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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Nature's made,bounty, or truth??



 "Get the green bottle"

Geezus

"Nature made" says a website. Not green bottle, also yellow label.

"Get The Large Pill"
O....k. (dosage? Hmm)


Green bottle large (biggie pill) "Fish oil".

It matters tons, if you pay for these things yourself.

(I swear I had a coupon *somewhere*, o Blast)

"megared" mumble-yada.

Not green

Not Big

Expensive as hell

(fucket)

Withdrawing tons to pay for tons, buries my future video-card aspirations DEEP.
(oh, sorry, "deep") sublimates, subsumes, it basically *kills* any hope of a new card.
So, Now would be a good time to release some, it'll make my outlook on life (sucky then death)
reaffirmed.
"bread is bad, m'kay,"
but all this other shit will be better (and stuff, I don't have a clever adage to add) aphorism, bromide,
it'll come to me but I'll be too far away to type it.
"Sucks then Die" covers it pretty much.


https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/turmeric-dosage#dosage is a mathematical nightmare, unless you're into that, then go for it.

Two Turmeric tablets daily is 2000 mg of Turmeric and
400 whatchacall Curcuminoids, except note that I said "Two Tablets"
For the really eager and charged up. (It's on the box, OK?)
But the page I listed says, 500-700 mg but then they make it complicated by adding in 
curcumin (200).
So...uhm, my remedial math (and my wallet) say, ignore the package, take only one.

The red-rover Megared, kiril-I vitamins, I haven't read yet. They appear to have identical-looking packages but each package has slight differences. 


Mine hasn't any fish-oil ("proprietary fish oil blends") nor any krill, but it does have tons of Omega 3s. Sulphites. Soy. (No Krill?)
And it wasn't on sale except for the usual coupon-friffery. The picture below is just a representation.
If my blogs get better they might be working; I could nest facts, use bigger words.
Beyond that is a sneaking suspicion I got hoodwinked somewhere.
40+40 + "Bonus pack", *what* bonus pack? Was that a sale from last month?
No bonus for me.
oooohh...sign up for endless email, get a reward...
I used to buy black pepper, concluded my stomach didn't like it much.
But curcumin and black pepper go together like batman and the green hornet.
No one *said* that before, but whatever. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/turmeric-and-black-pepper



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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Fancy title in italian ("la comedia famiglia", something yada)

 This is too vast a subject to blog about...
Some millionaire has my mom's book about Dante, a teeny tiny book that was part of a set (I am learning)
That was unreadable even for me (maybe it was in latin or italian?)
That had terrifying illustrations.
Line-drawings evoking terror.
My Brother thought it too racy/apocryphal/outré and confiscated it, and it was never seen again, more's the pity.
NOW you can find trivialized Dante-illustrations everywhere, by bored teens.
Political pundits.


"Dante gets his covid vaccine"
https://research.bowdoin.edu/dante-today/tag/illustrations/

It's political. Apparently vaccines are this vast plot. It's like underhanded advertising.
I'm all  agog  aghast at the way you can twist shit.

I don't think people quote the Inferno, beyond the title, they'd rather quote Milton.



I kind of wish I'd found the illustration in my head, which is a very frightened person missing their mouth.

I was told many years later that it WAS a Dante-book, although I cannot prove it by any other means.
Missing-mouth people are terrifying...I'll spend the next 30 seconds googling them.

How come you censor and trivialize and people are meaner now than ever?
Witch burnings, book burnings, banning dancing, burning LP-records (it was a thing...nevermind)
Anyway intolerance gets looked back on as the dark days, then it all gets repeated.
Marjorie whatshername gets called out on mask-wearing because
 (she says) it was like those holocaust-days when Jews had to wear yellow stars.
She isn't alone, that's a little scary.
This isn't even close but it's what google comes up with




O, shit, now I have a bug up my ass to find the title of the damned movie, which made no sense and had no ending (I think there was a sequel?)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Gate

This next pic is mostly unreadable to me, it's an interpretation of what was in some lady's head about hell. It looks a lot like a diagram.
People drawing this stuff must have read Dante, 
And since I did not, I only wonder lamely if Hell (seeing it) is a mostly mental-thing.
"Hell is mostly mental" (or, "Hell is mostly Dante")
is not fit to enter into a blog, but it's what I am thinking.

 
This is tons better than anything Harry Potter or Bilbo-Frodo ever did,
It's a fantastic story (The "eighth circle of Hell" is anyway).
They've even got a detailed narrative but the diagram is maddeningly vague and cut off at the bottom by the scanner (xerox machine?)


