The best physical therapist I have ever had was actually a PhD chiropractor who had spent much of his career working with professional wrestlers. I did a lot of stupid things growing up and spent a total of eight years enlisted in the Marines as a way to pay for my education. Sometimes, just thinking about moving hurts. I'm actually in pretty good shape, all things considered. I'm still really active but damn, I really need to keep up the therapy and I don't.
I preferred electricity to needles, however. I tried the needles (I'm not the least bit adverse to them) but I found the electrical stimulation, massage, therapy, and the tub the most helpful - when coupled with the appropriate therapy. I'm missing a meniscus, have multiple old breaks, a torn ligament, a shredded shoulder that I won't let them operate on, and more. However, I'm mobile and all that - it just hurts.;-)
It'd hurt a lot less if I did the therapy. I hunt, fish, hike, garden, work in the woods, work on cars, and have a woodworking shop as another hobby so it's not like I'm sedentary. I just should be doing some very specific exercises that aren't really covered in my daily activities and I should be going in and getting fixed up more often. But, I'm a busy(ish) person and haven't bothered doing nearly as much as I should. My wrists are toast - both broken and one with a major RSI. Ankles are gone, knees are gone (they want to replace one - screw that), neck and back are full of arthritis to the point where they crack and pop constantly, and one shoulder is toast.
Some of us had a very different outcome by sheer shit luck. I'm down to just a couple of sub strips a day. *sighs* I've got money, too. I've got connects. I can hook up with a 500 ct *case* of Duragesics in a day or two. Maybe a little less, I'm down south for the winter. Subs don't even make me nod.
Hmm... Email is available. It's up next to my username. I miss the process more than anything. Extracting the fent from the mylar patches, the candle, getting tied off, fishing 'cause I've flat and rolling veins, finally flagging, and then the warm blanket of bliss.
I was a functional user until I retired. I sold my business and retired at 50. Well, technically 49 but I was fully divested in the now-parent company at 50 - so I call 50 the retirement year, it's easier than it is to explain it all. Worse, I drank back then too. I've been done drinking for years now but the H and I just parted ways (again) only about a year ago. Actually, I never preferred the H. I wanted the fent patches as soon as I heard that's what was killing people - back in the 80s. What sort of fucking sick and demented thinking is that? "Oh, shit! It's killing people. Yeah, I want some."
But, I was always pretty smart (if one can be) with it. You can put more in but you can't take it out. *sighs* Here I am, tolerance of an elephant, and getting old and not a damned thing I can take for it without some seriously possible negative outcomes. I can't say I didn't have fun. I can't say it didn't (surprisingly) end up pretty good.
Yeah, if you feel like swapping war stories, or whatever, the email's there.
It has been a minute since I've done binary in my head - at least that high. That should be 58. I did a few conversions today but those only went to five.;-)
> Please explain how two thirty year old people can create a zero year old baby.
Umm... Do you really have to ask that question? 'Cause there's a whole internet out there for you to find this information out - they've even got videos. Or so I hear...
Basically, Tab A goes into Slot B and they wiggle about and make funny faces and noises. Then, the man (the one with Tab A) says, "Oh, shit, the rubber broke." Then, the woman (the one with Slot B) says, "Who are you and what are you doing in my hotel room?"
I am 58. People look at me funny when the subject comes up and I say that I don't really want to live past 70. I'm kind of good with 65, really. I don't want to live forever - even if I were to retain good health. I'm currently in excellent health, according to my doctor and all the tests, but I'm still good with 70. By then, it'll be time for me to get out of the way and make room for the next person, so it's all good.
I do kind of wonder what will happen to my digital assets. I'll have to script some sort of bot to keep posting novellas long after I'm dead and gone. Hell, I can just recycle old posts, based on keywords, and still be topical on Slashdot. I just have to scrape all of my old posts, index 'em, and then scan for new threads. There should be enough material in there to go for another dozen years and nobody will even know the difference.
Someday, someone'll realize, "Hey, wait a minute... Shouldn't you be 114 by now?" My great grand kids (none of which do I have at this point) will get to watch it and think it's the greatest troll ever. Or maybe one of 'em will be "me" online when I'm dead and gone. Probably not...
I've seen some of the hardware for this before. It really doesn't look like it'd be all that difficult to make it yourself. There are a variety of ways to do it and, worst case scenario, you can even 3D print (yeah, I said it) some of the plastic bits if you didn't feel like using PVC and the chemicals that go along with holding them together - though I'm also sure you could use the PEX and get away with it just fine.
