Random Thoughts 7

[TensorCalculus]

Oh, I am blind, then I will try it out!

 

[fresh_42]

Oh, I am blind, then I will try it out!

You aren't allowed to use it for commercial reasons, of course, but it is sufficient for a try and private "quick-and-dirty" applications. Of course, the work starts if you want to pimp it with proper titles, different layouts, or whatever makes an application user friendly. Their web version is a bit nasty since they use an AJAX architecture, but their mobile version is nice. I once programmed a little app for my cellphone that counted the time during which I didn't smoke.

 

[WWGD]

Had my svchost.exe suddenly escalating privileges of all sorts of subprocesses through UAP. Then reverted LUA. Having to learn a lot of new stuff, including basic PowerShell.

 

[Hornbein]

I just saw the first episode of Hazardous History with Henry Winkler. So many memories of my childhood like lawn darts and things that I had never heard of before like the radiation lab for kids with real uranium and roller coasters that subjected people to 12Gs. Wow.

In western Colorado in about 1969 I saw a roadside sign for a mine where the customer could breath air that contained radon. It was quite a ramshackle sign though so it appeared not to be a going concern.

 

[Hornbein]

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I often think on similar lines.

In Corvallis Oregon there is a set of streets named after the presidents, in order. When looking for an address one could ask oneself who came first, Polk or Garfield? This is however better than the Japanese system for street names. At this moment I am in a place that shares its address with two other buildings three blocks away. This is accessed by walking through a long parking lot then entering a tiny unmarked opening in a chain link fence.

 

[Hornbein]

Mr & Mrs Lamb who called their son Sean

I don't get it.

 

[Bystander]

I don't get it.

"Shorn?"

 

[Hornbein]

"Shorn?"

I thought it was Shawn. But I've never been to Ireland.

 

[Ibix]

I thought it was Shawn. But I've never been to Ireland.

There are a couple of fairly well known guys called Sean.

 

[Hornbein]

There are url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery]a couple[/url] of fairly well known guys called Sean.

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

 

[Ibix]

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

Sure. I was just surprised you seemed to have managed to make it this far through life without hearing either of those gentlemen's names spoken. Or perhaps I misunderstood your comment.

 

[WWGD]

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

 

[Ibix]

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

Well, if Hugh Juan to relax it Hugh can.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe it wasn't such great idea to place the coffee shop " Gofuku" just left of the " Mamma Mia" Italian place.

 

[Borg]

I have an unfinished bathroom on the lower floor of my house that we use to store stuff. We call it the garbage room. The gods have decreed that we clean out the room by allowing water to find a way into the back of the room during the heavy downpours that we've been getting lately. The only way to figure out where the water is coming from is to empty the room...

 

[Mayhem]

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

"Relax the term" gave me traumatic flashbacks to quantum classes.

 

[WWGD]

There should be a ring of hell for companies that charge automatic renewals. Like Norton's.

 

[Mayhem]

Popular diet science is so hacky.

I think that if you took the average of all popular nutritional advice, you'd find you shouldn't eat anything and that carbon is a major predictor of unhealthy food.

So silly. Eat.

 

[WWGD]

Seems like a law has been passed recently that requires authorization and disclosure of the use of your online data. Edit: Because I see related warnings almost every page I visit.

 

[Astronuc]

Windsurf was a startup Cinderella story. Now it's become a cautionary tale.
https://www.businessinsider.com/peo...d-windsurf-has-set-dangerous-precedent-2025-7

Windsurf, an AI coding company, was on the verge of being acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion, the kind of windfall startup employees dream of. But the blockbuster deal fell apart at the last minute, setting off a whirlwind of last-minute negotiations that left employees in the dark about their future.

The end result — a company split in two with its CEO and top talent getting bought out for far more than the rest of its employees.

Discussions with OpenAI fizzled, and there was a new suitor: Google. But instead of acquiring Windsurf, Google said it would pay $2.4 billion to hire its CEO and top talent and license the company's intellectual property. The hundreds of employees who remained at Windsurf were left adrift until last Monday, when Cognition sent a life raft in the form of buying what remains of the company.

 

[WWGD]

RIP Ozzy Osbourne 1948-2025.

 

[Mayhem]

RIP Ozzy Osbourne 1948-2025.

Maybe the real Crazy Train was the life we lived along the way.

 

[fresh_42]

Has anyone ever tried to tell these "I'm not descended from apes!" people that a little further down the ladder there actually is something like a rat lurking, from which they descended?

 

[WWGD]

Has anyone ever tried to tell these "I'm not descended from apes!" people that a little further down the ladder there actually is something like a rat lurking, from which they descended?

