From Insty:
“Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives.”
Never did; never will.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the Evil Loophole Gun Show at Southfork.
Never having used any of the software products mentioned in this article, I have no dog in this fight.
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft has begun investigating an authentication outage that looked Office 365 users out of the platform preventing them from accessing Microsoft products such as Office, Outlook, and Teams.
Microsoft’s status dashboard stated that the issue started at 2:25 p.m. PT on Monday and impacted users across the globe for hours. Microsoft stated that some government users may be impacted by the issue, which may have impacted 911 communications in 14 states. The company stated in a series of tweets that it attempted to fix the issue but was forced to roll back its changes after the fix failed.
Yeah, let’s hear it for the Internet Of Things and Skynet, shall we?
My favorite part, though, is that elsewhere, Microsoft has steadfastly denied that the problem stemmed from a security breach / hack attack.
Which leaves… incompetence.
But you guys already knew that about MS.
Just when I thought I’d figured it all out, comes shit like this:
‘They are the sort of equations that arise when you try to study something that evolves in time but also depends on space.
‘For example, like the wind in a wind tunnel you want to model the flow of air then that of course depends on time because it changes over time but it also depends on space – the velocity of the air is different at different points in the wind tunnel.
‘So if you have a system like this which furthermore evolves under the influence of randomness.
‘So if you have randomness that enters the game then that’s described by stochastic partial differential equation.’
I used to work with people like this when designing predictive algorithms, and I would place bets with myself as to how long (measured in seconds) it would take before I lost track of the conversation completely and the speech became unintelligible. Usually, it was about twenty seconds.
It gets worse. The reason I used “20 seconds” in the above sentence is because I actually kept count, over the year’s worth of discussions and meetings, of the times. Then I created a distribution chart — bell-shaped, of course, with the most common incidence around 20.
Yeah, I was a fucking geek, too. Just a much more limited one.
By the way, if you read the article — and you should — there’s a glaring (but non-mathematical) error. Call it the Obama Fallacy, and see if you can spot it.
Still on sports: I see that the Le Mans 24-hour race is going to be run with empty stands because Chinkvirus.
Can’t see why that would be a big deal, unless you’re one of those masochists keen fans who endures 24 hours of noise and discomfort, at least half of which are spent in driving rain — it always rains at Le Mans — and 10 hours of which are spent in total darkness anyway. Not even I watch the race in full — and I’m a huge Le Mans fan.
Nope; a two-hour highlight program is pretty much all I care for. (And I prefer still more an actual documentary — Truth in 24 and Truth in 24 II are excellent albeit dated shows, as I’ve said before.)
And even if you’re one of those ghouls who only wants to go to Le Mans for the crashes, just remember that most of the crashes happen in the woods or at least far from where most spectators are sitting — with one notable exception [hem hem] where the spectators were very much part of the action, so to speak.
Certainly, spectators at Le Mans have no effect on the race participants — crowd noise is pretty much a nothingburger, unlike say at a football match.
And to the surprise of absolutely no one, let it be said that I prefer Le Mans as it was raced in the old days, where the cars at least looked like the same cars you’d see driving around the countryside:
…and not the bizarre, shapeless and electronic doodad-filled crap that looks like it was done by some CAD intern.
But that’s a rant for another time.
I see that Gurgle’s evil technocracy has blocked a few conservative outlets, but somehow missed blocking Splendid Isolation :
My few thousand daily Readers are doubtless not worth their attention. So capitalizing on their omission, here’s a pic of a gun:
That’s a Knights SR25 in the manly 7.62mm NATO (7.62x51mm), and it’s at Collectors.
May as well take advantage while I can.
Apparently, some “experts” (standard warning applies) over in Britishland (same warning) have come up with a list of activities that carry a risk of catching Chinkvirus cooties, ranked according to risk level:
All FYI — as much of what is listed is pretty much commonsense. I do wonder, though, how “protest march”, “rioting” and “looting” (some overlap) did not make the list.