Author Archives: Scott Alfter

Linux 3.17 is out, and some of my code is in it

It’s not the first time that happened…submitted a couple of drivers for a video-capture card we built at my previous job back around ’05 or ’06.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2406.c?id=refs/tags/v3.17

I submitted this a few months ago for my Raspberry Pi beer-fridge controller. I picked the parts and put it together without checking to see first if the necessary driver support was already in place…derp! Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to correct such deficiencies when you have source-code access to the whole system.

Quibbling

That 6.2% unemployment rate 0bama’s been bragging about lately?  This is what made it possible:

Labor Participation Rate Drops To 36 Year Low; Record 92.6 Million Americans Not In Labor Force

In 2008, it was closer to 66%. The most recent peak was back in 2000 or 2001, at about 67%.

Do the math: Which is better, 10% unemployment with a 66% labor participation rate, or 6.2% unemployment with a 62.5% labor participation rate?

2008: (1-0.1)*0.66=0.594
2013: (1-0.062)*0.625=0.58625

Bottom line: even with lower U-3 unemployment, a smaller percentage of people are gainfully employed today than in 2008. If the labor participation rate had stayed at 66%, U-3 unemployment today would be about 11.2%.  Thanks, 0bama! :-P

 

DCCC email: ‘We’re getting steamrolled by Karl Rove,’ ‘worst week so far’

DCCC email: ‘We’re getting steamrolled by Karl Rove,’ ‘worst week so far’

Karl Rove?  Is he actually still a thing?  I thought he’d gone the way of phrasing:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0]

Nobody on this side of the aisle has much use for him anymore.  If the Jackass Party is so far behind the times that it thinks an appeal against Karl Rove is to its benefit, though, perhaps the best thing to do is to just stand back and let them continue their deluded ways.  Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.