Fiction is delved into so completely, an alien from another planet could waste years deciphering what we "know". 










But it's way more interesting than politics or the dogma passing for religion these days.


ROTD word of the day, "ardat lili," a type of a succubus.

Odd (as in, "creepy") group of virus-laden sites with the same theme,
"ninth circle" and "illuminati".
I can't click on the links (I could, but it would be stewpid)

I'm getting off-topic...the whole ninth-circle hell thing looks like yet another propaganda campaign to distrust everyone everywhere except maybe the people telling you that.

I really hate "Pinterest", They tease you into joining up, and I never feel it's worth it, no matter the subject.
But the page (Telling you to join) seems relevant in this case, although the page consistently points to one single author.
But like I said, it's off topic for this entry.
There are two hells: Dante's and the political one. (Three hells..(Hell, Dante's fictionalized hell and the conspiratorial hell in their (adjective missing) world)
If I could only stop glossing  and actually read the thing, this next link might make sense (I'll jump out if they mention NWO, Illuminati or Epstein (or the pope)

Jeezus (Fa cryin outloud..I'm glad this isn't in a class and I'm not making a thesis)


Pseudo Dante


Synopsis: Hell gets progressively colder, not hotter.
(Warm in heaven, cold in hell)
I don't know if I restated it enough but we're talking about *fiction* and the corruption of fiction for political purposes.
This was all a 4AM train-of-thought anyway, I gotta avoid Solitaire at 4AM.

LIMBO
Virtuous, unbaptized grieving for their hopeless existence



(what an a-hole, geez)
This next link would make Wikipedia cry, it's so dense and (mostly) unreadable.
There's this book on Amazon that you can buy, Read, and look at Pictures!!
It's affordable!!
I might buy it!
No mouthless Banana, sadly (Maybe that was from another italian book?)



No, but it's in the same realm. A drawing, yet infinite in Detail.



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Thursday, May 20, 2021

unpronounceable (kioxia)


 Low end servers and cloud data centers, tower over an SSD never intended for NAS or server environments


If western digital bought the young little company, Kioxia would have a more sexy name people would buy.


As far as the above link goes, um,
Imagine real estate is expensive (which it is) so you and a friend decide to rent out apartments built in elevator shafts.
so 100-floor buildings could have 100 apartments!


They probably never mention "3d-nand" having so many levels, you were sort of hoping it was 3, right?
Having so many levels means it takes less real estate, is cheaper to make, now all's they gotta do is convince you they'll be better than the SN850, which were never intended for yada and whatever.

We don't know if there'll be ghettos and estates of SSD's, 
one wasting vast quantities of chip-material (MLC)
 because it's more attractive to you, 
and therefore deserving of a high price.

Suppose they
Stuck a light on it. (No wait, they already did that, justifying the $50-premium. 
They're thinking as I predicted)





I should probably go where I've been afraid to look: Stare into the face of horror:
How many levels does the SN850 use???

The thing I haven't written, probably never will, is the occasional Heat-problem the SN850 has, which in shorthand means, you probably shouldn't put it in a notebook, probably shouldn't run it in a server/NAS, because, heat.
But I never said that; I've only heard snippets.
They're quietly mentioning some things and trumpeting other things.

I was only trying to figure out how ghetto it is (how many floors of teeny-tiny apartments)
The internet-meaning of a "Ghetto SSD" is a drive contrived or adapted to work as an SSD,
Not the actual SSD (which was *designed* from the ground up to be ghetto)



Hark, a link!
I Think...
Maybe...
"96 levels"... (I'm still editing this)







so this...
is....
OK (what) maybe you're planning a wedding party in your back yard.
Your back yard is covered in dog doo and the driveway has an oil-puddle.
You could:
Scrub the driveway, pick up the doo...
cover the entire mess with giant blue-plastic tarps.

I want to CLONE my old hard drive.
Office will probably complain no matter what, I'm resigned to that.
Copy-paste from explorer is like asking your nerdy sister with a nosy streak to help clean your room, she won't do it right and she'll tattle...no, you're not getting my point, Windows will (by design) skip files and tattle you are using a different drive, and tell Microsoft, who'll say,
"What's all this, Then?" and shut down any microsoft programs (and possibly windows) even though windows is a beta and Office is still there, whole and complete, except for their imprimatur.
No....maybe I, uh...
OK then there's the mechanics of it all.
Not wishing to have three drives hooked up, 

(This huge-ish subject has people pontificating all over the net, but on my motherboard with the factory-included BIOS,  using the 'M.2'-number three-slot, the video-card's speed dropped by a lot.
But then, using the fancy network card or an extra 'M.2'-adapter card, the video also slowed down.
Did a newer-revision BIOS fix this?
I'll never know, on this motherboard anyway. It isn't worth worrying about!)
The SATA m.2 wouldn't work in the adapter-slot-card anyway,
the card was designed strictly for NVME-m.2 drives.