It doesn't even seem like it'd be tough to make it so that it looked good. You can even automate it - you just get a nice quiet stepping motor and let it rotate the stuff while relying on that magical thing called gravity to keep things oriented in the right direction. Hell, you can buy and assemble multiple lengths of bicycle chain and do it with that - and actually do the math with the stepper and have things right organized for you.
The weed growers have done a whole lot to improve the market for indoor growth supplies. While this certainly isn't quite the same thing, it doesn't mean that the products can't be used with some adjustment.
Hmm... Maybe someone needs to do a DIY and put some plans online so that folks can follow them? I could be missing something but it really doesn't look like it'd be difficult to make your own (and probably save money) and actually have it come out looking half-way decent. Well, as decent as you can expect with something where you're growing your food inside the house. It probably wouldn't even take up much space and lighting is getting more efficient all the time - as well as more effective (the two words being virtually synonymous for this purpose).
So, why not try making one yourself and saving the money? You can get a whole lot of stuff down at your local pot-growing shop or farmer's union/hardware store. I imagine that, without much effort, you could assemble the bits and pieces (or fabricate the needed pieces) over a beer-fueled weekend and not harm yourself or anyone else. Then, keep a good list and source the products at wholesale, package it up with directions, and sell it - as well as give the directions away online for people to improve on.
There you go. There's your ten-million dollar idea and a business you can start for only a few bucks as you can even kickstart it to get to the point where you start the whole thing off with economies of scale and wholesale buying power/pricing with retail (plus labor) income. It'll take you a couple of weeks (at best) worth of days to get it engineered to the point where it's sturdy. Shit, you can even build a frame out of PVC piping - with brackets that'd almost certainly be strong enough but you have to make sure you do short runs and you might want to brace and anchor it - i won't know unless I crunch some numbers. Either way, it'd work or you can simply use aluminum pipe which is dirt cheap and easy to assemble.
It'd take some effort but not a lot. It'll make money (as you'd do the math and figure out what the prices should look like before kickstarting it). It won't take a whole lot of work and it probably won't make you a billionaire overnight but it'll be a slow-steady income that you can package up the parts and directions at night or on the weekends so you keep your regular job while you start your new one. Just incorporate, go with a LLC of one type or another, and keep your expenses documented and pay the appropriate taxes and you'll be legal as all hell. Pay yourself a payment out of the corporate funds and don't consider the business' money your own money until after you've earned it - so you can keep it going.
Oh, don't even try to patent it or anything. No matter what you do (it'd be cheap and easy to make) it'll get banged out in China within 12 to 18 months and on the floor at Home Depot by the end of that 18 months. So, don't waste your time or money with patents. Just get in, get out, save the money to invest in the next project that comes along. If you can keep it going for a couple of years that's awesome. If it stays viable for five that's amazing. Don't worr
That's the strangest spot, in the entire thread, that you could possibly pick to thread that comment. I had to double check (I'd scrolled down so they weren't visible) and, sure enough, you threaded your (probably) insightful, witty, and topical reply beneath a meaningless troll post that hadn't a damned thing to do with anything.
Happily, no. Who doesn't like morning nookie? Morning nookie is awesome! Though, I admit, not everyone would enjoy the same group of friends and acquaintances as I. Some of us have been in contact with each other for nearly 50 years. We've tamed quite a bit but not entirely.
I've had exactly zero April Fool's jokes played on me today - in the real world. I do not know if I should be grateful or disappointed. However, we absolutely, positively, certainly would get the other called out of a meeting as a prank. Oh, we'd laugh at that uproariously. We've had some elaborate, and creative, things in our lives but, like I said, we've tamed quite a bit.
Time will do that.
Hell, I've a buddy named Lance and if I saw Lance driving - anywhere and anytime (pretty much) then I'd turn around and follow Lance - who knew what was coming and would try to speed away. Oh, I'd follow Lance for as long as it took. When I got the chance, I'd run into his back bumper. (We were both driving shitty cars back then - think American, Dodge, K-car type stuff from the 1980s.) I'd happily ram him but not overly hard. He knew better than to hammer on the brakes 'cause I'd have run into him even faster.
Then I'd wave and drive away.
Why? Well, later that day, if anyone asked what I'd been up to, I'd say, "Oh, not much. I ran into Lance today."
I really have 'em on the hook, too. I've not once lied to them - I'm kind of keen on that. I do, in fact, know not just one but two people who are involved in building materials at the retail outlet and both of those people actually own, in part or in whole, the companies to which I refer.
Both of them do, in fact, sell windows and doors.
One of them is actually fairly large for that physical area - they've got multiple locations across the State of Maine. They're Hammond Lumber and Ware-Butler. Although the "kid" owns Ware-Butler now and I'm more familiar with his father.
