A long but interesting essay.
Category Archives: Business
Boeing’s Latest Starliner Woes
CNN is generally a terrible news source, at least on politics, but Jackie Wattles is an excellent space reporter.
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Not space related, but an example of how scurrilous (and hypocritical) CNN can be in general, despite their good reporters.
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Is this vehicle cursed?
[Friday-morning update]
The latest, from Jim Meigs.
[Bumped]
[Saturday-afternoon update]
The return is now delayed indefinitely.
[Bumped]
SV Preference Cascade For Trump?
David Sacks is predicting one. I’m sure that there have been a lot of stealth Republicans there for a long time (as there are in LA), but once the dam breaks, they can come out in public.
The Stanford Internet Observatory
A recent House Judiciary Committee report alleges that, by cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security, the SIO’s Election Integrity Partnership “provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny.”
Of course it did.
The Pro-Hamas Universities
And yes, in their behavior in enabling and not discouraging the pro-Hamas mobs, the universities are objectively pro-Hamas.
[Update a while later]
All eyes should be on Al Jazeera as being founded, funded, and directed by terrorists.
The Trouble WIth (Many) Teachers
Teachers unions (and public-employee unions in general) should be abolished.
Nifty Fifty
After the quickest achievement of fifty flights, an interview with Rocketlab’s Peter Beck.
California’s Paradise
How it became our purgatory.
It’s quite a list.
Totalitarianism
.@PaulaYScanlan: They told us we needed to be reeducated for not accepting the lie that a man can become a woman. Gender ideology is training girls to reject their protective instincts and telling girls they are the problem for objecting to sharing private spaces with men.@IWF pic.twitter.com/86BHsJnkCp
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) June 20, 2024
Disk-Copying issues
I’m trying to clone my SSD Linux boot drive to an on-board NVME. I use dd to copy, and it says it’s done, but when I look at the drives in Disks, the main partition on the NVME is 1G smaller than the one on the SSD ( 248 versus 247, and the NVME has a few gigs of free space), and it doesn’t recognize the partition type. I’ve tried it twice, and gotten the same result. Is there something I’m missing?
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[Update a while later]
OK, so it turns out that it did work, even though it wasn’t supposed to. When I rebooted and looked at the disks again, they were identical (except that the NVME had some free space on it, so apparently it was a little larger than the SSD). All seems to be well so far, and for the first time, I’m booting from the motherboard. So if someone tells you that you can’t clone a Linux boot drive to an NVME with dd, tell them they’re wrong.