This non sequitur link tells me it's OK to mix PCIE speeds. We'll see, won't we, hmm
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/
I'll remove the motherboard, dump the old one, install the new one. 
That sort of  necessitates an exact copy laying around somewhere.
Ah. an "Image" of the disk drive, a "Katra" (Spirit) of the drive pasted temporarily into an SSD's brain.
It's a biggie hassle but one that is the least dangerous, I think.
Maybe.
Well if I had an SSD to back up to, I would not be buying a new one.
But I DO have a really old Hard Drive that hasn't been in service for more than a month since it was new.
I could hook it up, verify it works, 
Uhm,
Break out the linux package (very old, seldom used)
proceed.
I hope.
Geez, microsoft doesn't make this easy.
Notes for posterity:
To shrink a drive for easier backup, you'd simply shrink it in windows, right? 
Except it does an enormous-gargantuan amount of real-copy-pasting, which is detrimental to the already dying drive.
IOW it's Stewpid!!
Sorry about that.
It's not a real actual boundary, the files aren't placed in neat little rows, 
But dumb windows ("see what happens?") goes back to the old ways, copies stuff down past the imaginary boundary you've told windows to virtually use.
I expect a mysterious error very very soon.
No wait, it worked, ignore that little buzzing noise...







Drives can fail no matter how much free space you give them...I do not pretend to know the reasons why.
"Fail" is a relative term....You're a biggie hospital, empty mostly with many beds, one of the beds is faulty.
and one day a pandemic hits.
Or a cafeteria too much food, and one day a pandemic hits, most of the food is contaminated.
It's *nice* being paranoid sometimes...most times it's a big-assed waste of money but whatever)

the TLDR / Bottom line of the above, for the record, "Sims" seems fine now that I removed a major mod, that does not play well with the other working mods on my PC.
You'll remember in yesterday's episode, reporting the mod-errors 
earned an accusation that 
my PC was decrepit, unworthy.

Well, maybe it is, but it works fine now and I haven't changed the drive yet! 
And no it doesn't run too hot 
(forcing it to use a couple of cores instead of the whole CPU was getting it hotter, 
shitcan that idea!!)


So far, meaningless.
But maybe, YOU will find meaning
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/25723618.2014.12015462


Life being suicidally bad, can be written about (being meaningless anyway)
And after you're gone people will revere you.
This PC (and the approaching SSD), commemorates the fruitless endeavors, the incredible sadness of piteous attempts to improve one's lot in life.
(or something)

Any western on TV
John builds a barn (yay)
Barn burns down (boo)
Girl grows up, gets glasses, gets made fun of, finds peace (yay.)
Goes Blind (?wtf)
Town drunk lives on forever saves town multiple times (yay)
But he's a drunk (boo)



Epilogue
Except for worrying about alignment and why my BIOS NVME test didn't pause to let me see the results,
Um, 
I'm good.
It says (What do I know).
The NVME self-test takes so damned long I might have touched the keyboard while it was running.
Anyway, 


1000. something vs 1024.something on 970
Bottom line, buy a 970. 
Too late for me, save yourselves (blub glug)

CDM8 in "safe mode"


Crystaldiskmark 8.0.0 normal view


WD Dashboard "was reporting 100%" oshit.

Nice. See ya in a year or so...

"Gaming mode enhances gaming mode" no thanks (??)


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insert clever title here (stomach)

 Insert clever intro here


If your stomach is permanently pissed off, 

uh,

Road to hell paved with good intentions.

Death has a beautiful face (somethingsomething mumblemumble)

It's what I think about tons bee cause the medical community around me cares more about numbers on a blood test than what I ate last week.

It's hard to explain.

My body suck stinks isn't adjusted correctly because I eat the wrong stuff, and (etc) because it makes my stomach happy.

But it's reaching a critical stage, to achieve stomach nirvana the rest of my body is ganging up and forming a commission ("ommmm, we're telling")  that reports to the doctor on my next visit.

The doctor will blame indolence (and smoking) and ignore me for three more months, whereupon *I* will strive to make my stomach happy, killing off the rest of my body and earning a pointed lecture from you know who.

Say, here's a fucking idea, tell me how to make my stomach happy without killing off everything else.

