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Me: *shakes head upon umpteenth time of PC suddenly freezing up* This is it, then. I need a new computer. What do you lot think? Mr. Robo: *installs halo above head* Okie-dokie, human! You earned this! It's for your work anyway! Well, mostly. Mr. Ham: *brandishing trident languidly on other shoulder* Sure, knock yourself out. See if I care. Me: Wait, aren't you guys supposed to be in opposition, or summat? Like, Mr. Robo tells me it costs too much, and Mr. Ham encouraging the profligacy? Or Mr. Ham saying no to prolong the suffering, while Mr. Robo argues against it? Mr. Ham: We're dwarf hamsters, human. We don't really bother about such things, it's your money anyway, unless it's earmarked for my food, in which case it's my money and... hey, I could always do with more money. Don't buy it. Me: Alright, down to Sim Lim Square I go, while it's still around. Mr. Ham: Fine, at least I didn't get flattened this time. Long story short, all reasonable efforts to live with and/or rectify the PC situation had gone badly, and since I couldn't rule out that any of the existing components weren't the issue - and, let's face it, we all love the lightning-fast feel of a spanking new install - it was time to splurge abit:
With a new copy of Windows 10, and S$30 for full hardware assembly and installation (I brought my existing hard drives along), because, well, I needed it fairly urgently. Kudos to Fuwell, they nearly managed to get it done same-day despite my visiting in the early afternoon, and were only stymied by my original choice of the Silencio S600 case not having sufficient 3.5-inch drive bays (four were promised, but one was a behind-backboard mount that was impossible due to the thickness of the drive [I thought these had a standard form factor?]). This was frankly a regression from my existing Silencio 652s, about which I had no complaints other than there being less room for wiring behind the backboard, than might have been ideal. On this, the Fractal Define 7 has won me over big time. On the transition, most of my settings and projects could be successfully reconfigured (darn all those Visual Studio parameters), and it's probably good to restart with a clean slate, once in a while. And, as it turned out, the trouble was likely with my SSD system drive - solid state drives have blazing speeds, true, but it appears there are no warnings when they begin to fail. The new Transcend M.2 does come with an SSD Scope utility that might help to mitigate this, together with occasional CrystalDiskInfo checks. It was also a good time to leave out stuff that may no longer be needed, and after studying online feedback on antivirus software, I've decided to entrust the system to the default Windows Defender, all the more as my old antivirus was getting naggy. I suppose there're little tips like backing up one's environment variables, but really, a clean Windows install can be such a joy to work with. Storage wise, I see myself increasingly relying on external enclosures, which should hopefully minimize fiddling with internal connections. What's It Good For? The sole President's Scholar for the year (due to a change in practice by the PSC on announcing only recepients who will be pursuing their studies immediately, thus postponing it for the guys doing National Service) will be doing her degree in linguistics at Brown, which had netizens scratching their heads at, well, the field's utility (with EDMW further being EDMW, though with scattered amateur analysis of their own). Fortunately, there were at least some who lauded her taking the path less travelled, and having just gotten a Masters in it, I'd have to say that a degree is pretty much what one makes of it; it's surely not too hard to coast through many programs for the piece of vellum, without absorbing much of anything. I should really do a more in-depth review of those courses someday, yes, but offhand, language has been how humanity interfaces with one another, and if one specializes in the right subdomains, there are probably some pretty lucrative jobs dealing with acoustics and speech, especially in FAANG-type companies. Or yes, the graduates could always become teachers; a fine calling that's extra-stable, as far as I know. Even legendary football managers such as Ferguson have a literary side to them, one recognizes.
The study of linguistics, moreover, allows one to understand how language trailblazers such as the current POTUS introduce or popularize extant variation (like, I always thought that one refers to the Thai people, and not the "Tai" people, for starters), while taking time out from brokering historic peace accords in the Middle East, raising US$30k for a Jewish museum with another innovation, and musing the possibility of compulsory bilingualism in America. How can one man do so much? By the way, I'd completely lose it if HIS TRUMPNESS responded to AOC's challenge to release his college transcripts after his calling her a "poor student", by offering to show his bank records for that period instead ("Yeah, I was a heckin' rich student, no question about that") Completing the circle, this brings me to why I like computers - tell a computer something through a program, and the computer works the same for everyone through its interpreter; computer don't care if you're white or black or brown or yellow or green with pink polka dots, it doesn't care if you're prince or pauper, male, female or otherwise. The computer kicks all their asses equally if they make a mistake, such as misplacing a semicolon. However, on the other hand, if one is careful and precise and keeps to the agreed-upon rules, the computer doesn't hold grudges - it does what one expects, now and forever (or, at least, until the next major compiler update). Can't ask for much more than that, in the current affirmative milieu. To clarify, I'm not even that against less-advantaged segments of society receiving a leg up in admissions, but once evaluations begin to get touched, well, I can't be for that. Next: A New Chapter
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