"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
Your daily reminder.
As of: November 12, 2020, 17:53GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases: = 10,735,567
Total Deaths: = 247,591
Deaths in Last 24 hours = 193
(note: several states not reporting due to veterans day)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
World Wide Stats:
My all time Fuck seen in TV.
that opening seen in the wire...
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The Wolf of Wall Street contains 569 fucks in all their variants! 358 Fuckings, 169 fucks, 18 motherfuckers, 16 fuckeds, 4 Fucksvilles, and one each of fuckers, fuckface, fuckheads and fuckity.
I am going home soon.
I will leave you all with a trivia question.
"What movie has the most instances of the word fuck?"
No it is not "Trainspotting"
( answer in a few moments.)
(just a smidgen of good news.)
California Is Coming for Polluters.
A little farther south in Los Angeles County, the second-highest oil and gas producing county in the state, women are in charge. The county board of supervisors there, a governing body with incredible power in the state, has its first all-women slate.
https://atmos.earth/california-elections-polluters-justice-the-frontline
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@corlin My crontab now has:
01 12 20 1 * rm -f -r /dev/il/president.45.*
Even in my heavily masked state of Oregon, we're running out of ICU Beds. Not as bad as many in the upper Midwest. But bad.
Cats And The Meaning Of Life:
John Gray On ‘feline Philosophy’.
In his latest, Feline Philosophy, Gray pursues the deep interest in the nonhuman world that makes his critique of humanism so sharp in fang and claw. Through his reading of Montaigne, Pascal, the Stoics and Epicureans, and Spinoza, Gray considers what cats have to teach us about philosophy and the good life.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/cats_and_the_meaning_of_life_john_gray_on_feline_philosophy
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50403449-feline-philosophy
Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography.
A cryptographic tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has seemed too good to be true.
"A cryptographic protocol is only as secure as its assumptions, and previous attempts at iO were built on ultimately shaky foundations. The new protocol, depends on security assumptions that have been widely used and studied in the past."
By Kiel Mutschelknaus
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-achieve-crown-jewel-of-cryptography-20201110/
Paper
What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
"From a security standpoint, the presence of such “dark matter” in SoCs is worrisome. Forget worrying about the boot ROM or CPU microcode – the BIST (Built in Self Test) infrastructure has everything you need to do code injection, if you can just cajole it into the right mode."
By Andrew "bunnie" Huang
GENERAL STRIKE !
STRIKE !
RENT STRIKE !
MORTGAGE STRIKE !
DON'T GO BACK TO WORK !
DON'T GO BACK TO SCHOOL !
DON'T BUY LARGE TICKET ITEMS !
GENERAL STRIKE !
STRIKE UNTIL HE CONCEDES !
( nope, I ain't apologizing for all caps.)
Just your daily reminder.
As of: November 10, 2020, 19:56GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases: = 10,496,375
Total Deaths: = 245,218
Deaths in Last 24 hours = 762
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
World Wide Stats:
Netflix Has Renewed Umbrella Academy For a Third Season.
Umbrella Academy is coming back for a third season. Netflix announced that it was bringing back the popular superhero series, and The Hollywood Reporter says that production is set to resume next February in Toronto.
https://www.tor.com/2020/11/10/netflix-umbrella-academy-renewed-season-3/
I am still in town today.
Taking a friend to hospital, for some routine tests. They won't be able to drive after. Going home this evening.
(the future really is biotech)
Microbe 'rewiring' technique promises a boom in biomanufacturing.
Researchers from (Berkeley Lab) have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using a computational model and CRISPR-based gene editing.
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-microbe-rewiring-technique-boom-biomanufacturing.html
Paper.
Mac Only
Big Sur:
Read this before upgrading
Later today, you’ll be enthused by Apple’s event to upgrade your Mac to Big Sur. While that may well be a great choice, before you do, please take a careful read through the following articles here.
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/10/big-sur-read-this-before-upgrading/
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Remembering the Native American who was the first person of color to serve as US Vice President
Amazing fluid simulation
Written by Dave Mark
The performance of this simulation is crazy good, runs on Macs and iOS devices (it uses WebGL).
Follow the link, click/tap and drag to start moving liquid around. Play with the settings. Fun.
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018