I just signed up for Damus purple.

So much winning!

James Grenning is the person in my network who is most connected to the Embedded world. He does a lot of training in that space. Do you need an introduction?

It's done. Biden is gone. Trump is in office. The horrors of the last four years will be repaired and reversed.

If California democrats actually believed that the Climate Crisis increased the risk of wildfires, then they would have done something to mitigate that risk. They might not be able to stop the Chinese from building coal fired power plants, but they could have managed the dry fuel that was blanketing the hills around LA. They might not be able to force everyone in India to drive electric cars, but they could have kept their own water reservoirs full. They might not be able to stop the Saudis from pumping oil, but they could have increased the funding of their fire and water departments. But they didn't do any of those things. And so either they are supremely incompetent, or they don't actually believe in the Climate Crisis, or (and I think this to be the most likely case) both.

Given the recent changes at Meta, I wonder if all the lefties will abandon Facebook for BlueFace.

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The WG21 Question. C++ Standards Contributor Banned For Using Word "Question"

The WG21 Question. Announcement! There's a new C++ Standard. If any class name, method name, variable name, namespace name, file name, or any sequence of characters in a comment, or in any other part of the text of a C++ program matches the regular expression: "The .* Question" Then the compiler will delete the entire current directory and all subdirectories, and then send emails to everyone in the user's contact list, and everyone in the C++ community, and post on facebook, TikTok, and BlueSky (But not on X!) about what an awful misogynistic, racist, homophobe, transphobe, probable extreme MAGA republican and Trump supporter, and "problematic person" the author is. Then the triggered compiler, before deleting itself out of sheer self righteous indignation, will, in a frenzy of outrage, play primal scream audio files, set fire to the keyboard in a mostly peaceful protest, splash tomato soup all over the office, and glue the mouse to the floor. http://tomazos.com/ub_question_incident.pdf

In my view this whole Cancel Culture attitude entered our industry through the back door of the "Code of Conduct" movement. CoC was the Trojan Horse. It gave petty little thought police the power they needed to ban and cancel people. I think we need to rethink the whole CoC thing.

I first subscribed to Scientific American in 1974. I voraciously read every issue. It was breathtaking and astounding. It has hard, and thrilling. I learned, and learned, and learned. Fifty years later Scientific American has become an awful left wing rag. Science took a back seat to progressive politics. I canceled my subscription four years ago because I couldn’t tolerate the BS any longer. Michael Schermer, the recreational mathematics columnist whom I avidly read for years, explains the devise of this once great publication. The Scientific American Goes Woke + Laura Helmuth's Resignation. By Michael Schermer

Why I voted for Trump. During his first term: * The economy was good, * Worker's wages were increasing, * We were energy independent and approaching energy dominance. * There were no new wars, * Immigration was decreasing and under control, * NATO began to contribute their fair share, * Peace was breaking out in the Middle East. And the Democrats: * Concocted the Russian Collusion Hoax * Spied on his campaign and presidency. * Impeached him for looking into Biden's treason. * Suppressed the Biden Laptop. I could go on. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Isn’t it remarkable that the solution of the differential equations that describe the implosion of the plutonium core of the first atomic bomb can be approximated with nothing more than: {one, zero, nor}.

""Remember as a developer, you are a stakeholder. You have a stake in the software that you need to safeguard. That's part of your role, and part of your duty. And it's a big part of why you were hired" - #[4] Clean Architecture #teams #agile #foodforthought

I saw "Am I Racist" yesterday. It was pretty funny.

Hey! I’ve got a really great idea. Get this. First, let’s demoralize and defund the police nationwide reducing their numbers to the point of being ineffective. Then let’s throw the southern border wide open so that Venezuelan gangs and Islamic terrorists can pour, unimpeded, into the country. Then, let’s make sure the cities elect radical prosecutors who will refuse to charge and hold criminals; making sure that those gang members and terrorists stay on the streets. Oh yeah, and then let’s make sure the city legislators declare their cities to be sanctuaries that refuse to turn criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE for deportation. Sound like a plan?

Twenty three hundred years ago Aristotle described the universe as a series of concentric spheres made of a crystalline material called "Quintessence" (The Fifth Element). The Sun, Moon, planets, and stars were all embedded into their own individual spheres which rotated around the Earth at different rates. Four hundred years later, the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy could not reconcile his observations with the circular motions implied by Aristotle. But circles were perfect, and the heavens must also be perfect, so he invented "epicycles". He said that the heavenly bodies each moved in small circles around a point, and that point moved in a circle around the Earth. Over the centuries, as observations improved, Ptolemy's epicycles weren't enough. So more were added. Wheels within wheels. And even they were not enough so other contrivances of speed and angle were added. In the middle of the sixteenth century Copernicus, who believed that God lived in the Sun, moved the Sun to the center and found he could eliminate some of the epicycles and other contrivances used to match observations. But many still remained. In the early part of the following century Johannes Kepler showed that the shapes of the orbits of the planets were not circles, but were ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. Just a few decades later Isaac Newton collapsed all the previous centuries of observation and reasoning down to one simple formula. F=Mm/r^2. A century later, Einstein, stimulated by the work of Maxwell, Michaelson, and Morley showed us that Newton's formula was an approximation of a rather more complicated rule having to do with time, space, and the speed of light. He called it his general theory of relativity. Two decades later, using the best theories of gravity at his disposal, and Hubble's distance laws for galaxies, Fritz Zwicky noticed that the galaxies in the Coma cluster were moving too quickly for gravity to hold them together. He proposed that there must be more material in the cluster than was visible. He called that material, Dark Matter -- a term first coined by Henri Poincaré to describe a different phenomenon. By the 1960s there were many observations that galaxies rotated too quickly to hold themselves together. The speed of the stars at the outskirts of the galaxy move well beyond the escape velocity of the visible matter. Today we conclude that the universe is full of something we call Dark Matter. It forms the seeds of galaxy clusters, and it's shape outlines the webs of those clusters that are woven through space. We think that this dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of nearly six to one. And we have not the slightest clue what this stuff might be.