AzGaz

“Azgaz. Propane and protein suppliers. Beans and ‘as beens for beings plus gas. … This has to be the best winter supply name.”

“Could later expand into biodigester funerals, propane tank cold boxes, efficient air Peltier blower rings, eggs and a coffee shop library warm room.”

I don’t think it’s as daft as it sounds. Basic base staple and maybe some quality brown wholemeal seedy bread. Perhaps with a carbohydrate warning. I suppose the funniest part of the vision dream was the “Posh beenegi”. Not so much the content, but the price list in LED, and a rolling supply demand accounting for running the cooking and service. Not your basic beans just run at supply cost and the miracle of prophetic markup weekly spot pricing.

You don’t know what was on the time since cum joke laugher discount line.

Looks like some kind of summer supplies line is needed. Onto thoughts of efficient freeze-dry desalination. So pressure in the hot tank is lower than in the cold tank. So the dual hydraulic opposed piston is balanced on an escapement of area. The compression hot end is routed through the hot tank, and vice-versa for transfer of heat by the oscillation of the escapement.

The final complexity is the salt accumulation in the hot tank. Some kind of screw extraction for the sale of “complete dried salt”. Likely requires some desalinate, clean cycle. So salt and distilled water? Or should that be remineralized water? I wonder how the “pump end inversion” with “routing to the other tank” affects efficiency? The S-balanced escapement could be thrown by a solar power linear actuator and some simple control electrics. With the sides of the tanks, it might look like a posh $ sign.

Accounts Time Again

Did you have a COVID gap year? I did. Accounts have been all “out out” this year and not in a good way, but not excessive in the throws of the corporate vision. I can’t do any services for clients who can’t resist fraud scams as there is talk that the government is pondering that service providers might be levied to assist banks with their fraud losses. Unfortunately due to the nature of scam design probing and thought ending “… but that’s just defrauding the tech company.”, it will not be possible to fund the “fraudy” habits of customers unable to use product or service.

The New Year

Now if only I could find out how to spend this Clubcard voucher I could have a belated New Year’s out off office, on my own special company bash. Seems both previous attempts have ended in “Not this product range”, and “It’s been used” and other fabulous excuses from the gobshites. I did get a I don’t know, and call a “busy” helpline as they also seem to be a fan of draining mobile batteries so you can’t use the Clubcard feature in the app when your phone goes off.

Alcatel Longer Term

So it does do the WiFi network “sign in”, but not always (with no listed error), and took an obsurd “got to do a spy search” amount of time to agree to format the recycled SD card. … Google picture uploads will be charging from 1st June. Coincidence or ET finger plug?

Proper Crimbo

Hi, and greetings from a warm Ikea after leaving the slowly sinking wet, cold boat. Let’s all hope for the “frost” not happening this year with wet feet marine one being a bit shit.

So I got a new battery with a phone around it. The old one had reached the end of service with cold failure imminent. So I got an Alcatel 1 (the cheap dual SIM unlocked one), and it is quite nice for the price, and the battery lasts as it should. I’d recommend it.

It fits a surprising amount in the 8GB, due to android Go and little bloat. You must check if you already have some Go versions installed of some of the old bloatier apps (like Maps). Bits of it are to the cheap end of the market standard, but functional. It is available in other versions with a better camera and more memory, but I don’t need those. A good calculator, YouTube and varous social app lite editions. It still has enough space to keep Chrome, and install Libby for audiobook reading.

I suppose I’ll find out how the settings have been reorganized, and how to enable debug mode. One of the 7 taps on the build number in the system settings. OK.

James Webb

They put a big telescope into space. Perhaps they’ll find some intelligent life. Or maybe the intelligent life will broadcast the bunny ear fingers of the thing galaxy wide for a bit of Crimbo fun.

Ltd. Still and QMK.

Yes the QMK active branch and some news that my accounts are now filed. Zero in/zero out as a boring COVID an low contact availability year. So Ltd. status continues as far as I’m aware. I’ll keep you all informed.

