I am sorry that I am so tired but, well, I have seen the climate change. The seasons are different, the weather more mild, and even the birds migrate with new patterns. Mountains which kept their snow pack are bald in the summer. I think we had one day of temperature over 90 last summer. I used to get three or four feet of snow - all the time. Now, maybe twice a year do I get more than 18" in a storm. I have pictures of snowbanks so high that they were HIGHER than the telephone poles.
Yet, until I get all the information and have time to review it, I'm in the skeptic category. Oh, I don't doubt that it's happening. I'm just not sure they're doing a very good job at making predictions. Making 2000 predictions using 350000 models and then saying, "I told you so!" Is not science.
It's time for a Grandpa Story but I'm very, very weak. I have been diagnosed with pneumonia. They also have me on prednizone so it gives me cause to be an asshole. (Like I needed an additional reason.)
Anyways, a long time ago I got to be a Nilsen Family. I'm going to skip the whole middle of this story but, suffice to say, I've not really watched TV since the 1980s. I dutifully put the television on a channel that had nothing but static. I felt I'd done my part.
Really, the story is better than that but I'm way too tired to write about it. Gimme a few hours and some of that "pick me up" so prevalent here in Florida and I'll be good to go - or at least good enough to fake it. However, coke for lunch is NOT a good idea. Trust me on this one.
I watch no television and mostly only watch online documentaries. Sometimes, I'll go see a movie. Yet, I know a whole bunch of things about shows and movies that I've never seen - just from reading your (generic you) posts. I live vicariously through you.
Who is the mental midget that postulated that BTC was anonymous? It's not, it can't be. Even *I* realized this when it was first talked about.
As an aside, I also mined 48 of them way back when. I rediscovered them on a headless, powered-down, server and donated them to EFF. They weren't worth much, a bit over $600 each as I recall. Being mentally retarded, I'm pretty sure I used my real name somewhere along the line. I have no idea if that's in the blockchain or not.
I'd already done four years in the Corps before I went to school. I returned and did four more years and then did another four years of college. I was the old man on campus. Errr... I honestly can't even begin to name, or count, the number of women I slept with. Sadly, I'm not kidding.:/
Thanks. Is that unadjusted data? Do they explain the adjustments? Keep in mind, those are perfectly find things to do. Maine Native Brook Trout, barely legal, I can limit out in under five minutes and no, I won't tell you where it is.
I have seen the climate change. I'm 58. Where my real home is (I'm in Florida for the winter) I should have 4 feet of snow by now. We don't actually have mountains - just one mountain, and there are usually snow covered peaks. It hasn't been like that in years.
I modeled chaotic systems (vehicular and pedestrian).
Put new thermometer next to old ones - do this multiple time. Use the mean to adjust the old data. I've massaged a lot of data in my day. I was more able to actually verify it.
I have pneumonia so I'll skip it. If you really want to know, I'll share what my perpetual NDA allows. There's a reason we were the best but I might be biased.
That sounds a bit unbelievable. See, I worked at Detention Facility as an Escort/Chaser. I did things like escort the guy to appointment. I picked up buses full of detainees (only after are they considered convicts). I trained as a backup for SRT. But, mostly, I was "the most exemplary of the whole Motor Pool (they lied), and they voluntold me to pack and stow my gear. I was going back to school. It seems I was also dumb enough to get a security clearance. (That was needed as I handle detainees paperwork.)
Now, I don't know what kind of prison you're in but the one I worked at - each and everyone one new many ways to kill me - spray, a baton, and a whistle would have done me shit. Off the grounds I had a shotgun and disposal at my side. I can't say a whole lot but I can say I never brought anyone to the infirmary of hospital for anal hemorrhaging.,
No can do - over fished by people down the coast, look at the way the water moves. Blue-fin tuna is still good but I mostly do fresh water. Speaking of tuna, I don't hold the record but I pulled one in that was 628#. I think you can't take cod at all as we are waiting for the stock to replenish as it was getting dangerously low due to the warm water being pushed up. It's probably not entirely due to over fishing - wan can still find 'em, which just release them.
Why do you ask? I'm assuming you have a point. I've bumped into you enough to know there are no harmless questions and, well, I'm not exactly dumb. So, just say what you want. We shouldn't have seen the errors in our way and kept going? Or we should just sneak off Canada's bank and call it good? Or do you have a moral crusade.
