Lion ponderings

 The X algorithm spewed some stories about wealthy but low status men in silicon valley spewing $50k & beyond to match makers after getting told to get lost their entire lives.  By 50, most of us have all the answers & not enough time for any more dating.  There might be some guys who still don't get it & resort to the big bucks  out of desperation.   Match making in silicon valley sounds like the mafia.  It's exclusively coercing & hustling women to notice men they give 0 fucks about.  They hire a female staff to impersonate best friends, create fake events, fake job interviews which are really dates. It's very rare for men to find any heterosexual relationship here.  They usually move out & find someone elsewhere, bring them in from elsewhere, or have an LDR.  The public figures usually have no problem.  The lottery winners hook up with lower ranking coworkers. Leaving a legacy is a big motivation ...

 https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/how-trump-went-from-saying-strait-of-hormuz-will-open-itself-to-acknowledging-irans-power-to-control-the-waterway-201453010.html Looks like the long term outlook is for Iran to permanently charge a new fee for passage through the straight of Hormuz, enforced by drones.  The fee will be used to rebuild its military & WMD program.     After all those deaths & destroyed F-14's, the only outcome was Iran securing reparations.  It's worse than simply evacuating a la Afghanistan & acting like it never happened.   Now motorists have to pay the ayatollah to rebuild , much like Germany paying reparations after WWI . It really does feel like Germany after WWI. At least the reparations will be paid in devalued currency.    Still remarkable what the world's strategic oil reserves have done since 50 years ago.  In 1979, the world would have stopped 2 weeks ago, yet life goes on like noth...

 Must confess fruits have stabilized lion body mass without extreme hunger.  The ASMR speakers & the evening naps of the last 2 years wreaked havoc with appetite.  The mane problem was being awake during the 16 hour gap between mane feedings. There were some pretty extreme weight gains in early 2026, as the mane demanded sugar & grain at midnight.    The mane problem with fruits is lack of variety & lack of storage time.   Can't believe this guy's brother wrote Angel of the morning.  #johnvoight  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOl4cU_BR4    Surprised to find the Woz sounding as attentive as he is at 75, even if his voice is gone & he has an obesity problem.  Normally, anyone who developed a confuser in 1976 is now either dead or just about gone.   China's high-speed trains cross each other near Hangzhou - YouTube    Never forget, China has very few immigrants & none in the workforce.  S...

 Today's nugget: C++ constructors in C   Can't be used for allocating on the heap, though.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    2 different camera angles of Vahdati air base getting bombed into the stone ages got lions wondering if they got a tip that the Ayatollah was there.  Sadly another case of bombing the organized military when the threat is drones launched from minivans. The idea of bombing power plants over the straight or Hormuz struck lions as a bluff.  It would create a humanitarian crisis & they would just bomb the living daylights out of Tel Aviv in return.  The enemy still has access to the airspace. Assumptions were made about the strength of the Iranian regime after the uprisings of December.  In reality, the regime was nowhere as close to falling.  Trump went in assuming it was another Saddam Hussein with no drones, no effective missiles, barely hanging ...

 Body rang the register after 9x200.  Got it through another 4 with longer breaks but only 4.  The heat combined with the tendon did it.  Pleasantly surprised by a roughly 8 minute mile in the uphill but the heat definitely reduced the output.  The battery was truly puffed. Noted how clean the altitude graph was.  Normally get a choppy area under the cage.    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    There it is. Withdrawal & declarations of victory on both sides secured, as predicted.  It was really the only possible outcome, after achieving nothing but burning a few billion doll hairs, losing hundreds of lives, & destroying all the F-14's.  Hopefully the powers that be got a good deal on their oil shares.  Good luck to the ancestors of Greenspun still fighting to survive in the holyland & the Iranian athletes getting executed by the Aya...

 Certificate chain of trust is 1 of those things which is conceptually simple but difficult in implementation.  The idea of private keys encrypting public keys & whose key is encrypting whose key seems to be the biggest pitfall. The general idea is the browser has the public keys of just the root CA's & the public keys are being used to decrypt data encrypted with private keys.  Traditionally, we envision public keys encrypting data to be decrypted with private keys.   A website provides the encrypted form of the certificates of all the root & intermediate CA's used to create its certificate, along with its own encrypted certificate.  A certificate contains the public key of the machine + a hash of meta data describing the machine.  It has to be signed.  Only a CA can sign a certificate.   When something is signed, it's being encrypted with a private key.  When a certificate is signed, a CA encrypts a public ...