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Warren Drops Out, Endorses REDACTED
Michael Bloomberg Ends Presidential Bid, Endorses Joe Biden
TV stations and YouTube thank you for your blown ad money, Boomerborg.
Warren reassessing campaign after disappointing Super Tuesday
Not winning your home state is a body blow.
Who will Warren endorse?
Update:
Warren, Sanders allies scramble to find her an exit ramp
The conversations, which are in an early phase, largely involve members of Congress who back Sanders (I-Vt.) reaching out to those in Warren's camp to explore the prospect that Warren (D-Mass.) might endorse him. They are also appealing to Warren's supporters to switch their allegiance to Sanders, according two people with direct knowledge of the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss delicate discussions that are supposed to be confidential.
The whirlwind of activity reflects the rapid changes in a Democratic primary that is still very much in transition. As late as Tuesday, many Warren allies believed she would stay in the race until the Democratic convention, despite her poor showing to date in the primaries, in hopes of retaining her clout and influencing the eventual nominee.
But after Warren's bleak performance in the Super Tuesday primaries, her associates, as well as those of Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden, say she is now looking for the best way to step aside. There is no certainty she will endorse Sanders or anyone else, but the talks reflect the growing pressure on the Massachusetts senator to withdraw.
Update 2:
Elizabeth Warren ends her presidential campaign
Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the presidential race, a source familiar with her plans tells CNN, following another round of disappointing finishes in primary contests across the country on Super Tuesday.
[...] Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg endorsed Biden on Monday. Warren, a respected progressive leader who has been fiercely critical of the former vice president and, at least until the current campaign heated up, a friend and ally of Sanders, has not yet indicated who she will support moving forward. Sanders said he spoke to Warren on Wednesday, but did not share any details from their conversation.
New DNC Bumper Sticker
Biden! Trump! Anyone but Sanders!!
Update:
Oh, I'm sorry. A link!
Update 2:
Looks like Sanders can call it a day. He lost bigly. Oh well... kind of expected it, didn't we? Those Biden states are Trump states anyway. Utah was a surprise, big spread there.
When Sanders is confidently out of the way after a few more states cast there votes, Bloomberg can then drop out, and just shovel money into the Party coffers.
With Biden as the candidate, it is uncertain what the democrats will campaign on. They have no platform that opposes, or proposes to undo the last decade, so it seems like there's nothing to do but just go through the motions and welcome four more years
Update 3:
As predicted Bloomberg dropped out, Sanders is no longer a "problem".
Well, that's it for the democrat side. Nothing left to do now. What can they possibly talk about? You are free to comment of course, but what's the point? We are where we started. Without a real independence movement, we can enjoy four more years of what the Party always wanted.
In search of the perfect Hello World
The holy grail of a perfect Hello World program may never be found.
I found the Java Enterprise Edition Hello World
With the right drugs I think I can do better.
C ************************************************
C Program to print Hello World to the console.
C
C Copyright (C) 1979 Hello Worlds Expeditions.
C For a better exploration of habitable Hello Worlds.
C A subsidiary of Tinfoil Cat Holdings.
C
C ************************************************
PROGRAM HelloWorld;ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
#include<stdio.h>
#define while if
#define struct unionDATA DIVISION.
CONST
Message = "Hello World";
Times = 10;VAR
I: Integer;BEGIN
FOR I := 1 TO Times DO {
10 System.out.println (Message);
20 GOSUB 10
}
END.
Edit: a few additional improvements.
Threadripper 3990X Running Crysis Without a GPU
AMD's Threadripper 3990X can run Crysis without a graphics card
DannyB's dream will become real some day.
U.S. Signs Peace Deal With Taliban
U.S. Signs Peace Deal With Taliban After Nearly 2 Decades Of War In Afghanistan
The U.S. and the Taliban have struck a deal that paves the way for eventual peace in Afghanistan. U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad and the head of the militant Islamist group, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, signed the potentially historic agreement Saturday in Doha, Qatar, where the two sides spent months hashing out its details.
