Heard about podman, on a YouTube suggestion. An open source docker like container management tool, from redhat. Really need to look at non-proprietary options. Their “mascot” are seals. And what is a group of seals called? You guessed it… a pod. Penguins and seals, sounds like they may work well together. Redhat says… “Podman stands …
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Flight Simming as a side hobby
As a past computer professional who still enjoys working on personal computer projects, I find flight Simulator software a great side hobby. I sometimes need a break from a project out of tedium or I’ve hit a brick wall. However, I still like things… I can sink my teeth in. Like computers, flight simming can …
X-Plane: ILS Approach
I actually did a successful one in the Cessna tonight. Instead of starting on the runway, you can choose approach. Makes practicing much easier. Back a few years ago I remember doing an ILS approach being much harder than flying a flight plan. However this go around I spent way too much time getting a …
X-Plane: Flight Plan success
Well, concerning the Cessna, I said, near the end, here that flight plan procedures will probably change tomorrow. And it appears I was right. On that day I only reported that you needed to press NAV. Well today I find that much like the 1973 book, Once Is Not Enough, that you have to press …
X-Plane 11 updates
Couldn’t sleep. Thought I’d do some flight simming. Started Steam and it did a 97MB update. It did a bigger one, a few days ago.
X grok doesn’t know about grok.com
what is the difference between you and grok.com1 post25 web pagesThe primary differences between me, Grok 2, and what can be understood as “grok.com” from available information are: Development and Ownership: Grok 2: I am an AI developed by xAI, focusing on providing helpful and truthful answers with an outside perspective on humanity. My design …
Chess engines
Interesting. Strongest over time. Shows their Elo (Electric Light Orchestra estimate). Deepblue first appears in 1996. Stockfish in 2009.
bash reverse search not working
Ctrl+R not always working. Suspected for a while. Verified today. Because I knew what I was searching for was there.
Stockfish 17 DEFEATED Hikaru Nakamura in 20 Moves
Pretty interesting. A chess engine that runs on x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) hardware. I recently wrote about installing Lucas Chess here. It included Stockfish 16.1.
Why does YouTube say live?
No one is speaking “Live” at 7AM If you click on the video the “live” indicator is there and unlike a normal prerecorded video, the red play time indicator stretches across the whole width… as if it is live. A regular recorded video has a end time on it. Oh yeah. If there are comments, …