Maybe it needs more blood, bigger veins???




The only part (OK *one* of the parts) of this blog I dislike is the part about death having a beautiful face.
Reference a comedian and his routine about smoking crack (smoking something)
"Have another slice, bob"

Sugary tea, bread and occasional crackers  make me (my stomach) happy, and my mouth prefers more warm squishies, like peach pie.
Death really does have a beautiful face, hmm.




















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Monday, May 17, 2021

ssd doldrums

 SSD isn't accurate, I'd need several more unreadable acronyms to describe my multicolored Tongue-depressor of a disk drive.

And I've been having problems with my Sims game.

Sure, blame Modders.

Modders right-away wanna blame my PC.

But unlike them I actually listen, unfounded though they may be.

Too many mods from too many modders more likely, each perfect in their own dated behind-the-revision way...

Anyway, I double-checked my memory, My CPU is solid, but what about the drives?

99%? Why?


The cheap one I bought on sale which was supposed to be an NVME but wasn't, is showing age, while the stellar 970-Pro is superman, ageless and perfect.

So, what's up, little drive? 

Did you sneeze, is your nose too warm?

I....dunno, I could afford another 970 pro if they still made them, but they don't. I don't know much about current prices but I'll guess they're freaking national treasures.

So (damn) buy another nvme and mount this little POS to a wall, like they used to do with gigantic disk-drive platters?
It was a statement engineers made, the incredibly expensive drive was useless but pretty.

I'm ill-at-ease now, I'll prolly write ten entries wondering if my video card will show up on sale, "Here's Johnny!!" and me without enough money to grab one.
AHH!

980-pro's price is like plywood in a hurricane.
They've got the balls to charge $6 for a hamburger, so it's understandable.
I...just...wanted...to...be...sure...before I plunked down half my life savings and kissed my videocard goodbye.


Or I could say, 
"fucket, balls-to-the-walls, boys," 
and run the cheapo into the ground, but by then, 970 pros would be a footnote in history.
It's not so bad, unless you figure I'll break something replacing the drive, I could just wait a little longer (my old SSD used to have curious pauses even though it never technically went *bad*)
Sheeit.
"My god, quit whining" YEAH ok, 970 assuming it's pristine and I don't damage my motherboard.
You freebie sucking scumbags...

The freebie-sucking...uh, the reviewers all say the "SN850" is nice too.
They USED to rant that the faster a drive was, the less reliable, less long lasting, but they've been given their doggy treats.
So...uhm, 

They're trying to tell you something.


(O don't look at me that way, the sn850 is lower priced than the 980 or the 970, and comes with a 50.00 (Fifty Dollar??!!) heatsink.
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Stop, Under construction:

Really random Trains (mostly on the internet)

Opinion-guys, the ones on top of Googles front page,
Want Biden to Sally forth into the middle east.
They don't pay the bills, they get paid, and the people who pay them usually want Biden to look bad.

But let's take a second to dabble....
"Legacy" is a word statesmen love to throw around. Mars, the Moon, Infrastructure, civil Rights.
Cross out the last two...Anyway, a project so incredibly huge it leaves an indelible impression people remember fondly for years.
But what if they can't get people to agree on what constitutes a Legacy?
Plus we're not talking little kids in a skirmish...
It's more (no, you're not gonna drag me into that one)
Google has a front-news page replete with disagreements.
Abortion, the capitol riot, the whole mask thing.
Arms salesmen and biblical scholars want and need a big assed war (another Vietnam would be nice)
Whatsit called when they try to exterminate a race...OK I forgot. https://www.google.com/search?q=palestinian+genocide
Lumping people together and deciding they're not on your side and therefore do not deserve to live, at least in your neighborhood.
It rankles.
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CPU affinity should be dead-simple, right?

The label of a thing, whatever it is, starts "0" so if you changed Frank's name to "0",
that's what I mean.
OK Frank is supposed to show up for work on Monday to fix your roof, but never shows because you picked "0" workers on your little order form.
So lets rephrase:
"0" (aka Frank) will show up tomorrow because you picked "1" worker needed.

ah...
so...
Frank has an imaginary friend, or a cousin, whatever, that helps him usually (Let's call him "1").
Wait, stop,
Frank is part of a group of hardworking people (and their imaginary-friends) numbered 0-7.
(or is it, the workers are 0,2,4,6 and their friends the hangers-on/interns/camp-followers 
are called 1,3,5,7??)
It matters on the damned form!!
If you pick the wrong numbers you'll have a gaggle of brainless interns not really knowing what to do (except drink beer and wait around)

So Big-White-Guy shows up to explain, 
"SMT" he says.
That's like a union.
No union, no affinity (or something).
Send this guy to the middle east, quick!!