So now the send_unicode_string() function is used for a macro system within the keymap latest coding. This is opposed to how the macro layer emits function key combinations, which is more in line for a tool on the computer handling it. I’ve also added repeated substring compression too. (“\\0” to “\\9”)

So more of a hard baked solution, but does allow more complex multi-character glyphs to be produced instead of just one Unicode code point. So with about 1100 bytes free about, that’s about thirty UTF-8 bytes per key action (over the 37 defined key action macros). Even “\\\\” is defined for emitting an initial backslash, just so backslash can be used as a prefix for more complex macro processing than just print until end of string.

Other macro features like tapping key codes for nested macros? Yes, if the keycode is added to the array so “\\A” will tap the first keycode.

K Ring Technologies Unlimited and MOND Galactic Equivalence

Due to the facinating non-working companies house service for email notification for upcomming filings which are needed not working in the COVID period I have miss the accounting date and K Ring Technologies Ltd, is to be struck off the companies register. All business is therefore to become sole trader until such time as sense resumes.

But apart from that I’ve extending the quantum uncertainty in a gravitational field idea and come up with

1/(r-r^2.dr)^2-1/(r+r^2.dr)^2

As a dipole expansive explination for dark matter and thruough the singularity of the first term an eventual repulsive dark energy kind of force. In the dipole limit in a galaxy for example the force will aproximate 1/r and so is effectively a MOND on the small galactic scale.

Post-Modern Terminal CLI

As is usual; with all things computing, the easy road of bootstrap before security is just an obvious order of things. It then becomes a secondary goal to become the primary input moderation tool such that effective tooling brings benefits while not having to rely on the obscurity of knowledge. For example a nice code signature no execution tool where absolutely no code even becomes partially executed if the security situation indicates otherwise.

A transparent solution is a tool for development which can export a standard script to just run within today’s environment. As that environment evolves within the future it can take on the benefits of the tool, so maybe even to the point of the tool being replaced purely by choice of the user shell, and at a deeper level by a runtime replacing the shell interpreter at the system level.

The basic text edit of a script at some primary point in the development just requires a textual representation, a checksum in the compiled code which is in a different file and a checksum to allow a text override with some security on detecting a change in the text. This then allows possible benefit by a recompile option along with just a temporary use of the textual version. It won’t look that hard in the end with some things just having a security rating of “system local” for a passing observer.

Accounts Year End 2020

No trading this year, payments in by director to cover bank charges and web services. Quite a year of nothing much happening on the contract front. I think COVID has had a vicious effect on many companies capital, but as the company has no creditors, there is no worries of being up against the wall this year.

COVID-19

Business has not really been affected, and so I am still available for work, and sitting in isolation thinking about the things I want to set a direction.

It’s a nasty infection. Take care.

Node.js Destroys Raspbian Desktop

So the attempt to install node.js from the repository (version 13), just goes mental and wants to destroy the Raspbian desktop. Very useless. So I’ve demoted to a Mint 18.1, and I am in the process of building the system up with a windows 10 VirtualBox and some tools I will be needing.

I think I’ll even have to make a test bed system for software I don’t trust enough. Apart from some long standing tools which work, I like trying some other ones. I wonder if I can get some development tools to build windows binaries on Linux? There is the fabulous MinGW (which may be useful for some fast C building without needing all the Visual Studio weight and hence bloat), but what else is available?

So far I’ve put VSCode (good for a Microsoft initiative), Visual Studio Community Edition (also quite good on the windows in virtual), FPC/Lazarus (a good generic compiler) and IntelliJ (a nice Android/Java tool with some good Flutter and dart). This should be enough to get on with some of the things I was getting on with before the Windows hypervisor issue. It reminds me of that time virtual box had to disable the microsoft virtual hypervisor, and I think they have been fighting since.

This is no excuse for not testing such a popular product with the windows core system. I don’t think the use of the disk clean up wizard to gain the space could have been involved, with more options selected, not this far down the windows time line. The only other options are few, and include a botchy “security services” spyware which has no good intent and isn’t that secret, or the fabulous industrial espionage giggle, with the laugh a minute goal of finding out something juicy.

Early Spring Euthenasiasm

Snooze, Ooh look a bird, and a squirrel, the blossom too. Pretty soon all the capitalistic psychos will fill up the parks again. How exciting, and the EU seems to be an ongoing thing or not. The magic of cheap labour and offshore accounting. Whooo, hooo!

