Random thought of the day
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The I Ching digraph set a-priori well-symbolizes the set of Spencer-Brown's "calculus of forms" expressions corresponding to the gates commonly used in circuit design, if one assumes each side to correspond to a variable.
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I wonder if companies like Microsoft have telemetry on how many people turn off telemetry. It would be silly not to.
People who do turn off telemetry are people who have a modicum of care about how their computer works, which means telemetry is necessarily skewed (if maybe only a little) towards people who do not give a rat's ass or don't know any better.
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@Zecc wait, you can turn off telemetry? And that actually works, doesn’t just disable a little bit of it, and doesn’t get automatically turned back on every patch Tuesday?
That sounds new.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
wait, you can turn off telemetry?
Probably only the non-essential telemetry.
And I'm pretty sure you can't turn anything off in home.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
wait, you can turn off telemetry?
Probably only the non-essential telemetry.
There is “essential” telemetry?!
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@topspin Well, I was thinking about companies in general and not MS specifically, but I probably should have written "try to" anyway.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
which means telemetry is necessarily skewed (if maybe only a little) towards people who do not give a rat's ass or don't know any better.
Butbutbut that can't be! Don't you know Telemetry is the Ultimate Source of Truth?
(Mozilla made the same mistake more than once.
: We've removed feature X ; telemetry showed very few people used it.
: Are you aware that a lot of your core users, those that would use that feature, dislike telemetry? And that being allowed to turn it off is one of the major reasons why they use your browser in the first place?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
wait, you can turn off telemetry?
Probably only the non-essential telemetry.
There is “essential” telemetry?!
Windows 10 and 11 have "required" and "optional" telemetry and on Home you can only disable "optional".
On Pro, Enterprise and Server you can disable it completely.
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Overheard: the Easter Bunny is merely Satan in a fursuit.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
doesn’t get automatically turned back on every patch Tuesday?
Laughs in WSUS
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
wait, you can turn off telemetry?
Well, you can. But it does not mean what you think does.
It's similar to Google Location services: if you turn them off, all you turn off is your access to your location data collected by Google.
That is, your data will be hidden from you, that's all.
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Guy ahead of me at the grocery checkout last night with four shopping carts full of toilet paper: "I buy all the TP off the shelves because there's going to be a shortage."
Me: "You have that backwards. There's going to be a shortage because you buy all the TP off the shelves."
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Guy ahead of me at the grocery checkout last night with four shopping carts full of toilet paper: "I buy all the TP off the shelves because there's going to be a shortage."
Me: "You have that backwards. There's going to be a shortage because you buy all the TP off the shelves."
Is it 2020 again already? Fucking loops.
Over here they're trying to create a shortage on flour and cooking oil. Partly because some morons are trying to run their diesel on it, but mostly because of the "oh no, there's going to be a shortage, so let's cause it" thinking.
Fortunately I still have oil. I'd be pissed if I had to buy olive oil, which they don't buy because it's more expensive. Everyone tells you how great it tastes and how healthy it is, but I hate that stuff.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
olive oil
Mostly isn't suitable for frying in. Any butter to fall back on?
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
Mostly isn't suitable for frying in.
Olive oil is difficult to fry in; it burns at quite a low temperature by comparison with most cooking oils.
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@topspin Use thistle oil. Tasty and cheap.
But do not use rapseed / canola oil: I use that only as "phyto-pharmaceutical substance" (wow, that's a great wording, thank you Leo translation engine! - i.e. I kill lice with it).
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin Use thistle oil. Tasty and cheap.
The problem is cheap. Anything that's cheap gets hoarded by the brainless monkeys.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
doesn’t get automatically turned back on every patch Tuesday?
Laughs in WSUS
I've found out that users can seemingly bypass WSUS by clicking a not-a-button.
You'll never guess which one...
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Fucking loops.
Just keep fucking over and over and over and over....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
You'll never guess which one...
“Pause updates for 7 days”? That's the least-intuitive, so that'll probably be it…
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I've found out that users can seemingly bypass WSUS by clicking a not-a-button.
You'll never guess which one...
I'll bite. Which one?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
WSUS
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I've found out that users can seemingly bypass WSUS by clicking a not-a-button.
You'll never guess which one...
I'll bite. Which one?
It's the "view configured policies" button. Also, how many years old is your build?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
It's the "view configured policies" button.
Also, how many years old is your build?
213
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
It's the "view configured policies" button.
Also, how many years old is your build?
213
Ah, LTSC, one of the last builds where they legitimately mostly kinda obeyed telemetry enablement settings...
