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[Peeler]

On 23 Mar 2023 04:15:36 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

I\'m encouraged by the Maker movement. The public library has an area with
3D printers, laser cutters, scanners and so forth that seems to attract
kids. I don\'t know how successful it will be but they\'re trying. Doing
something real world with a rPi or Arduino is a start.

Can\'t someone make this senile chatterbox shut up it\'s big mouth? LMAO

--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Mar 2023 04:12:39 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Sadly you\'re right. I\'ve interviewed several recent CS graduates over the
years and wasn\'t impressed by most.

Of course not! You are only impressed by yourself! Every line of yours
reveals it, you abnormal self-admiring senile bigmouth!

--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[John Larkin]

On 23 Mar 2023 04:15:36 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:34:21 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 04:40:50 +1100, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com
wrote:

On 2023-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:22:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

It is less genetics than familiarity. I came across a study done in
Apartheid S Africa where they evaluated competence in basic
industrial practice. Overwhelming the people who did best
irrespective of race were those whose parents understood and could
handle machines.
It is terrifying how STEM inept I have seen intelligent bright
children become whose parents were ArtStudents. They expect to fail.

The common wisdom when I was in school was if you wound up with an
Indian lab partner let them handle the paperwork. They were extremely
good with theory and a danger with a screwdriver. At least at that
time upper middle class Indian kids didn\'t spend their childhood
working on the family jalopy like most American kids who wound up in
an engineering school.

Welcome to the 21st Century. I\'d bet $21 that most U.S. engineering
students didn\'t spend their childhood working on anything besides their
video game scores.

I wouldnt bet that.

I\'m encouraged by the Maker movement. The public library has an area with
3D printers, laser cutters, scanners and so forth that seems to attract
kids. I don\'t know how successful it will be but they\'re trying. Doing
something real world with a rPi or Arduino is a start.

I need an Rpi coder or two. I think I\'ll hang out in some maker
spaces, rather than going the usual employment search route.

 

[rbowman]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:31:09 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

I need an Rpi coder or two. I think I\'ll hang out in some maker spaces,
rather than going the usual employment search route.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken_thompson_is_a_maccie/

Maybe Ken is available. I haven\'t made it to a Pi yet; Arduinos are closer
to the bone.A Pi would make a good manager for a flock of Arduino worker
bees.

Years ago I did a system for a GE environmental test setup with an AT
managing 12 XTs that were controlling the test harnesses. All DOS and a
homegrown communications bus since networking wasn\'t even a gleam in MS\'s
eye. It would be a lot easier now with XBees, RFM69s, and other options.

 

[rbowman]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:47:43 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> Or ask them about their senior project. That can be hilarious.

One of my projects would be hilarious. It was a mind experiment to design
an automated information retrieval system for a library. Of course we
assume the information would be microfiche.

About 50 years later the library installed a kiosk that would find and
deliver your desired DVD and I thought \'well, it finally happened\'. We
also thought someone would write a decent chess program in FORTRAN IV if
they had a free weekend.

As I mentioned in another post I only interviewed one candidate who had
completed a real life project for the Dublinbikes system. The rest were
\'duh?\'. The Masters level people were the worst, going on endlessly about
their thesis that had no practical application as far as I could tell.

 

[John Larkin]

On 23 Mar 2023 13:31:39 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:31:09 -0700, John Larkin wrote:


I need an Rpi coder or two. I think I\'ll hang out in some maker spaces,
rather than going the usual employment search route.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken_thompson_is_a_maccie/

Maybe Ken is available. I haven\'t made it to a Pi yet; Arduinos are closer
to the bone.A Pi would make a good manager for a flock of Arduino worker
bees.

I want to use Pi Picos as surface-mount components on PC boards,
instead of buying an mpu and other parts that are hard to get or soon
EOL.

There\'s an astounding culture around RPi, and not just hobbyists.

Years ago I did a system for a GE environmental test setup with an AT
managing 12 XTs that were controlling the test harnesses. All DOS and a
homegrown communications bus since networking wasn\'t even a gleam in MS\'s
eye. It would be a lot easier now with XBees, RFM69s, and other options.

 

[John Larkin]

On 23 Mar 2023 13:54:45 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:47:43 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Or ask them about their senior project. That can be hilarious.

One of my projects would be hilarious. It was a mind experiment to design
an automated information retrieval system for a library. Of course we
assume the information would be microfiche.

About 50 years later the library installed a kiosk that would find and
deliver your desired DVD and I thought \'well, it finally happened\'. We
also thought someone would write a decent chess program in FORTRAN IV if
they had a free weekend.

As I mentioned in another post I only interviewed one candidate who had
completed a real life project for the Dublinbikes system. The rest were
\'duh?\'. The Masters level people were the worst, going on endlessly about
their thesis that had no practical application as far as I could tell.

You remember your project. Most recent EE grads don\'t, or certainly
don\'t understand it.

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Mar 2023 13:31:39 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


> https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken_thompson_is_a_maccie/

Is he? He (or anyone else for that matter) certainly CAN\'T be a bigmouth
like you!

