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No, they can't.
What they call a dream in the article is a visualization of an average.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Some 20 odd years ago, I was at a BCS symposium discussing AI. One of the speakers presented a piece about mistakes they were making with early versions of what today we know as Machine Learning. One that stuck with me was an image recognition system.
They trained it with known photos and then fed in new ones to be identified. It was complicated because it often needed to transform the images, rotating, tilting, enlarging etc. Then they noticed a rather odd phenomena, when there was no input, it started to go randomly through the images it knew. The machine was dreaming. Sentience! It's alive! Skyn...
Not so fast. It was doing what it had been told to do. Take the input [just a blank image] and find the known image it resembled most closely.
GIGO
veni bibi saltavi
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In Opera, you used to be able to select single words in links using the same click and drag that you use for non-link words.
e.g. if you wanted the word "Beany" from the link Top Beanie Baby Sites - Top20Sites.com[^], you just clicked and dragged, to select it.
From what I can find, that functionality has gone from being rare to being extinct.
I hate it when stuff that is actually useful disappears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi Mark,
I can relate to this; I have the same problem with my face.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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My face has got better and better as my eyesight's got worse and worse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My features are great. Slightly aged but still not past it. 
veni bibi saltavi
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Another day half-wasted trying to get Win 10 to boot to the desktop without the mouse freezing and the keyboard being unresponsive about five seconds after getting to the Desktop. While it typically fails just after loading Skype, I don't think Skype is the problem here.
Restoring ... and restoring ad nauseam ... from System.Restore points, and a System Image only to find that the minute I boot with the restored system: Win 10 goes and starts downloading that Devil's VSOP Reserve piss KB ... a process that is unstoppable even though ... once upon a successful boot ... uninstalling said diabolic instrument was performed along with accompanying exorcism.
How can I not scream Chaucer's immortal words: "Oh wombe, oh bellye, fulfilled of dong and of corupcioun" into the indifferent night ?
I guess I was lulled into a sense of false security by the ease of the upgrade to Win 10 over Win 8.1, and the first few months of relatively hassle-free use.
I am going to write to Sergey at WinAero about this mess, pleading with him to examine the un-facts here and see if maybe there's an issue of interest to more than one poor mortal ensorcelled by the darker powers (hey ... I did send him a donation).
Of course, if you have some ideas ...
from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Option 1: Locate the Seal of Solomon. Equipping this will give you the ability to command demons, genies, or to speak with animals (the former may help get rid of updates, the later to converse with Microsoft Tech support). If at the same time you can locate the Staff of Moses you can stamp the noses of the update originators, which (while not helping much) may help you feel better.
Option 2: Form a company to sell pea soup and attempt to exorcise the demon update. Wear galoshes.
Option 3: Really boring. Restore from the last backup and block the update from being loaded by disconnecting your internet service. This may help: How to Uninstall and Block Updates and Drivers on Windows 10[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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<beep>
<beep>
<beep>
<beep>
<Developer reversing>
<beep>
<beep>
<beep>
<beep>
<Developer reversing>
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Back-up have ! Insane Win Ten update commandeered by Satan ... no can stop !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Mantras have ... fetishes have ... jujus have. No work ! Must get Thai Mor Doo or Mor Phii (sorcerer, ghost wrangler) ... but he big money cost ... me cheap.
My head this now: [^] ... why you fun wid' me ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Well, we get a lot of adverts for the world's best magic practitioners* posted here; if you ask The Hamsters nicely they might let one through for you to contact?
* In their opinion, anyway.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hi, I meant to say that I am familiar with that How-To-Geek article; unfortunately, it was written in 2015, and a lot of what it describes has been changed in subsequent versions of Win 10.
thanks, for the link, and the thoughts 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: How can I not scream Chaucer's immortal words: "Oh wombe, oh bellye, fulfilled of dong and of corupcioun" into the indifferent night ?
Update your vocabulary instead of Windows and try something along the lines of "B**** A** MOTHERF****** F*** DEMON UPDATE FROM HELL!!!  "
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Compared to Chaucer's words, and the radical transformation of the early English language ... a bunch of Angle-Saxon grunts and four~five letter words for war, animals, sex, murder, blood-feud, and bodily functions, forced by force majeure into an uncomfortable (at first) co-existence with the much more high-so (Latinate) proto-French of the conquering Normans about three centuries before Chaucer lived ... that he and others accomplished ...
Every line of source code ever written at Microsoft is styrofoam litter from Happy Meals at MacDonald's thrown out of large cars on the roadside by obese yahoos carrying hand-guns
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity." G. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale
James Russell Lowell: "Chaucer found his English a dialect and left it a language."
