I hear you out there asking “How do you do it, Hype? How do you make these wonderful puzzles?” So over the next few intros I’ll lay it our for you. The first part should be the easiest – find a quote to use. It should be easy, but I was never one for taking notes or highlighting while reading so I have to constantly remind myself to look out for a clever phase or interesting factoid that would make a good puzzle. Also keep in mind that the letters in the author’s name and the title of the book will need to be in the quote, if your reading Don Quixote your options will be few since you’d need a quote with both a Q and an X in it. One last thing to keep in mind is the ratio of the letters in the author and title to the letters in the quote I’ve found that somewhere around 6 is a good starting point. You can rig this a bit by choosing to use the authors full name or just his last or maybe his first and middle initials and his full last name. Also you can edit the quote if it’s too long, You may notice when you complete a puzzle and the answer pops up there are sometimes words in parenthesis that aren’t in the puzzle grid, those are words that I edited out to make the numbers work. Now on with the puzzle you know the drill – Entertainment…Gambling…Free country…
Music to solve Glibcrostics to
* I haven’t actually read this book but based on the synopsis I read it sounds shitty
** Go ahead and DuckDuckGo this one it’s not cheating if I say that you’re allowed
Message found in fortune cookie from Panda Take-out reminds us: “The dildo of consequence is seldom lubricated“..
Was your fortune realized, Jerry?
Daily Quordle 253
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what a fucked up collection of words today
OT – Just hit the CNBC tape Musk has again offered to buy Twitter.
For the original price though? That’s weird.
Did he get out of the old deal?
nope
The stockholders voted at 98.6% to accept his asking price and atop being little bitches on September 13th. That probably had something to do with it too.
Yeah but then why the circus of pretending to get out of it?
Agreed, this makes no sense.
Not sure. Something must have happened regarding this deal which the public is unaware of. Two things I do know:
1. Twitter was terrified of going to trial. Anything to avoid airing that dirty laundry.
2. The original deal was so covered with strings that Musk would have been buying it to look at it like a museum piece.
My conclusion is that the board finally agreed to Musk’s unconditional offer. Allowing him to own it outright.
So your conclusion is he did get a better deal, but not on price.
I think. We may never know.
The press is reporting that Musk thought he would lose at trial, so that’s why he blinked and agreed to buy.
So, the opposite must be true.
Pffftttttt…..
Musk’s little poll on the Ukraine/Russia conflict appears to have been hammered by bots.
He was trending towards a preference for his plan then it swung pretty wildly. Don’t tell me state actors don’t have tools in this arena.
Maybe he got a true picture of the ‘bot problem, and he thinks he can fix it?
The “bot problem” is that Twitter won’t get rid of the bots, not that they can’t.
They’re highly motivated to have those bots pumping up their numbers.
Which makes it seem like a worse deal.
On the other hand, that price to control the Democratic Party’s greatest instrument of propaganda seems like a steal.
Elon Musk is smart, very smart…but perhaps not as smart as he thinks he is. He really had no way to get out of the deal, the bot issue was way overblown as twitter had disclosed it.
Couldn’t he have just paid a billion dollar fee?
I’d rather do that and then offer to buy at a reasonable price, like 30 billion?
Twitter was suing him not for the billion dollars but for the full performance.
“He really had no way to get out of the deal”
Unless his lawyers are morons, he could have gotten out of the deal clean, no walk-away fee. If what I have read about Twitter not cooperating with due diligence around the bots is true, they breached the purchase agreement, and likely committed securities fraud to boot.
If what I have read about Twitter not cooperating with due diligence around the bots is true
I am suggesting that maybe it is not.
Will Chamberlain (conservative guy) has been telling everyone for awhile now that Musk is fucked and has to buy Twitter:
Unfortunately, I did not take his advice 🙁
Musk could still turn out to be Francisco d’Anconia. At least I can dream of that.
No link to an interactive online version this time? I’m trying to solve this on my phone. 😟
Anti-interactive tech?
Very Hyperbole-esque.
Sorry, damn editors sleeping on the job again.
Better late than never link to online version.
Thank you!
“Squirrels” doesn’t fit.
Canadian Geese, or Whales.
Canadian GeeseHate Birds – the Birds That Hate, or Whales.Fixed.
Canada Geese
/pedant
“contrarians”
But “wasps” does.
Not “orcas”?
A worthy competitor for the crown, I’ll admit.
Neither does ‘wolverines’.
Clue for L should be [3, 4].
Off to the recrimination meeting for the valve shutoff incident.
“You get an 8D, and YOU get an 8D and YOU get an 8D!”
Such Ignoble gasses.
What’s an 8D?
OMWC’s White Whale
*strongly narrows gaze*
*Choke -snort*
8 Discipline:
Either a tool used to get to the root an an problem, contain it, create corrective actions, then institutionalize the cause to prevent it from happening again
OR
A way to punish people who are not doing what you want them to do.
Sometimes both
D0: Plan – Plan for solving the problem and determine the prerequisites.
D1: Use a team – Select and establish a team of people with product/process knowledge.