I think you might be mistaking me for someone who doesn't believe in climate change. You'd be mistaken. I want to be able to check all the math, the code for the model see raw and unmassaged data, and things like that. So, if you've got something to say to me, put on your man britches and tell me. For that matter, I usually take native brook trout. We have plenty, I quite literally own a giant pond - it's so big that I'm required by Maine law to allow access.
I've got more than 5 digits worth of acreage here, and I will have more, and I no longer even technically own it all. (I own about 13000 acres in NW Maine - actions are awesome.) When I die, there's timber standing improvement (complete with horse an oxen twitching, that's posted inviting people to make use of the land but to treat it kindly - and leave a message on the machine (yeah, I went old-school but it uses a small SSD (i think) to store messages. When I die, and I will, that whole thing will survive so long as the USD is solvent. The majority of the land sits in a managed trust - that way your kids have somewhere to play.
I have two wind turbines and 7200^2 solar - I pump more into the grid than I could ever take out. In fact, the mains *is* my backup.
There's a book - I've never read it but I do *technically* own a copy. I believe the recording artists are Firesign Theater. Except I don't think it was their name at the time. What I am given to understand is that their success made them officially form the Fireside troop.
And, no problem for sharing - any time. If you have the will you can scrape the music/sans video, and have a "backup copy." If you're ever in Maine, I will be happy to play it in the house or in the Dart. Oddly, I recommend the Dart, 45 MPH, and at least a quarter. (We can get away with that near my house. We could take a a truck and never even see pavement.
Seriously, that's an open invitation. I've had other Slashdotters come visit, meet my family, and over NYE I spent more than a *really* nice non-luxury car would cost just doing two fireworks shows. (A bit over 30k.) it was awesome.
Way back, about 8 years ago, I didn't depend on any one employee. I depended on all of them. I don't even like calling them employees as we worked together.
Of course, we were somewhere around 220 people, as I recall. We had no HR. I was just as likely to help the cleaning crew as not. I didn't hire them to do work I couldn't do - I hired them to do things quicker and better than I could. Strangely enough, it worked. I do notice a trend in "programmers" as of late. I do not like it. I do not like it one bit.
Don't let this go to your head but, let's say I've lots and lots of experience at this. You? You're a good programmer (or could be, but I'm pretty sure you program in C, C++, Java, and probably a bit of bash, Perl, and Python. - Just guesses based on previous comments.)
How can I tell you're a good programmer? The way you approach your "arguments" or "statements" online. There have been times I've wanted to disagree with you 'cause you almost certainly reached the wrong conclusion BUT I'll be damned if I can find the flaw in your logic - and I was on the MIT debate team.
I'd have hired you. I'm sure you'd have been up to full speed in six months with a mentor for just the first two and then just using the mentor when you got stuck. We had a very large and very complex code base that actually had to be adjusted, as well as adjusting the models, for each and every situation - but we could save pre-sets.
So, don't let it got to your head. And, in traditional Slashdot style, "Go piss up a rope!";-)
By the way, there's a huge difference between those who call themselves programmers today and those people I hired back from 1991 to 2005. (I needed no new programmers after 2005 but sold in 2007 and finalized the sale almost exactly eight years ago, today. I don't know what the difference is and I'm going to use a favorite quote of mine - it's nearly verbatim and might be verbatim. (Consider, I was paying 120k to start for qualified people, slightly less for training - I even sent some to school.)
Anyhow, the quote: "Code comments go in the code, not on a coffee soaked index card on your desk, asshole."
I think the guy had been employed with us for maybe two weeks when he said that. I also imagine most would have fired him on the spot. I brought him into the office, pulled the code, and sat there and documented it with him - and learned a lot. We're still in touch today and he has no reason to work (I made sure to share the wealth when I sold) but he seems to like the job.
I'd rather not disclose how much I sold for, it requires some explaining, so feel free to email. The missus says I can have a laptop in the bedroom so long as I behave myself and get some sleep.
Oh, there's a lot that I don't eat. I suppose you're pissed when a lioness brings down a zebra?