Now, of course, I exaggerate; as a johnny-come-lately virtually antique geek, I consider Anders H. and company, and their creation of .NET and C# as worthy a saga as those once spoke-sang by the bards in the Viking Halls, as great a story-cycle as those told by the jongleurs on the Camino de Santiago, the great pilgrimage road to the shrine of St. Jacque of Compostela (which, by the way, was where Chaucer's group of pilgrims were bound to in the Canterbury Tales) ... anyway, what I mean to say is that, imho, literature has a different magisterium ... to use the term which the late Stephen Jay Gould used to describe his philosophy reconciling religion and science. For me, there is literature in programming, as well as ... the reverse ... however, while the literature in programming is an educaton in critical thinking and logic, perhaps more "austere:" the logic, the algorithmicity, the formal structure of literature, are a skeleton that supports the flesh of the school of life.
How wondrous it is that in the last forty years anyone can have almost instant, free, access to both great literature, and the commentaries of the most astute literary scholars, and critics. How noble that technology and programming, hardware and software, has enabled that ...
"Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,. That has such people in 't!" Miranda, in "The Tempest" by W. Shakespeare.
cheers, from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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(edited):
Every line of your source code is Styrofoam litter from Happy Meals at MacDonald's thrown out of large cars on the roadside by obese yahoos carrying hand-guns
I can't wait to use that the next time I have to do a code review of someone's Javascript, Ruby, or Python code!
Marc
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Oh, do feel free, Marc ... your re-purposing of any of the words of this flea on a tick in the ear of literature would make me feel ... like I had, at last, given something back to someone (you) who has given me so much  If you are not a poet in code, then no one ... is.
from Windows 8.1 at present ... cheers Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Hi,
Thanks for your constructive comments !
fyi: there are other reports on the web of this KB resulting in various types of problems, including the one I am having. This "freezing" problem is something I've only seen before in the context of Win (pre 10) loading up a corrupted dll that's on the start-up list, or, when there was a hardware problem with motherboard, or cables, or mouse, etc.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 16-Oct-16 3:38am.
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0. Disconnect any and all network equipment (i.e. unplug Ethernet cables and turn off your wireless router).
1. Start the computer.
2. Kick windows update the f*** out.
3. Reconnect everything.
4. Install something (not made or endorsed by microsoft) that will pick essential windows updates, and install them for you.
5. Profit*.
* By not suffering from the unlikely combination of nightmares and sleepless nights that too many winio users suffer from.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi Mark,
Good advices, thanks; in situations like this the first thing do is to unplug, and then re-plug the cables for kb, mouse, usb drives, ssd drives, internal power cables. And, I have spare mouse and keyboard to a/b test those.
"Profit:" ... hey, I'd pay cash right now for some software that de-fanged Win Anniverary's "you will be assimilated" update policy that, even if you uninstall updates, like the one I mentioned here, will continue trying to ram them down your throat. I think such a utility would be as popular as the Start 8 (now up to Start 10 ... and, yes, I paid to update) win-menu utility.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: Win Anniverary's "you will be assimilated" update policy that, even if you uninstall updates, like the one I mentioned here, will continue trying to ram them down your throat
That's been around as a "feature" since winio was first released. The trouble is that it only affected a few hundred thousand people at a time, and ms doesn't listen to such "petty" numbers.
Updates to the operating system won't make the programs you need run better, but they can prevent you from using them, so why on Earth update?
Security updates, sure, but why should you care about the "great improvements" they make to the operating system? You only use the operating system to gain access to the programs you actually need to use.
Time you have to spend "getting the hang of" or "trying not to be totally defeated by" this piece of cr@p operating system is time of your life that is completely wasted.
The best you can possibly achieve is being able to use your computer as well as you used it 18 months ago.
400 million installs of winio? How many lifetimes have been washed straight down the toilet?
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I've installed "Satan's spawn" (lovely phrase, BTW ) on five machines at home with no problems whatsoever. Perhaps that is because when I upgraded them from Win7, I did a second (clean) install on all machines, removing any junk that had accumulated over the years.
If all else fails, you might want to try that route. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hi, Daniel,
I upgraded over Win 8.1, and it went more smoothly than any other major upgrade I've done.
But, I guess the two-month honeymoon is over now.
from Win 8.1, cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Things that have always 'just worked' start failing. So far, the problems seem to be related to a setting that MS has kindly turned on, such as managing the default printer, or resetting security rights to certain registry keys. Thankfully, I only have a handful of clients using wenten.
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