Now, if I could find a product they were interested in purchasing and make a good deal on them - then I might consider it. However, I hate to reward spammers so that is *really* the least likely outcome from all of this. So, a more nefarious outcome is desired... I'm thinking about getting free samples sent - maybe even a display model or two. Do you have any idea how bulky and heavy a glass door is? They make some triple-pane doors, gas-sealed, and they've gotta weigh a hell of a lot. Maine's in the northern climes and the greater the R-value the better it will sell, after all.
So, I'm thinking about trying to get at least one sample door sent to me.
Err... I can't be the only one here who has a little fun at spammer's expense? Yes? No? I mean, they're fair game - they opened themselves up for contact.
Another fun one is the people who ask me about a product that I have for sale or the search engine optimization for my site. I always ask them what product(s) or site(s) they're asking about. I get back some of the damnedest answers and no, not one single product or site is correct. I do, technically, have several products that you could say I sell. (I do not do so directly. An incorporated body that I control sells wood from my land.) I do, also, have a web presence but they don't actually spam that address.
Speaking of web presence... I gotta get back to debugging this damned thing - something keeps spiking the CPU.
No, I'm pretty sure we've had slavery since Ogg was able to beat Ook into submission and then Ook gave half of his kill to Ogg to make sure Ogg didn't beat him any more. Of course, sometimes Ogg would still beat him, but that was just to prove a point and make sure Ook didn't forget who the boss was.
The laws that exist, those that prohibit slavery, take away Ogg's liberty to take the output of Ook's labor. They're an example of a good law but also a good example of how almost every law (I am unable to think of exceptions) take away someone's liberties. This may, or may not, be a good thing but that doesn't change what laws do.
I really don't have a clue, yet. I've not clicked on the URL and will wait until tomorrow - I put it into my tomorrow's email so that I remember it. See, I want to believe... I'd love to get more experience with RedHat.
The last time I used the official RedHat was back when I was able to buy it in a box at BestBuy or Staples or something like that. It was sometime around 1995 and the price was somewhere around 1995 for the boxed version. I think it was floppies but that might have been the boxed version of Slackware that I bought. Then again, they both might have been floppies. I have no idea.
At any rate, it sucked. I had it dual booted and then I went on to Mandrake as my dual boot - until they went to Mandriva. Then I stuck with them for quite a while and now I'm not dual booting but I just use Lubuntu (more often than not) as my sole OS.
I went on a binge where I tried them all... No, I mean *all* of them. (No, not really quite all.) I tried almost every single one that was on DistroWatch. I tried a bunch that are not on DistroWatch. I tried them on bare metal. I tried them in VMs. Hell, I still have VM images of all sorts of them that can be spun up - all the way from my house here in Florida back in Maine where they physically exist.
Out of all of those, I went with Mint for a short spell (still have it installed on one laptop that I have with me) and Lubuntu just kind of kept being what I kept using so now I use that instead of just using a Live USB - except I use a Live USB quite often. Some with persistent data and some without.
At any rate, I'd love to play with RedHat again. I've played with Fedora and I've played with CentOS. I kind of liked Fedora but I wanted an official Ubuntu flavor so that I could *easily and consistently* access the ecosystem - which is huge. But, it has to have been nearly 20 years since I've used RedHat. I have quite a number of servers at home AND I'll be physically home soon(ish) so the idea is intriguing to me (and I'd like to sign up for the newsletter).
So, tomorrow, I'll click the link and see what they have to say. I'm not believing a damned thing today. What company would release anything important, that is not emergency related, on the 1st of April? So, I'll wait until tomorrow and, it just so happens, I'm getting back into programming as of late and I'm pretty sure that will put me into the developer classification without my needing to be dishonest about it.
I could always buy a copy of RedHat but I don't believe they actually sell anything that's meant for a single user who's gonna run it on a couple of servers in a "server room" that's just a room in his basement. I'd donate for it. I don't mind donating but I'm rather unlikely to buy it. Hell, in time, I'll probably donate more than they'd have asked for as a purchase price. I donate to help operating systems that I don't even use.:/ (I donate to Qubes on a semi-regular basis. It probably won't be useful to me before I die.)
But, I'll take a developer copy. Hell yeah... I'll even develop on it. It probably won't be anything good that I make but I'll give the source away. If you want a copy of my poorly running robot's source code, I'll let ya have it - but you've gotta help me fix it. (A plague I'd wish on nobody.)
Umm... You don't realize that data points, over multiple objects, are patterns? The images used were an *example* and not the totality. And you think it is *I* who doesn't understand the problem? Really? REALLY?
That doesn't negate your point, of course. But yes, we humans do pattern recognition pretty well and from an early age. I think one of the AI guys that posts here on a frequent basis likened our current computer abilities to that of an 18 month old child. I, not being an expert, defer to them.