Beer, that’s what’s needed. Maybe coffee.

Statistics and Damn Lies

I was wondering over the statistics problem I call the ABC problem. Say you have 3 walls in a circular path, of different heights, and between them are points marked A, B and C. If in any ‘turn’ the ‘climber’ attempts to scale the wall in the current clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. The chances of success are proportional to the wall height. If the climber fails to get over a wall, they reverse direction. A simple thing, but what are the chances of the climber will be found facing clockwise just before scaling or not a wall? Is it close to 0.5 as the problem is not symmetric?

More interestingly the climber will be in a very real sense captured more often in the cell with the highest pair of walls. If the cell with the lowest pair of walls is just considered as consumption of time, then what is the ratio of the containment time over the total time not in the least inescapable wall cell?

So the binomial distribution of the elimination of the ’emptiest’ when repeating this pattern as an array with co-prime ‘dice’ (if all occupancy has to be in either of the most secure cells in each ‘ring nick’), the rate depends on the number of ring nicks. The considered security majority state is the state (selected from the two most secure cell states) which more of the ring nicks are in, given none are in the least secure state of the three states.

For the ring nick array to be majority most secure more than two thirds the time is another binomial or two away. If there are more than two-thirds of the time (excluding gaping minimal occupancy cells) the most secure state majority and less than two-thirds (by unitary summation) of the middle-security cells in majority, there exists a Jaxon Modulation coding to place data on the Prisoners by reversing all their directions at once where necessary, to invert the majority into a minority rarer state with more Shannon information. Note that the pseudo-random dice and other quantifying information remains constant in bits.

Dedicated to Kurt Godel … I am number 6. 😀

Amazon Kindle Fire 7″ (Minus Ads) + Raspbian PC

Well, they say it’s in the post. It should arrive before Christmas. This review will get longer as I test it out. I had to get the 8GB version as the lack of adverts was something that was essential. Maybe I’ll get better use of PDFs, and free up quite some space on my mobile by not needing all the document apps on it. I just wonder how much “junk” is installed by default, and how much can’t be disabled. Exciting! Alexa, swear like a sailor!

Quick side notes: I’m replacing my Debian by Raspbian Desktop for PC (Ooooooh). It’s going to be the standard OS of Linux in the company. Just updating the development with node, fpc and git. Along with httpd2, mariadb-server and php.

More gigs of android updates this morning. Why can’t android developers trim their code? The tools are available, but they seem not to be used, and the insistance of stuffing apps with excessive graphical resources continues. How many gig for a texting app?

So it was a little weird. First make sure you have plenty of data, as it will do a system update within a few hours. Get all the apps you can find off the AmazonStore (after you sign in) and be aware that not all the ones you want will be found. Then enable side loading of apps, and get the four needed .apk files for google store. Install these in the correct order, and open play store. Sign in. Get the play apps you want.

A note on compatibility. Microsoft Outlook will required Chrome to use gmail. The play store may try to download updates for some of your apps. This is OK, but some will give errors. This can be divided into 3 groups.

  1. Things like LinkedIn – Likely using a strange hack but it does work.
  2. Kindle app – Play store tries to update and fails, it needs setting to not automatic update in the play store (on the menu of the app listing in the store). This then seems to disappear after the firmware update.
  3. Things like Whatsapp – Just not compatible as there is no phone device.

Luckily the Fire does not try to auto-update apps which were sideloaded (or downloaded from play store). It tells you this in the library updates section, so don’t be tempted to enter update fight hell. This could be problematic. Some notes on the options I chose to ignore on the first setup.

  1. Ignore the Amazon, Facebook and Twitter integration. I mean you could try it, but I haven’t, as the play store apps work just fine.
  2. You must enable sideloading. This can be a problem later if you don’t understand the implication of downloading a .apk file. Remember the play store is the guest store, and so needs sideloading to work. But any random internet site could have a downloadable with bad intent.
  3. Alexa seems to want to work, but she hasn’t said anything yet. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong. This is the most likely option.

After a bit of connection to ADB, it looks like the Alexa service uses about 10% of the processor power just waiting for the word “Alexa”, which is a bit extreme for me. Gag ‘Lexa, oh yes!