--
Another one of the resident senile bigmouth\'s idiotic \"cool\" lines:
\"If you\'re an ax murderer don\'t leave souvenir photos on your phone.\"
\"MID: <k7ssc7F8mt9U3@mid.individual.net>\"

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Mar 2023 13:54:45 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


> One of my projects would be hilarious.

What could be more hilarious than watching your big mouth moving endlessly
in these newsgroups, you mentally handicapped all-American senile superhero!
LOL

--
Yet more of the very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"I save my fries quota for one of the local food trucks that offers
poutine every now and then. If you\'re going for a coronary might as well
do it right.\"
MID: <ivdi4gF8btlU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Joe Gwinn]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:49:10 -0700, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On 23 Mar 2023 13:54:45 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:47:43 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Or ask them about their senior project. That can be hilarious.

One of my projects would be hilarious. It was a mind experiment to design
an automated information retrieval system for a library. Of course we
assume the information would be microfiche.

About 50 years later the library installed a kiosk that would find and
deliver your desired DVD and I thought \'well, it finally happened\'. We
also thought someone would write a decent chess program in FORTRAN IV if
they had a free weekend.

As I mentioned in another post I only interviewed one candidate who had
completed a real life project for the Dublinbikes system. The rest were
\'duh?\'. The Masters level people were the worst, going on endlessly about
their thesis that had no practical application as far as I could tell.

You remember your project. Most recent EE grads don\'t, or certainly
don\'t understand it.

Because they didn\'t actually do it?

It was my standard interview approach to ask the candidate about how
whatever he was most proud of worked, handing them a large piece of
paper and a pen, asking for a block diagram and a narrative walking me
through the diagram.

If they had actually worked on the project, I would run out of time
before they ran out of details, and if they understood it, the overall
design would make sense, even if some details were odd.

This quickly eliminated the poseurs.

Joe Gwinn

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

torsdag den 23. marts 2023 kl. 11.31.25 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

On 23 Mar 2023 04:15:36 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:34:21 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 04:40:50 +1100, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com
wrote:

On 2023-03-22, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:22:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

It is less genetics than familiarity. I came across a study done in
Apartheid S Africa where they evaluated competence in basic
industrial practice. Overwhelming the people who did best
irrespective of race were those whose parents understood and could
handle machines.
It is terrifying how STEM inept I have seen intelligent bright
children become whose parents were ArtStudents. They expect to fail.

The common wisdom when I was in school was if you wound up with an
Indian lab partner let them handle the paperwork. They were extremely
good with theory and a danger with a screwdriver. At least at that
time upper middle class Indian kids didn\'t spend their childhood
working on the family jalopy like most American kids who wound up in
an engineering school.

Welcome to the 21st Century. I\'d bet $21 that most U.S. engineering
students didn\'t spend their childhood working on anything besides their
video game scores.

I wouldnt bet that.

I\'m encouraged by the Maker movement. The public library has an area with
3D printers, laser cutters, scanners and so forth that seems to attract
kids. I don\'t know how successful it will be but they\'re trying. Doing
something real world with a rPi or Arduino is a start.
I need an Rpi coder or two.

gotta be more explicit than Rpi on what you need because it might mean;
raspberrypi is mostly just linux
pico with python, which might as well be a pc with (slow) io
pico with C + pio which is embedded C on an MCU

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:40:50 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

torsdag den 23. marts 2023 kl. 11.31.25 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:
On 23 Mar 2023 04:15:36 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:34:21 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 04:40:50 +1100, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com
wrote:

On 2023-03-22, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:22:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

It is less genetics than familiarity. I came across a study done in
Apartheid S Africa where they evaluated competence in basic
industrial practice. Overwhelming the people who did best
irrespective of race were those whose parents understood and could
handle machines.
It is terrifying how STEM inept I have seen intelligent bright
children become whose parents were ArtStudents. They expect to fail.

The common wisdom when I was in school was if you wound up with an
Indian lab partner let them handle the paperwork. They were extremely
good with theory and a danger with a screwdriver. At least at that
time upper middle class Indian kids didn\'t spend their childhood
working on the family jalopy like most American kids who wound up in
an engineering school.

Welcome to the 21st Century. I\'d bet $21 that most U.S. engineering
students didn\'t spend their childhood working on anything besides their
video game scores.

I wouldnt bet that.

I\'m encouraged by the Maker movement. The public library has an area with
3D printers, laser cutters, scanners and so forth that seems to attract
kids. I don\'t know how successful it will be but they\'re trying. Doing
something real world with a rPi or Arduino is a start.
I need an Rpi coder or two.

gotta be more explicit than Rpi on what you need because it might mean;
raspberrypi is mostly just linux
pico with python, which might as well be a pc with (slow) io
pico with C + pio which is embedded C on an MCU

I\'d want to go bare-metal c. Pico only has 2 Mbytes of flash and
Python is big and slow.