They have a stock, unmodified class? 'Cause that sounds too awesome to click the link.
See, if I click the link I might find out that I'm not as pleased by the results as I want to be. In my head, this is awesome. I'm afraid that reality won't match the awesomeness that is in my head. Sadly, that's often the case - more so where people are involved.
Also, I read the headline as "Velcro" farming. That too was incredibly awesome in my head. Like I said, life seldom turns out as awesome as the picture in my head.
You might think I'm kidding but I do care. Why? Meh, it's interesting and I like interesting things. It's well worded, well reasoned, and that they've got mod points is the reason for their post.
So, no... I care. Thus you, you are still wrong. And, obviously, they care. That's at least two people who care. I bet there are more people who care, perhaps not a lot nor caring a lot, so you're probably even more wrong. Why you'd post such obviously wrong things is beyond me. It's obvious that they care, or they'd have not posted it. Right there you should know that your statement is false.
You also care, or you'd have not taken the time to post that. You care enough to demonstrate it by posting about it. If you didn't care, you'd not say anything. But, instead, you care - even if it's just a little and you only care enough to express that you don't care, you do - in fact, care.
Today's not your day for being witty, insightful, or correct.
They did. From version 15 to about 23 it was pretty crappy (post code switch). From about 28 it became good again. From 23 to 28 it was usable. It's pretty good again. I typically stick with the beta build but I use different browsers for different things with different defaults so I have stable, beta, and dev installed. Err... At the moment, they're all running.:/
Yeah, I've never actually posted there. There's a KGIII there but they're not me. I have no idea why they use the moniker or who they are but, I assure you, they are not me. They appear to like basketball. I did notice that. (I was curious. They're not the only "kgiii" out there but I've been using the username for 30+ years now.)
I concur which, oddly enough, gets me labeled as a ultra-conservative. I've yet to really figure that one out. I'm not even an anarchist, or even a minarchist. I'm actually pretty damned left on the spectrum and don't even mind reasonable taxation in return for reasonable services.
I am currently having an email conversation (it has gone on for almost two weeks now) with some Chinese spammer. So far, so good but I'm not really sure where to go with it. They make glass doors. I'm thinking about having them send me a sample.
Now that's what I like to see. I seem to recall that my very first post to you, on your very first day, was mentioning the need to say things pretty much just like that.
You can't please 'em all and it's futile to try. There is, literally, not one thing you can do that will make everyone happy. Sometimes, you just gotta tell 'em to pound sand. Which, well, you just did.
I, for one, appreciate our new realistic and mostly down-to-Earth overlords. I also second your sentiment but I do worry that we're having a bad influence on you.;-)
"You were such a nice young man, until you started hanging around *that* crowd." Say the old ladies who amass around the village well. "Well, I'll never let MY daughter anywhere near him." Exclaims one of them, as the rest titter and nod in affirmation.
My understanding is that, actually no - they're not so good at that. We humans still excel at pattern recognition.
Now, this is a layman's understanding (though I understand it a bit better than most laymen, I should assume) so take it at face value and with that caveat.
But, we're just now getting to the point where computers are approaching child-like recognition. Remember the recent outrage when black people were recognized as gorillas? How they have issues with Asian eyes not being open?
See, as a kid, we can point out a tree to you and, sure enough, you then will recognize other trees - even if they are deciduous and the tree you were shown was coniferous. You'll recognize a ball even if it is a baseball, billiard ball, basketball, etc... You'll see money and know that it is money - you'll probably even know it's money if it's from a county you've never seen before.
Computers, well... They're good at filtering things we know about and how to describe. That's it, really. We're still working on machine learning (sometimes called AI) and it's only in the infant stages. Humans, for now, will spot flaws much better (and quicker) than a computer will unless there's something we know to look for.
As this was certainly not something we'd know to look for, we'd not have been able to (yet) program it to spot such anomalies. Now that we've spotted it, know some characteristics, and can do some deterministic interpretations of the data then we might be able to program spotting this in the future with varied levels of accuracy. For the time being, we're still going to need a human in the loop.
I'm not sure if that makes sense or not but that's the best way I can think of to describe it.
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The best physical therapist I have ever had was actually a PhD chiropractor who had spent much of his career working with professional wrestlers. I did a lot of stupid things growing up and spent a total of eight years enlisted in the Marines as a way to pay for my education. Sometimes, just thinking about moving hurts. I'm actually in pretty good shape, all things considered. I'm still really active but damn, I really need to keep up the therapy and I don't.
