I'm fine with dry desert heat at well above 30C. The reason 28C feels hot here is humidity, particularly at night, and I'm sure people in the tropics get used to warm++ with humidity++ but most housing in the UK traps heat. This terrifies me (chapter excerpt):
https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nHGphF5wZuc
WordAll #540 completed in 1m 21s (paused to get two in my head before beginning. I went to bed sweating and I awoke sweating. It was about 28c most of the day indoors and takes ages to cool down. I'm fine with heat now but it does change the flow of a day.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 811 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #595 1/6 (100%) (no cheating but I think there should be three extra neighbours in that list. Given the distances involved when they do Pacific or Carribbean islands)
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La palabra del día #610 5/6 (logic)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #607 5/6 (half awake)
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Framed #546
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The risks aren't all that and a key word is confounders but...
Circuit Des Yeux - Paper Bag
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbQYJF0CB0
WordAll #539 completed in 2m 12s (this was tricky but luckily diving in paid off, I had two mentally when I started)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 810 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #594 3/6 (100%) (cheated from start to finish on this one and it was still difficult)
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La palabra del día #609 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #606 4/6
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Framed #545
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OHMME - Peach
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fNuLP1Bo_B8
WordAll #538 completed in 57s (did this last, and with a minute or two of consideration, because I'm a little dehydrated and barely awake)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 809 6/6* (ha, excellent. No problems scoring 5 on that one. Although my starting word wasm't good)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #593 2/6 (100%) (got the population wrong. And dismissed the flag twice because I was thinking of a neighbour with a similar flag)
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La palabra del día #608 5/6 (100% logic.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #605 3/6 (hurrah. I think I'm half dehydrated. It is still hot upstairs now.)
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Framed #544 (saw a poster once)
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Pagan Wanderer Lu - Banish Negative Thoughts
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_TXv0KMiyfQ
WordAll #537 completed in 2m 33s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 808 3/6* (1/3 chance on 3. So went with what I assumed was the most frequently occurring)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #592 3/6 (100%) (cheated a lot because it is an extraordinaryly large place regardless of Mercator projections [1])
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La palabra del día #607 4/6 (logic not knowledge)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #604 4/6 (logic not knowledge. I look them up afterwards and they mostly don't sink in on a conscious level. Repetion and spotting them elsewhere helps.)
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Framed #543
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I've been looking at software to reduce system e-waste and the BSDs seem to be where it is at for old systems doing computery stuff but Linux where it's at for computers doing peopley stuff. The weight (space/memory requirements) of most Linux installers for light PC systems, with a functional GUI, seems to be around 20GiB (the switch to GiB still annoys me on any system derived from base-2) storage and 2GiB memory. Which is tiny by todays standards, and light, but not light compared to the footprint of an OpenBSD install like this:
https://www.k58.uk/openbsd.html
Similarly for FreeBSD. But I was pleased to find observe the minimal i3 Manjaro install is still relatively light versus most of its peers despite having *lots* of nicites preconfigured (and lots not):
I also quite like Bodhi for old computers:
There is a balance between preconfiguration and bloat. I think Manjaro gets it right with their minimal installs. Can def. see why *BSDs are embedded in a lot of stuff though which is why I think it will never go away.
Female orb web spider enjoying the weather, earlier today. Strikingly large for its type because, I suspect, it has an excellently positioned web for larger files. Plus it ate a male spider earlier in the day.
The Russian Apartments* - Travelogue (great video on YouTube)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvumNHrrcQ
* actually from Portland. It's sad, and kind of ridiculous, I have to stress that. Unless a band was taking an overtly pro-war or pro-Putin stance I think it's doubly a shame [1].
WordAll #536 completed in 1m 06s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 807 4/6* (somewhat harder because there was a choice of several on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #591 1/6 (100%) (I guessed over half of neighbouring countries before cheating, but gosh that's a big list. I also disagree with at least one not been in the neighbors list)
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La palabra del día #606 3/6 (there are lots of Swiss army knife words in Spanish, which is a great strength IMHO)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #603 5/6 (I suspect this has really interesting etymology)
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Framed #542 (100% a guess)
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[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting
Not an uncommon thought...
