Category: General
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Being a Federal Employee
My mentor was a federal employee. He, and his team, worked odd hours. I would put in my 8 hours as a contractor and then go to his lab and work with him and his team until midnight or later. Somewhere along the way, people noticed that his team didn’t have set hours and raised…
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4D Chess?
Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake., Your enemy is not stupid. In 2016, I was listening to Ben Shapiro, he had a hate on for Trump. He would often say something to the effect, “The people who think Trump…
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Tick Tock, The Clock is Done
The amount of grief I’ve put up with to get this working buggers imagination. To have a NTP stratum 1 server, you need to have a certain set of capabilities. First, you need a stratum 0 device. This is an atomic clock or a GPS receiver. You need a method to communicate with the GPS…
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How DEI works in hiring
Consider for a moment that you are a company that contracts with the government. You have a 5-page contract about what you are supposed to deliver, how much you will charge, and when it will be delivered. The other 200+ pages of the contract are where you promise to do all the “equality” stuff the…
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A Week of FAFO
So the Mexican cartels have decided that they want to play games and win big prizes. They might actually find out. They have already started taking pot shots at federal agents on the north side of the river. I believe that we might just have that moment when Mexico remembers that they lost all the…
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Crash into Potomac River
Wednesday night, a regional jet, meaning not a jumbo, collided with a Black Hawk Helicopter over the Potomac River. There does not appear to be any survivors. There are two major airfields in Washington, DC proper. There is Andrews Air force Base (I think it was renamed) and the Ronald Reagan Internation airfield. Along with…
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This and That
Happy Birthday(ish) Ally! It was her birthday, very recently, send her a Happy Birthday! I am SOOOO upset Here is the item description: [Support Mini ITX Motherboard] ITX Motherboard dimension 6.7*6.7in (17*17cm). [Support Flex Power Supply Unit] Flex PSU dimension 3.21*1.59*5.91in (81.5*40.5*150mm). [Support 1 Single Slot Full Height PCI-e Expansion Card] To add video card…
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A Little Shake of Pepper (what is a nanosecond)
Correction(s): I made the mistake of trusting Google’s AI answer. Speed of light: Time Distance 1s 299,792,458m 0.001s(1ms) 299,792.458m 0.000001s(1us) 299.792m 0.000000001s(1ns) 0.2997m (299.7mm) 0.000000000001s(1ps) 0.0002997m (0.2997mm) Sorry for that. A pepper grain is the size of a picosecond. A nanosecond is around 11.7 inches, which makes much more sense. My mentor, Mike, had so…
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I Don’t See What the Problem Is
I was raised in a strict Christian, Republican household where my parents always voted Republican, and they passed their views down to us kids. My father passed away about 15 years ago, and my mom remarried—a Democrat. While I’ve mostly leaned conservative, with some occasional moves toward the center, my mom has changed a lot…