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[jim hardy]

For some time, I drank coke with apple juice to raise the sugar level in the morning. O.k. orange juice is probably more common, but I just wanted to say, that you please drink a lot. My best wishes! Don't use the Telly Savalas breakfast: coffee black, ...

I have to watch my sugar intake . Not quite diabetic but have the metabolism for it. So i go for a protein-ish breakfast.

This was curious - i used to eat cereal, specifically raisin bran.
When i decided to switch morning intake away from fast carbs i put my stash of raisin bran out for the crows. I greatly enjoy watching those big galoots and often give them leftovers... I figured they'd really go for the grain based flakes

Well ! They meticulously picked out all the raisins and refused to touch the bran .

Made me wonder - "What have i been eating?"

old jim

 

[fresh_42]

Well ! They meticulously picked out all the raisins and refused to touch the bran .

Made me wonder - "What have i been eating?"

Not sure how reliable they are. I've seen a documentation on TV of a park in Paris where they only picked up left overs from McDonald's and left the other brands unseen. Unfortunately they didn't mention, whether those bags usually contain more food, or simply tasted better.

 

[WWGD]

Don't use the Telly Savalas breakfast: coffee black, ...

+ Cigarrete?

 

[fresh_42]

+ Cigarrete?

Yep. I've once heard it called with a certain name, but this is not appropriate to tell here.

 

[OmCheeto]

And if you try to square the circle, it is "in vain"

hmmm...
Was randomly cruising the internets yesterday, and I randomly ended up finding a squircle, which looks very much like the shape of one of my very old tupperware pieces.
The first bit of maths looked easy enough: (x-a)⁴+(y-b)⁴=r⁴
and I thought to myself; "Hey! A circle is just (x-h)²+(y-k)²=r². What if they just kept going?"
But then I saw; "r is the minor radius of the squircle", and decided against researching it further.

I am very bad at maths.

ps. I hypothesized that people stopped researching this, as the name might get unencumberably long, and the linguists would most definitely get involved, making the discussion even longer: squisquicirle? squasquacircle? deodecasquascacircle?

And then I took a nap.

 

[fresh_42]

... the name might get unencumberably long, and the linguists would most definitely get involved, making the discussion even longer: squisquicirle? squasquacircle?

I've been told that the Romans didn't separate their words and wrote everything in caps. ANDITSEEMSASIFTHESQUIRCLEISNOTSQARABLEEITHER.

I once taught a seven year old to learn by heart the following show-off phrase, to give her a non violent tool to conquer eventual mocking at school: "But did you know that $\pi$ isn't contained in any Galois extension of $\mathbb{Q}$?"

Unfortunately she used it at her mother's weekly square dance night, running from table to table, telling everybody the news.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, found a sandwich in a backpack I had not used for some 3 months. Stink in apt is gone. I think even CSI would stay away from it.Phew!

 

[fresh_42]

Wow, found a sandwich in a backpack I had not used for some 3 months. Stink in apt is gone. I think even CSI would stay away from it.Phew!

You need Tupperware. It was invented for leftovers which you decide to throw away two months later.

 

[WWGD]

You need Tupperware. It was invented for leftovers which you decide to throw away two months later.

I need a sense of smell and a sense of taste too, both of which disappeared when I smelled the (former) sandwich. EDIT: I was accused of engaging in chemical warfare when I took out the sandwich.

 

[Bystander]

You need Tupperware.

Tuna "surprise?"

 

[jim hardy]

What's the psychological frustration limit with computers ?

Continual freeze - ups , windows changing things around at night, spam emails, thousands of error screens to tell you Windows cannot do what was promised,
it gives your phone number to every telemarketer in the world and probably details on everything you buy with a card

i'm almost to the point the aggravation outweighs the enjoyment.
Fair Anne's cousin did 'Just Say No" for a while
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8132948-the-winter-of-our-disconnect

maybe i'll feel better tomorrow.
Just found the freezes seem related to something using up all 2gb of memory.
2gigabytes ? A million kilowords ?That's incomprehensible to me - we ran the plant process computer for a dual nuke unit in 40kilowords of 16 bit magnetic core memory.
Well, they say unlimited memory allows bad programming.

Gonna try that Linux Mint before it's over

/end rant/

old jim

 

[WWGD]

What's the psychological frustration limit with computers ?

Continual freeze - ups , windows changing things around at night, spam emails, thousands of error screens to tell you Windows cannot do what was promised,
it gives your phone number to every telemarketer in the world and probably details on everything you buy with a card

i'm almost to the point the aggravation outweighs the enjoyment.
Fair Anne's cousin did 'Just Say No" for a while
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8132948-the-winter-of-our-disconnect

maybe i'll feel better tomorrow.
Just found the freezes seem related to something using up all 2gb of memory.
2gigabytes ? A million kilowords ?That's incomprehensible to me - we ran the plant process computer for a dual nuke unit in 40kilowords of 16 bit magnetic core memory.
Well, they say unlimited memory allows bad programming.

Gonna try that Linux Mint before it's over

/end rant/

old jim

But somehow many believe these problems will disappear when have machine-driven cars.

 

[WWGD]

There is this guy with a (no kidding) curved body; curves like a sideways parabola. Somehow he manages to live his life : eat, go to Starbucks, etc. No idea how he can manage.

 

[Ibix]

Gonna try that Linux Mint before it's over

I use Debian Linux. It is a vast improvement over Windows in terms of reliability and no random freezes. The UI isn't quite as polished, but the lack of unpredictable (and predictable) hangs is a clear win to my way of thinking.

we ran the plant process computer for a dual nuke unit in 40kilowords of 16 bit magnetic core memory

That's because you had a clearly defined problem and a strong interest in being no more complex than you had to be. And shiny UIs were of zero interest.

