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Thanks for the Laugh.
So some of the newer CPUs include a “Neural Processing Unit” which they call an NPU. Since I have one now, I was trying to figure out what software actually uses this. Then I read from a random person on Reddit that the NPU is just a DSP... a “digital signal processor”, which is a chip used to process audio or video in electronics. But after the oligarchy decided everything is going to be AI, they decided they’ll just call the DSP a Neural Processing Unit because AI.
I was pleased to learn my camera app uses the NPU to blur the background and whatnot. It’s almost as if it’s being used for digital signal processing…
Don't thank me, I just step into the hole.
Non-Complaint: I was supposed to have the first dental appointment this morning for starting the series of steps of dental implants. It is now delayed two weeks due to my continuing flu. I had emailed the office if I needed to go off blood thinners for the procedure a week ago and it was yesterday they responded. I sent the list I am on along with the fact of four weeks of flu lingering and their response was an offer to move the appointment. So it is on Veterans Day now. And I am not being billed for messing their schedule up.
As far as multiple appointments, unless you are really lucky, many dental offices have specialists and limited dental surgeons who are only at the office on certain days. So you might see a regular dentist, but if you need a surgeon, or someone who specializes in implants, you have to make multiple appointments or go to the specialist's office (I had to do that for root canals).
I had one as a teenager and I've refused them since. I'd rather the damned thing was just pulled out. The most evil of procedures for what is only really a temporary fix. Extraction is much cheaper too.
A Neural Processing Unit sounds like a prop for a cyberpunk genre Daz character.
Non-complaint: Bus up town, OK. Dentist appointment OK, dentist happy, I'm happy. Drugstore prescription pickup OK, bought halloween candy that I like (Dove Dark) because no one ever comes to my door.
Laundry OK, but it took three and a half dryers because one dryer never heated up.
Grocery shopping went OK, and although I brought four cloth bags with me, I only needed three, but the bill was still $118.
Complaint: The grocery store was out of their giant pile of pumpkins.
On the other hand, I was so happy to find brown eggs that I just grabbed them and popped them into my cart. Yeah, yeah, I know, there's no difference, but I just like the look of brown eggs.
However, when I got home I discovered that they'd expired 3 days ago.
Ashamedly, I'd broken one of my three old-person rules for succeeding at aging. 1) don't hurry 2) pay attention to details 3) Don't carry more than two things at a time. Slap my hands I did.
Non-complaint: I have no pumpkin to carve, so no Jack-O-Lantern this year, which means that the Dove Dark chocolates are definitely mine, all mine, mwa-ha-ha.
I keep hearing about doomscrolling, but I decided to try doom on Debian. Problem is that I forgot to charge the computer up before going out so the battery was too low to keep using it. I am back at home and the notebook is now charging.
edit: that was a picture of the first one I tried but the second one was chocolate doom and it worked fine but I needed to charge the computer battery up so I can play with it without worrying about it.
Don't know if this helps but 3 days is nothing in the life of an egg ,just keep them refrigirated and if you are worried about using them , put them in a bowl of water before cooking them ,if they float ,don't use them ...... but don't try this until you are ready to cook them you wash off their natural seal if you do .I've had eggs usable weeks after their expiration date .
Yeah, I'm aware of egg longevity. Either don't wash them at all and keep them on the shelf, or once washed (as they are in all US grocery stores), keep them refrigerated. But just to be safe, I boiled up a half dozen of them tonight, they sunk, and stayed sunk, so after the boil, they got peeled. Actually, boiled eggs that are old are easier to peel than fresh ones.
Now that I have the boiled eggs I can see egg salad, or an easy breakfast or snack, or as garnish in a lettuce salad in the near future. Two more of the unboiled ones will soon get used in another set of salmon patties, and I'm sure the other four will get used before things grow in them. I'm just disappointed that I didn't plan carefully and assured myself that I had eggs that didn't need to be thought about for a few weeks. I normally don't use eggs very often, but hate not having them when a brainstorm hits me.
As long as they don't float in a glass of water, they're perfectly fine to cook and eat. I've had eggs last for several weeks after the date on the box before they start to gas up.
Next week's mini-adventure is a Thursday visit to my GP, or as they're called now, "Primary Care Physician". I like him, he's young-ish, up to speed with modern medicine, friendly, and he listens.