Winter is Coming!

Hi

Things are going real slow on the electronics front due to space constraints of capital. But the good news is that uncertain geometry is a good predictor of 12 fermions. The bosons will have to wait for some fancy 4 velocity put into a relativistic solution of the mass independent free space equation, so as to show how each velocity flow (up, down, electron, neutrino) interacts with mass flowing relative to it. This gives in a real sense the interaction of matter as it sees matter, and the deviation is bosonic.

Couldn’t help the topical title on this post. Weather proofing is moving slow, and is very cash restricted. As with these things almost always, having some cash help to obtain more. It’s a “bad listed” working “class” thing. They’ve got to make their paranoia pay you know.

The good news is the ides keep flowing. The dark matter telescope using atomically timed WC break door open/close sensing for example was such a laugh, and perhaps even app feasible.

Accounts Year 2016

Accounts are filed. The Account. This year as an experiment the payment options will include Swiss Franc, USD and EURO. There are methods in place to already accept gold and bitcoin, but as expected at this small scale so far, GBP is the currency used by all customers so far. 2017 growth is good compared to 2016, and includes some nice contracts.

Tax in a Technological Economy

I decided to produce this free work covering a subject certain to almost all, as the saying goes death and taxes. As director of this company I have to hold an opinion on such things, be sure the government does. I thought it best to open the internal decision stream to customers and subcontractors and the wider public, so that such issues such as am I buying services from the latest tax haven, or is there and extra 20% effective going to the cause of central. So this company will pay all taxes due, and perform no self manufactured tax breaks by diverting funds into holding companies with surprisingly opaque financials. As to the issuance of dividend, it’s only an issue of the differential between personal income tax and corporation tax. Hence if one is higher or lower, the government intent is to suggest that (well depending on it being a break or a punitive), one or another should be done. To comply with this differential all profit be either corporation tax or full issue to dividend the same effective amount, to the effect of fulfilling the intentional supra directive of governance. As a maximal to government policy can have no detriment beyond the sense of the government option to issue rebate, a matter of two sums and a max holds the basis for the return. This will be issued into the record as a short form expression of this intent is formed.

The arguments against this are not relevant for small companies, but are interesting to me. The financial weight of a company in a sense votes on the validity of government policy, and also via the central limit theorem can, but not always does add some stability to the bumps of government policy input at very specific points such as the budget. Weather this share based meta vote is valid in ideal is not the point. It is fact. In a way, I felt the need to inject situation as with a very large company implementation of a maximal extreme policy would lead to potential PLC stock instability, and more critical divergence and resulting accountability of government policy.

In the days where director’s bread runs thin, the prices really could be justified to be higher, but in the situation of capital demand, the lower but liveable introductory offer is the sale, sale, sale of it all. The capital buffer of a large company will always outperform in a sale negative cost battle. The only option in such a situation is quality contract delivery at a reasonable cost. This is innately a consequence of pay by the hour systems. All known good clients know this. Optimization efficiency, and automation are exemplified by the phone in your pocket. Robots, robots, robots. Some estimates place 20% redundancy through automation in lifetime as conservative. The effective replacement of pay by the hour occupational replacement is yet not an automated provider. Robot living allowance is not a joke, Although darkly funny.

As a digital business, with surprisingly analog books, many computer based Americanisms and longer term goals of electrical production, KRT has to be aware of future customers, and not just marketing for now. Holding of risk based on past operational equipment when the economic model is to design and sell services for the future deficit load, and not a present credit bubble, is the game of the future. At present KRT has on occasion used contractors, as employee costs are difficult to justify. Not the work risk, but the contract risk. Continuous jobs, even technology based ones, need a steady supply of work contracts coming in. The larger the contract the more unstable it is to renegotiation, and need of a cash buffer. Contractors are much easier. They are on in effect though zero hour contracts as the lingo goes, although this is more like at least some hours but no repeat business guarantee. This then leads on to the obvious development of customer service, to achieve a conversion and repeat business rate. At KRT, the model is for quality contract service. This does not involve a cold call sales pitch, as I receive enough of those already. They are good for occupying the time of those who do not need the service, with an occasional contract win. Delivering services to people who are in need of the service, without harassment for further business, is part of the service. Good customers will always know where to look again, and are good at recommendation. The most effective strategy then from the KRT point of view is the development of R&D rigs and insight concept projects. Interesting technology becomes worth looking in on.