It gets worse. I hunt, fish, and grow almost all of my food. I even know, and select, which cows will be killed and which pig will be killed. Sometimes, I do it myself. I do the preparation on my own - it's taken years to get good at it but I make a mean jerky. My venison jerky is to die for.
I fish. I fish a lot. I've never gone over my quota nor taken more than I am able to eat or give away to those who will eat it. Some species (fresh water - Maine, specifically) have no limit as they're not "game fish" but people still eat them. Fish chowder made with yellow perch is pretty tasty and I can take as many of those as I want but I hardly ever do, unless asked. They're mostly just bait stealing bastards or the things that end up making me tangle my line when I am far away from onlookers and trying to fly fish.
Hookers were $15/hr (or less) in San Diego in 1976. You could get head for half that. $20 meant anything goes. That was a lot of money back then - but I was right on base. Which is why I never did end up marrying that nice Jewish girl and never converted to Judaism. My foreskin thanks me. (TMI, I know.)
And yeah, sort of a sugar daddy thing but - she had no idea I had accumulated a few dollars first. Before I slept with her, I sat her down and logged into a few bank accounts and two of my trading account. It was awesome. We were already gonna do the sex thing but I felt it fair to make sure she knew who I was.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I have pneumonia it seems. They've got me on some steroid and it makes me grumpy as all fuck. Prednizone or something like that? I have to sneak computer time because not only is she a mother hen, she has my normal housekeeper and her husband here to keep an eye on me. (I smuggled a laptop into the bedroom. I'd use my phone but I hate the form factor for anything other than browsing.
At any rate, in my mild hallucination state - I found it important to explain that "she has no money of her own" does not, in fact, mean what it might imply to some. Some folks will assume the worst.
I concur. In fact, I've said it before - a hosts file is a good step. I'm just too lazy and prefer a more refined approach. I used to use hosts files extensively.
But yeah, I think I "won" that round. They seem to have run out of mod points. I can only conclude that if they get so many mods reversed by meta moderation that they stop giving them. It went from five, every day or two, to three every few days, then three once a week or more, and now - none. I can tell 'cause they were just going in order. Dumb asses.
There's a slight learning curve - it's whitelist based so you can export and import, try uMatrix. There's now a version for Firefox - I'm not a Firefox user (I use Opera) but I'm very pleased you have it. It's from the same guy that does HTTP Switchboard, uMatrix, and uBlock origin. It's like an old school software firewall for Windows only it's specifically for your browser. It does take a few minutes but once you set up the various sites, once you tweak it, then very little needs to be done to it. I probably haven't changed a single setting in over a month now. It is awesome.
I am, without bragging, well within the 1% by US standards. In fact, I'm probably closer to the top.5% because I sold my business, gave a bunch away, and then invested the rest which (somehow) made me have more wealth than ever before. (I'm not sure how that works - I actually keep making more money than I can reasonably spend so I give a bunch away. Meh, it lowers my tax burden.)
Anyhow, put a fucking link on your site and set a damned cookie. I visit MAYBE 30 sites regularly. I used to pay Slashdot but they somehow at a bit of money in a week - I was drunk so the fault is probably mine. However, put a fucking link up. "Ad free for a year - cookie or login, $XX only." If I like the site? I'll pay it.
This may sound unusual to most people but I actually go out of my way to reward sites that I find helpful. It's not uncommon for me to contact the author, get their PayPal address, and send 'em a hundred bucks. I do the same thing for open source projects - projects that I don't even use. There are all sorts of distros that get "anonymous" donations - I don't even use them. Why? Someone has to support them and I appreciate what they're doing.
Figure it out and I *will* pay you, I will pay you handsomely, for good content. On an average week, not counting my regular donations, I probably gift about $200 - $300 to random sites that are doing something neat. Hell, I've been trying to pay uMatrix/uBlock guy for a while now. He won't take my money. I offered him $5000 USD as a gift - no strings attached, because I felt I'd had that much use from it. Nope... Won't take a nickel.
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Do you mind if I borrow that?
I am sorry that I am so tired but, well, I have seen the climate change. The seasons are different, the weather more mild, and even the birds migrate with new patterns. Mountains which kept their snow pack are bald in the summer. I think we had one day of temperature over 90 last summer. I used to get three or four feet of snow - all the time. Now, maybe twice a year do I get more than 18" in a storm. I have pictures of snowbanks so high that they were HIGHER than the telephone poles.