I preferred electricity to needles, however. I tried the needles (I'm not the least bit adverse to them) but I found the electrical stimulation, massage, therapy, and the tub the most helpful - when coupled with the appropriate therapy. I'm missing a meniscus, have multiple old breaks, a torn ligament, a shredded shoulder that I won't let them operate on, and more. However, I'm mobile and all that - it just hurts. ;-)
It'd hurt a lot less if I did the therapy. I hunt, fish, hike, garden, work in the woods, work on cars, and have a woodworking shop as another hobby so it's not like I'm sedentary. I just should be doing some very specific exercises that aren't really covered in my daily activities and I should be going in and getting fixed up more often. But, I'm a busy(ish) person and haven't bothered doing nearly as much as I should. My wrists are toast - both broken and one with a major RSI. Ankles are gone, knees are gone (they want to replace one - screw that), neck and back are full of arthritis to the point where they crack and pop constantly, and one shoulder is toast.
But, I function. ;-)
Some of us had a very different outcome by sheer shit luck. I'm down to just a couple of sub strips a day. *sighs* I've got money, too. I've got connects. I can hook up with a 500 ct *case* of Duragesics in a day or two. Maybe a little less, I'm down south for the winter. Subs don't even make me nod.
Hmm... Email is available. It's up next to my username. I miss the process more than anything. Extracting the fent from the mylar patches, the candle, getting tied off, fishing 'cause I've flat and rolling veins, finally flagging, and then the warm blanket of bliss.
I was a functional user until I retired. I sold my business and retired at 50. Well, technically 49 but I was fully divested in the now-parent company at 50 - so I call 50 the retirement year, it's easier than it is to explain it all. Worse, I drank back then too. I've been done drinking for years now but the H and I just parted ways (again) only about a year ago. Actually, I never preferred the H. I wanted the fent patches as soon as I heard that's what was killing people - back in the 80s. What sort of fucking sick and demented thinking is that? "Oh, shit! It's killing people. Yeah, I want some."
But, I was always pretty smart (if one can be) with it. You can put more in but you can't take it out. *sighs* Here I am, tolerance of an elephant, and getting old and not a damned thing I can take for it without some seriously possible negative outcomes. I can't say I didn't have fun. I can't say it didn't (surprisingly) end up pretty good.
Yeah, if you feel like swapping war stories, or whatever, the email's there.
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It has been a minute since I've done binary in my head - at least that high. That should be 58. I did a few conversions today but those only went to five. ;-)
> Please explain how two thirty year old people can create a zero year old baby.
Umm... Do you really have to ask that question? 'Cause there's a whole internet out there for you to find this information out - they've even got videos. Or so I hear...
Basically, Tab A goes into Slot B and they wiggle about and make funny faces and noises. Then, the man (the one with Tab A) says, "Oh, shit, the rubber broke." Then, the woman (the one with Slot B) says, "Who are you and what are you doing in my hotel room?"
And that's how baby Anonymous Cowards are made.
I am 58. People look at me funny when the subject comes up and I say that I don't really want to live past 70. I'm kind of good with 65, really. I don't want to live forever - even if I were to retain good health. I'm currently in excellent health, according to my doctor and all the tests, but I'm still good with 70. By then, it'll be time for me to get out of the way and make room for the next person, so it's all good.
I do kind of wonder what will happen to my digital assets. I'll have to script some sort of bot to keep posting novellas long after I'm dead and gone. Hell, I can just recycle old posts, based on keywords, and still be topical on Slashdot. I just have to scrape all of my old posts, index 'em, and then scan for new threads. There should be enough material in there to go for another dozen years and nobody will even know the difference.
Someday, someone'll realize, "Hey, wait a minute... Shouldn't you be 114 by now?" My great grand kids (none of which do I have at this point) will get to watch it and think it's the greatest troll ever. Or maybe one of 'em will be "me" online when I'm dead and gone. Probably not...
I've seen some of the hardware for this before. It really doesn't look like it'd be all that difficult to make it yourself. There are a variety of ways to do it and, worst case scenario, you can even 3D print (yeah, I said it) some of the plastic bits if you didn't feel like using PVC and the chemicals that go along with holding them together - though I'm also sure you could use the PEX and get away with it just fine.
It doesn't even seem like it'd be tough to make it so that it looked good. You can even automate it - you just get a nice quiet stepping motor and let it rotate the stuff while relying on that magical thing called gravity to keep things oriented in the right direction. Hell, you can buy and assemble multiple lengths of bicycle chain and do it with that - and actually do the math with the stepper and have things right organized for you.
The weed growers have done a whole lot to improve the market for indoor growth supplies. While this certainly isn't quite the same thing, it doesn't mean that the products can't be used with some adjustment.
