Author Archives: Brian

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Engineer. Aviator. Educator. Scientist.

There Should Be No Billionaires – Money vs. Power

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Brian

I read Amanda Marcotte Let’s look at a few points in that piece.  I’m imagining a conversation with AOC back when she was a learner instead of a prophet…

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Bash && (and ||)

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Brian

I was talking with someone about the && operator in bash. He said it was a way to append two statements onto one line. I tried to explain that it was much more than that and only exhibited that behavior … Continue reading →

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A Network ID can’t be used as a Host IP

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Brian

Any IP address that identifies a Subnetwork ID (such as 192.168.1.0) cannot be used as a host IP address. For years, I assumed it was some network convention that everybody agreed on. It’s more than that. It’s a physical impossibility.

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United States forces required over there ?

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Brian

So Trump is pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan. Most of the reporting says this is bad because US forces are necessary to stabilize the area. There’s a problem with this.

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American Exceptionalism

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Brian

Jake Sullivan overlooked a few things when he wrote “What Donald Trump and Dick Cheney got Wrong About America” about American Exceptionalism for the Jan/Feb 2019 issue of The Atlantic.

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