Yet, until I get all the information and have time to review it, I'm in the skeptic category. Oh, I don't doubt that it's happening. I'm just not sure they're doing a very good job at making predictions. Making 2000 predictions using 350000 models and then saying, "I told you so!" Is not science.
Wait, you read the article?
It's time for a Grandpa Story but I'm very, very weak. I have been diagnosed with pneumonia. They also have me on prednizone so it gives me cause to be an asshole. (Like I needed an additional reason.)
Anyways, a long time ago I got to be a Nilsen Family. I'm going to skip the whole middle of this story but, suffice to say, I've not really watched TV since the 1980s. I dutifully put the television on a channel that had nothing but static. I felt I'd done my part.
Really, the story is better than that but I'm way too tired to write about it. Gimme a few hours and some of that "pick me up" so prevalent here in Florida and I'll be good to go - or at least good enough to fake it. However, coke for lunch is NOT a good idea. Trust me on this one.
I watch no television and mostly only watch online documentaries. Sometimes, I'll go see a movie. Yet, I know a whole bunch of things about shows and movies that I've never seen - just from reading your (generic you) posts. I live vicariously through you.
Most is fine (at least here in the US) and here's a citation for the latter: http://english.stackexchange.c...
Thank you for taking the time to offer correction because I actually continually work on my grammar.
So, I stand by my calling them an idiot. ;-) I don't normally do that but I'll make an exception.
Who is the mental midget that postulated that BTC was anonymous? It's not, it can't be. Even *I* realized this when it was first talked about.
As an aside, I also mined 48 of them way back when. I rediscovered them on a headless, powered-down, server and donated them to EFF. They weren't worth much, a bit over $600 each as I recall. Being mentally retarded, I'm pretty sure I used my real name somewhere along the line. I have no idea if that's in the blockchain or not.
I'd already done four years in the Corps before I went to school. I returned and did four more years and then did another four years of college. I was the old man on campus. Errr... I honestly can't even begin to name, or count, the number of women I slept with. Sadly, I'm not kidding. :/
To which I shall add: You are governed by consent.
Thanks. Is that unadjusted data? Do they explain the adjustments? Keep in mind, those are perfectly find things to do. Maine Native Brook Trout, barely legal, I can limit out in under five minutes and no, I won't tell you where it is.
I have seen the climate change. I'm 58. Where my real home is (I'm in Florida for the winter) I should have 4 feet of snow by now. We don't actually have mountains - just one mountain, and there are usually snow covered peaks. It hasn't been like that in years.
I modeled chaotic systems (vehicular and pedestrian).
Put new thermometer next to old ones - do this multiple time. Use the mean to adjust the old data. I've massaged a lot of data in my day. I was more able to actually verify it.
I have pneumonia so I'll skip it. If you really want to know, I'll share what my perpetual NDA allows. There's a reason we were the best but I might be biased.
That sounds a bit unbelievable. See, I worked at Detention Facility as an Escort/Chaser. I did things like escort the guy to appointment. I picked up buses full of detainees (only after are they considered convicts). I trained as a backup for SRT. But, mostly, I was "the most exemplary of the whole Motor Pool (they lied), and they voluntold me to pack and stow my gear. I was going back to school. It seems I was also dumb enough to get a security clearance. (That was needed as I handle detainees paperwork.)
Now, I don't know what kind of prison you're in but the one I worked at - each and everyone one new many ways to kill me - spray, a baton, and a whistle would have done me shit. Off the grounds I had a shotgun and disposal at my side. I can't say a whole lot but I can say I never brought anyone to the infirmary of hospital for anal hemorrhaging.,
No can do - over fished by people down the coast, look at the way the water moves. Blue-fin tuna is still good but I mostly do fresh water. Speaking of tuna, I don't hold the record but I pulled one in that was 628#. I think you can't take cod at all as we are waiting for the stock to replenish as it was getting dangerously low due to the warm water being pushed up. It's probably not entirely due to over fishing - wan can still find 'em, which just release them.
Why do you ask? I'm assuming you have a point. I've bumped into you enough to know there are no harmless questions and, well, I'm not exactly dumb. So, just say what you want. We shouldn't have seen the errors in our way and kept going? Or we should just sneak off Canada's bank and call it good? Or do you have a moral crusade.