Under the terms of the deal, the U.S. commits to withdrawing all of its military forces and supporting civilian personnel, as well as those of its allies, within 14 months. The drawdown process will begin with the U.S. reducing its troop levels to 8,600 in the first 135 days and pulling its forces from five bases.
The rest of its forces, according to the agreement, will leave "within the remaining nine and a half months."
The Afghan government also will release up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners as a gesture of goodwill, in exchange for 1,000 Afghan security forces held by the Taliban.
Untrained federal workers exposed to coronavirus in CA
Yeah, we're going to criticize the administration because their ineptitude is going to get people killed. Get used to it.
HHS whistleblower claims US workers received coronavirus evacuees without proper precautions
A whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking federal protection after complaining that more than a dozen workers who received the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, lacked proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
"The report alleges that staff were sent into quarantined areas 'without personal protective equipment, training, or experience in managing public health emergencies, safety protocols, and the potential danger to both themselves and members of the public they come into contact with,'" the letter states. "The whistleblower also reported that when staff raised safety concerns, they were 'admonished by (redacted) for 'decreasing staff morale,' accused of not being team players, and had their mental health and emotional stability questioned.'"
These were the folks brought home against the CDC's objections.
And, guess where they ended up: California
Big shocker, now it's in the wild in CA: California patient with unknown origin of coronavirus is in serious condition, official says I think we may have a hint as to the origin.
So, of course, Team Trump's response is to try and cover the whole thing up. The Trump administration barred a top US disease expert from speaking freely to the public after he warned the coronavirus might be impossible to contain
Living up to my name
Every weekday morning, I get up and bus to work for my development job at the little startup with 4 other employees counting the boss. It's a decent job, I like the people there. There's frequent disagreements with the other developer that can get very stressful due to the scope of the disagreements, but other than that, it's decent.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I usually have to force myself to shower. I usually manage, but not always. Then I put on one of my three pairs of semi-respectable functioning pants, one of my 10 shirts, briefly brush my disgusting steel wool Shirley Temple mop of hair, step over the 2 month old pizza boxes on the way to the front door, and walk out to the bus stop. Honestly, brushing my teeth is optional most days.
The rest of the 1.5hr trip, it's autopilot. I don't pay much attention to the people around me or the scenery through the bus window. I've fallen asleep on the bus and woken up in another city once in the last year, and pissed off bus drivers with my airheadedness countless times. Not noticing them gesturing me to get up for a wheelchair seat until they tap my shoulder, repeatedly not hearing them say "it's broken" as I try and scan my bus card, freaking out and thinking I passed my stop and pulling the cord a stop or two too early, etc.
Passengers too, some things that make me feel really bad. Today this old woman was trying to get off the bus with her walker, and she had to *ask* me to help even though I was right next to her because I was too absorbed in the TV static in my head to notice her attempting to leave. Don't get me started on the times I was standing in the way and didn't notice.
When I get to work, I sound like a fumbling idiot who can't form his thoughts to save his life. Long pauses, stroke/bondulance words coming out, etc, constantly. Multiple times in a single sentence. It's a miracle anyone understands anything I say at all. I manage to do good development work, which still baffles me considering all the aforementioned, but then fail pathetically at communicating what I did or why I did it. I am literally constantly drinking black ice coffee all day at work, probably the only thing that gets me halfway intelligible on any day.
Then I go home, rinse and repeat the bus drama on the way. Finally I eat something unhealthy, probably came dehydrated in a bag or in a can, and give my cat her whole can of dinner. Many days I'll order pizza or a tofu dish from my local pizza place, if I have money that is.
I dick around on the internet for a bit, and fall asleep at 8 or 9pm.
I never do the things I need to, like basic errands, house cleaning, calling friends. Oh the friends. Most are convinced I don't care about them, when the truth is I just don't have the strength for a phone call. I want to reply to their texts, I want to talk to them, and I type a text out, and then I don't hit send because I know the moment they read it, the first thing they will do is call me on the phone, and that is excruciating for me no matter who it is anymore.