Hmm... Maybe someone needs to do a DIY and put some plans online so that folks can follow them? I could be missing something but it really doesn't look like it'd be difficult to make your own (and probably save money) and actually have it come out looking half-way decent. Well, as decent as you can expect with something where you're growing your food inside the house. It probably wouldn't even take up much space and lighting is getting more efficient all the time - as well as more effective (the two words being virtually synonymous for this purpose).
So, why not try making one yourself and saving the money? You can get a whole lot of stuff down at your local pot-growing shop or farmer's union/hardware store. I imagine that, without much effort, you could assemble the bits and pieces (or fabricate the needed pieces) over a beer-fueled weekend and not harm yourself or anyone else. Then, keep a good list and source the products at wholesale, package it up with directions, and sell it - as well as give the directions away online for people to improve on.
There you go. There's your ten-million dollar idea and a business you can start for only a few bucks as you can even kickstart it to get to the point where you start the whole thing off with economies of scale and wholesale buying power/pricing with retail (plus labor) income. It'll take you a couple of weeks (at best) worth of days to get it engineered to the point where it's sturdy. Shit, you can even build a frame out of PVC piping - with brackets that'd almost certainly be strong enough but you have to make sure you do short runs and you might want to brace and anchor it - i won't know unless I crunch some numbers. Either way, it'd work or you can simply use aluminum pipe which is dirt cheap and easy to assemble.
It'd take some effort but not a lot. It'll make money (as you'd do the math and figure out what the prices should look like before kickstarting it). It won't take a whole lot of work and it probably won't make you a billionaire overnight but it'll be a slow-steady income that you can package up the parts and directions at night or on the weekends so you keep your regular job while you start your new one. Just incorporate, go with a LLC of one type or another, and keep your expenses documented and pay the appropriate taxes and you'll be legal as all hell. Pay yourself a payment out of the corporate funds and don't consider the business' money your own money until after you've earned it - so you can keep it going.
Oh, don't even try to patent it or anything. No matter what you do (it'd be cheap and easy to make) it'll get banged out in China within 12 to 18 months and on the floor at Home Depot by the end of that 18 months. So, don't waste your time or money with patents. Just get in, get out, save the money to invest in the next project that comes along. If you can keep it going for a couple of years that's awesome. If it stays viable for five that's amazing. Don't worr
That's the strangest spot, in the entire thread, that you could possibly pick to thread that comment. I had to double check (I'd scrolled down so they weren't visible) and, sure enough, you threaded your (probably) insightful, witty, and topical reply beneath a meaningless troll post that hadn't a damned thing to do with anything.
I have a confuse.
Happily, no. Who doesn't like morning nookie? Morning nookie is awesome! Though, I admit, not everyone would enjoy the same group of friends and acquaintances as I. Some of us have been in contact with each other for nearly 50 years. We've tamed quite a bit but not entirely.
I've had exactly zero April Fool's jokes played on me today - in the real world. I do not know if I should be grateful or disappointed. However, we absolutely, positively, certainly would get the other called out of a meeting as a prank. Oh, we'd laugh at that uproariously. We've had some elaborate, and creative, things in our lives but, like I said, we've tamed quite a bit.
Time will do that.
Hell, I've a buddy named Lance and if I saw Lance driving - anywhere and anytime (pretty much) then I'd turn around and follow Lance - who knew what was coming and would try to speed away. Oh, I'd follow Lance for as long as it took. When I got the chance, I'd run into his back bumper. (We were both driving shitty cars back then - think American, Dodge, K-car type stuff from the 1980s.) I'd happily ram him but not overly hard. He knew better than to hammer on the brakes 'cause I'd have run into him even faster.
Then I'd wave and drive away.
Why? Well, later that day, if anyone asked what I'd been up to, I'd say, "Oh, not much. I ran into Lance today."
Yes, yes I did used to drink - a lot.
I really have 'em on the hook, too. I've not once lied to them - I'm kind of keen on that. I do, in fact, know not just one but two people who are involved in building materials at the retail outlet and both of those people actually own, in part or in whole, the companies to which I refer.
Both of them do, in fact, sell windows and doors.
One of them is actually fairly large for that physical area - they've got multiple locations across the State of Maine. They're Hammond Lumber and Ware-Butler. Although the "kid" owns Ware-Butler now and I'm more familiar with his father.
Now, if I could find a product they were interested in purchasing and make a good deal on them - then I might consider it. However, I hate to reward spammers so that is *really* the least likely outcome from all of this. So, a more nefarious outcome is desired... I'm thinking about getting free samples sent - maybe even a display model or two. Do you have any idea how bulky and heavy a glass door is? They make some triple-pane doors, gas-sealed, and they've gotta weigh a hell of a lot. Maine's in the northern climes and the greater the R-value the better it will sell, after all.
