2021-11-07

Cool

Building a Stratum 1 Time Server for 16 bit DOS

My target machine was a PCjr with an 8088 CPU designed in 1983, so the 8253 is the only timing hardware available. (max 55ms resolution)

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Horseshit

celebrity gossip

Musk Asks Twitter: Should I Sell 10% of My Tesla Stock?
Billionaire Barbarian at the Gates, Part One | The Pipeline

Bill Gates famously argued that world population is approaching an unsustainable level of 9 billion, a looming catastrophe that needed to be addressed by finding ways to significantly reduce population growth. The route to this end, apparently, is to make people healthier. The solution he proposed included a three-part plan, which he described as “doing a really great job on Vaccines, Health Care and Reproductive Health Services,” which could “lower [world population] by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.” Many have accused Gates of proposing genocide.
Julian Assange and fiancee claim they are being blocked from marrying

COVID / VaxCult

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

Mobile internet and political polarization

after gaining access to 3G internet, Democratic voters became more liberal in their political views and increased their support for Democratic congressional candidates and policy priorities, while Republican voters shifted in the opposite direction. This increase in polarization largely did not take place among social media users. Instead, following the arrival of 3G, active internet and social media users from both parties became more pro-Democratic, whereas less-active users became more pro-Republican. This divergence is partly driven by differences in news consumption between the two groups: after the arrival of 3G, active internet users decreased their consumption of Fox News, increased their consumption of CNN, and increased their political knowledge. Polarization also increased due to a political realignment of voters: wealthy, well-educated people became more liberal; poor, uneducated people—more conservative.
State Street bank staff must get special approval to hire white men
Astronomer retracts paper on use of data to make hiring decisions because it could harm ‘women and minorities.’

Edumacationalizing

Sex Crime Allegations Rock Loudoun County Schools: New allegations come to light after explosive bathroom rape case.

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense

The publisher Springer Nature was forced to retract over 40 papers from its Arabian Journal of Geosciences after realizing they were nothing more than garbled jargon.

Some titles of the farkakte research: “Simulation of sea surface temperature based on non-sampling error and psychological intervention of music education”; “Distribution of earthquake activity in mountain area based on embedded system and physical fitness detection of basketball”; “The stability of rainfall conditions based on sensor networks and the effect of psychological intervention for patients with urban anxiety disorder.
- "farkakte": An alternative spelling of the Yiddish word verkakte that can mean either goddamn or crappy - the literal translation is "becrapped".
Newspaper is cutting back on print, training readers to use iPads instead

TechSuck

Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap Could Change the Repair Industry Forever | Hacker News
What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

AT&T is not the only operator to use pro-active SIMs to send automatic SMS back to their network. They are given here only as an example. The point here is that the cellphone literally has a mind of its own, in fact multiple “minds”, including in the SIM. These various minds might not even be talking to each other, and just because a phone did something, that doesn’t mean that user caused it.
Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom | Hacker News
Zillow Just Gave Us A Look At Machine Learning's Future - by Vin Vashishta - High ROI Data Science

Zillow didn’t realize they needed to prepare their customers for the new business model. Their machine learning models were disconnected from their customers. Their pricing predictions were not within the margin of error. Customers only accepted Zillow’s offers 5% of the time. 95% of customers were unserved and a substantial number of them were unsatisfied.

The Data Science team didn’t go to the lengths necessary to support their models. That was their failing. However, the business is ultimately responsible for betting the farm without demanding a real world track record to support those models. Their quest for cheap, quick growth relying on unproven technology is an old story of tragedy. I don’t see their senior leadership surviving this intact.
The return of the Turbo button • The Register

Enter the 21st century turbo button. All the lucky new owner of one of these boxes has to do is go into its firmware, enable the Legacy Game Compatibility Mode option, reboot, and then, when you press Scroll Lock, your PC will gently anesthetize its efficiency cores. Result? The game will only see the high-performance ones and work fine.

In other words, the newly repurposed key actually turns off the whizz-bang hybrid-chip feature – a little like the way a 1980s turbo button actually slowed your CPU down so you could play Alley Cat or Maniac Mansion. Technology: innit marvelous, eh? ®

Economicon

The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce
The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion
Chick-fil-A admits it has a big customer problem (and no obvious solution) | ZDNet

In a recent interview with the Atlanta Business Journal, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy admitted: "We estimate about 30% of the people are driving off, driving away, because the lines are so long."

2021-11-07

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