This morning I read this article at bbc.com about the insane level of wealth inequality in the United States. This is a really black-pilling article. Most of us don’t even know how huge the disparity is. It sickens me to my stomach and makes me wonder why we all just don’t commit mass suicide to…

Couldn’t find any good info on this online so posting it here. The goal is to use JavaFX radio buttons with an enum type. Enums (enumerated types) are typically used to define a fixed set of categories which don’t change. For this example I’ve created an enum AccountType which defines different types of bank accounts.…

Instead let’s have these! Drone-works. (Fire-drones? Feierdrones?) Love it!

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Recently I was reading an article about this new high-tech building downtown for one of the major tech companies, about how they have all this artsy-fartsy shit inside that’s supposed to be so neat and cool: Some board where you place a pin on where you’re from on a map, or some other “interactive” synthetic…

I was reading the site of some “healer” person who claims to help people by identifying things that cause their suffering and dealing with them. This same person also expresses how they are afraid of President Trump. What if there are problems with the world because people like this “healer” are themselves fucked up? What…

Looking at “event” listings for my area and it’s depressing. I feel like an alien. And it seems like it’s only getting worse, not better. There seems to be an increasing amount of things that are not what I want, and fewer of what I would want. We should live in a world where there’s…

Failing hard drive. Need to rescue system. The hard drive in my home server system – a somewhat older Dell Optiplex 7010 which is a good, reliable box – started giving SMART errors which usually indicates impending drive failure. My initial reaction is always to boot the system from a rescue disk. Nowadays rescue disks…

Years ago my Dad taught me how to tie a the one type of most useful knot. If you only know how to tie one type of knot other than a standard overhand knot this is the one because it enables you to bind things together very tightly. It allows you to pull the string…