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Olive oil is difficult to fry in; it burns at quite a low temperature by comparison with most cooking oils.
Yeah, that (allegedly) does unhealthy things to the oil. My
doctorFamily Nurse Practitioner told me to have all the olive oil I want in salad dressings and other cold uses, but use avocado oil (which is even more expensive) for cooking.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
avocado oil
I can only imagine that also tastes terribly.
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@topspin I haven't tasted the oil, itself, but I haven't noticed any off flavor in anything I've cooked with it. OTOH, I think I've only used it for cooking once since I got it.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
Mostly isn't suitable for frying in.
Olive oil is difficult to fry in; it burns at quite a low temperature by comparison with most cooking oils.
however, its smoke point is mere degrees from this point. I have turned taquitos instantly black by placing them in "looked about ready to fry" olive oil, which was almost certainly at more than 500F.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
avocado oil
I can only imagine that also tastes terribly.
Meine Hund hat nicht eine Schnozzel
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
trying to create a shortage on flour
Something mildly “good” (or at the least “worthwhile”) to come out of 2020 is that I was forced to learn how to use “alternative” flours – specifically, coconut.
It’s not exactly cheap, but it turns out you only need ¼ to ⅓ as much, substituting additional eggs instead. That fairly small bag from two years ago is still going, not that it gets used all that much as coconut is hardly a flawless substitute for wheat.
Still, with a few rounds of experimentation I did manage to satisfactorily adapt a brownie recipe to coconut flour, with the bonus coconut flavour that adds (which works great). I mention all this primarily because I was eating one such brownie while reading your post, and shall promptly resume doing so
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@kazitor Assuming, of course, that you're not allergic to nuts, almond flour works well, too. I have a recipe for chocolate chip cookies made using almond flour, and they're really good.
Being gluten free, I am by necessity rather familiar with alternative flours. Rice flour is by far the most common, and corn is probably the second. You can also buy alternative flour mixes that can be used exactly like you'd use wheat flour. Unfortunately, they're very expensive. The one time I actually compared the prices side by side, a 1 or 1.5 lb bag (they're only available in small packages) of the alternative mix was, per unit weight, 8x the price of a 5 lb bag of wheat flour.
When I had to switch to alternative flours, I bought a flour mill attachment for my stand mixer, and (occasionally, when the gets out of the way) I grind my own rice, oat and other flours. Sometimes, for savory dishes, not baking, I'll throw in a little bean or lentil flour for extra protein.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Over here they're trying to create a shortage on flour and cooking oil. Partly because some morons are trying to run their diesel on it
They're certainly morons if they try running their engines on flour.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Over here they're trying to create a shortage on flour and cooking oil. Partly because some morons are trying to run their diesel on it
They're certainly morons if they try running their engines on flour.
Yeah, it's a naan starter
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I vaguely tried to work in a pun in my post, but I'm really floured by yours.
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@remi These puns knead improvement
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
I vaguely tried to work in a pun in my post, but I'm really floured by yours.
Dough not quit your day job.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@remi These puns knead improvement
Are you saying they haven't fully risen to the occasion? That they need more glu to hold them together? That they're...half-baked?
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You guys really loaf puns.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
You guys really loaf puns.
They're like manna to my ears.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Over here they're trying to create a shortage on flour and cooking oil. Partly because some morons are trying to run their diesel on it
They're certainly morons if they try running their engines on flour.
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@topspin Nonsense. This is all a trick to have the cabin air smell like cooking and so fleece you for impulsive expensive dinner orders.
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@topspin
E_FLOUR_NOT_FOUND
inb4: more puns about flour/floor/airplanes...
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@remi he picked a bad post to give up jokes
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Over here they're trying to create a shortage on flour and cooking oil. Partly because some morons are trying to run their diesel on it
They're certainly morons if they try running their engines on flour.
Yes, because amid all the natural gas shortage that's really something we have a surplus of.
This afternoon in the supermarket I beheld the shelves that hold the sunflower oil, and saw that they were barren.
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@PleegWat yes, that part of my post is still in your quote chain.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
and saw that they were barren.
No more children of the corn?
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@Tsaukpaetra I think there was a demonstrative packet of ox fat. My chip pan came with a warning to only use liquid oil, but luckily I refreshed it last week.
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@remi eh, the occasional silo does get good efficiency. There's a conflagrative and a detonative air suspension density both, for flour dust. The injectors would be a problem. Might need a very fine grind and rather larger cylinders.
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Much is known of the Menes and the Medeans, but comparatively little of the Moeds.