D2: Define and describe the problem – Specify the problem by identifying in quantifiable terms the who, what, where, when, why, how, and how many (5W2H) for the problem.
D3: Develop interim containment plan; implement and verify interim actions – Define and implement containment actions to isolate the problem from any customer.
D4: Determine, identify, and verify root causes and escape points – Identify all applicable causes that could explain why the problem occurred. Also identify why the problem was not noticed at the time it occurred. All causes shall be verified or proved, not determined by fuzzy brainstorming. One can use 5 Whys and cause and effect diagrams to map causes against the effect or problem identified.
D5: Choose and verify permanent corrections (PCs) for problem/nonconformity – Through preproduction programs, quantitatively confirm that the selected correction will resolve the problem for the customer.
D6: Implement and validate corrective actions – Define and implement the best corrective actions (CA).
D7: Take preventive measures – Modify the management systems, operation systems, practices, and procedures to prevent recurrence of this and all similar problems.
D8: Congratulate your team – Recognize the collective efforts of the team. The team needs to be formally thanked by the organization
Correction:
then institutionalize the preventative measures to prevent it from happening again
You argon to keep talking about this aren’t you?.
An entire subcontractor got pulled off of working onsite. It’s one of the bigger fuckups to happen in a while. Fortunately for blame-assignment, they violated an entire laundry list of rules, including and especially those about verifying that the person working for you was obeying the rules.
Ooof. That’s a hit to the bottom line.
It sounds like a big deal, but not being very creative, that was the only joke I could think of.
https://thespun.com/nfl/nfc-south/tampa-bay-buccaneers/tom-brady-gisele-have-reportedly-hired-divorce-attorneys
Tom and Gisele on the outs?
That’s too bad. I’m sure their attorneys are happy though. Cha ching!
Poor guy didn’t want to retire, now he can’t.
DiCaprio has it right. Dated her when she was 20-25. Then sent her on her merry way.
You need to figure these things out before having kids, if possible.
I had never heard of the essay your quote comes from.
Is it worth reading?
I do like the quote.
It is. A foundational text, as it were.
To be honest I read the quote somewhere but haven’t read the essay.
LOL!
God, what a trainwreck.
And yet 50% of the the US and 85% of the media will run cover for him.
lulz
Dr. Jill seemed to noticeably wince.
And then she looked away resignedly and sighed…
Then this must have caused seizures.
What the actual fuck?
That calls for a Picard face palm gif.
JFC
He’s the Forrest Gump of politics. He grew up in the Puerto Rican community, and the Jewish community, he was at civil rights marches, he graduated at the top of his class… did I miss about 20 things?
He’s not a smart man.
He was a speech writer for Neil Kinnock and RFK, as well.
Did firearms training for the Black Panthers and ghost wrote all of Burt Bacharach’s biggest songs.
Accomplished dude.
I was born a poor black chiild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zcEQtG_Ugo
But he pulled himself up. To get three undergraduate degrees.
https://twitter.com/grandoldmemes/status/1577074268390584320
😀
Perfect.
“Pedo Rican”
And after that he went and out-Jewished the Jews.
🤡
I thought that horse was dead, but they’re still beating it.
He’s always been a bullshitting politician. Some things never change.
Yeah, but it’s reached new heights of bullshit.
It’s really astounding.
The fact that it’s obvious to everyone with a brain, but all the major media is running cover for him, is what astounds me.
Why not both?
Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein
+1 note from Epstein’s Mother
*gasps*
Did you just assume my gender?!?!?
He used the accusatory “you!” For shame!
He should have said
“I feel that pencils should be sharpened by now.”
Xanax for a week! Bad! Bad!
I thought you’d just use airplane epoxy to record your answers.
“find a quote to use”
“Fuck you, cut spending”
I love bureaucracy /lies
It’s so efficient /damn lies
OT: Here is an article I thought our IT personnel as well as home dabblers might appreciate. It outlines the case for and against using opensource software if you want to keep your stuff yours’s.
“Freedom is scary
So what I told my acquaintance when their copy of Microsoft Office self-destructed was:
You can’t have perfect fidelity from any free office suite. You can’t keep your Outlook .PST files. You will have to put up with imperfect conversions, but it’s worth it.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/you_cannot_buy_software/
I mean, he’s not wrong, exactly, but all of the same issues exist with FOSS. You can say, “but it’s free!”, and yeah, that’s great, and I highly recommend using it when it’s enough to get the job done. But being free also means there’s less financial incentive in place to maintain it. At least with commercial software, you’ll see the writing on the wall fairly early, and there will be time to do something about it while the vendor is in “milking the base” mode. FOSS projects are often abandoned without warning and for no apparent reason.
In the commercial software world, if you have deep enough pockets you can also pay the vendor to keep supporting software that’s past EOL/EOS. At least for a while…
You also have a vendor to complain to if something breaks.
I agree there is a case to be made depending on what the software is being used for. I have machines and equipment that will never work again if the original hard drive and PC fail because the original software from the now defunct vendor won’t work with any new computers or windows versions.