Rats! I had forgotten.

 

[WWGD]

Always wondered about those random eye locks in public. You just happen to both look in the same direction simultaneously and your eyes " lock" with theirs.

 

[WWGD]

Shouldn't there be at least a road called " scrum" in the town of Rugby?

 

[fresh_42]

Shouldn't there be at least a road called " scrum" in the town of Rugby?

They used to have it, but it was always terribly overcrowded.

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

We have this:

 

[WWGD]

Interesting new scam email

From: *****@email.com.
Subject: hello?

Hey There,
<snip>....Reply to me as fast as possible … I cannot procrastinate to become friendly with you.

 

[WWGD]

A few consecutive clicks led me to the info that the approximate distribution of vowels, consonants in English is 41 vs 59.

 

[skyshrimp]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNHpVefvr3Kwv-LEuWD/

 

[fresh_42]

A few consecutive clicks led me to the info that the approximate distribution of vowels, consonants in English is 41 vs 59.

38.3% vowels in German. Y doesn't matter a lot in German. Did you count it as a vowel in English? I mean, it can be both. Wikipedia says it's 38.2% without and 40.2% with Y in English.

 

[WWGD]

38.3% vowels in German. Y doesn't matter a lot in German. Did you count it as a vowel in English? I mean, it can be both. Wikipedia says it's 38.2% without and 40.2% with Y in English.

I cant remember. I think I followed from a page related to entropy , but can't remember which one. Just remember too, that Latin languages * had a higher proportion of vowels than " Saxon"(?) ones like German, English .

* As well as Chinese.

 

[WWGD]

Im kind of embarrassed to admit it but I started avoiding this woman after she said " ATM machine", rather than just the non-redundant " ATM". Edit: I mean, obviously not in a cruel way.

 

[WWGD]

It somehow hit me that ' cheating' is an anagram of ' teaching'.

 

[WWGD]

I thought ' Internet ' referred to a female Intern.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of depressing watching a video about the risks when staying at a hotel. 15 items described, and more to go.

 

[Astronuc]

That was a close one! Missed it by a nose.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that two jetliners had a close call above the Reno Tahoe International Airport.

According to the FAA, the incident happened on September 11, 2021, shortly before Noon. Southwest Airlines Flight 3271 was cleared by air traffic controllers to take off on Runway 16-Left. At the same time, the air traffic controller also cleared Delta Flight 2666 to land on the same runway.

As directed, both aircraft were traveling north to south with the Delta flight descending while the Southwest flight was accelerating for departure.

According to an FAA statement, “The controller maintained radio contact with both pilots and issued instructions to ensure the airplanes remained safely separated. The FAA determined that the closest distance between the two aircraft was 3,500 feet horizontally and 400 feet vertically.”

https://www.kolotv.com/2021/10/21/t...-call-above-reno-tahoe-international-airport/

There is a video showing DL2666 nearly over the top of the SW3271. It was much closer than 3500 feet horizontally.

 

[WWGD]

That was a close one! Missed it by a nose.


https://www.kolotv.com/2021/10/21/t...-call-above-reno-tahoe-international-airport/

There is a video showing DL2666 nearly over the top of the SW3271. It was much closer than 3500 feet horizontally.

I hear the number of near-misses has increased recently .

 

[WWGD]

of all the relatives, a(u)nti(e) Jean is the most likely to protect me.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe they should change the title name of PMP (Project Management Proffessional) could be changed a bit, to fill that gap between the first P and the M.

 

[WWGD]

Got a lecture from ChatGpt when I mentioned that a certain function was being "defecated"(deprecated). Kind of funny.

 

[WWGD]

Bass Rutten should have been born on 3/16 ( Root ten)

 

[fresh_42]

I realized today that AIs are our (inevitable?) way to achieve Idiocracy. People using them are training them. So, who is it that learns from whom? Isn't that an example of our saying, "In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."(Desiderius Erasmus, 1467 - 1536).

 

[nuuskur]

I missed a memo or something. E=mgh, $E = mgh$,
<br /> E = mgh<br />

In some of my past posts the displaymode tex environment doesn't even include the tex brackets at all, they're replaced by some br /br thingamajig. As a result, the tex doesn't render. Is the ## still functional ?

edit: and again, it renders properly in preview, but as I post it, it's replaced by some br nonsense.

 

[Borg]

A site with one million screenshots. Yup, PF is there - https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=physicsforums.com.

 

[WWGD]

A happy way to start the day:

 

[WWGD]

I respect Liam Neeson for wanting to try new horizons but I found his take on Frank Drebin pretty dismal.

 

[fresh_42]

Just seen in a TV ad: "All in one supplement drink" - What?