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Jeremy Falcon
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I'd like to go get another cup of coffee while installing yet another VS Code update.
Jeremy Falcon
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If you walk to the nearest Starbucks and join the queue, the update should be part way through by the time you get back. Or maybe just waiting for you to click "Yes".
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I've only had one VSCode update take more than about 30 seconds, and that was because of a different (and extremely buggy) program taking over the CPU with what was effectively a thread / process bomb.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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VSCODE updates are like vitamins. Once a day.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My experience is the same, but there is always the chance of things going wrong.
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I just wish that reloading the extension in one window of VSCode would update ALL the windows of VSCode.
I normally have at least 8 different repos open in VSCode at all times.
Projects I work on and then any other components we've built that get included in the projects.
I was today years old when I learned about the Command + grave (the back tic) will cycle through those windows. I am so happy about that.
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Iβm begging you for the benefit of everyone, donβt be STUPID.
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How about coffee at Milliways?
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Last night I learned make/Makefile more or less by osmosis. I poured over assembly code. Datasheets. Compiler arcana and the varying meanings of the word "freestanding" to different years of C++ committees.
This morning I woke up with a ponytail and also a beard like Karl Marx.
If you don't hear from me, it's because I've gone off to live in a cave adjacent to Richard Stallman.
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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If you see Dennis Ritchie, you've gone too far.
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Karl Marx is buried about 20 miles from me
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'd rather visit Groucho's grave. In my pajamas.
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Quote: Excuse me, I can't stand up
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Each to there own
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My office is about 5 1/2 miles from his tomb. Or about 2 hours' walk.
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Next: extolling the virtues of ed (text editor) - Wikipedia
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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ed, they make a pill for that.
"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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This is my daily workflow but I lost the hope for a ponytail, my hair are one by one removing themselves from the dumpster fire that is my head.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I'm working through this right now[^]
Part of me is excited, as I made bootloader code back in the 1980s on much simpler processors, and no C language to speak of, only ROM basic or the "mini" assembler. This is a far cry from that, but similar in spirit.
Part of me is frustrated. I hate datasheets. I think the ARM TRMs are even worse. Give me code.
Part of me is sort of terrified that I may have overcommitted to a project going bare metal on an ARM Cortex A7.
But usually I feel that way going in - my imposter syndrome gets going and until I settle in it's me, nail biting.
My main problem is the utter gap in capabilities between the best ARM "realtime" core available, and the "non-realtime" As is so huge that I'm actually forced to adopt the A when all i really need is an additional 480MHz core.
I'm using STM32 because I'm more familiar with them, you can get cheapo nucleos for a lot of their realtime chips, and they have fairly priced modest eval boards for their A offerings. I also had a harder time trying to source the NXPs I felt i needed in general.
I was using an H7 for something and it just tops out under what i need for this application performancewise, so now I need to move to an A.
And that typically means an OS like Linux or Android. And boot times that go with it. I've seen ways to get boot times under 1sec but it's almost as arcane and messy as going bare metal.
So I've decided on baremetal for this application, on a dual core 800MHz A7. I need almost instant boot times, and it's hardware that really doesn't need all the moving parts of an operating system. Moving parts scare me. They don't tend to survive production runs.
It's kind of an array of bad choices. Part of the reason I'm laying this out to you, is you have way more experience and training in this realm than I do, so any insight would be appreciated.
Baremetal A7 is basically using the A7 like an ersatz realtime M. But it's not easy.
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 guess you're not shaving your legs any more
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Anyone else using the Twillo Authy desktop app? I've just had a pop-up telling me that it will stop working in March.
User guide: End of Life (EOL) for Twilio Authy Desktop app - Twilio Help Center[^]
And because they're so helpful, there is no way to export your 2FA keys to use in a different application. Because giving you access to your own keys would be a security risk, obvs.
Except... there is a way, so long as you download v2.2.3 of the app, and prevent it from auto-updating itself:
Export TOTP tokens from Authy Β· GitHub[^]
I've just managed to import mine into 2FAS, which isn't a direct replacement, but looks OK for now.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wow, while reading the wikipedia entry for Dependency inversion principle - Wikipedia[^] I stumbled upon...
The Inventor's Paradox[^], which states:
From wiki entry: "The inventor's paradox is a phenomenon that occurs in seeking a solution to a given problem.
Instead of solving a specific type of problem, which would seem intuitively easier, it can be easier to solve a more general problem, which covers the specifics of the sought-after solution."
Very interesting, because this often explains why problems take longer than expected to solve.
You're actually solving an entire classification of problems.
This also made me think about the Spherical Cow[^] solution (kind of the opposite):
from wiki entry Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia.
A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader.
Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."
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:cough: Scope Creep :cough:
Targeting a "general case" can be a slippery slope. It's not always a good thing.
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