This page contains the archive of my microblog from nightsallnine.com.

I have not completely converted it back to markdown so some of it has noise from legacy php.

## 2015bog1

### 2015-02-22

February has turned into a slow month for NaN. I have branched off into Guix a bit deeper than I had before. FSF <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-guix-system-distribution-to-list-of-endorsed-distributions">added Guix to their endorsed distros list</a>

### 2015-02-01 I added a new style theme for the site, but I threw it together in about twenty minutes so I feels a bit rough, particularly for the logo. Perhaps I will move the logo out from behind the splash, such as on the right column. Actually, maybe I will move all the pictures and links out from the middle column.

### 2015-01-30 To question goes against honor, but not against science. Science only exists when we ask questions. Philosophical thought: It seems that a psychological inconsistency exists in practice per Pavlov to deter all poor actions with punishment. Especially those of accident. And for accident, I do not specifically mean to suggest the legal meaning of an unavoidable determinism, but to the engineering term for the avoidable waste oft from taking the steps of learning. However, accident or not, it seems an engineering puzzle, perhaps a legal or social engineering locked chest to forge a deterrent that aligns with positive reinforcement. Veistu? Ekki mig.

### 2015-01-25 I recently changed hosting so the site may have appeared unreachable, perhaps since Jan 22. But as of now everything looks good again.

### 2015-01-19 <a href="http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2015/01/galaxy-forces-moon-lander-action.html">Galaxy Forces review</a> on freegamer. Swapped out my old Tektro brakes for some Avid BB7 Roads. I referred to this <a href="http://forums.mtbr.com/brake-time/how-install-avid-bb7-disc-brakes-512054.html">how to</a> and this <a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/09/bikes-and-tech/the-fall-of-discs-trick-your-avid-bb7-brakes_238519">guide</a> for tips on swapping to a new set. One thing I have noticed, when I got my bike, the rotor never really got adjusted true to the hub, so I always had to tradeoff between the pull distance and hitting the rotor just ever so lightly for each tuneup adjustment or each time I had to take the wheels off to pack up the bike. Though usually after a good ride this would go away. I hope the Avids make adjustments a little bit easier and perhaps I will also shell out some cash to get a good truing fork.

### 2015-01-13 A blogger named Andy K posted a review of <a href="http://www.bikeforums.net/commuting/842141-2013-kona-jake-88-mile-review.html">the 2013 Kona Jake</a>

### 2015-01-09 I referred to this guide on <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/375166/Functional-programming-in-Csharp">functional programming</a> today.

### 2015-01-08 The logic behind attacking <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/a-new-kind-of-antibiotic-that-kills-many-drug-resistant-bacteria/">lipids instead of proteins</a> seems to me like it relates to functional programming wisdom to avoid mutability or <a href="http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/avoid-assignment">avoid variable assignment</a>

### 2015-01-04 Unrealitymag released a <a href="http://unrealitymag.com/movies/at-last-a-definitive-timeline-for-primer/">timeline for Primer</a>. Also, note the reader comments in response to the post, some relating to other points such as the refrigerator. Also note, I have not seen Primer in years, so my comments only relate to the graph in and of itself (going to call it the graph, rather than timeline because the graph uses timelines as a type of object). Also, I cannot know the physics for the time travel, or rather, what makes what happen.

To avoid that mess of ambiguous persons, if I had made this graph, I would have instead included the origin timeline, which for this would also help determine the person's age. I also would have included how many persons end up at the end of each timeline. Also, I would not put arrows and text for timelines on both sides of the line, because that makes Timeline 8 fairly awkward to read. Another thing, I would have included sub-timelines for each instance of the persons. For example, when Aaron exists in blue Timeline X, draw a narrower yellow line. That would also implicitly satisfy my desire to see how many persons remain at the end of each timeline. I think these changes would make it easier to understand the graph, and in my case, less prone to misunderstanding it.

### 2015-01-01 Ex-Baltimore Cop <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/26/ex-baltimore-cop-alleges-retaliation-for">Alleges Retaliation</a> for <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-04-16/news/bs-md-ci-officer-jailed-20140416_1_gialamas-marinos-n-police-misconduct-case">Reporting Police Brutality</a>. The entire situation sounds horrible.

### 2014-12-27 More North-American evidence of <a href="http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/12/evidence-vikingnorse-metalworking-arctic-canada/105989">Vikings</a>. <a href="http://www.storynory.com/category/myths/norse/">Storynory</a> has some of the Norse myths.

### 2014-12-26 <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2196858">USB boot devices</a> discussion on ubuntuforums. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/project16/">Project 16, </a>a project to make an epic as fuck modern 16bit dos game that can run.

### 2014-12-25 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2qcwgg/if_airships_use_helium_to_create_lift_would_a/">This forum on reddit</a> discusses creating an airship using vacuum instead of helium. Some people have discussed how the problem relates to spacecrafts and submarines, but no one quite discusses creating any empty structure in the vacuum of space and sinking it into an atmosphere. How deep could it dive until it imploded? And now we have created a very different kind of submarine. <a href="https://github.com/mplatt/virtual-u2f">Virtual FIDO U2F Token Chrome Extension</a> People keep talking about the <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-24/spy-agency-to-release-reports-documenting-surveillance-errors">NSA surveillance legal errors</a>. I think all government, including the federal, state, and local, have faced many problems with funding over the last several years. Many public service groups, including the NSA, have resorted to contract employees in order to hire either highly specialized employees or less expesive employees. But the two types relate to a separation of concerns of a particular set of service types that the primary organization does not have the resources to maintain; the two might have interdependency. In the land of makebelieve Hollywood (Vancouver, actually) I think of the TV show Psych. But in real life, we have Edward Snowden who either did us a disservice by putting government secrets into the hands of people without security clearance (albeit through a proxy of news journalists) ior did us a service by pointing out a weak link in our government security. The (error) line does not end at whistleblowers or with surveillance mistakes. And justice does not always happen after we find people guilty or at fault. Life keeps coming at us, and we will keep making mistakes. At some point, once all sides have the blame, we have to forgive and just learn from our mistakes.

### 2014-12-24 The whole thing about Sony and the network computer breaches puzzles me. Some people call it patriotic to go see The Interview, but I hardly see how going to a movie from a multinational corp shows patriotism; whoever did it to, they did it to a company not a civilian or our government.