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At a young age i only thought of physics . One of my pet theories of which were several was if i looked through a strong enough telescope i would see my behind . One of the reasons i am not a physicist is i went to school for it . In order to make a point i once asked my parents while we were in motion in car "Are we going forwards or is the world going backwards?" "Zamkni buzię" was the reply . As for another theory if i followed Einstein's dictum "Imagination is more important than knowledge." I might have invented virtual particles . As for recent great thoughts i have a pet theory if correct makes it easy to deduce black holes evaporate and another pet theory if correct would have changed history as even Isaac Newton should have utilized it to deduce Special Relativity this one i can determine if correct via some simple calculations but i have yet to get around to it. i have no great thoughts re/ Software other than it should be pretty .
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When you say you work only a few hours a day, I think you are neglecting all of the background work your brain is doing 24x7 before you sit down to capture it.
My brain is always working on the backlog…
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That's true to an extent, but I also take lots of naps because I'm compelled to sleep after I eat, no matter what I eat or the portions. It's kinda miserable, but my point is I'm certainly not working then.
I do take a lot of downtime, and I am doing "background work" for some of it but I can't really bill for that in good faith. That's more on me for allowing myself to think about work when I'm not working, but I can't really help it all the time because I have a many track mind and it's flighty.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have used cat naps a few times to help reach a solution when working on intense algorithms.
- Load my brain with all of the “knowns” and failed/eliminated approaches. (Getting very sleepy from overload)
- Take a 20 minute nap.
- Wake up and dive into the coding that will be a definite improvement over the last attempt.
Some of the solutions were quite intense and waayyy longer for a single method than I ever like to write. I remember one such method that works extremely well. I could not find a good place to break it into pieces after multiple reviews. Eventually, it was obsoleted after 10+ years in use.
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I changed the way I coded around 2017 because the wiring in my brain changed, and I think about problems differently now.
I don't break them down like I used to - I tend to solve them more holistically, and as a result I end up with longer functions - but that serves me in other ways due to short term memory issues related to what I mentioned.
I don't think most of my code these days would survive review, as clean as I make my work stuff.
I hate to say it, but it's not intelligible enough in that it doesn't reduce problems to small components with lower cognitive load. I tend tackle it all at once, and in some ways, the code can function better that way, but even if it does, it's at the expense of readability/comprehendibility.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Or it might be the only way it can function. Some of your projects have very tight constraints!
Enterprise software in the era of 64 bit runtimes and 512GB of memory:
Just increase the heap to 64GB on the next run. Solved!
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So, I've been unable to print to my HP printer. If you go back and find a past post, I technically failed and acquired a printer that requires it to call home to HP. Now, why it needs to call home, I can only surmise it wants to let HP know if I need more toner (looking on my shelf with a cartridge sitting there). It's been sitting in my office blinking with an error light. Well an exclamation point. I just put in new toner, the paper is in it, I can ping the printer so I know it's on the network.
Apparently there is some elephanting level of bullshit in the printer that disables the device if it cannot reach home. Deadman timer or some such thing. I bumble around the buttons and it finally prints me a page - simply by providence - can't phone home. The HP Stupid s/w won't install on my laptop and there is nothing to give me a hint as to what the problem is.
After fighting for an hour, I took the time to say f it and bought a brother printer. But it's installation process is looking for a WIPS code (I want wireless - too many cables already) and I have not been able to find it.
Grab your popcorn and stay tuned. John, I need a full clip of ACP for the HP. Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED) - YouTube[^]
Update: Finally just went around the s/w installation, assigned a static IP and everyone is happy. I have an amplifi mesh network in my house, so had to figure out how to turn on WPS. I know that this is supposed to simplify things, but I don't see how.
Anyway, out with the trash.
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.
modified 13-Jan-23 6:49am.
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I bought a Brother wireless color laser printer about 6 months ago, it was a little bit of a pain to set up but has run smoothly since.
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SWMBO also wanted a color laser printer and also bought a Brother.
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I had an HP M500 and loved it, but consumables were very expensive. Replaced with a Brother... much cheaper to run but not nearly as good quality.
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I think the disease is limited to networked (wired or wireless) printers.
While it may be possible for a USB printer to phone home (with a bit of help from the host), it's got to be too difficult for them to bother, methinks.
I have had a number of different brands of USB-only inkjets, and never encountered that issue. (The current one is hp, btw.)
I also have a very old hp laserjet 1600 that refuses to die. In it's 2600, networked, guise it was a very popular office printer in its day.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have a Canon unit that I like quite a bit. It has wireless capability but does not seem to phone home. The part I like most is I can use third-party ink in it that costs twenty bucks for five sets of cartridges or four bucks per set. That is considerably cheaper than Canon's ink at about fifty bucks per set.
I have ranted about HP in the past. I detest them.
"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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