Lion ponderings

  Ultimate man cave  It had been over 35 years since the lion kingdom's last viewing of Forbidden Planet.  HD was definitely a new experience. Garbage matting was finally visible. Robbie the robot was not the same one in lost in space.  The lost in space one was simply known as the robot.  Who knew we wouldn't we able to stand a day without our robots, 50 years after that show. A lot more impressive visuals in HD & to audiences in 1956.   The most suspense was firing phasers into the great beyond, knowing something was out there while not being able to see it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLeR-eGh2OFy9ydX7IUcOTw The latest AI music is still kind of bland & dead, but better.  At the time of the coming out, it wasn't a hit band.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Lions consider C to be the simplest possible abstraction from assembly to a useful, higher level language.  The entire language could be learned from a 115 page book.  Part of the trick was offloading a lot of functionality to self documenting libraries.  You could learn the usage by reading header files, with no internet connection.  It's not possible to learn a modern language from a book that short anymore.    Modern languages are so much more complicated & the features so transient for engagement purposes only, you're relying more on AI prompts & examples.  Features are constantly deprecated & replaced just to manetain engagement.  Most of modern languages are features that used to be in libraries & which have been moved into the languages.  A modern language often contains all of the stdio, stdlib, string, & pthreads libraries in the form of keywords & operators. The C programming book 1st edition with all the app...

   Maybe the wealth is really debt.  Maybe it's because rich countries can afford birth control.  Maybe only .5% are really rich while the rest are starving. Though nowhere close to the average CS majoring slashdot commenter, lions could imagine the desire to have an heir increasing as wealth increases, otherwise throwing it all away becomes a bigger threat than not having it.   Marrying down was the kiss of death.  It seems a lot more women attained higher status than men & they wanted nothing to do with marrying down, even though a lot less were in the labor force.  They would rather be alone than marry down.       So it's really not 1986 anymore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://opensauce.com/overview/   For guys who love the attention economy, there's the $200 engagement quota package. Lions surmized the maker faire has been supplanted by open...

 The lion kingdom finally forayed into the latest darling of the engagement economy, rust.  In lion minds, if swift has been around so long & was roughly the same, why was it replaced by something else for any other reason than engagement? The growth in hello world wasn't very flattering. Like all other current languages, it has to indirect access to the C libraries through wrappers with a new list of conventions like env :: args ( ), File::create, File::open, Command::new.  There are no header files.  As long as the operating system is in C, it's going to need wrapper libraries or bindings.  There are X11, gtk, vulkan, ALSA bindings for rust. Language models make programming it easier, as long as the program can be broken down into simple steps & each step can be expressed in simple sentences. In lion minds, seamless access to the historic repository of C libraries is the missing link keeping C++ & C in the forefront of anything beyond text processi...

 The lion kingdom exited the womb 50 years ago today, but after crossing the international date line, the political geriatric day became tomorrow.  Many animals didn't make it to 50.  Glenn Gould most famously only lasted 10 days beyond 50.  Cancer rapidly ticks up after 50.  The odds get rapidly longer after 50. The old lion already had hemorrhoids, carpel tunnel, & tendinitis, by 50.   50 was the 2nd time lions began feeling acutely aware of their time on Earth rapidly approaching the end.  The 1st time was the feeling that 18 would be the last year.  Romantic rejection, anxiety attacks, were all new & quite hard to imagine enduring beyond 18 years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gootube was spamming Edge of tomorrow videos for years, so lions finally decided to rewatch it.  It was somehow more engaging than it was in 2015.  The writin...

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/texas-floods-camp-mystic-girls-victims-disaster/105501620  https://www.foxnews.com/us/camp-mystic-director-dies-while-trying-save-kids-during-texas-flooding  Surprised the flood wiped out an amazon homeland much like heroine college.  Still pondering a personal radar system to deal with tornados & hurricanes.  A starlink terminal might be the best bet.  The big question is if it would work in a storm.  A lot of places not in evacuation zones get damaged nowadays & tornados have been known to strike without warning, but you don't want to manetain a starlink plan just for that.  Living in FL* off grid would entail some kind of offline weather sensing.  A personal weather radar is the holy grail. There are civilian aircraft radars for a price. Drowning, fire, buried alive, car wreck are the worst ways to go.   Submarine implosion might be the best way to go.  Stockton Rush got the la...