A review of a new book on how they damage academia and students.
China’s Bio-Economic War Against The World
…has begun to backfire.
Bash/Vi Issue
So I’m trying to dig my Windows product key out of my recovered files. I run this pattern on all of them with ‘egrep -r ‘^([A-Za-z0-9]{5}-){4}[A-Za-z0-9]{5}$’ *’
It says it finds it in three files:
Binary file recup_dir.7567/f2079240352_unregmp2 matches
Binary file recup_dir.7574/f2082184960_pidgen_dll matches
Binary file recup_dir.7576/f2082580864_pidgen_dll matches
But when I go into vi to search for the string itself with the same regex, I get “No pattern matches.” Is the syntax for regex different in vi than in bash?
[Wednesday update]
I still haven’t found it, but amazingly, I seem to have installed a working version of Windows 10 without it.
Civic Education
Note that the Marxist/racist Critical Race Theory (and the 1619 Project) are almost the exact opposite of this.
Reparations
They will never be enough.
When you are a totalitarian, there is no limiting principle. The left
are intrinsically totalitarian.
Memorial-Day Regret
“I did not serve.”
I didn’t, either. The first year I was eligible for the draft, I had a high number. The draft ended the year after that. If I had been notified of being drafted, I probably would have enlisted in the Air Force (I had been in Civil Air Patrol), though my eyesight would have precluded me from being a pilot. But I agree with his point about how most of the “elites,” including every Democrat president since Carter, were people who avoided service.
Superheavy
Activity is ramping up.
The Lab Leak
…and its censorious “fact checkers” have utterly discredited themselves.
The CCP smiles.
12 Anti-Free-Speech Arguments
XKCD is great when it sticks to science and tech, not so much when it comes to the First Amendment.