CIRCLE WITH A DOT

On the ancient Thinkpad I use at the college, some gnome misfeature called tracker-miner-fs spammed syslog 1,591,759 times in the last 4 hours, with the same two errors, according to grep -c. Guessing this explains why the fan is going full blast and my keyboard is starting to get uncomfortably warm. Surprisingly little on the web about how to kill it with fire.

@mrencyclopedia So Dawkins failed the Reverse Turing Test? That's hilarious.

@sundogplanets Professor Lawler, would you please tell me if you aware of anyone attempting to model how Kessler Syndrome will play-out, with all that's up there now, and planned in the short term?

I'm very anxious to know whether high velocity collisions in low earth orbit could have enough energy to eject material further out to medium and high orbit. Put simply, does a tech bro Kesslerpocalyse take-out BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, and GPS, as well?

I'm assuming it would, in effect, eventually, due to attrition, since I imagine it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to launch any more MEO, GEO, or HEO satellites through the LEO debris layer.* I suppose it's also fairly likely that the debris will scatter RF energy to the point where satellite astronavigation and time synchronization fails, anyway.

*We can savor the irony of Elon trapped on Earth by his own space junk, at least.

@larsbrinkhoff @AmenZwa @brouhaha I didn't mean to imply that a steep learning curve is a deal breaker. I'd love to dive back into ITS and MACLISP again, maybe once I'm done dealing with my late father's estate, found steady employment, moved, sold the house, and come to terms with the sudden, horrific loss of my closest friend in a way that made national news briefly, and kept resurfacing in local news for nearly two weeks. For now, I don't have the mental bandwidth.

@larsbrinkhoff @AmenZwa @brouhaha Certainly, to someone who cut their teeth on SysV, ITS has a steep learning curve.

@alderson Thank you. As a late GenXer/Xennial, I've only ever used ITS in SIMH when I wanted to try MACLISP (not to be confused with MCL), and I'd only seen CTSS mentioned in dusty tomes of ancient lore.

I knew that CTSS was an early timesharing system, and I had the impression that it might have been less bad than an early attempt at a TSO by IBM, which was deemed deeply unsatisfactory to the various hackers, wizards, and future demigods lurking in AI labs of the time.

@larsbrinkhoff ITS, I'm guessing? Incompatible is right in the name. @AmenZwa @brouhaha

@BalooUriza Sounds about right.

@BalooUriza Yeah, I can see a Domino's having 4 BRIs or roughly 1/3 of a PRI, back when reliable communication was a thing. IIRC, a Nortel CICS could take linecards for 4 BRIs, guessing most of the competing KSUs of the time could, as well.

@RunRichRun The US wasn't even party to the 1948 Treaty of Brussels.

@RunRichRun I'm continually surprised that Europe and Canada don't kick the US out of NATO.