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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 09:13:10 EST 
GeniusMusing
Maybe next year now that I know about it.
NaNoGenMo
https://nanogenmo.github.io/
>The Goal
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>Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. This is in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month's interesting definition of a novel as 50,000 words of fiction.
>The Rules
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>The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code at the end.
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>The source code does not have to be licensed in a particular way, so long as you share it. The code itself does not need to be on GitHub, either. We're just using this repo as a place to organize the community. (Convenient because many programmers have GitHub accounts and the Issues section works like a forum with excellent syntax highlighting.)
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>The "novel" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word "meow". It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words.
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>Please try to respect copyright. We're not going to police it, as ultimately it's on your head if you want to just copy/paste a Stephen King novel or whatever, but the most useful/interesting implementations are going to be ones that don't engender lawsuits.
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>This activity starts at 12:01am GMT on Nov 1st and ends at 12:01am GMT Dec 1st. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2022 12:31:47 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 @simsa04
Anytime I see something like this, I think of this book from long ago.
Fallen Angels Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn novel Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(Niven,_Pournelle,_and_Flynn_novel)#Setting
>Set in an unspecified "near-future" (one of the main characters has childhood memories of the Exxon Valdez disaster) in which a radical left-wing environmentalist movement has joined forces with the religious right through a shared distaste for modern technology. The resulting bipartisan conspiracy has gained control of the US government and imposed draconian luddite laws which, in attempts to curb global warming, have ironically brought about the greatest environmental catastrophe in recorded history – an ice age which may eventually escalate into a Snowball Earth. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 12:22:25 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 @simsa04
Legacy Infrastructure: Typically a system owned by governments that can't get the proper funding to replace with more modern infrastructure that will be outdated in the +20 years it takes to get in place and typically at many times the quoted price when it started.
The first one that comes to mind.
Next Generation Air Transportation System Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportation_System
> The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began work on NextGen improvements in 2007 and plans to finish the final implementation segment by 2030.
Funding
>Industry and the FAA need to invest to make progress, and the FAA needs adequate and stable funding. Government shutdowns, furloughs, sequestration, and the lack of a long-term reauthorization make planning and executing modernization efforts more difficult. The stop-and-go approach of the annual appropriations process hurts long-term planning. A large, complex federal government agency and an unpredictable appropriations process will, at best, only deliver sporadic and incremental change -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 11:40:20 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 @simsa04
I have a cousin who does COBOL, he was out for personal reasons for almost a decade but now has a job in a fly-over state. There is still a big demand. When I was talking to him about trying to "future proof" his career, I suggested staying with COBOL but looking at some of the latest implementations in different environments because at the end of the day, whether COBOL dotnet, GNU COBOL or any other, the base is still COBOL. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 12:32:12 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
We should connect at some point, I also have ideas for a ${VAPORWARE_FEDERATED_SOCNET_PROJECT['0']}. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 15:03:23 EST
GeniusMusing
Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie dies at age 79 Fleetwood Mac | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/30/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvie-dies-at-age-79
>Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie has died at the age of 79, her family has said.
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>A statement on Facebook said: “On behalf of Christine McVie’s family, it is with a heavy heart we are informing you of Christine’s death.
>‘I was mother nature’ … Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac.
>Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie: ‘Cocaine and champagne made me perform better’
>Read more
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>“She passed away peacefully at hospital this morning, Wednesday, November 30th 2022, following a short illness. She was in the company of her family. We kindly ask that you respect the family’s privacy at this extremely painful time and we would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally. RIP Christine McVie.” -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:27:19 EST
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@lnxw48a1
Black Friday online sales top $9 billion in new record
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:00:53 EST
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:00:33 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
See also:
HGST Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
>It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously from the remainder of the company due to conditions imposed by Chinese regulators. Chinese regulators later permitted Western Digital to begin wider integration of HGST into its main business. By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 14:58:27 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
The old rule still applies, follow the money.
The ones complaining are the most have share holders they must please or are beholden to those corporations and the easiest way to make share value grow is to keep the employees cheap.
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