I ( Jeff Relf ) am in Seattle, Mid 2021. [ Mail@"Jeff-Relf."Me !555 206.900.9444 ]
I was born here, start of 1960. My Photo My Location
PNG & HTM charts of how tight|loose my day is ( from Online|Away data ).
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Helping billions of people, as Bill Gates did,
strongly benefits our species; so it's built in.
And wealth is a double-edged sword.
Karl Marx, the trust fund baby who never grew up,
was a nasty side-effect of capitalism. Obesity too.
AntiFa are like Berkeley's UniBomber ( Ted Kaczynski );
i.e. trust fund babies, crashing left-n-right. Poor babies.
We saw them in 1999, in Seattle, protesting the WTO.
One day, restless kids might stop attacking TinyTech (Republicans) &
turn their attention towards BigTech, BigMedia & BigGov (Democrats).
Ugly truths, politics, fascinate me.
A real education is real expensive.
( hint: I'm not talking about school$ )
GDP growth ( 10 year moving average ) is falling because we're
getting older & having fewer babies ( per each woman's lifetime )
& because workers are punished & deadbeats are rewarded
( i.e. blame the pigeon feeders, not the pigeons ).
Absent powerful drugs and/or religion, it's nearly impossible
to find a "loving woman" who wouldn't enslave you,
treat you like shit, take "your" kids and/or "your" future.
Japan's "solution" has been ever-more-negative interest rates
( after inflation ), forcing everyone to spend willy-nilly,
destroying the environment.
Japanification is engulfing the planet, especially China.
Ironically, we're destroying the planet, willy-nilly,
in the name of saving it.
What's greener than "Greenhouse Earth" ?
Is it a coincidence that this "doomsday cult" stuff
somehow happens to enrich BigTech, BigMedia & BigGov ?
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Each picks the "most useful" assumption ( for each ).
If you're a Hollywood producer, or a TV "scientist",
the many worlds - assumption - fills your pockets.
Painters, like Leonardo da Vinci & Salvador Dali,
have little use for Einstein's Relativity.
Still, Einstein's assumptions (Relativity)
are extremely -useful- when you need to develop
a GPS system that requires atomic clocks orbiting Earth.
Who better to develop precision clocks than
" The premier Swiss patent clerk " (Einstein), eh ?!
Einstein (&I) assume: Randomness is ignorance.
The future is just as fixed as the past;
i.e. "God" ( the 4-D TimeScape ) is static, forever & always.
Life is: Everything, yet nothing.
A useful theory of everything has to consider
the limits of human understanding.
We don't know what we don't know;
i.e. there may be " hidden variables "
that we don't know that we don't know.
The more distant the black hole ( in Space & Time ),
the more massive it is.
The 12.5 billion year-old J2157-3602
is 34 billion solar masses,
13 thousand Sagittarius A* masses.
Sagittarius A* was probably much more massive
13.8 billion years ago, before entropy did its thing.
I assume that there was no entropy at
the ( infinitely precise ) start of the Big Bang;
i.e. infinite "eXergy" ( energy that can do "work", force * distance );
e.g. infinite gravitational and/or electromagnetic energy.
"God" (nature) programmed us to consume residual eXergy as
the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse.
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Breathing (oxidation) ages you.
Athletes drop dead unexpectedly.
I've never seen a buff centenarian.
The ones I've seen are slight ( short & thin ),
Charlie Munger & Warren Buffett being the exceptions.
I'd rather be a mental athlete, developing my mind.
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Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto.
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I was using a 3 button mouse,
with laser printers, back in 1982,
on Lilith/Modula-2 machines from Zürich
( Logitech is based in Zürich, g600, g635 ).
DOS in 1983, Macs in 1984, Windows in 1989.
I was programming Reverse Polish Notation
(RPN) 1976, FORTH in 1984,
PostScript in 1985 -- all PostFix.
It's all about the stack, pushing & popping,
as one does in assembly;
I've programmed in PDP-11, 6502, 8086, 68020.
I've done a bit of SQL, professionally, FoxPro,
in downtown Seattle, just-off Elliott Bay,
contracting for large corporations.
The "middle" button on my mouse
toggles my dictation microphone On/Off.
Another button ( among 39 ) MiddleClicks,
to open webpages in a new tab.
I designed my (virtual) keyboard;
no physical keyboard, no touchscreen.
MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG
My web search options:
SearchBar.PNG
I modify WebPages, on-the-fly,
removing crap that I don't want,
& I make them look/act how I want.
WebPages: Jeff-Relf.Me/userContent.CSS.TXT
FireFox v85 skin: Jeff-Relf.Me/userChrome.CSS.TXT
Win10 skin: Jeff-Relf.Me/Black.Theme.TXT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvYaNgWryc
I wrote my own ( mixed font, zoomable ) console,
for my Microsoft Visual C++ applets:
Diff.PNG X.HTM CodingRules.HTM
Visual Studio 2019 C# macros & extensions:
Macros.HTM
I toggle Windows Defender & Update On/Off;
& I upgrade to the latest version of Windows:
Win10.REG.TXT
My playList when reading/writing/programming:
MyPlayList.HTM
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At age 28, 1988, Provo Utah,
my wife had an affair with a coworker.
She divorced me to marry him.
It estranged me from my kids, which was hard;
but, since then, the freedom has been amazing.
No more high-stress job just to keep her satisfied.
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My posts to Usenet ( since Feb 2012 ).
My "Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy" and "Sci.Physics" report.
UTF-8, not US ASCII, has been the standard for decades now.
Mozilla Thunderbird is the gold standard for newsreaders;
but 99.999 % of people can't configure it properly.
Most people can't write the CSS, nor the JavaScript,
required to make it super nice.
Better USENET NewsServers:
BlockNews.NET
Usenet-News.NET/index1.php?url=get
They won't censor you; they don't even keep the "Path:" line,
so you can't be identified. Their text archive is decades deep.
$3 buys you 10 gigs, enough for several life times.
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