portable, memorize and mentally juggle:-

MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]

or use a Perl one-liner.

http://www.vice.com/read/oakland-underage-sex-work-scandal

Not so long ago it was possible to point to Oakland as a police reform success story. In the last decade, the cops have gone from conducting an average of 3,000 searches without probable cause every year to 280 in 2015. Officers are now required to wear body cameras. After decades of abuse, violence, and corruption, the police department seemed to finally be changing.

In the last few weeks, though, a scandal has emerged that threatens to tear the department apart. In brief, 14 Oakland police officers are currently under investigation for sleeping with an 18-year-old sex worker—three of them when she was 17, thus allegedly committing rape and sex trafficking under California law. The woman, using the alias Celeste Guap, told the East Bay Express earlier this month that she was having sex with the cops for money and protection; she had been given a friend's arrest history and information about undercover prostitution stings.

Hints of the scandal surfaced last year, after a suicide note written one of the officers involved, Brendan O'Brien, mentioned Guap, prompting an investigation. But the higher-ups allegedly dragged their feet, and the supposed cover-up has only widened the sordid scandal has since expanded. (According to Guap's later comments to the media, she's actually had sex with "more than 30 officers" from multiple agencies around the Bay Area.)

The shocking and salacious events were the catalyst to Oakland appointing four police chiefs in two weeks. Initially, Sean Whent, who was promoted to top cop at the end of a similarly messy 2013 shuffle that saw three new police chiefs in three days, got canned because he allegedly knew about Guap sleeping with Oakland cops but didn't press for a speedy and public investigation.