I went and read the text and find it interesting that the name of the mountain is being changed, but the national park and preserve in which it is located explicitly retains the name Denali. Digging a little further, it turns out that "Denali National Park and Preserve" is a matter of statute. Several/many of the new EOs, including this one, have explicit language that says the order doesn't apply if it violates statute.
This is the same EO that renames the Gulf of Mexico. "Gulf of Mexico" is a term used in a variety of international agreements and treaties.
Back of the envelope, and making some assumptions -- eg, that you're doing that in 15 minutes -- says your average power output is 360 watts. From the internet, stair racers train at an output of about 270 watts, although for longer periods.
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When I was a wee lad, in northwest Iowa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, snow typically covered the ground from mid-November to mid-March. Plains/prairies blizzards could build drifts 10-feet tall (or more*). There was always a week where the high was -10 °F.
There was a conspiracy of mothers who would arrange to send** all of the children from about 10 down out to "play" at the same time on days when there was no school. Faced with, say, 5 °F air temperature and a 20 mph breeze but with a 10 foot drift available, children passed along skills for digging snow caves, even to the littles. Five or six children packed into a snow cave could raise the temperature to something fairly tolerable.
* North of town, where the road dipped to cross a creek, a good blizzard could pile snow 20 feet deep across the road. Picture this: a big yellow road grader, with a huge snow blower attachment on the front, with the diesel engine cranked up to where it was screaming, creeping into the drift at a speed easily measured in inches-per-minute, blowing a column of snow 50 feet up in the air. 60 years on, the memory is still sharp.
** Rolled might be a better description. Joint range-of-motion was severely limited :^)
I am old enough to have an archaic attitude: A computer that doesn't compute what I want, the way I want it done, is just a badly-designed boat anchor. I suppose I should update that, given the state of the data centers that train/run the LLM models. A badly-designed multi-megawatt heating element.
When I was in high school band, the director was a former Army Sergeant Major. He never scolded us; he never screamed at us; he never cursed. But he could calmly and quietly make it clear that you had disappointed him, and make you feel lower than dirt about it.
Amazon's Thursday Night Football has three of the studio analysts put together a three-factor parlay bet during their pregame show. With at least fine-print disclaimer on screen that neither Amazon nor the analysts have any association with the online sports book doing the instant money line for the parley, and that the money line for the bet is subject to change.
Some years back the Chicago Bears wound up losing a game because on a play inside the last two minutes, their running back went out of bounds and stopped the clock instead of sliding. The opponents had no time outs left and almost certainly wouldn't have scored a game-tying field goal as time expired without the 40 seconds that didn't run off the clock.
The CA legislature doesn't get the final say. Projects are complicated when the largest land owner in the state, who (per the SCOTUS many years ago) holds the most senior rights for water derived from that land, doesn't have to pay attention to state laws. Back in September the feds denied the permit for the largest reservoir the state was proposing. The Authority that would/will operate the Sites Reservoir conducted probably the largest and most detailed hydrologic and environmental study ever done for a project in California. The Army Corps of Engineers wasn't satisfied.
No new reservoirs have been built in California for the last ten years.
A dam does no good if there's no water available to store in it. Like all of the western states, California's water is rather grossly oversubscribed.
There are two dam projects underway in northern Colorado. One will raise an existing dam, the other will build an entirely new dam. Both will take many years to fill once built because the only water that can be used is "surplus", available only in very wet years.
You have to wonder why Mediaite went with "Gulf of America" rather than military threats to Gaza, Greenland, and Panama, and economic threats to Canada and Denmark.
I suppose someone has convinced Mr. Trump that he can achieve a Greater United States that includes all of North America above Mexico, much like Putin thinks he can achieve a Greater Russia.
The UK is preparing to enforce its Online Safety Act, which became law back in November. It will place relatively large requirements on a platform like Facebook to do transparency of its operations and verification of content. Unlike the EU's Digital Services Act, the OSA doesn't have a size cutoff (most of the DSA applies only to platforms with more than 45M EU users). Some modest-sized blogs in the UK have begun shutting down because of uncertainty about what penalties might be levied against them.
We don't really know if Trump is a first time offender or not. I would guess not. But standard practice in New York for this would be for Trump's attorneys and the New York Dept of Revenue to work out something for misclassified expenses, file modified tax returns, and go on. None of which would be in any public record.
I was reading a piece on the 2024 global box office this morning that noted nine of the top 10 were sequels or prequels. The exception was Wicked: Part 1, which was based on a highly successful Broadway musical. The masses appear to be looking for tried-and-true material.
I am getting old, and streaming has become commonplace. That leaves me disappointed, as one of the things I was really looking forward to almost 30 years ago when I was doing research in media-over-IP, was stage productions. Screens are big enough and streaming is good enough that I want to pay to see things like the Broadway version of Wicked in my living room (some 1,600 miles away). Just one camera, simple stereo sound. At least in my case, it's not going to cost the producers any gate receipts. I'm not going to Manhattan to see the show live.
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On “Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders”
I went and read the text and find it interesting that the name of the mountain is being changed, but the national park and preserve in which it is located explicitly retains the name Denali. Digging a little further, it turns out that "Denali National Park and Preserve" is a matter of statute. Several/many of the new EOs, including this one, have explicit language that says the order doesn't apply if it violates statute.
This is the same EO that renames the Gulf of Mexico. "Gulf of Mexico" is a term used in a variety of international agreements and treaties.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Cryptmaster”
And done again, for the time being.
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No, this is completely different.
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Mucking about again.