Edit: and you probably didn't tolerate memory leaks...

 

[jim hardy]

Edit: and you probably didn't tolerate memory leaks...

Or non-reentrant subroutines.

 

[Evo]

For some time, I drank coke with apple juice to raise the sugar level in the morning. O.k. orange juice is probably more common, but I just wanted to say, that you please drink a lot. My best wishes! Don't use the Telly Savalas breakfast: coffee black, ...

I'm addicted to oranges, so I have at least one orange every day, I also eat the peel. The peel, to me is the best part, yes, it has the most fiber, nutrients, and antioxidants, but I steep them in artificially sweetened green tea and OMG, it's like crack. I'd throw the orange sections away just to get to the peels, they are THAT GOOD!. That's my nightly treat, a big bowlful of diced orange peel in sweet tea.

I am waiting for December to get here because I am addicted to Cara Cara oranges, THE BEST ORANGES IN THE WORLD. They are only available from December to May, you might find a few in June, but the quality declines the closer to summer you get. Trust me on this. I also grow meyer lemons and love to eat them whole too.

Don't knock it until you've tried it!

 

[fresh_42]

Don't knock it until you've tried it!

I don't. Neither. But I don't really trust the producers, i.e. whether they are really organic.

 

[Evo]

I don't. Neither. But I don't really trust the producers, i.e. whether they are really organic.

Just wash them well.

 

[Asymptotic]

i'm almost to the point the aggravation outweighs the enjoyment.

My first experience with "interactive computing" was in high school, and involved a Univac(?) time-share, 110 baud handset modem, and Teletype model 33 ASR with paper tape program storage. Learned BASIC and FORTRAN using punched cards for programming. Later had a C64, then a clone 4.77 MHz PC-XT with 640K of DRAM running MSDOS 3.1, and now, Win 10 on a quad core 2.71 GHz CPU with 12G of DDR3 memory.

Early on, each DOS release was a true improvement, and eagerly anticipated, but this gradual devolution towards "operating system as sales platform" is driving me nuts to the point where I put off moving to this Win 10 machine purchased last August until it became absolutely necessary when a capacitor on my circa 2000 motherboard running Win XP gave up the ghost two weeks ago.

One of my pet peeves is "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media". Is it too much trouble for the OS to tell me exactly why it doesn't want to dismount a USB drive?

 

[fresh_42]

Just wash them well.

That doesn't help because the poison is usually too deep under the surface. But a friend of mine swears on oranges as a prophylaxes for urethra infections. The season just starts now. I'll watch out for the cara caras, you made me curious.

 

[jim hardy]

but I steep them in artificially sweetened

I too like citrus peel. When they serve me water with lemon i eat the whole slice .

But i will not ingest any artificial sweetener. I'd have to use honey.
Am contemplating Stevia but have yet to remember to pick up a small package if the stuff.

 

[WWGD]

Just wash them well.

The producers, I guess, right ? ;).

 

[WWGD]

That doesn't help because the poison is usually too deep under the surface. But a friend of mine swears on oranges as a prophylaxes for urethra infections. The season just starts now. I'll watch out for the cara caras, you made me curious.

Cara caras made you curio curious.

 

[jim hardy]

Teletype model 33 ASR with paper tape program storage. Learned BASIC and FORTRAN using punched cards for programming.

We must've started about the same time.
I really liked paper tape - you can repair a corrupted file with scotch tape and a sharp pocket knife. I had to do that more than once..

 

[Mark44]

"they" = "crows"

I've seen a documentation on TV of a park in Paris where they only picked up left overs from McDonald's and left the other brands unseen.

The crows left the other brands unseen because they didn't see them. That's probably also why they didn't eat the scraps of the other brands.

 

[collinsmark]

One of my pet peeves is "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media". Is it too much trouble for the OS to tell me exactly why it doesn't want to dismount a USB drive?

If the memory device happens to be writing for whatever reason at the time of removal it could cause corruption (because something that was meant to be written was only partially stored). The "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" is a guarantee that the device is not presently writing anything.

 

[Evo]

That doesn't help because the poison is usually too deep under the surface. But a friend of mine swears on oranges as a prophylaxes for urethra infections. The season just starts now. I'll watch out for the cara caras, you made me curious.

At my age I've consumed so many pesticides, if it was going to have an effect, it would have by now. Heck, when I was little, we used to run behind the trucks for fun that sprayed DDT for mosquitos every week, enveloped in the thick foggy spray.

 

[Tom.G]

Just found the freezes seem related to something using up all 2gb of memory.

At least thru XP, Windows silently crashes when the Page File runs out of room and/or disk space. By default, Windows creates a dynamically sized Page File on the system drive with a default size based on the amount of memory in the machine. If it can't expand the Page File when the disk gets full, it doesn't know what to do and goes catatonic. The solution that worked here was to take advantage of the option to create a large, fixed size, Page File on a different logical drive. With 4GB of RAM, I made a 20GB, fixed-size file. Probably overkill but stopped the crashes even when doing image or video editing.

p.s. That one had me going in circles for months!

 

[jim hardy]

The solution that worked here was to take advantage of the option to create a large, fixed size, Page File on a different logical drive. With 4GB of RAM, I made a 20GB, fixed-size file. Probably overkill but stopped the crashes even when doing image or video editing.

Can one use a usb stick to do that ?

 

[jim hardy]

Heck, when I was little, we used to run behind the trucks for fun that sprayed DDT for mosquitos every week, enveloped in the thick foggy spray.

Where'd you grow up ?

One of my earliest memories is the Miami Springs DDT truck spraying every tree ficus along the street where i lived. When it blasted the one in front of my house, a dozen or so kids came scrambling down amid a mix of shrieks and laughter . .
We moved our tree fort to the back yard.

old jim