The updates will continue where relevant.

WordPress. What’s it like?

I’ve been using WordPress for a while now, and it’s OK. The admin interface can take a little to get used to, especially when plugins throw menus all over the place, but the online help is very good. The main issues recently were with configuring an email sendmail system so that WordPress could send emails. Upgrading can also be a bit of a pain too, The main issue at the moment is building a dynamic web app. The option to edit WordPress PHP is a no, on the grounds of updates of WordPress source overwrite changes. Creation of a WordPress plugin is also an option, but was not chosen as I want client rendering, not server rendering in the app, to keep the server loading low. I see WordPress as a convenience, not a perfection. So the decision was taken to use client side JavaScript rendering, and have one single PHP script (in the WordPress root folder) which supplies JSON from extra tables created in the WordPress database. An eventual plugin for WordPress may be possible to install this script, and a few JavaScript files to bootstrap the client engine, but not at this time.

This way of working also means the code can be WordPress transparent, and be used for other site types, and an easier one script conversion for node.js for example. With an install base of over 70 million, and an easy templating CMS, WordPress is a good, but pragmatic choice for this site so far. The other main decisions then all related to the client JavaScript stack. I decided to go for riot as the templating engine as it is lightweight and keeps things modular. Some say ReactJS is good, and it does look it, but I found riot.js which looks just as good, is smaller as an include (Have you seen the page source of a WordPress page?) and has client side rendering easily. And then looking at either underscore.js or lodash.js (I picked underscore), for a basic utility. The next up is the AJAX layer. While WordPress does include jQuery, for independence from WordPress tie ins, this ruled out the OK backbone.js and also a fully custom layer allows me to experiment with bandwidth reduction using data compression as a research opportunity. So I have laid out a collections architecture for myself.

Connecting riot.js to this custom layer should be effectively easy. The only other issue was then a matter of style sheet processing to enhance consistency of style. The excellent less.js was chosen for this. Even though client side rendering was also chosen, which is sub optimal (cached, but uses time, but also allows the possibility and later opportunity of meta manipulation of say colour values as sets, for CSS design compression), but does have freedom from tie in to a particular back end solution (a single PHP script at present). So that becomes the stack in its entire form minus the application. Well I can’t wright everything at once, and the end user experience means the application form must be finalized last, as possibility only remains so this side of implementation. For the record I also consider the collections layer a research opportunity. I’ve seen a good few technologies fail to be anything but good demos, and some which should have remained demos but had good funding. Ye old time to market, and sell a better one later for double the sales. Why not buy one quality one later?

The Inquiry Forms Emailing Now Works

Just set up sendmail on the server using these instructions. Now it’s possible to send inquiries. There will also be other forms as and when relevant. The configuration had an extra step of using a cloud file which behaves as a master for sendmail.mc, but this was no big deal. It all took less than ten minutes. A minor complexity is now to forward the response email to somewhere useful to tie up that loose end for later.

RiotEmbed.js Coding Going Well

I’ve done more on riotEmbed today. Developed a system for hash code checking any scripts dynamically loaded. This should stop injection of just any code. There is also some removal of semantic and syntax errors based on ‘this’ and ‘call’, and some confusion between JSON, and JS which can contain roughly JSON, where ‘x: function()’ and ‘function x()’ are not quite the same.

I’ll do some planing of DB schema tomorrow …

The following link is a QUnit testing file I set up, which does no real tests yet, but is good for browser code testing, and much easier than the convoluted Travis CI virtual machine excess.

QUnit Testing

I’ve added in a dictionary acceleration method to the LZW, and called it PON (Packed Object Notation), which is only really effective when used after a BWT as in the pack method. Also some Unicode compression was added, which users of local 64 character sets will like. This leaves a final point in the compression layer of UCS-2 to UTF-8 conversion at the XmlHttpRequest boundary. By default this uses a text interface, and so the 16 bit characters native to JavaScript strings, are UTF-8 encoded and decoded at the eventual net octet streaming. As the PON is expected to be large (when compression is really needed) compared to any other uncompressed JSON, there is an argument to serialize for high dictionary codes (doubling of uncompressed JSON size, and almost a third of PON size), or post UTF to apply SUTF coding (cutting one third off compressed PON without affecting uncompressed JSON). The disadvantage to this is on the server side. The PON is the same, but the uncompressed JSON part will need an encoding and decoding function pair, and hence consume computational and memory buffer resources on the server.

