Lion ponderings

 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 ...

 Lately began encountering problems when pasting media from different projects with different samplerates or framerates.  This was the most widespread case of the problem in the last 30 years.  It seemed to be from a period of heightened music editing.  Paste audio from a timeline with a lower samplerate to a timeline with a higher samplerate: inserting adds silence after the new data.  Paste audio from a timeline with a higher samplerate to a timeline with a lower samplerate: inserting works properly. If the operation contains video & audio, the tracks behave the same based on differences in their respective rates.  The paste logic is replicated everywhere, keyframes, edits, file loads. For now, it resamples the ingested EDL  in MWindow::paste_edls by calling new_edl->resample().  This previously didn't update the ingested EDL's sample rate, which broke later calls to track->get_length().  Now it does update the sample rate after t...

The tax code ever multiplies in complexity.  Where 401k catchup contribution was previously defined only by age, it now is defined by age & income.  Over 150k puts you into a roth 401k after $24500.  The lion kingdom, making below average income, will encounter the limit in 2 more pay periods.  Most everyone else in the bay area has already encountered it. Betterment only allows defining fixed percentages to contribute to the roth & traditional in every pay period while the tax code only defines specific dollar amounts to contribute in the entire year.  After the next pay period, the lion kingdom would have to change the setting to 55.56% in the roth 401k & 44.44% in the traditional 401k.  In 2 pay periods, it would have to be changed to 100% roth to keep a 401k rounding error from going over the limit.  Then, presumably betterment would cap the roth so the total of the 2 didn't exceed $32,500.  The settings would have to hit right bet...