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Dennis Weaver (Chester in the old Gunsmoke TV show) does an excellent job in "Duel" movie.
Similar themes in "The Car" and "Maximum Overdrive".
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Dennis Weaver (Chester in the old Gunsmoke TV show)
"Gunsmoke"? I thought they only had 1 HP vehicles in that TV show 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Yup western with horses as engines.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Duel, I have seen that movie. Thankfully not the issue yesterday. Both truckers just scared us and drove off.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Dual II 
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I stick to the speed limit at all times, and it's noticable that I almost always build a queue of vehicles behind me, which makes it clear that they would all willfully break the speed limit if I wasn't in the way. It's a shocking indictment of motorists in my country, if you think about it. The attitude appears to be that it's ok to break the law (unless they're the victim, of course, that's different); the crime is getting caught.
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haughtonomous wrote: The attitude appears to be that it's ok to break the law (unless they're the victim, of course, that's different); the crime is getting caught.
I think that driving code violations are not seen as "real" crimes. After all, who is hurt? What they don't realize is that the driving code was written in the blood of dead motorists.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Maybe the following cruise control was slowing the car more than you realized?
Especially if you pulled in behind the leading truck to make your exit. You might have messed up the other trucks cruise control.
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Gone to the great MASHup. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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He played so many terrific roles. It's difficult to name a favorite but one that really stands out for me is when he was OddBall in "Kelly's Heroes." I especially like how he describes when their tanks fire shells filled with paint.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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"Woof woof, that's my other dog impression."
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One of his quotes:
Quote: Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
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Aw Donnie,
I was gonna post. In some strange way, it was a relief I was not first, here.
Fare thee well
Adam
![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
PS
I was always more interested in directors than actors. Still I precisely remember the first film I noticed him as an actor:
Eye of the Needle (1981)
PPS
I also recall the first moment I noticed Kiefer Surherland. The opening scene of Flatliners (199x)
“This is a great day to die on.”
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm not a big baseball fan, although I used to be but this man was a legend, he will be remembered and missed.
Baseball legend Willie Mays dies at 93 | AP News[^]
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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One of the greatest. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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say hey.
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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One of the key features of my graphics library is the ability to create arbitrary pixel formats so you can for example, create a bitmap with any kind of color model and memory footprint you like.
I thought I was a bit crazy, because most IoT devices are 16-bit RGB if not monochrome.
I thought I was overengineering
Then along came color e-ink and all of the sudden even my palette support made sense.
Then I started doing professional displays on embedded outside the IoT realm and many are 24-bit color.
using rgb24 = gfx::rgb_pixel<24>;
And Bob's your uncle
Well then I made an Arduino emulator for the PC, and directx threw me for a bit of a loop because there are 4 channels but one is unused:
template<size_t BitDepth>
using bgrx_pixel = gfx::pixel<
gfx::channel_traits<gfx::channel_name::B,(BitDepth/4)>,
gfx::channel_traits<gfx::channel_name::G,((BitDepth/4)+(BitDepth%4))>,
gfx::channel_traits<gfx::channel_name::R,(BitDepth/4)>,
gfx::channel_traits<gfx::channel_name::nop,(BitDepth/4),0,(1<<(BitDepth/4))-1,(1<<(BitDepth/4))-1>
>;
using screen_t = uix::screen<bgrx_pixel<32>>;
Bam!
I have not redesigned this feature of my library since its inception in like 2021. It keeps just kicking ass.
I do not design with any expectation that what I designed will remain unchanged that far out because it's usually not realistic. I am not that smart. This was all luck.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 2 days ago.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I am not that smart. This was all luck.
It's not a coincidence that luck always prefers smart people.
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There's a saying "You make your own luck".
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Napoleon's usual Q at promotion time for an officer: "is he lucky?"
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There's a Swedish former ski-star that, among others, had a saying:
"The more I prepare and train, the more luck I get" Stefan Stenmark, my translation.
Cheers
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You really shouldn't denigrate yourself. You are definitely one of the smart ones on this site.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Oh, I simply meant that I'm not smart enough to think into the future several years out and design ahead. That was luck, is what I'm saying. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I mean this next statement as a compliment, not a dig.
I think you are confusing "engineering" with "overengineering". "Overengineering" would have been adding n-dimensional planes to cover you when holographic (and imagined 4+D graphics were in vogue).
Seems you like you made a sound design decision that may have felt too liberal because perhaps you had seen one too many poorly designed graphics implementations. Probably why you went to the trouble of writing your own to begin with.
Been a long time since I looked at DirectX, but typically Windows (and quite a few other platforms) use a RGBA model where often you see 8 bits for each (the 'A' is an Alpha channel which is an opacity value). Color models are like opinions ... everyone has one 
I haven't looked at your library, but from your example you might be able to use variadic templates to make your 'pixel' definition a bit easier. Or perhaps that would just put you on the path to true overengineering
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
DL
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