Rants about Linux, technology, data, and science
Well color me shocked (OK, not really)! A new German study shows what should have been common sense – that the power plants that supply energy for recharging electric vehicles, means that electric cars are NOT “green”. Moreover, the emissions generated in the manufacturing process for EV batteries must be added to our CO2 output, Read More …
Funny, true, helpful. By Itchy Feet Comics.
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” So with that thought in mind, I present the “Shit Map” of San Francisco, California The “Shit Map” is designed to allow residents of the Bay Area to self-report sightings of human feces in places where it should not be (e.g. a sidewalk say). In addition to graphically Read More …
Pascal’s work “Pensées” is widely regarded as a work of Christian Apologetics designed to make the case for the belief in God. Pascal on misery, entertainment, diversion and delusion: Misery.–The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally Read More …
As I’ve written previously, autonomous driving systems are decidedly not ready for prime time, and in fact, represent a clear danger to road safety. While many people have focused on hacks of the onboard infotainment system, the primary hazard is presented by tricking onboard sensors. I’ve talked about GPS spoofing as one technique, but security Read More …
If you want to move a repository from one Gitlab instance to one on another server, the following works well (make sure you create an empty repo on the new Gitlab instance, and make sure the name is different): git clone git@my.gitlab-server.com/someRepo.git someRepocd someRepogit remote add someRepo2 git@my.other-gitlab.com/someRepo2.gitgit push someRepo2 mastergit remote set-url someRepo2 git@my.other-gitlab.com/someRepo2.git Read More …
As details emerge from the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 max aircraft, we are reminded about the limitations of autopiloted flight control systems that have been in use for literally decades. Why the general public and our government do NOT see the deadly hazards posed by thousands of autonomously driven cars on America’s roads, Read More …
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, the European Parliament voted to approve new Internet regulations across all member nations. Of particular concern are Articles 11 and 13 of the new law. The provisions of Article 11 require anyone – individual or corporate – to pay a licensing fee for URL links that they publish. This is being Read More …
Circa 1920’s – the ladies enjoy using some fairly bulky equipment in an early concept version of what would one day prove to become the smartphone – prescient. The flying cars on the other hand…..
The older I get and the more I see, the more this iconic scene with Tommy Lee Jones makes sense.