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRKaNTlMho
WordAll #535 completed in 50s
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 806 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #590 2/6 (100%) (cheated a lot on this one)
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La palabra del día #605 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #602 4/6 (logic rather than knowledge)
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Framed #541
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There is no such thing as an ideal compression algorithm without a lot of thought going into what it is 'ideal for'. But pixz [1 ]and pigz [2] are useful parallel implementations of xz and gz respectively. With concomitant speed increases over their single threaded implementations.
[1] I've found the '-f n' commandline switch useful for tuning: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
[2] gzip still a fine thing (see 'ideal for'): https://zlib.net/pigz/
Ghostland Observatory - See You later Simulator
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig8laEOZpWI&feature=shared
WordAll #534 completed in 3m 43s (blanked a little)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 805 4/6* (A harder one. I picked a smart, but randomish, starter word and then tried as many consonants as I could get away with, on hard mode, until two or three choices on 4. Generally with NYT wordle it's the obvious one. Not always)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #589 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #604 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #601 4/6 (1/2 chance of a 3)
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Framed #540 (I feel like fictional American or European states always default to broad brush steotypes about huge areas despite of huge geographic, cultural, historical and lingustic differences between them individually. National Lampoon's European Vacation at least managed to do it state by state.)
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You'll own nothing and be happy...
Ultracynic - Nothing Is Forever (because this wordles sesh took far longer than it should have because I had a late night)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qPo6ZsUPE74
WordAll #533 completed in 1m 21s (went to bed late so spent maybe 3 minutes before I started thinking of the first word. It flowed from there, luckily)
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 804 4/6* (I thought 3 could be 4 but dismissed it because I thought I did that one another time. Must have been a different Wordle. Maybe Quordle)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #588 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #603 4/6 (should have been 3. Brain not yet in gear)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #600 4/6 (I took too long with this one and it was logic rather than knowledge)
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Framed #539
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With my blog posts my imaginary target audience is someone who is not necessarily technical but l also reasonably clever. I think it's a delicate balance between not patronizing people who are technical and not patronizing people who aren't. I can try, anyway, in the worst case I'm bound to get the balance right by chance occasionally.
New blog post (I think, often with lots of issues, there is a fractal self similarity that applies when zooming in or zooming out):
The new AI enhanced Bing search is like someone who earnestly wants to help but keeps getting it wrong for forgiveable reasons. I don't hate it but it is quite annoying.
Basically trying to work out why Windows 10, Update is takes so long an I have ruled out:
Network speed
Lack of processing power
Inadequate memory
Disk speed
My hypothesis is that something is blocking IO, which is slowing down a relatively trivial, but large update. I'm beginning to think Windows Defender is locking the IO threads for the MoUSO process (the newfangled-ish updating infrastructure for Windows). Which is, maybe, artificially (deliberately?) massively slowing down the update*.
Assuming the update can be regarded as trusted it seems redundant and careless that Windows Defender is using at least one core at close to full utilisation. On a fresh install.
I am fairly ignorant about Windows - about the same as the average person reviewing it.
* Or there is no IO process/thread blocking it's just - see I don't understand how it can be that slow. I get why Android/iOS updates are slow but not Windows 10 onwards with enough resources. Unless it's doing something really odd and computationally intensive. Except it isn't - I can monitor it quite well inside a KVM container.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lvIBfju00&feature=shared
Another potential reason is that the processes are running at a low priority, but that doesn't wholly make sense because there is minimal foreground activity. I'm backing up the VM this time. Rather than have to do this rigamarole more than once. I would buy a Windows 11 license but not being an Apple user I don't want to be forced into linking it to a Microsoft (obviously bit of a joke because it'd be an iCloud account) account (which makes sense, ish, anticompetitive aspects aside, for FaceTime, iCloud etc. I guess Microsoft's excuse is Apple did it, these days - the current W11 won't allow just a local account as of last week).
Another weird one - the UEFI based install seems quite a lot slower than the legacy boot install. Maybe a VM side effect.