 

[Vir Campestris]

On 31/03/2023 15:15, John Larkin wrote:

The reason to not wean rapidly is that the planet has billions of
terribly poor people who often live on top of huge coal and oil and
gas resources.

CO2 is good for them too; it makes crops grow. Warm is good; cold
kills.

Warm is only good up to a point. There are large and growing desert
areas in Africa, which also has one of the worlds highest population
growth rates.

Andy

 

[Vir Campestris]

On 31/03/2023 17:37, Scott Lurndal wrote:

and:
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Extreme-Heat-or-Extreme-Cold

That seems to be US only. The big impacts are likely to be in poorer
countries.

Andy

 

[Vir Campestris]

On 03/04/2023 00:06, Bob F wrote:

On 4/2/2023 8:40 AM, Andrew wrote:
On 18/03/2023 19:09, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/18/2023 2:44 PM, alan_m wrote:
On 18/03/2023 17:34, Rod Speed wrote:

Ours are read 4 times a year and it takes a lot more than 30
seconds to read.

Where I live it was more like once every two years. Knock on the
door with torch in hand, read the figures on two meters, figures
entered in hand held pad, goodbye.



Never heard or that long.  Been once a month here for over 70 years
that I know of.  30 seconds?  Really?  So five minutes for 10 houses.
Try it and get back to us.

My electric meter hasn\'t been read for at least 10 years.

It was last changed from whirly-wheel to digital in 1997.

EDF Send me an email and I log into their website and put
my readings in. I\'ve been here for 30 years so they know
how much leccy I use.


You say it hasn\'t been read in 10 years, and then you say you read it
every time they ask. Which is it?

Probably like mine. I give them a reading every month, and they seem to
believe it. Haven\'t seen their reader in years.

Andy

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 03/04/2023 10:47, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 31/03/2023 15:15, John Larkin wrote:
The reason to not wean rapidly is that the planet has billions of
terribly poor people who often live on top of huge coal and oil and
gas resources.

CO2 is good for them too; it makes crops grow. Warm is good; cold
kills.

Warm is only good up to a point. There are large and growing desert
areas in Africa, which also has one of the worlds highest population
growth rates.

Actually there is evidence the Sahel is in fact shrinking. as is the
Sahara inside it


> Andy

--
Of what good are dead warriors? … Warriors are those who desire battle
more than peace. Those who seek battle despite peace. Those who thump
their spears on the ground and talk of honor. Those who leap high the
battle dance and dream of glory … The good of dead warriors, Mother, is
that they are dead.
Sheri S Tepper: The Awakeners.

 

[SteveW]

On 03/04/2023 12:08, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 03/04/2023 00:06, Bob F wrote:
On 4/2/2023 8:40 AM, Andrew wrote:
On 18/03/2023 19:09, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/18/2023 2:44 PM, alan_m wrote:
On 18/03/2023 17:34, Rod Speed wrote:

Ours are read 4 times a year and it takes a lot more than 30
seconds to read.

Where I live it was more like once every two years. Knock on the
door with torch in hand, read the figures on two meters, figures
entered in hand held pad, goodbye.



Never heard or that long.  Been once a month here for over 70 years
that I know of.  30 seconds?  Really?  So five minutes for 10
houses. Try it and get back to us.

My electric meter hasn\'t been read for at least 10 years.

It was last changed from whirly-wheel to digital in 1997.

EDF Send me an email and I log into their website and put
my readings in. I\'ve been here for 30 years so they know
how much leccy I use.


You say it hasn\'t been read in 10 years, and then you say you read it
every time they ask. Which is it?

Probably like mine. I give them a reading every month, and they seem to
believe it. Haven\'t seen their reader in years.

I\'ve had my smart meters manually read three times in the 5 months since
they were installed! Why?

 

[rbowman]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 10:47:47 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:

Warm is only good up to a point. There are large and growing desert
areas in Africa, which also has one of the worlds highest population
growth rates.

When the species outgrows the carrying capacity it will die back. Unless
dogooders send food, that is.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 03/04/2023 16:47, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 10:47:47 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:

Warm is only good up to a point. There are large and growing desert
areas in Africa, which also has one of the worlds highest population
growth rates.

When the species outgrows the carrying capacity it will die back. Unless
dogooders send food, that is.

When they trade it for guns to kill each other instead of starving.
There\'s a certain *directness* about Africa one grows to love.


--
\"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight
and understanding\".

Marshall McLuhan

 

[Peeler]

On 3 Apr 2023 15:47:35 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

When the species outgrows the carrying capacity it will die back. Unless
dogooders send food, that is.

Keep your idiotic senile shit out of these groups, you brain dead senile
hayseed, gossip, bigmouth and Trumptard!

--
Yet another thrilling account from the resident senile superhero\'s senile
life:
\"I went to a Driveby Truckers concert at a local venue and they made me
leave my knife in the car. Never went back. Come to think of it the Truckers
had a Black Lives Matter banner. Never bought any of their music again
either.\"
MID: <k84ip9Fesb1U1@mid.individual.net>