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right, so google, ms search etc all put their crap in there... just signaling, does nothing useful. Now, a 2000 lb lgb works wonders
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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So no annoying dialog that pops up before you even use it to show you how much better it is?
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despise ms teams..... so many "features" added to a chat client... I'm glad i'm retiring next year.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Long story short: I was looking for a big bag of sweets / candy / lollies* (Menthol / Eucalyptus to be precise) for Herself and found a wholesale company doing what I needed, albeit in a 3Kg pack ...
So I had a browse round to see what else I might buy to make the £15 delivery worth it, given that the sweets only cost £10 + VAT.
And I found some oddities:
Cheese sweets / candy / lollies*.
Garlic sweets / candy / lollies*.
Neither of those really appeal as high sugar produce to my palate but I did think of a use for them.
Folks, do you dislike children begging at your door with threats of mischief or criminal damage on the 31st? A big bowl of these might be the answer ...**
* Delete as inapplicable in your locality.
** No, I didn't get them, we don't have small kids around these parts. I got 3Kg of Sherbet Fruits for me. My dentist will be so pleased.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Victory V or Trebor Extra Strong are a reasonable alternative. Although, when we were kids you could buy even more horrible tasting stuff at the local joke shop.
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Hey! I liked both of them as a kid!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Garlic sweets / candy / lollies*.
Nothing wrong with garlic, but I can't quite picture what "garlic sweets" might taste like. Odd combo for sure.
I suppose it's one of those "both taste great separately, but don't combine them together" kinda things.
Like chococate as a pizza topping...
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My palate is just going "No. No. No." at the idea of the combination.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Or the infamous Toffee Onion ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Where's that huge vomit emoji when you need it...
Software Zen: delete this;
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This one?
🤮
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That would be the one.
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Yet another thing for Chris to filter out .
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: Garlic sweets
Blah blah blah.
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Just make sure they can't see the wrappers as you toss them into the trickster's bags, otherwise they can identify you for future retaliation.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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There used to be a garlic restaurant in Singapore that supplied garlic ice cream. I had small chunks of raw garlic in it, the contrast in flavours was most enjoyable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I usually hand out chocolate-dipped Brussels Sprouts, but the garlic ones might save me a lot of preparation time.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Haven't most of us been through a few waves of pepper candy, whether piper or capsicum pepper based?
For years, there was an Asian imports shop in town, selling ginger candy so intense in taste that I always warned my guests when I had them available. My family and myself loved them! (The shop has been gone for a few years now, and I don't know where to find that sort anywhere near to where I live.)
We also love garlic. I do not recall any candy variant, but I certainly wouldn't reject it if I was offered a taste. Then again: Eating garlic cloves 'as is' is probably not too different. (The bad thing with garlic goes by the old saying: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A garlic a day keeps everybody away.)
Lots of cheeses are rather sweet without any sugar added. I love strong, well matured cheese: For a lot of cheese, I read 'Best Before:' as 'Best half a year after:'. Some people love to eat jam with their well matured cheese. Then we are getting closer to candy. While I cannot imagine adding sugar (or even jam) to my cheese, I can certainly imagine some taste elements from my favorite well matured cheeses used in a mix with other taste elements in a 'generic' candy. Not to make the candy taste 'like cheese', but to bringing in some of the strong taste elements that I love.
Some years ago, a jelly candy was introduced, announcing '1023 different tastes!'. Being a computer guy, my immediate reaction was: Isn't that one short? Shouldn't it be 1024? Then it dawned upon me: They have a basic jelly candy, and 10 different taste elements that can be added or not added. The 1024th, or rather 0th, taste is when none of the ten taste elements are added. A completely no-taste jelly candy. They omitted that alternative from the taste options. (The candy was short-lived, so I do not remember neither its name or manufacturer.)
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I love ginger sweets.
I have used them to qualify for free shipping.
Kids might find them spicy.
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Jeff Duntemann just released the 4th ed of his fantastic assembly language book and I've started reading it.
x64 Assembly Language Step-By-Step: Programming With Linux[^]
I read the first edition of this book way back in '93[^]. It was sitting on a shelf at work and no one had read it. This book has quite a lot of history in it and it's a really great read.
The author was the first who helped me understand math in different number bases. He does a great job of explaining things simply.
Have any of you read any versions of the book? It's a great read.
It's interesting to follow a book for over 30 years. Wow!
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I was introduced to number bases (mainly hex) back in 1965, in my first week as a computer operator on a LEO III(computer) - Wikipedia[^] system. And because of our currency at the time it was designed to handle monetary values that contianed 1 to 11 pence, in 1 to 19 shillings per pound sterling. Truly a great machine.
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Wow! That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool you are still active in computers & tech.
That's the very cool thing about IT, computers & tech it is constantly changing so you can just keep on working with it without ever getting bored.
It's been a wild ride for me and I started after the "mainframe" epoch and was more a part of the PC epoch - seeing DOS machines turn into Windows 3 machines, then Windows 95 & NT, etc.
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I made the switch when the first IBM PC and its many clones started to appear on our workspaces. And yes, it's (mainly) been fun, especially learning new languages, frameworks etc.
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As I recall, Jeff made a comment about IBM struggling with OS/2. "Every time they turn the corner, there is another corner". That was many years ago.
Back in 1965, our computers had limited storage so everything was in Assembler language.
Well, for the eggheads, there was Fortran, with overlays to disk at 10 BPF (Bytes Per Fortnight).
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: IBM struggling with OS/2 That was the last time I did any serious assembly language programming. I wrote an OS/2 device driver for a piece of custom hardware. 18,000 lines of assembler later...
Software Zen: delete this;
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