Most of my friends are the type who will not understand "keep it short", or even if they understand it, it always ends up a 2hr phone call anyways, no matter what. I'm sure they think much less of me, often I really can't blame them. I feel an enormous amount of guilt for hiding from everyone as much as I do, but I can't bring myself to do better no matter how hard I try.
That's the weekdays.
On the weekends, I sleep. I sleep a lot. I never have any fun plans or ideas, I just... sleep.
Maybe one day, I won't wake up. I can hope so.
Ship of Fools (props to our resident philosopher king)
by Ted Kaczynski...
No! Wait! I meant that other guy!
I must have recourse to fiction, and put together a figure made up of many things, like the fabulous unions of goats and stags which are found in pictures. Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering --every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary. They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them. Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not-the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling. Now in vessels which are in a state of mutiny and by sailors who are mutineers, how will the true pilot be regarded? Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?
Of course, said Adeimantus.
Then you will hardly need, I said, to hear the interpretation of the figure, which describes the true philosopher in his relation to the State; for you understand already.Certainly.
Then suppose you now take this parable to the gentleman who is surprised at finding that philosophers have no honour in their cities; explain it to him and try to convince him that their having honour would be far more extraordinary.I will.
Say to him, that, in deeming the best votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest of the world, he is right; but also tell him to attribute their uselessness to the fault of those who will not use them, and not to themselves. The pilot should not humbly beg the sailors to be commanded by him --that is not the order of nature; neither are 'the wise to go to the doors of the rich' --the ingenious author of this saying told a lie --but the truth is, that, when a man is ill, whether he be rich or poor, to the physician he must go, and he who wants to be governed, to him who is able to govern. The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him; although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp; they may be justly compared to the mutinous sailors, and the true helmsmen to those who are called by them good-for-nothings and star-gazers.Precisely so, he said.
For these reasons, and among men like these, philosophy, the noblest pursuit of all, is not likely to be much esteemed by those of the opposite faction; not that the greatest and most lasting injury is done to her by her opponents, but by her own professing followers, the same of whom you suppose the accuser to say, that the greater number of them are arrant rogues, and the best are useless; in which opinion I agreed.Yes.
And the reason why the good are useless has now been explained?
True.
Then shall we proceed to show that the corruption of the majority is also unavoidable, and that this is not to be laid to the charge of philosophy any more than the other?...
Best FOSDEM review evah!
Courtesy of FatPhil, n-gate.com take on FOSDEM
Hilarious. And reality-based, for a change. Some samples ...
The Selfish Contributor Explained
The speaker attempts to resolve the cognitive dissonance inspired by the repeated claims of "protecting user freedoms" despite all open-source programmers being employed by massive software companies. No solutions are provided, but some advice is promised regarding the maintenance of license-cult affiliation while conning some webshit company into paying you to mismanage your hobby projects.
Speaker's name anagram: MOTLEY TAME JOBSHow Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare
A Red Hat arrives to try to convince other middle managers that this container stuff is totally different and somehow relevant to that 5G thing you keep seeing in TV commercials. It is not different, and it is not relevant to any specific radio communications technology, but Red Hat's not paying for the talk to make sense. Red Hat is paying for the talk to convince ISP operators to buy Openshift licenses.
Speaker's name anagram: NERDLIKE AILumoSQL - Experiments with SQLite, LMDB and more
SQLite is justly famous, but also has well-known limitations This talk, awkwardly shoved into the schedule at the last minute, sees the speaker claim that shitty fifty-cent on-device sensors are generating data faster than SQLite can store it. This is obviously horse shit, and the speaker hasn't actually got anything working yet, but the speaker needed some attention, which is the primary factor in whether one is allocated speaking time at FOSDEM.
Speaker's name anagram: SANE HARDERdqlite: High-availability SQLite
An embeddable, distributed and fault tolerant SQL engine
An Ubuntu gets on the "SQLite, but better" bandwagon. Unlike the previous project, which combined SQLite with some code derived from academia to solve perceived flaws in the wrong layer, this project takes the revolutionary approach of combining SQLite with some code derived from academia to solve perceived flaws in the wrong layer.