As the aim of this compression layer is to remove load off the server, this is something to think about. The PON itself will not need that encoding taking off or putting on. As much of the uncompressed JSON part will be for SQL where clauses, and as indexes for arrays, the server can be considered ignorant of SUTF, as long as all literals used in the PHP script are ASCII. This is likely for all JSON keys, and literal values. So the second option on the client side of SUTF of the UTF would be effective. Some would say put Gzip on the server, but that would be more server load, which is to be avoided for scaling. I wonder if SUTF was written to accept use of the UInt8Array type?

Some hindsight analysis shows the one third gain is not likely to be realized except with highly redundant data. More realistic data has a wider than 64 dictionary code spread, and the middle byte of a UTF-8 is the easiest one to drop on repeats. The first byte contains the length indication, and as such the code would become much more complex to drop the high page bits, by juggling the lower four bits (0 to 3) in byte two for the lower four bits of byte one. Possibly a self inverse function … Implemented (no testing yet). The exact nature of JSON input to the pack function is next on the list client side, with the corresponding server side requirements of maintaining a searchable store, and distribution replication consistency.

The code spread is now 1024 symbols (maintaining easy decode and ASCII preservation), as anything larger would affect bits four and five in byte two and change the one third saving on three byte UTF-8 code points. There are 2048 dictionary codes before this compression is even used, and so only applies for larger inputs. As the dictionary codes are slightly super linear, I did have an idea to normalize them by subtracting a linear growth overtime, and then “invert the negative bulges” where lower and hence shorter dictionary codes were abnormal to the code growth trend. This is not applicable though as not enough information is easily available in a compressed stream to recover the coding. Well at least it gives something for gzip to have a crack at for those who want to burden the server.

Putting riot.js and less.js on WordPress

You’ll need the insert headers and footers plugin and then put the following in the footer. As the mount is done before the page bottom, there maybe problems with some aspects. In any pages or postings it then becomes possible to incorporate your own tag objects, and refer to them in a type definition. As the service of such “types” has to be free of certain HTML concerns, it’s likely a good idea to set up a github repo to store your types. CSS via less is in the compiler.

<script src="https://rawgit.com/jackokring/riot-embed/master/less.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/jackokring/riot-embed/master/riot%2Bcompiler.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/jackokring/riot-embed/master/underscore.min.js"></script>
<script>
  riot.mount('*');
</script>

Below should appear a timer … The visual editor can make your custom tags disappear.

Produced by the following …

<timer></timer>
<script src="hhttps://rawgit.com/jackokring/riot-embed/master/timer.tag" type="riot/tag"></script>

Or with the shortcoder plugin this becomes … in any post …

[[sc name="riot" tag="timer"]]

And … once in the shortcoder editor

<%%tag%%></%%tag%%>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/jackokring/riot-embed/master/%%tag%%.tag" type="riot/tag"></script>

This is then the decided dynamic content system, and the back end, and script services are being developed on the following GitHub repository. The project scope is describe there. Client side where possible, and server side for database replication consistency. The tunnel to the database will be the only PHP, and all page returns for ajax style stuff will be as JavaScript returns, so that no static json is sent.

GitHub Repo for Ideas

Next up storing PON …

The Build

Java development is under way with some general extension of Kodek and an outline of some classes to make a generalized Map structure. The corporate bank account is almost opened, and things in general are slow but well. There are new product development ideas and some surprising service options not in computing directly.

The directors birthday went off without too many problems. Much beer was consumed, and the UK weather decided to come play summer. Lovely. If you have any paying contracts in computer software, do inquire. Guaranteed is in depth analysis, technical appraisal, scientific understanding, a choice between fast done and well structured code, and above all humour unless paid (in advance) otherwise not to let flow from the fountain of chuckle.