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[Borg]

I can't access Google today and I'm being forced to use Bing.

 

[fresh_42]

I can't access Google today and I'm being forced to use Bing.

https://duckduckgo.com/

 

[Borg]

https://duckduckgo.com/

I forgot about that one. Fortunately, Google is back.

 

[WWGD]

https://duckduckgo.com/

I think a combo of both is best: use Google when you want to find something within what you expect, within the familiar, since Google tracks your search history and if you want a blank search, use DuckDuckgo, which does not track your history. In a sense, Google narrows your world and gives you predictable results.

 

[fresh_42]

I think a combo of both is best: use Google when you want to find something within what you expect, within the familiar, since Google tracks your search history and if you want a blank search, use DuckDuckgo, which does not track your history. In a sense, Google narrows your world and gives you predictable results.

Yeah, but Google's servers have a completely strange impression of my behavior. I look up places on maps, sometimes news and translations, but mostly if I look for pages to quote here. Which by the way is hard enough for certain terms. But it usually directs me to Wikipedia, so I go there in the first place. It's also the better place to translate scientific vocabulary. However, I prefer Google if I want to do a fast connection check in which case I use search items which will guarantee me many findings. You could guess, these aren't the scientific terms ...

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, but Google's servers have a completely strange impression of my behavior. I look up places on maps, sometimes news and translations, but mostly if I look for pages to quote here. Which by the way is hard enough for certain terms. But it usually directs me to Wikipedia, so I go there in the first place. It's also the better place to translate scientific vocabulary. However, I prefer Google if I want to do a fast connection check in which case I use search items which will guarantee me many findings. You could guess, these aren't the scientific terms ...

An understatement, Freshmeister. I used to do online Sudokus. Once around 19 boxes were left empty, I considered the puzzle done and would start a new one. Google interpreted this as my being senile and started recommended treatments for Alzheimer, Parkinson. Google is not too good with outliers.

 

[Borg]

Power outage - 5 seconds.
Time to restart all of my work computers - 20 minutes.
Third time this week.

 

[jim hardy]

Wow if that's ongoing you need one of those little UPS units with built in battery .
Walk the last couple miles of power company feeder to your house - any tree limbs brushing the lines? They'd like to know.

 

[Borg]

It's the office building that I work in. Everything's underground. Usually it's very stable but every once in a while we'll get a streak of short cutoffs.

 

[jim hardy]

For our simulator we put in a motor-generator set with flywheel sized to ride through a one second interruption with100 KW load. Our flywheel was about a meter diameter by 4 inches thick. Induction motor, flywheel , synchronous generator all mounted on one skid about the size of a big chest freezer.
Perhaps your department would consider something along that idea but sized for your loads.
Worked very well . Since the computer supplier had overestimated his consumption we could ride through power glitches lasting several seconds and the computers didn't notice.

old jim

 

[OCR]

Wow if that's ongoing you need one of those little UPS units with built in battery .

Yeah, they work... at least for our stuff.

 

[Tom.G]

Just a Heads Up for reported run time.
My UPS (by APC) does self tests when it feels like it. If it tests when the computer system is off it reports 56 Minutes of run time. If it tests with the computer system running the report says 16 Minutes.
Caveat emptor!

 

[OCR]

If it tests with the computer system running the report says 16 Minutes.

One desktop with two monitors running, one laptop running, one modem/router running, one Roku running...

I'm not sure, but I think I can only do a manual test.

 

[fresh_42]

Due to hijack avoidance:

Tachyon, my (Grey)Wayward son...

And for all who missed a previous quote: Here's my favorite story about the tachyon universe:
http://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-star-diaries/154-the-seventh-voyage

 

[WWGD]

I don't know why, but for a long time now, I have been hoping to go to a fancy place, order a glass of wine, then put some Splenda and ice on it and drink it with a straw. All with a straight face. Maybe a leftover of high school days, when I relished being shocking. And then asking them to microwave it for me and have them give me a cup so I can take the leftover wine home.

 

[WWGD]

I am taking a break from general dabbling. I will have to leave aside questions like whether any non-singleton Topological space $T$ can be homeomorphic to its square $T \times T$. EDIT: I am pretty sure I am ignoring a simple invariant which may provide an easy negative proof. Maybe some type of dimension.

