In Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett wrote:

Fully automatic computerized trading hasn’t operated on the timescale of days any time in this century. From Wikipedia: High-frequency trading:

Such signs inevitably run into the “No spitting on the floor. —The Management” problem. They imply that the establishment is infested by scum, which insults the reader and/or convinces them not to return so as to avoid scum.

TRICHINELLA HATE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK

Great. Now, how do you make a thousand liters of it such that it remains unseparated and safe to eat while sitting on a shelf for six months, as the temperature varies from nigh freezing to heat wave?

Nutrition information here. No added MSG, but there is autolyzed yeast extract, which is an ingredient used to increase free glutamate if you can’t afford that fancy monosodium glutamate.

When it comes to pandering, some projects are to tell some folk what they want to hear, and other projects are to tell the other folk what they want to hear. This project panders to right-wingers who are deep into projection.

To usefully incinerate municipal solid waste, you need high temperatures and a lean mix; it’s the only way to make sure plastics and various aromatics burn all the way to more-or-less harmless stuff rather than pure carcinogens. The pit isn’t hot or oxygenated enough. (Some lavas are hot enough, but there’s no easy…

Wikipedia: Textured vegetable protein.

ARCHAEA ATE MY BALLS

Given the big players’ increasing evil, I think it is time for folks to start shielding themselves with a DNS sinkhole. A Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole is a <$100 solution, although it takes some system administration experience to build out and reconfigure your home network to use it.

I’m sure it tested very well with the focus group.

. . . Too Small a Space

Since the days when every bit was precious are so long ago, these days very little mission-critical code was written using raw 32 bit values for time in the first place. For example, no relational database worthy of the name is going to keel over.

The Y2k bug—a numerical oversight in global computer systems—didn’t end up having any real, serious consequences,

Yeah, I remember my first week of Unity.

In the immortal words of Jello Biafra, “Give me convenience or give me death.” It was hard enough to get USAens to recycle anything at all, so while China was willing to take on food-contaminated plastics, USAen recycling services told people to clean their recycling before putting it in the bin, but they didn’t spend…

Municipal solid waste isn’t real energy-rich, and there are serious pollution issues that have to be dealt with; running the facility so that it breaks even either in joules or in dollars is not always possible. But the real goal is to avoid having to just landfill everything.

That’s right-wing lobbying, not science. The “Pacific Research Institute” comes complete with an About page with an American flag and the line “Put simply, public policy is too important to be left just to the experts.”

Doesn’t matter. The material still has to be clean even to recycle it into low-value crap like automobile carpets. The demand for such crap is low enough that plastic wasn’t worth much even when places like China were desperate enough to take it. Now that they’re not, it’s really good for nothing but waste-to-energy,…