Lion ponderings

   Surprised the marriage rate was as sky high as shown, but this was specifically the city proper & counting gays.  Typically, we're told it's 30% & lower for men who aren't a prime candidate doctor/lawyer/executive.  For low status male employees, dating was not something anyone did.  We see a spike in divorces at age 40 & again at age 55 for men, owing to promiscuity in that group while the women stay committed to a single partner until age 60.    Beef + minced onion + yellow death. Beef meatballs meet all the lion kingdom's beef needs without the price of ground beef.  New burger place opened next to Targ & when the smell hits the mane, it's a beef emergency.   The lion kingdom's last hope  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   As bad as things are, there's apparently not much left of the latest ayatollah. https://themedialine.org...

 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...

 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 ...

 The Iran war is the 1st big one in a time when most content is AI generated & there are no reporters in the field.  Most of the coverage is generated imagery or real footage from past wars being recycled.  There's no manestream media coverage. Another missing bit is the lack of any footage of damage. After the flood of AI generated clickbait of explosions that never happened came the familiar refrane of weapons of mass destruction.  At least it seemed more plausible this time, since Iran's nuclear reactor development was previously in the news for years. This time, there was no buildup or announcement of a case like there was in 2001.  The only buildup was somewhat of another Iranian revolution taking shape, but not likely to last.    Things weren't going so well for any digital nomads still in Dubai as it was getting destroyed by the counter attacks.  There were stories about foreigners trapped & spending everything they had to get out, ...