One year ago today: April 28, 2019, the 2019 rat attack.
Five years ago today: April 28, 2015, Deland, FL
Nine years ago today: April 28, 2011, eHarmony copies my formula.
Random years ago today: April 28, 2006, my first Taurus.
Watch the scammers dancing in the street if the government approves the $50 per day “jury duty” pay to those who self-isolate after “coming in contact” with anyone infected by the caronavirus. They also plant to use vacant hotel facilities, an undisguised bail-out for that sordidly over-priced American industry. The plan would involve a lot of contact-tracing, which being supported by the left-wingers at Johns Hopkins, makes the concept instantly hostile to American concepts of freedom. TMOR, the video that shows Trump saying the virus is hoax is a deepfake. It is two different pieces of the speech edited to look consecutive.
Looks like the political consultants and pollsters have been caught lying again. Only idiots trust the American media any more. They blasted us with ads all day declaring that Trump’s popularity was sliding. On cue, like it was planned months ago, thousands of broadcast stations began with the same theme. Even youTube videos started inserted that clip with that fake news clip of Trump saying he would not take responsibility, making it sound like he meant the virus. But the leftists did not allow for change, some say because they are not capable of change. Along with creating a huge new class of Americans now with experience working at home, the masses have learned to trust the live on-line polls which tell a different story.
The fact is, viruses have a 1.5 billion year lead time on humans. They will do their thing no matter what. And you’d think humans would know by now on an elemental level, you can’t screw Mother Nature. The best thing to do is let the virus run its course. The media is not reporting that the majority of American deaths have been in nursing homes and care facilities. A virus sweeps though those places on a regular basis, taking the weakest, again, it’s Mother Nature.
In two days, the lockdown is scheduled to end. But the liberals have declared they would rather destroy America than let Trump succeed. Liberals and their Democrat party have never respected the American people, in particular adult white male people. I side with Ann Coulter on the immigration point—the American people who were here first and built this economy from trackless savage wasteland were never asked if they wanted integration.
Leaked DoD confirmed UFO sighting, 2018.
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Working in the yard all afternoon. It was warm but not hot, so I got tons of small stuff out of the way. Since that’s the top events of the day, I am obligated to blog them. I tarred and painted a new post and sunk it near the shed. I painted the slats for the lawn bench and carted them out front. For temp siding on the lean to, I’m going to use up the rest of those closet shutters which are otherwise starting to warp with age. I gave the thermal chimney another coat. I replace the temp bracing on the shed poles with camo-painted treated lumber and even got one of the rafters in place as a marker.
Siesta break got me finally around to watching “Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire”, the youTube post about mining the asteroids. Alas, I will be long gone before that gets underway and I will curse NASA till the last day for mankind not having a Moon base forty years ago and a colony on Mars thirty years ago. Job-protectionism at its worst, NASA has long undone any of the initial good they accounted for. Now, in twenty years into the next century, they are finally letting civilian contractors take over portions of their bloated budgets—and the price is plummeting. (Along with the retirement portfolios of millions over this virus.) SpaceX is only the most publicized.
The problem with the Moon is that the ore would still have to be mined. On the other hand, there are countless asteroids known to be almost purely made entirely of elements very rare on Earth, some so rare they are found only on French bicycle frames. Some asteroids are nearly pure elements and although the long term effects of taking objects out of orbit and upsetting economic patterns is unknown, it has to be attempted. The asteroid Davida alone is valued at $100 trillion, of which $5 trillion is nearly pure platinum. But is dwarfed by 16-Psyche with some estimates placing it a $700 quintillion dollars. Let me see if I can write that number: $700,000,000,000,000,000,000 Yep, probably the biggest number I’ve ever written.
One country to watch is Australia, which is automating its mining industry. The technologies are virtually identical and Australian miners are making far too much in wages to be left alone much longer. The spaceships are pretty much there, a one way trip to an asteroid by a robot is feasible. Once there, it is far easier to return an entire asteroid to say the Moon or Earth orbit. Imagine a small asteroid with a robot mining machine once a day dropping a 500 ton chunk of gold or Rhodium into the Outback desert. Good by commodity traders, which may not be such a bad thing.
ADDENDUM
I’m satisfied the AuvoriaPrime software has been written by coders, not programmers. There are signs of inefficient coding everywhere. These examples are not trivial because they mean the code has been slapped together. The 3% weekly goal is actually 2.433% and this is the figure used to trigger the “trail by” feature. It displays on screen even if the weekly goal is changed. This also applies to the module that displays the “Weekly Goal Reached” message. That stays lit up even when you change the goal. What’s happening here?
The big selling point of OOPs was that the code was portable between applications. If someone wrote a subroutine (OOPs people have an aversion to calling them subroutines, but they are), the idea is that could be placed into another application and perform the same task. It never worked out because for that, you need intelligent people writing the code, and that would make them no longer coders, but programmers. And you need standardized variables. Put another way, to make OOPs work, you have to change it to a non-OOPs standard.
What’s happening with Alexander is you get isolated “modules” that while they inherit invisible relationships, they remain blindly, and I suggest also bluntly, unaware of what other modules are doing. So some coder wrote the module that displays “Weekly Goal Reached”, and that is the only thing the module does. He collected his three-figure paycheck, and bought a six-flavor latte.
True, the module can be used in other applications, but it never goes back to check if the goal has changed. The guy who changes the weekly goal has no reason to read every other module to find any such co-dependencies. After all, he probably didn’t write the other code. He would have to read the entire application code, start to finish, to be reasonably certain of finding all the dependencies. The visible ones, anyway.
So you can bet I’m watching closely how this software performs. If it makes any real money, I have the incentive to do better. I’ve already figured out there is much they don’t know and that’s coupled with a lot of what they aren’t telling.
One question I have that I’ll not be asking concerns the “leftover” trades. After a week of trading, there can be a group of failed attempts. I’ve got four lots that never moved. I don’t understand the software well enough to know why, but at several stages I heard people say just delete them. I didn’t delete them and my motive was that I don’t care how long I have to wait, I won’t sell at a loss unless I have to. This got me to thinking—what happens to the value of these lots when they are simply deleted? You following my logic? Even if it is worth less than you paid for it, the thing still has value. Don’t simply throw it away. I will listen a lot to see if I can figure this out. Maybe they meant only the buy orders.