 

[fresh_42]

I am taking a break from general dabbling. I will have to leave aside questions like whether any non-singleton Topological space $T$ can be homeomorphic to its square $T \times T$. EDIT: I am pretty sure I am ignoring a simple invariant which may provide an easy negative proof. Maybe some type of dimension.

Topology is a mean <peep>, because you need a lot of

order a glass of wine, then put some Splenda and ice on it and drink it with a straw

to stand this world of counterexamples. Of course, after a lot of

order a glass of wine, then put some Splenda and ice on it and drink it with a straw

you cannot do topology anymore because you see homeomorphisms all around.

 

[WWGD]

Topology is a mean <peep>, because you need a lot of

to stand this world of counterexamples. Of course, after a lot of

you cannot do topology anymore because you see homeomorphisms all around.

Sounds like you've tried it...:) hic.

 

[fresh_42]

Sounds like you've tried it...:) hic.

Well, I'll do my very best!

This is our nationwide and mandatory tv-show on New Year's Eve. O.k. the original is mandatory, there are also several covers in local dialects, which are optional:

Any questions, Sir Toby?

 

[DrGreg]

Well, I'll do my very best!

This is our nationwide and mandatory tv-show on New Year's Eve. O.k. the original is mandatory, there are also several covers in local dialects, which are optional:

Any questions, Sir Toby?

A quite bizarre tradition, which you can read about on Wikipedia: Dinner for One

The sketch has become a tradition in Germany, where up to half the population may watch it every year on New Year's Eve, but it is almost completely unknown in the United Kingdom

I'd heard about it, once, but this is the first time I've watched it.

 

[fresh_42]

I'd heard about it, once, but this is the first time I've watched it.

It is a fixed part of private parties to watch it together (usually around 8 p.m.) and many know the few text lines by heart. If you drop "Admiral von Schneider" or any other member's name in a converstion, chances are good you earn a "Skol!" or a "You look better than ever look" with a drunken attitude.

 

[WWGD]

I don't care what others say, I still hear " Until next time, I am Erica" ( "Until next time , America"). A matter of parsing, I guess. If I see the reporter before the show (show: =next time), I will call him, Erica.

 

[WWGD]

Hear about this philosopher S.Cahn. Would like to see him write a book with I.Kant, authored by : I Kant and S.Cahn , or, would be better if philosopher were named U.Cahn: U Cahn and I Kant.

 

[fresh_42]

Hear about this philosopher S.Cahn. Would like to see him write a book with I.Kant, authored by : I Kant and S.Cahn , or, would be better if philosopher were named U.Cahn: U Cahn and I Kant.

Neither Cahn nor Kant is pronounced the way that is necessary to make the pun work. So it is entirely based on the disability to pronounce correctly.

 

[WWGD]

Neither Cahn nor Kant is pronounced the way that is necessary to make the pun work. So it is entirely based on the disability to pronounce correctly.

Maybe not in Deutscher, but in English , yes, more closely. Or you can use the self-motivator Shaka Khan -- and so can(Cahn) you.

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe not in Deutscher, but in English , yes, more closely. Or you can use the self-motivator Shaka Khan -- and so can(Cahn) you.

I just recognized that the correct pronunciation of Kant is not really a good idea in an English context ...

 

[WWGD]

I just recognized that the correct pronunciation of Kant is not really a good idea in an English context ...

Similar problem for the school CUNY (City University of NY) , if check order of letters in (Qwerty) keyboard...Type carefully.

 

[fresh_42]

Similar problem for the school CUNY (City University of NY) , if check order of letters in (Qwerty) keyboard...Type carefully.

Lol, we have z and y exchanged, so less risky on this side, although CUNX looks a bit like the Klan.

 

[WWGD]

Lol, we have z and y exchanged, so less risky on this side, although CUNX looks a bit like the Klan.

You have QWERTZ? keyboards? I had heard of Dvorak (allegedly "Statistically Correct"), but had not heard of QWERTZ.

 

[fresh_42]

You have QWERTZ? keyboards? I had heard of Dvorak (allegedly "Statistically Correct"), but had not heard of QWERTZ.

Yep. There are also some differences on the extra symbols like |,~,°,\ which I usually only recognize if I had a disc crash and installation routines start with a different setting or I'm on the computers of my relatives. But I do have troubles to search on Swedish Wikipedia pages sometimes.