Speaker's name anagram: A FAKE ARENA KEYOpen Source Under Attack
How we, the OSI and others can defend it
A Google, a Facebook, and a Linux Foundation (a trade organization representing Google and Facebook) lecture us about how hard we must fight to keep their employers from destroying our access to computer software.
Speakers' name anagrams: SNAZZY? RICH? SICK. and SMALL SIX with HI, MEGA-CLENCH!The core values of software freedom
A bureaucrat would like greasy computer nerds to stop getting angry on the internet about Codes of Conduct, but is too much of a coward to just say that.
Speaker's name anagram: RETHINK RACISM HATSRegaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste
Status of Linux on the smartphone
Having failed to gain any traction in commercial telephony, Maemo is the natural place some programmers would turn when searching for a telephone interface to poorly copy. By combining bad clones of proprietary software, niche Linux distributions with no clear policies or mission, and vaporware hardware from a fly-by-night bad-computer vendor, you can have complete control of a telephone that doesn't exist, wouldn't boot if it did, and couldn't make phone calls if it booted. Rejoice, for your time is at hand.
Speakers' name anagrams: JEWEL, WARN MR. JIB! and ERR: BARB BITS
This is just a SMALL example of what awaits you. Enjoy, or blow a gasket.
Hardware assisted GC
A journal entry that simply restates a comment I just wrote.
Memory closely integrated with processors at the chip level makes sense. You would upgrade memory and processing power together.
Another thing I think will eventually happen, but that will be controversial.
Hardware assisted GC
Note that all modern languages in the last 2 freaking decades have garbage collection. Remember "lisp machines" from the 1980's? Like Symbollics? Their systems didn't execute Lisp especially fast, but what they did was provide hardware level assistance for GC which made GC amazingly fast.
I look at the amazing things JVM (Java Virtual Machine) has done with GC. If only the JVM's GC could benefit all other languages (Python, JavaScript, Go, Lisps, etc). Of course, those languages could use JVM as a runtime. And GraalVM _might_ make something like that happen where lots of different languages run in the same runtime and can transparently call each others functions and classes and have a common set of underlying data types. Red Hat's Shenandoah and Oracle's open source ZGC are amazing garbage collector technology. Terabytes of memory with 1 ms GC pause times. Now imagine if you had hardware assistance for GC. (btw, why is Red Hat investing so much into Java development? I thought they were a Linux company? Could Red Hat, which is a publicly tiraded company, have some economic reason Java is making them lots of money?)
Rationale: GC is an economic reality. Ignore the whining of he C programmers in the peanut gallery for a moment. They'll jump up and down and accuse other professionals of not knowing how to manage memory. Ignore it. Why do we use high level languages (like C) instead of assembly language? Answer: human productivity! Our code would be so much more efficient if we wrote EVERYTHING including this SN board directly in assembly language!!! So why don't we??? Because, as C programmers are simply unwilling to admit, the economic reality is that programmers are vastly more productive in higher and ever higher level languages. Sure there is an efficiency cost to this. But we're optimizing for dollars not for bytes and cpu cycles. Hardware is cheap, developer time is expensive.
Slight aside: ARM processors already have some hardware provision for executing JVM bytecodes (gasp! omg!).
I'm surprised that modern Intel or AMD designs haven't introduced some hardware assistance for GC.
Symbollics hardware, IIRC, had extra bits in each memory word (36 bit words I think) to "tag" the type of information in every word. Then a way to efficiently find all words that happened to be a "pointer". A way to tag all words that were "reachable" or "marked" from the root set, etc.
Maybe this can happen if memory and processing elements become highly integrated and interconnected. Hardware design will follow the money just as programming languages and technology stacks do.
Others will believe that system design will stand still to conform to a romantic idealism that was the major economic reality once upon a time.
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Nobody's crystal ball is perfect. But I did expect in the early 90's that most new languages would start having GC, and that did begin to happen about 2000.
Senile Senior software developers look at the business case beyond how personally amusing all this fun technology is.