UNFORTUNATELY, my appointment isn't until 1:15 in the afternoon, which is highly inconvenient for me. So, I think I'll take the one and only bus from my rural town at 8:00AM into the city for breakfast somewhere interesting, then get myself to the franchise row and mall area on the far side of the city for some shopping at JC Penney or WalMart and an early lunch at a place like Applebee's or Olive Garden, then Uber back to the doctor's office near the hospital area in the center of the city. Wheee... a big mini-adventure. Budget shot again for November, but let's call this my self-birthday present.
And if I time things right, I might even be able to catch the one and only bus back to my rural town at 3:00PM. Completely eliminating a long Uber trip for the day.
In the USA, eggs sold in stores don't have the natural protective coating, having been washed (as an anti-Salmonella measure) so must be refrigerated. Now, living in a rural area, we often get given, or buy, eggs direct from someone's home/farm flock. I have been reminded/reassured many times that they can safely sit on the counter for days, but after 60+ years of seeing them go into the fridge, I haven't broken the habit. This may be for the best, since we still buy eggs from the grocery when friends don't have any, and it would be bad if we forgot a carton was from the store & left it out. Most chicken owners here reuse cartons from stores so easy to confuse.
The Double Post Demon returns!
Don't refresh if it seems to hang after clicking the Submit button on a quote - the post has already been added, it is usually just reloading the updated forum page that is hanging. Firefox asks me if I want to resubmit the data any time I try that, which is a useful reminder.
I usually copy the text, including quote, from the post box then go back to the actual thread and refresh that - on the rare occasions that the post isn't there I can just paste into the regular reply box and get the same result (refreshing there doesn't seem to result in doubles most of the time).
...as to computer memory prices something odd has been going on, A week ago the total cost for my planned upgrade (the entire upgrade kit*) was just under 5.000 USD. On Monday when I checked again it had fallen by nearly 1,700 USD to 3,300. Today when I looked, it went back up to 4,700 USD.
I didn't know that Wall Street also sold computer gear, Or is it maybe the prediction markets?.
I need to borrow a Tardis or Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine to go back to September of last year before all this nonsense began.
* CPU & cooler, Motherboard, Memory, M2 boot drivem and Win 11 Pro DVD.
Non-complaint: Egg & Pumpkin problems solved.
Unable to get a pumpkin yesterday, while at the uptown grocery, I decided I should at least try to get one from my local grocery two blocks away. It's a tiring toddle uphill both ways, and I was still pooped out from yesterday's toddles, stair climbs, grocery cart pushing, and bag carrying adventure. Weather has also turned ugly. Not cold, but chilly and windy and overcast (perfect Halloween weather). I didn't drag my folding cart with me because I half expected their supply of pumpkins to be gone too. I didn't need much from the local grocery but did find a few things, fresh eggs being one of them. Yay! Eggs that are good for at least a month.
I'm full up on eggs now. But there in a big box were some giant pumpkins. Perfect Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, complete with sturdy stem-handles and fat round, unblemished faces waiting for an expression. While I was checking out, I mentioned to the cashier (someone I'd not seen there before) that I had wanted to get a pumpkin but was walking and couldn't carry it and would give a tip if someone could deliver it for me. He took me up on the suggestion, and also gave me a ride to my house avoiding the on coming heavy chilly wind and painful feet, knees, and hips. I was surprised when he yelled out to another worker in the store to cover for him at the check-out, but when we got into a nice new Cadillac, I figured he was the owner. Cool!
Now I have a pumpkin to carve tomorrow (Wheee, my one holiday anticipation), and I'm not too worried about attracting too many goblins to eat my Dove Dark chocolates, because nobody ever comes this far to the edge of town anyway (despite the center of town being only two blocks away
). I think the kids these days all gather at the firehall in the center of town for organized Halloween events.
Complaint: Manufacturer websites that show products, but don't sell them and won't tell you where to get them and the product or sku number is meaningless because if you input the the exact information into any search engine you can't find that item.
Like what's the point? It's not even a wholesale thing... these pages just exist to taunt you.
The internet is getting exponentially useless by the hour. Fifteen years ago I used to be able to go online and there was a 75% chance if I had 80% of the information correct I could find a part or product I'm looking for either immediately or within ten minutes... if I didn't find it, there was a 50% chance it was a discontinued item.
I feel like the 15 years ago mark was more or less where things were getting better and more efficient and then there was a noticeable change...
