Day: July 3, 2019, 6:25 PM

No Repurpose

Chill Uncategorized

Oh please tell me this is a joke. I want to believe it’s a jape, a jest, some drollery because if not this is horrific and a fail train. This will already be dropping packets like drunk Aunt Cora at a family reunion carrying a tub of potato salad, and will only get worse over time.

For those who aren’t familiar with Ethernet cabling, Cat 3 is made to transmit 10mbs and although it can carry more, it is unreliable — meaning it drops a lot of signal at the physical layer, thus dropping packets at the data layer, making the connection by default slow and unreliable even when it’s technically pushing more than it can actually handle.

For non-networking folks, this is like Lucy from I Love Lucy in the chocolate factory scene — that scene is exactly analogous to what is happening on this network.

This is terrible and I feel the pain of the condo owners who have to endure this inevitably shoddy connection.

Never, ever do this.

Hunger

Chill Regular-ass Post

I think that the world of The Hunger Games presents a fairly-accurate representation of what the planet will look like 400 years hence: a much-reduced human population due to war and climate change, the elites keeping some measure of power, cloistered from the deplorables who have been relegated to far-away work camps and labor collectives.

No, I don’t think anything like the Games are likely (though certainly given human history not impossible), but the Hunger world itself is eminently possible after climate change and a few nuclear exchanges.

People really seem to hate their children, or perhaps they just don’t want to know how bad climate change is going to be.

The true Hunger Games, then, are how the Boomers and Gen X are perfectly fine consigning their own kids to fighting over the scraps of a disintegrating civilization.