 

[WWGD]

Overheard today: Auto response of people meeting each other today: A,B walking towards each other:
A ( to B): " How are you doing"?
B: " You too" . Walks away.

 

[jim hardy]

Yes , it's come to be a greeting not a question.

 

[WWGD]

Yes , it's come to be a greeting not a question.

You too, Jim :).

 

[WWGD]

Seems like Starbucks workers have successfully negotiated less rigid uniform rules; I see them in jeans and t-shirts , although still, of course, the aprons and hats/caps. Good for them.

 

[fresh_42]

I smell Zariski

How about the major ones : invertible, non-invertible? Tho " most" matrices are invertible, i.e., $Gl(n, \mathbb R)$ is dense in $M_{ n\times n} \mathbb R$

 

[WWGD]

I smell Zariski

I smell senility --I thought I was kind of early for this -- since I intended to post this in another forum :(

 

[WWGD]

I guess advertisement ideas are different through the world. Just got an email for " Thousands of Russian women desperately looking for a man" . Not your traditional pitch, I would say.

 

[fresh_42]

I guess advertisement ideas are different through the world. Just got an email for " Thousands of Russian women desperately looking for a man" . Not your traditional pitch, I would say.

You surf too often on websites about (Bela-)Russian topologists

I smell senility --I thought I was kind of early for this -- since I intended to post this in another forum :(

I'm a crossover fan. It prevents me from banning myself due to off-topic comments.

 

[WWGD]

You surf too often on websites about (Bela-)Russian topologists

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Not that I can remember. Only sites where I do not have to give my email in order to register. And the requests are not Math-related either.

 

[fresh_42]

Not that I can remember. Only sites where I do not have to give my email in order to register. And the requests are not Math-related either.

Do you want to swap? Your Russian women and I can offer a daily bible verse, several American politicians of both parties and Christian singles. O.k. I can explain the politicians, but the data miners did a terrible job on the other thing! And before I forget: the Smithsonian regularly addresses me with "Betty, we want you back!"

 

[WWGD]

Do you want to swap? Your Russian women and I can offer a daily bible verse, several American politicians of both parties and Christian singles. O.k. I can explain the politicians, but the data miners did a terrible job on the other thing! And before I forget: the Smithsonian regularly addresses me with "Betty, we want you back!"

I thought "Christian singles" was for single people with first name Christian (always thought this oddly overspecialized for a singles site.). This name may create a lot of awkward situations, like my reply when someone asked: " Are you Christian" ( No, No)? And you have similar with name "Jesus" , ( "Not when I have taken my meds" ) etc.

 

[WWGD]

Do you want to swap? Your Russian women and I can offer a daily bible verse, several American politicians of both parties and Christian singles. O.k. I can explain the politicians, but the data miners did a terrible job on the other thing! And before I forget: the Smithsonian regularly addresses me with "Betty, we want you back!"

No, I was not referring so much to the "product" ( singles matching) , but the pitch: Russian women desperate... It doesn't seem like a good business technique to try to hood you up with women who are desperate, it seems like their product is not very high quality..

 

[WWGD]

Seems like lack of imagination with names: Andrew Andrews, William Williams. How about Dostoievsky naming his kid Warren? Warren Peace?

 

[fresh_42]

Warren Peace?

Last time you named something to make peace. it went terribly wrong!

 

[WWGD]

Last time you named something to make peace. it went terribly wrong!

How about a cooking recipe then? A recipe for peas: " Warren Peas " .

 

[fresh_42]

How about a cooking recipe then? A recipe for peas: " Warren Peas " .

Agga, agga!

 

[WWGD]

Agga, agga!

He kind of looks like your picture. Related? Fresh_42_Ramsey?

 

[fresh_42]

He kind of looks like your picture. Related? Fresh_42_Ramsey?

I have never tried, but I'm pretty sure I won't like haggis, except of the preliminaries of course! And I'm more than skeptical to try this.

 

[WWGD]

I have never tried, but I'm pretty sure I won't like haggis, except of the preliminaries of course! And I'm more than skeptical to try this.

Appearance isomorphisms do not necessarily preserve taste preferences.

 

[fresh_42]

Appearance isomorphisms do not necessarily preserve taste preferences.

What? Not enough that it is already hard to get the curve in a debate with a topologist, you now also load the categorial gun? But you're right, they might preserve the temper