So, I'm thinking about trying to get at least one sample door sent to me.
Err... I can't be the only one here who has a little fun at spammer's expense? Yes? No? I mean, they're fair game - they opened themselves up for contact.
Another fun one is the people who ask me about a product that I have for sale or the search engine optimization for my site. I always ask them what product(s) or site(s) they're asking about. I get back some of the damnedest answers and no, not one single product or site is correct. I do, technically, have several products that you could say I sell. (I do not do so directly. An incorporated body that I control sells wood from my land.) I do, also, have a web presence but they don't actually spam that address.
Speaking of web presence... I gotta get back to debugging this damned thing - something keeps spiking the CPU.
No, I'm pretty sure we've had slavery since Ogg was able to beat Ook into submission and then Ook gave half of his kill to Ogg to make sure Ogg didn't beat him any more. Of course, sometimes Ogg would still beat him, but that was just to prove a point and make sure Ook didn't forget who the boss was.
The laws that exist, those that prohibit slavery, take away Ogg's liberty to take the output of Ook's labor. They're an example of a good law but also a good example of how almost every law (I am unable to think of exceptions) take away someone's liberties. This may, or may not, be a good thing but that doesn't change what laws do.
I really don't have a clue, yet. I've not clicked on the URL and will wait until tomorrow - I put it into my tomorrow's email so that I remember it. See, I want to believe... I'd love to get more experience with RedHat.
The last time I used the official RedHat was back when I was able to buy it in a box at BestBuy or Staples or something like that. It was sometime around 1995 and the price was somewhere around 1995 for the boxed version. I think it was floppies but that might have been the boxed version of Slackware that I bought. Then again, they both might have been floppies. I have no idea.
At any rate, it sucked. I had it dual booted and then I went on to Mandrake as my dual boot - until they went to Mandriva. Then I stuck with them for quite a while and now I'm not dual booting but I just use Lubuntu (more often than not) as my sole OS.
I went on a binge where I tried them all... No, I mean *all* of them. (No, not really quite all.) I tried almost every single one that was on DistroWatch. I tried a bunch that are not on DistroWatch. I tried them on bare metal. I tried them in VMs. Hell, I still have VM images of all sorts of them that can be spun up - all the way from my house here in Florida back in Maine where they physically exist.
Out of all of those, I went with Mint for a short spell (still have it installed on one laptop that I have with me) and Lubuntu just kind of kept being what I kept using so now I use that instead of just using a Live USB - except I use a Live USB quite often. Some with persistent data and some without.
At any rate, I'd love to play with RedHat again. I've played with Fedora and I've played with CentOS. I kind of liked Fedora but I wanted an official Ubuntu flavor so that I could *easily and consistently* access the ecosystem - which is huge. But, it has to have been nearly 20 years since I've used RedHat. I have quite a number of servers at home AND I'll be physically home soon(ish) so the idea is intriguing to me (and I'd like to sign up for the newsletter).
So, tomorrow, I'll click the link and see what they have to say. I'm not believing a damned thing today. What company would release anything important, that is not emergency related, on the 1st of April? So, I'll wait until tomorrow and, it just so happens, I'm getting back into programming as of late and I'm pretty sure that will put me into the developer classification without my needing to be dishonest about it.
I could always buy a copy of RedHat but I don't believe they actually sell anything that's meant for a single user who's gonna run it on a couple of servers in a "server room" that's just a room in his basement. I'd donate for it. I don't mind donating but I'm rather unlikely to buy it. Hell, in time, I'll probably donate more than they'd have asked for as a purchase price. I donate to help operating systems that I don't even use. :/ (I donate to Qubes on a semi-regular basis. It probably won't be useful to me before I die.)
But, I'll take a developer copy. Hell yeah... I'll even develop on it. It probably won't be anything good that I make but I'll give the source away. If you want a copy of my poorly running robot's source code, I'll let ya have it - but you've gotta help me fix it. (A plague I'd wish on nobody.)
Umm... You don't realize that data points, over multiple objects, are patterns? The images used were an *example* and not the totality. And you think it is *I* who doesn't understand the problem? Really? REALLY?
I have no idea what that is but it looks like a stripper with a mouse-mask.
I'm not positive but I have a good idea that that's not what you were going for. Sorry - but I have no clue what it is that that's meant to represent.
It's okay. Don't feel bad. I can't do those MagicEye© things either. I seriously haven't got a clue what it is you're going for. It looks like a stripper (sans bra) wearing a rodent mask to me. I really, really doubt that's what you intended I, the recipient, to see.