Most of the time that I search for something, most of the crap that shows up has almost nothing to do with the words I typed in. Is the theory that people are just so lazy that if you flood their search with crap they didn't ask for they'll just buy this stuff you are trying to sell them and forget about why they came there?... Am I alone here?... I'm not buying a toaster because I searched for a "HeatCo linear heating element part #543-6b" and im now like "aw shucks all you can find are toasters and potatoes, so I'll buy an overpriced toaster at a hugely inflated price because internet tried to help me"...
Yes I know I've made this complaint a thousand times, but holy hellburgers, it's just getting worse and worse...
Can we just pull the plug and start over somewhere else without all the nonsense?
That said...
Hello everyone! I've been stopping by occasionally and checking on you folks... but often it's too many pages of comments I've missed and I just skim through hoping you guys are doing well...
I hope everyone is okay and nobody has evaporated or been eaten by the marauding mutant hamster packs...
Anyway... Luv yooz, stay safe and well and avoid those damn hamsters.
Hello again McGyver, good to see/hear/read you again. Have you tried explaining the situation to an AI like Google's AI mode (Gemini)? I've found that instead of searching details on bazillions of potential sites, that the AI can sort through the junk and zero in on the salient information. Start out with essential, but generalized details, then converse (through the keyboard) using full well formed sentences, giving more specific details or why the answer(s) provided are off the mark. Oh, and I always say "Please" and "Thank you", and it gets more friendly. It's rapidly becoming my best friend.
Hey there LG!...
Yup, I've tried all sorts of variations and search engines... it seems the less AI is involved, the greater the chances of me finding an item... a good example is searching for a particular acrylic marker (I'm very fussy about markers and I found really great one in the parking lot of my daughter's school), and I want the set... Google will not give me that particular set the marker came from... it floods me with cheezy Temu grade markers or watery translucent overpriced ones... but when I went to DuckDuckGo, I was able to find the set I was looking for at the bottom of the page. And all the other hits were really close.
The problem with AI is it either is just going with what it interprets as the answer or the most popular thing it interprets as people are willing to accept.
I'm more partial to the third commonly accepted reason which I'm pretty sure would be verboten to say here. ($$)
I'm not overly fond of AI at this point, for numerous reasons which I'm also sure I shouldn't mention... initially it was fun and seemed it could be a useful tool, but not unlike Dart the Demogorgon from Stranger Things, it was cute as a baby, but once it started eating cats it became less so... (That's probably a terrible reference if you didn't watch the show)
This is not Dart the Demogorgon (below), it's actually (I think) an Indian Purple Frog (aka: Pig Nosed Frog)... I have the flu really bad today and I think my three functional brain cells (pre-flu) were going to write something about this frog and how creatures that don't conform to societal standards of cuteness can still be cute (the frogo below is adorable to me and reminds of a friend I haven't seen in decades)... but I went through the trouble of uploading the image to Imgur and then linking it here and the 30 seconds it took was long enough for my brain to just delete whatever I was going to say (which I'm sure was extremely funny or life changing) and now all we are left with is a picture of this particular frog...
Fun fact: apparently these little hoppers haven't changed much since they coexisted with dinosaurs.
The secrets they must know...
@McGyver Oh. OK. Sorry you're having negative experiences with AI. I guess I've been lucky. Interesting, fecal brown, pointed toady you've got there.
What's the collective plural or collective noun of a group of those critters called?
Great to see you're still around McGyver! I've missed your funny musings!
Apparently a bunch of frogs is called an "Army" or so I've been led to believe, but I was also once told that "Froggery" is an older term (at least that's what it sounded like)...(I think)... this does make sense, hence the line "Get thee to a Froggery" from the Shakespearean tragedy "Froglet" (act 3, scene 1, spoken by Prince Froglet to Toadphilia)
I have this theory that one or more of the prominent search engine providers are intentionally making the traditional search results useless, while feeding the good results to their AI, for the sake of making the AI seem better than traditional search. But this doesn’t explain why the traditional search was getting terrible before the AI thing.
Great to see you are around too! Though I fear I'm now a tad bit rounder than last I visited. ..."Damn thee Gouda! Thy creamy cheese! Where got'st thou that delicious taste!" ...Sorry I was still vibing Shakespearean lines... (McToad, act 5, scene 3... spoken by McToad to his servant Mr Hoppy as he eats the last of his Gouda after being informed the English Frog Army approaches).
You aren't far off... but also $$.
...McGyver, good to see you around these parts agan.