MightyBigCar @MightyBigCar@octodon.social
Rural eccentric. Rude mechanical. #beer, #bernesemountaindog, #holdmybeerandwatchthis
By the harbor...
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Las Vegas, for the most part, is designed to use mostly bland averageness plus lots of blinking lights to extract the maximum amount of money from people who think they're having a special experience doing stuff they could just as easily have done in their hometown.
Today is the Families Belong Together march across the nation and the world in protest against the Trump Misadministration's harsh family separation/detention policies.
Marches, via MoveOn: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/?source=FBTsite622
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #FamiliesBelongTogether #FamiliasUnidasNoDivididas #LasFamiliesMerecenEstarUnidas
#EndFamilySeparation #FindelaSeparaciónFamiliar
#EndFamilyDetention #FinalaDetenciónFamiliar
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radio geeks will love this tour of WLW, a 500kW (yes, 500,000 watt) AM radio station in Ohio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irybbYx0IdU
Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHjcwIoTiY
The *MANUAL* for the 500kW transmitter: http://www.arizona-am.net/WLW/Docs/WLW500kwManual.pdf
More docs: http://www.arizona-am.net/WLW/Docs/
The next time someone tells me that hotel rooms and meals in Las Vegas are really cheap because they want you to blow your money on gambling, I'm going to sell them some Florida real estate.
My solar nemesis has returned again this morning, with promises of another 42C day.
The only sensible way for the octodonic to deal with this beastly 40+C heat. Show more
Metro Nuns cloister themselves in subway cars.
"What do feel you get out of your minor in electrical engineering?"
Me: "A constant sense of wonder at the fact everything is not currently on fire."
RE: White ladies calling po-po on 8 yr olds, "Last Jedi Is Wrong!", Hypermilitarized US border despite zeroed net-migration, far-right ascendance in US, Europe, etc..
Privileged white ladies need to chill, ICE needs dissolved, Nazis need punched.
But also, talk & listen outside the filter (to the reasonable), try to increase empathy / decrease fight-flight fear and anger. We're going to have 1 BILLION climate refugees soon. We need culture-war triage here, or we're all going to die
It's 8pm and 40freakingC in this city. Why why why would anyone build a city here? There is no rational reason for it to exist.
Notification testing time! Please spam me with stuff! #tuskydev
If only we could put Sam Vimes in charge of ICE, the FBI, the ATF, and all of those agencies that oppress the powerless…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/24/if-only-more-cops-were-like-sam-vimes/
Great googly moogly! It gets worse - Wiley doesn't even wait for all the processes in the forkbomb to complete before merging their outputs and generating & reporting the final statistics.
Which means we've been making engineering decisions based on a non-repeatable process.
Is it beer o'clock yet?
Look, Wiley E. Coyote Super Genius shell programmer, bash + awk is not the right combination for heavy duty statistical stuff, especially if you have to process a few thousand files of over 100MB each. And particularly don't fork each file's handling in an awk process inside a bash for loop. We've got languages & libraries intended for this sort of thing: octave and matlab and scipy and R and more, all installed and ready to use.