From another perspective, I once had a tester that ran on a HP calculator using micro cassettes. The test program and hardware could not be changed without DOD approval and that approval and requalification cost more that the business.
http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=1&cat=9
Where will we be in another 20 years once the software is so incomprehensible that decisions are made in essentially a black box?
One place I worked had an old Avaya phone system to run their call center. It was past EOL and EOS. They realized the risk when one of the power supplies in it went. There were no new ones for sale anywhere, and they had to pay a heavy premium for a used one (which they then bought extras of). They then used this to push forward the need to upgrade the phone system.
I went through that once, had to do a major upgrade and became one of the companies beta testers in the process (going from 11″ floppies to a gui).
So that’s why I was stuck using Lotus Notes!
/reads article
Wait a second… where was the car analogy? Every article like this needs an idiotic car analogy!
And I’ll take issue with this chunk here:
Theoretically that’s great… until you run into a wonky network adapter, video card, printer, or audio device.
You can’t buy software – because you can’t own commercial software at all.
So what. It’s been that way since the beginning. It’s not just desktop computers. It’s everything with a processor in it. Your phone. Your car. Your fridge.
And you can no longer avoid this problem.
The commercial stuff isn’t guaranteed to be better anyway, or even to work at all.
All software has bugs. All of it. I use the software that my employer uses because 1) they gave it to me free and 2) I don’t have to learn two different things.
The free stuff isn’t guaranteed either, meaning that in terms of measurable quality, they are equivalent.
My limited experience with freeware was all bad.
Even if you can get the source code, mostly, that doesn’t mean you can customize it, or check it, or learn much from it.
Who fucking wants to fuck with the source code? I want to use the computer, not build it. It’s just a tool that I use to do the things I want to do. I don’t buy build-your-own bandsaws either. Yes there are plenty of youtube videos of people cobbling together homemade tools. But that’s not me.
*RJ appears in the background, holds up a Raspberry Pi with LibreOffice on it
*Music swells
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8OJAOMbPg
Still can’t buy a Raspberry Pi board? Things aren’t getting better any time soon
I got mine used on eBay. No price gouging or other issues. Still a lot out there. New, they are available but I completely agree the price is stupid for such a one-board computer. It’s interesting, a lot of new one-board PCs are stepping up now to threaten your wallet.
RJ, (and anyone else who wants to chime in) Can you compare Libre Office to Open Office. I’ve only ever used OO.
I love that these things are available for people to play with. More power to those people.
But, like I said, I ain’t one of those people.
This is where I am. I like beer, but I have no desire to brew. More power to those people. Same with a whole host of things. But, I do like to mess around with old machines, so I restore and use old lathes and such. But that is just me, and I don’t expect others to want to do the same.
The problem comes when people stop recognizing that their hobby is not mine.
I do brew.
I am an engineer. I don’t fuck with computers when I leave work. I make mead or beer or cider. Occasionally, I go to the garage and make something from wood.
I know, and you have a great reputation for it.
My two best and oldest friends are in the computer industry, and I have to constantly remind both of them that I DGAF about the things, and buy cheap ones as I will break them out of indifference.
Throughout the 80s and 90s I had to constantly explain to my friends that I used computers — I did not build them.
But, you’re an engineer. Surely you can fix my PC.
That’s fucking ridiculous.
I’ve got a pile of accepted pull-requests that say otherwise. And in-production forked versions with PRs that were rejected.
I mean, I know it’s “The Register”, but still.
Any way to make the interactive version scale? The numbers and letters in the squares are so very very tiny.
On chrome I can zoom in, not sure about other browsers.
Ctrl + doesn’t work?
Firefox seems to not recognize that simple key shortcut. I was able to zoom in using the mouse, then type in dirty words and leave.
Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy expert joins Koch.
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/sanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank/
Welp. foreign policy is the only good thing about Bernie Sanders so ok.
Hasn’t the old fraud voted for all the Ukraine nonsense?
He put up some token criticism and then folded like a cheap suit.
Ah, the old Texas Republican gambit.
So strange. If you can’t beat them, buy them?
Beware of Hobby Lobby
Ha!
Mrs. TOK is currently at Michael’s, thank goodness. In today’s economy I don’t think we can afford a MAGA hat for every occasion.
Just spoke to my real estate agent who has a buddy at the Fed. Backroom chatter is that the Fed is not going to relent on rate hikes.
The market exuberance of the past two days is a bit premature.
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night.
I guess it’s pretty serious.
(However, I agree with the rumor.)
You mock me sir.
I will not be mocked.
Ok, maybe I will since I can’t really do anything about it…
*insert Nelson “ha-ha” gif*
John Malkovich fan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81U7Vunhuc&t=273s
Thank you, Simone. (He was right about tariffs.)
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.
The AC at my house is 17 years old. It’s not working great anymore. So I planned to replace it next spring.
Ian wipes out a big chuck of Florida.
So, it occurs to me that the market for AC units might be a bit stressed next spring.
So the HVAC guys came today to check my system so they can give me a quote to replace it now. I’m already afraid what the bill will be now. I can’t imagine how bad it will be next spring.
Hopefully that is your biggest problem next spring.
Just sayin’