I think you might be mistaking me for someone who doesn't believe in climate change. You'd be mistaken. I want to be able to check all the math, the code for the model see raw and unmassaged data, and things like that. So, if you've got something to say to me, put on your man britches and tell me. For that matter, I usually take native brook trout. We have plenty, I quite literally own a giant pond - it's so big that I'm required by Maine law to allow access.
I've got more than 5 digits worth of acreage here, and I will have more, and I no longer even technically own it all. (I own about 13000 acres in NW Maine - actions are awesome.) When I die, there's timber standing improvement (complete with horse an oxen twitching, that's posted inviting people to make use of the land but to treat it kindly - and leave a message on the machine (yeah, I went old-school but it uses a small SSD (i think) to store messages. When I die, and I will, that whole thing will survive so long as the USD is solvent. The majority of the land sits in a managed trust - that way your kids have somewhere to play.
I have two wind turbines and 7200^2 solar - I pump more into the grid than I could ever take out. In fact, the mains *is* my backup.
There's a book - I've never read it but I do *technically* own a copy. I believe the recording artists are Firesign Theater. Except I don't think it was their name at the time. What I am given to understand is that their success made them officially form the Fireside troop.
And, no problem for sharing - any time. If you have the will you can scrape the music/sans video, and have a "backup copy." If you're ever in Maine, I will be happy to play it in the house or in the Dart. Oddly, I recommend the Dart, 45 MPH, and at least a quarter. (We can get away with that near my house. We could take a a truck and never even see pavement.
Seriously, that's an open invitation. I've had other Slashdotters come visit, meet my family, and over NYE I spent more than a *really* nice non-luxury car would cost just doing two fireworks shows. (A bit over 30k.) it was awesome.
Way back, about 8 years ago, I didn't depend on any one employee. I depended on all of them. I don't even like calling them employees as we worked together.
Of course, we were somewhere around 220 people, as I recall. We had no HR. I was just as likely to help the cleaning crew as not. I didn't hire them to do work I couldn't do - I hired them to do things quicker and better than I could. Strangely enough, it worked. I do notice a trend in "programmers" as of late. I do not like it. I do not like it one bit.
Don't let this go to your head but, let's say I've lots and lots of experience at this. You? You're a good programmer (or could be, but I'm pretty sure you program in C, C++, Java, and probably a bit of bash, Perl, and Python. - Just guesses based on previous comments.)
How can I tell you're a good programmer? The way you approach your "arguments" or "statements" online. There have been times I've wanted to disagree with you 'cause you almost certainly reached the wrong conclusion BUT I'll be damned if I can find the flaw in your logic - and I was on the MIT debate team.
I'd have hired you. I'm sure you'd have been up to full speed in six months with a mentor for just the first two and then just using the mentor when you got stuck. We had a very large and very complex code base that actually had to be adjusted, as well as adjusting the models, for each and every situation - but we could save pre-sets.
So, don't let it got to your head. And, in traditional Slashdot style, "Go piss up a rope!" ;-)
By the way, there's a huge difference between those who call themselves programmers today and those people I hired back from 1991 to 2005. (I needed no new programmers after 2005 but sold in 2007 and finalized the sale almost exactly eight years ago, today. I don't know what the difference is and I'm going to use a favorite quote of mine - it's nearly verbatim and might be verbatim. (Consider, I was paying 120k to start for qualified people, slightly less for training - I even sent some to school.)
Anyhow, the quote: "Code comments go in the code, not on a coffee soaked index card on your desk, asshole."
I think the guy had been employed with us for maybe two weeks when he said that. I also imagine most would have fired him on the spot. I brought him into the office, pulled the code, and sat there and documented it with him - and learned a lot. We're still in touch today and he has no reason to work (I made sure to share the wealth when I sold) but he seems to like the job.
I'd rather not disclose how much I sold for, it requires some explaining, so feel free to email. The missus says I can have a laptop in the bedroom so long as I behave myself and get some sleep.
Tuna hasn't tasted the same since they took the dolphin out of it.
Oh, there's a lot that I don't eat. I suppose you're pissed when a lioness brings down a zebra?
