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Calin Negru wrote: God created sun Big assumption, there ... I'd avoid religion here - it could easily devolve into trolling and a ban from the site.
Quote: enjoying every day’s fresh air, water and food. Says a man who doesn't live in a city ...
Try the air in London - every time I pass through it (about an hour in total) every time I blow my nose for a week after it comes out full of black muck.
London water also tastes foul, and the food is hardly fresh in most cases - imported from the rst of the world to the large part.
And London isn't anywhere near the dirtiest, smelliest, don't-drink-the-water-ist city I've ever been in.
Recycling water takes energy; food takes time and serious amounts of space; air takes yet more energy. And that power has to be taken with you as well as you'll be far from the sun for a very long time. Even at teh speed of light, it would take 4 years to reach the nearest star - and our technology is vary far from getting near that speed!
I'd still go though.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Try the air in London - every time I pass through it (about an hour in total) every time I blow my nose for a week after it comes out full of black muck. Aren't you old enough to remember the London smog in the days when houses were heated by coal burning?
I never saw it myself; as a kid I visited London on summer vacations only. Smog was a winter phenomenon. Sometimes, we read newspaper reports about smog so dense that traffic had to stop: The driver couldn't see the car in front of them. Compared to that, London has air as fresh as the countryside. I have visited London in winter time after coal burning was banned, and never thought of the air as any worse than in other metropolitan areas.
It all depends on your expectations, of course. Lately, I have mentioned the books of Bill Bryson a couple of times, "A walk in the wood" is as funny as the others. When reading it first time, I stalled: They are carrying a filter kit, to filter the creek water before drinking it. What's that? This is out in nature, with natural drinking water. Filtering it?? Here in Norway, I would never ever think of filtering creek water. I expect it to be pure and clean and healthy. Maybe Appalachian water is - after all, it is drinkable after a simple filtering - compared to the water in other parts of the U.S. Reminds me of Tom Lehrer: Pollution (YouTube) [^] (Also note that the Lerher song is 60+ years old )
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>God created sun
I’m not hell bent over it, it’s a figure of speech.
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Couldn't any reference to godly creation, salvation, blessing or whatever be excused / written off as "a figure of speech"?
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The Old Testament for example is a blend of historically confirmed ( or plausible) testimonies on the one hand and testimonies about supernatural on the other. As far as the later is concerned I think that at least some things shouldn’t be taken literally ( the Creation for example).
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> imported food
The food for people living in space is different than anything we have on earth because of how it’s packed and produced. In space the visual appeal of food is gone. The only way to tell it’s food is the label on the package
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That is why most science fiction movies have the passengers in a state of "suspended animation" so they use as little food, water, and oxygen as possible.
"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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Or they invent a (totally hypothetical at the moment) faster-that-light drive.
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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You need a better title for the subject.
For a moment, I thought about all those who claim to have been abducted by aliens and poked about with anal probes aboard alien spaceships,
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foo-foo dust. Powers the universe.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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For those looking for an alternative to the standard Winforms numeric UpDown Control, I made a Custom Flat-style Numeric UpDown Control that functions largely the same but does not have those pesky tiny buttons.
The real reason for developing this however was that in some of our (complicated) forms in .NET 6 the standard numeric UpDown Control behaved very badly when changing the font size of the form and sometimes completely disappeared
It can be downloaded here: GitHub - A Custom Numeric UpDown Control[^]
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An article or tip is probably a better place to put this?
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Exactly! but it still needs some work I think, so when it's finished (and I have some time left) it will become a tip
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What I would want in a NumericUpDown is the ability to set a factor for the up and down buttons rather than adding/subtracting a value, multiply/divide by the factor.
So, for instance, I can set it to double/halve the value.
On the other hand, I have only one place I want that, so it's not a high priority for me.
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With this custom control you could do just that.
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Should not be too difficult to implement, just clone the GitHub repo and add a new property named Factor, if it has a value use it in the AddValue() method
modified 17-Jan-23 12:12pm.
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A factor? Or maybe increment/decrement the digit on which the cursor is?
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I've started using semi-opaque backgrounds (UWP) on my app's "tool boxes" (user controls). The buttons (with icons) reflect the transparency while the icons remain fully opaque. It actually works (with a border); the visuals behind can be made out (a topo map in this case) so you don't have to scroll or drag things out of the way. Like a HUD. Probably "gained" 25% screen space. A different experience.
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Please post an article on this.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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It sounds complicated but it's just using an "acrylic" Brush (available in UWP) instead of a regular "solid color brush" for the background. The same facility can be added to WPF using the "community tool kit".
Or you can fake it varying the opacity of the background of a control ... though the "acrylic" brush seems to be a bit more "glassy".
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In your spare time ?
Alt + up/down ... +- by factor #1
Control up/down... +- by factor #2
Then handle Alt + Control and right/left key variations
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Nice suggestions, but my problem is where to find the time, we are in the midst of a very time consuming upgrade from .NET 4.8 to .NET 6, and so far it hasn't exactly been a smooth ride (due the complex nature of our main application).
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Triple echo from a hovercraft? (10)
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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