I'm  um, I'm (*burp*) pretty sure BIOS could sort all this out, you could eliminate one or more CCX's.
Yeah that's all fine and whatever...But wouldn't it be better to turn off any virtual-cpu-cores?
See cuz, they shouldn't be allowed to live, they sap the essence of our country...
I hear a rant off in the distance... "^%$#@!!! %^$#!!"
I didn't catch that, prolly wouldn't even if you wrote it down...
But I will look at SMT, maybe it's a border-guard keeping virtual CPU's out.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/simultaneous-multithreading-definition,5762.html
(The same freebie-sucker site from yesterday)


Duh, *gee*, Tennessee...what does this have to do with "Infinity?"


OKOK, whatever (dammit) (and you wonder why I shout in quiet rooms.)
If you read somewhere from some wise person That a game should use Affinity...
(are you with me so far?)
WHICH CORES to CHOOSE?
IOW 1,2,3,4 or 1,,3,,??
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5z33el/ryzen_gaming_and_thread_affinity_benchmarks/

OK take two even-named cores, convert their names to binary then back to decimal,
uh....
I got wost.
1000=8
0100=4
0010=2
0001=1

but the cores start with "0"
so, 1 is really core 0 (ok)
and 2 is core 1
uhm...
and (uh) 3 is core two
and (oshit)
1+3 is 0+2 (AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
if (your 3 year old knows this) 1+3=4,
then
a command to delegate to cores 0 and 2 would be....
"4"
(Right?)
(ogeez)
or is it
0000
0101
(that's five in garbledy-speak)
wait, do over
0001 (core 0)
skip core-1
(which is two)
0011 is three
0011+0001  is 0100 (I think, ah shit)
Nothing is this hard, you're gaslighting me


0x5=5.
Five, fucket.
Five.
Gotta be 5.
(If you see me mumbling about the number 5 you'll know why)

And they seem to be saying it's a decimal number, not 0x-anything.
5 is 5 I'll try it both ways. (I'll need a affinity-checker, but I'll think about that tomorrow, because tomorrow is another day!!)
Ah, fuck you and your freebie horse

DAM you!! DAM you!!! (It was a movie-line, nevvermond)


YAY! WOOHOO! (wait, "0,1"?? Ahshit)

What I know: (lol)
OK what I observed:
putting 5 or "c" in cmd.exe made no difference, they show up as "0,1" in task-manager.
But telling task-manager to forcibly use 0,2 works, but ya gotta do that every damn time you run the program (because a command-line shortcut only halfway works)
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Sims inspires random thoughts (because sometimes it's boring beyond belief)

OK I get the whole "Bedroom eyes" look but what if you're outside or in a mall, do you really wanna look sultry?
'K, it was a thought.
Well, I should at least attempt to describe the train...
At a junior college(!) in the seventies, a narcissistic woman awaiting an acting class, had very shiny makeup, like a clear-candy-coating.
Now you could argue (prolly successfully) that she was prepared, makeup-wise, for her next acting exhibition, but I wish I wasn't so shy and it wasn't boorish to ask,
about makeup.
Because Then I could ask the next shiny woman I meet, "What's with the shiny makeup?"
Shiny midriff, sure. Shiny (I can't spell this next word) Decolletage, of course.
Shiny cheekbones, uhm,
to imply what is going on underneath?? 
Eyes that sparkle (because, contacts)
Large dark eyes (because, large-dark eye makeup)
WHY don't I just start wearing huge pectoral implant muscles under my shirt,
Butt-pads, and a shaved head to go with my scraggly beard?
Abs on a t-shirt.
spanx for my gut.
Been-there, done-that, Google says.
Nevermind


Society wanting to incarcerate you might understand wigs and makeup, It's a women's prison movie from the forties or fifties...



but men with spanx might get giggles.
And since you never know when you'll be falsely accused, uh,

You (yada whatever) 
Great makeup commercial was just on!!
Greatest actress still living, was in a very very short commercial!!! Omigosh!!
'K, I heard you earlier, I'm writing nuttier blogs, but seriously, *look* at her and tell me your heart isn't melting.
No, not that nobody with the frizzy hair! She's the one who (with all that makeup on) could be mistaken for Diana Rigg in a dream.

They're calling me away, I have to go now (it's time to restart)
O gee-thanx (and I'm the nutty one)



OK makeup has a place in the universe, but only for the very very hot.





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