It gets worse. I hunt, fish, and grow almost all of my food. I even know, and select, which cows will be killed and which pig will be killed. Sometimes, I do it myself. I do the preparation on my own - it's taken years to get good at it but I make a mean jerky. My venison jerky is to die for.
I fish. I fish a lot. I've never gone over my quota nor taken more than I am able to eat or give away to those who will eat it. Some species (fresh water - Maine, specifically) have no limit as they're not "game fish" but people still eat them. Fish chowder made with yellow perch is pretty tasty and I can take as many of those as I want but I hardly ever do, unless asked. They're mostly just bait stealing bastards or the things that end up making me tangle my line when I am far away from onlookers and trying to fly fish.
Are you sure it wasn't the Russians who retarded Communism?
Hookers were $15/hr (or less) in San Diego in 1976. You could get head for half that. $20 meant anything goes. That was a lot of money back then - but I was right on base. Which is why I never did end up marrying that nice Jewish girl and never converted to Judaism. My foreskin thanks me. (TMI, I know.)
And yeah, sort of a sugar daddy thing but - she had no idea I had accumulated a few dollars first. Before I slept with her, I sat her down and logged into a few bank accounts and two of my trading account. It was awesome. We were already gonna do the sex thing but I felt it fair to make sure she knew who I was.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I have pneumonia it seems. They've got me on some steroid and it makes me grumpy as all fuck. Prednizone or something like that? I have to sneak computer time because not only is she a mother hen, she has my normal housekeeper and her husband here to keep an eye on me. (I smuggled a laptop into the bedroom. I'd use my phone but I hate the form factor for anything other than browsing.
At any rate, in my mild hallucination state - I found it important to explain that "she has no money of her own" does not, in fact, mean what it might imply to some. Some folks will assume the worst.
It is a badge of honor.
I concur. In fact, I've said it before - a hosts file is a good step. I'm just too lazy and prefer a more refined approach. I used to use hosts files extensively.
But yeah, I think I "won" that round. They seem to have run out of mod points. I can only conclude that if they get so many mods reversed by meta moderation that they stop giving them. It went from five, every day or two, to three every few days, then three once a week or more, and now - none. I can tell 'cause they were just going in order. Dumb asses.
There's a slight learning curve - it's whitelist based so you can export and import, try uMatrix. There's now a version for Firefox - I'm not a Firefox user (I use Opera) but I'm very pleased you have it. It's from the same guy that does HTTP Switchboard, uMatrix, and uBlock origin. It's like an old school software firewall for Windows only it's specifically for your browser. It does take a few minutes but once you set up the various sites, once you tweak it, then very little needs to be done to it. I probably haven't changed a single setting in over a month now. It is awesome.
If you use Opera, Chrome, Chromium, and probably Vivaldi, then just change the https:/// to cache:// and you're good to go almost every time.
I am, without bragging, well within the 1% by US standards. In fact, I'm probably closer to the top .5% because I sold my business, gave a bunch away, and then invested the rest which (somehow) made me have more wealth than ever before. (I'm not sure how that works - I actually keep making more money than I can reasonably spend so I give a bunch away. Meh, it lowers my tax burden.)
Anyhow, put a fucking link on your site and set a damned cookie. I visit MAYBE 30 sites regularly. I used to pay Slashdot but they somehow at a bit of money in a week - I was drunk so the fault is probably mine. However, put a fucking link up. "Ad free for a year - cookie or login, $XX only." If I like the site? I'll pay it.
This may sound unusual to most people but I actually go out of my way to reward sites that I find helpful. It's not uncommon for me to contact the author, get their PayPal address, and send 'em a hundred bucks. I do the same thing for open source projects - projects that I don't even use. There are all sorts of distros that get "anonymous" donations - I don't even use them. Why? Someone has to support them and I appreciate what they're doing.
Figure it out and I *will* pay you, I will pay you handsomely, for good content. On an average week, not counting my regular donations, I probably gift about $200 - $300 to random sites that are doing something neat. Hell, I've been trying to pay uMatrix/uBlock guy for a while now. He won't take my money. I offered him $5000 USD as a gift - no strings attached, because I felt I'd had that much use from it. Nope... Won't take a nickel.
Figure it out and I'll pay you.