That doesn't negate your point, of course. But yes, we humans do pattern recognition pretty well and from an early age. I think one of the AI guys that posts here on a frequent basis likened our current computer abilities to that of an 18 month old child. I, not being an expert, defer to them.
> open modified
Wait, what?
They have a stock, unmodified class? 'Cause that sounds too awesome to click the link.
See, if I click the link I might find out that I'm not as pleased by the results as I want to be. In my head, this is awesome. I'm afraid that reality won't match the awesomeness that is in my head. Sadly, that's often the case - more so where people are involved.
Also, I read the headline as "Velcro" farming. That too was incredibly awesome in my head. Like I said, life seldom turns out as awesome as the picture in my head.
I used to tell people that:
"I have Chewy Chewbaccason's Disease. I grow hair out of weird places all over my body and when I talk it comes out roowwrrrooowwrraaaa."
Yes, yes I did drink a lot back then.
I got to thinking... It will fit here:
https://mega.nz/
No... I care.
You might think I'm kidding but I do care. Why? Meh, it's interesting and I like interesting things. It's well worded, well reasoned, and that they've got mod points is the reason for their post.
So, no... I care. Thus you, you are still wrong. And, obviously, they care. That's at least two people who care. I bet there are more people who care, perhaps not a lot nor caring a lot, so you're probably even more wrong. Why you'd post such obviously wrong things is beyond me. It's obvious that they care, or they'd have not posted it. Right there you should know that your statement is false.
You also care, or you'd have not taken the time to post that. You care enough to demonstrate it by posting about it. If you didn't care, you'd not say anything. But, instead, you care - even if it's just a little and you only care enough to express that you don't care, you do - in fact, care.
Today's not your day for being witty, insightful, or correct.
I had not thought of it that way. You might be on to something.
Or on something...
They did. From version 15 to about 23 it was pretty crappy (post code switch). From about 28 it became good again. From 23 to 28 it was usable. It's pretty good again. I typically stick with the beta build but I use different browsers for different things with different defaults so I have stable, beta, and dev installed. Err... At the moment, they're all running. :/
Yeah, I've never actually posted there. There's a KGIII there but they're not me. I have no idea why they use the moniker or who they are but, I assure you, they are not me. They appear to like basketball. I did notice that. (I was curious. They're not the only "kgiii" out there but I've been using the username for 30+ years now.)
I concur which, oddly enough, gets me labeled as a ultra-conservative. I've yet to really figure that one out. I'm not even an anarchist, or even a minarchist. I'm actually pretty damned left on the spectrum and don't even mind reasonable taxation in return for reasonable services.
I am currently having an email conversation (it has gone on for almost two weeks now) with some Chinese spammer. So far, so good but I'm not really sure where to go with it. They make glass doors. I'm thinking about having them send me a sample.
Now that's what I like to see. I seem to recall that my very first post to you, on your very first day, was mentioning the need to say things pretty much just like that.
You can't please 'em all and it's futile to try. There is, literally, not one thing you can do that will make everyone happy. Sometimes, you just gotta tell 'em to pound sand. Which, well, you just did.
I, for one, appreciate our new realistic and mostly down-to-Earth overlords. I also second your sentiment but I do worry that we're having a bad influence on you. ;-)
"You were such a nice young man, until you started hanging around *that* crowd." Say the old ladies who amass around the village well. "Well, I'll never let MY daughter anywhere near him." Exclaims one of them, as the rest titter and nod in affirmation.
My understanding is that, actually no - they're not so good at that. We humans still excel at pattern recognition.
Now, this is a layman's understanding (though I understand it a bit better than most laymen, I should assume) so take it at face value and with that caveat.
But, we're just now getting to the point where computers are approaching child-like recognition. Remember the recent outrage when black people were recognized as gorillas? How they have issues with Asian eyes not being open?
See, as a kid, we can point out a tree to you and, sure enough, you then will recognize other trees - even if they are deciduous and the tree you were shown was coniferous. You'll recognize a ball even if it is a baseball, billiard ball, basketball, etc... You'll see money and know that it is money - you'll probably even know it's money if it's from a county you've never seen before.
Computers, well... They're good at filtering things we know about and how to describe. That's it, really. We're still working on machine learning (sometimes called AI) and it's only in the infant stages. Humans, for now, will spot flaws much better (and quicker) than a computer will unless there's something we know to look for.
As this was certainly not something we'd know to look for, we'd not have been able to (yet) program it to spot such anomalies. Now that we've spotted it, know some characteristics, and can do some deterministic interpretations of the data then we might be able to program spotting this in the future with varied levels of accuracy. For the time being, we're still going to need a human in the loop.
I'm not sure if that makes sense or not but that's the best way I can think of to describe it.
Probably not for very long, at least.