"AI" is a mechanism for turning VC money and research grants into AWS profits.

2010ൽ ഞാനെടുത്ത പടം.
സുർക്കി‌മിശ്രിതം കൊണ്ടു 1903ൽ നിർമ്മിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. കൊല്ലം - ചെങ്കോട്ട റയില്പാത ഇതിനു മുകളിലൂടെ പോകുന്നു. മീറ്റർഗേജ്, ബ്രോഡ് ഗേജാക്കിയപ്പോൾ ബലപ്പെടുത്തലിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി രൂപം ചെറുതായി മാറ്റപ്പെട്ടു.
തീവണ്ടി തുരങ്കത്തിൽ നിന്നും ഇറങ്ങിയാണു പാലത്തിലേക്കു കയറുന്നതു്.‌ താഴെക്കൂടെ സമാന്തരമായി ദേശീയപാത‌744ഉം കഴുതുരുട്ടിയാറും.‌

Evolution, environmental sustainability and the periodic table of the elements have been cut from science textbooks in India. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-cuts-periodic-table-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/

About ten years ago, the IT building for a local highschool burned to the ground.

My company donated a spare Juniper EX3200 switch to help get them back online. They had erected a small structure without any insulation, and left the switch inside unpowered for a day while the fiber splicers got them hooked back up.

They started the switch, and it immediately shutdown. They looked a gift horse in the mouth and bitched to us that our donation was garbage.

I was dispatched to assist. I connected to the serial console and powered the device up. It immediately indicated that the CPU temperature was 252 C, and shut itself down.

It was January, the outside temperature was -3 C. The Juniper device was storing temperature as an 8-bit unsigned integer value. It got so cold, it thought it was on fire.

Can't say I ever expected to use a heat gun to get a switch to start before that day. Got it warm enough to power on, and then it kept itself plenty warm to continue operating.

Data types matter, yo.

“Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial” - British Journal of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5094

My "Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment" YouTube channel has just passed 4K subscribers!

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/c/cs631apue

Course website with all sample code and exercises here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

Many folks have been taught about “The Tragedy of The Commons” in school. But what most folks don’t know is that it was complete bunk written by a white nationalist and eugenicist to justify colonization and genocide.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-how-ecofascism-was-smuggled-into-mainstream-thought/

Commons can be successful. Many long-standing and successful commons exist. Many were studied by Nobel Prize-winning Political Scientist Elinor Ostrom, who codified 8 principles for how commons can be governed sustainably and equitably in a community.

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons

I’d really like for folks to stop using the term “tragedy of the commons” that assumes inevitable failure, and start calling them what they are. Commons with improper governance or “Failed commons”.

#socialism #economics #ostrom

First cheetah cubs born in India in more than seven decades die in heatwave - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/26/first-cheetah-cubs-born-in-india-in-more-than-seven-decades-die-in-heatwave what a terrible symbol - and frightening warning of what is to come... #ClimateCrisis

It exists! European Sleeper inaugural departure. 3x a week, Berlin - Amsterdam - Brussels night train. It’s pretty retro, but it’s a heroic effort to even get this to run

Dear #BSD #enthusiast-#developer-#devops-#sysadmin friend or potential friend, we will meet up in #Coimbra in September for @eurobsdcon. If you want to present there, you have until tomorrow (May 26) to submit. Go to https://2023.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers-is-now-open/, read, click, submit! #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd

The Milky Way, as seen from #Kodaikanal on 25 May 2023, 4:39 AM.

#Photography #MilkyWay