On “Weekend Plans Post: One Single Good Song in 2024”
Back of the envelope, and making some assumptions -- eg, that you're doing that in 15 minutes -- says your average power output is 360 watts. From the internet, stair racers train at an output of about 270 watts, although for longer periods.
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On “The Snow Bank”
When I was a wee lad, in northwest Iowa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, snow typically covered the ground from mid-November to mid-March. Plains/prairies blizzards could build drifts 10-feet tall (or more*). There was always a week where the high was -10 °F.
There was a conspiracy of mothers who would arrange to send** all of the children from about 10 down out to "play" at the same time on days when there was no school. Faced with, say, 5 °F air temperature and a 20 mph breeze but with a 10 foot drift available, children passed along skills for digging snow caves, even to the littles. Five or six children packed into a snow cave could raise the temperature to something fairly tolerable.
* North of town, where the road dipped to cross a creek, a good blizzard could pile snow 20 feet deep across the road. Picture this: a big yellow road grader, with a huge snow blower attachment on the front, with the diesel engine cranked up to where it was screaming, creeping into the drift at a speed easily measured in inches-per-minute, blowing a column of snow 50 feet up in the air. 60 years on, the memory is still sharp.
** Rolled might be a better description. Joint range-of-motion was severely limited :^)
On “Short Status Report on the Abilities of AI”
I am old enough to have an archaic attitude: A computer that doesn't compute what I want, the way I want it done, is just a badly-designed boat anchor. I suppose I should update that, given the state of the data centers that train/run the LLM models. A badly-designed multi-megawatt heating element.
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An attitude to warm my heart. Back in my tech career, I would threaten recalcitrant machines with being dismantled for spare parts.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Cryptmaster”
Yes, literally for years. Amazing persistence.
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Not even close.
On “A Society of Shame Attached to Everything”
When I was in high school band, the director was a former Army Sergeant Major. He never scolded us; he never screamed at us; he never cursed. But he could calmly and quietly make it clear that you had disappointed him, and make you feel lower than dirt about it.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Cryptmaster”
Done mucking around. This should be transparent to everyone, including our long-time troll :^)
On “Induction!”
Come for the snark, stay for the math.
I remember the first time I banged my head against mathematical induction. After a while, it just became automatic.
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Cryptmaster”
I'm going to put a variety of comments here while I'm doing some software updates.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/13/2025”
Where are they going to self-deport to? Assuming you're trying to squeeze out 10% of the population, where are 34M Americans going to go?
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Amazon's Thursday Night Football has three of the studio analysts put together a three-factor parlay bet during their pregame show. With at least fine-print disclaimer on screen that neither Amazon nor the analysts have any association with the online sports book doing the instant money line for the parley, and that the money line for the bet is subject to change.
"
Some years back the Chicago Bears wound up losing a game because on a play inside the last two minutes, their running back went out of bounds and stopped the clock instead of sliding. The opponents had no time outs left and almost certainly wouldn't have scored a game-tying field goal as time expired without the 40 seconds that didn't run off the clock.
On “Multiple Wildfires Rip Through Los Angeles Amid Historic Winds”
The CA legislature doesn't get the final say. Projects are complicated when the largest land owner in the state, who (per the SCOTUS many years ago) holds the most senior rights for water derived from that land, doesn't have to pay attention to state laws. Back in September the feds denied the permit for the largest reservoir the state was proposing. The Authority that would/will operate the Sites Reservoir conducted probably the largest and most detailed hydrologic and environmental study ever done for a project in California. The Army Corps of Engineers wasn't satisfied.
"
No new reservoirs have been built in California for the last ten years.
A dam does no good if there's no water available to store in it. Like all of the western states, California's water is rather grossly oversubscribed.
There are two dam projects underway in northern Colorado. One will raise an existing dam, the other will build an entirely new dam. Both will take many years to fill once built because the only water that can be used is "surplus", available only in very wet years.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025”
If Trump's going to go with "Gulf of America" he probably doesn't mind dropping Mexico from its historical designation as part of North America.
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You have to wonder why Mediaite went with "Gulf of America" rather than military threats to Gaza, Greenland, and Panama, and economic threats to Canada and Denmark.
I suppose someone has convinced Mr. Trump that he can achieve a Greater United States that includes all of North America above Mexico, much like Putin thinks he can achieve a Greater Russia.
On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program”
The UK is preparing to enforce its Online Safety Act, which became law back in November. It will place relatively large requirements on a platform like Facebook to do transparency of its operations and verification of content. Unlike the EU's Digital Services Act, the OSA doesn't have a size cutoff (most of the DSA applies only to platforms with more than 45M EU users). Some modest-sized blogs in the UK have begun shutting down because of uncertainty about what penalties might be levied against them.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/30/2024”
We don't really know if Trump is a first time offender or not. I would guess not. But standard practice in New York for this would be for Trump's attorneys and the New York Dept of Revenue to work out something for misclassified expenses, file modified tax returns, and go on. None of which would be in any public record.
On “2024 Year in Review: Movies, Music, and More!”
I was reading a piece on the 2024 global box office this morning that noted nine of the top 10 were sequels or prequels. The exception was Wicked: Part 1, which was based on a highly successful Broadway musical. The masses appear to be looking for tried-and-true material.
I am getting old, and streaming has become commonplace. That leaves me disappointed, as one of the things I was really looking forward to almost 30 years ago when I was doing research in media-over-IP, was stage productions. Screens are big enough and streaming is good enough that I want to pay to see things like the Broadway version of Wicked in my living room (some 1,600 miles away). Just one camera, simple stereo sound. At least in my case, it's not going to cost the producers any gate receipts. I'm not going to Manhattan to see the show live.
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