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I think it was fair, but not by your standards. The this was filler, the same as the that in this one[^]. So "defeat this game" led me to think that it probably referred to the CCC itself, and so the second word in the solution could be solve, with Can as the definition. But the solution isn't hard if one thinks of DIY for home work, which I never did.
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So home work was a fair clue for DIY ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Sure. I think I've seen it before but forgot. I thought maybe chore, but it was hard to remove letters from its centre.
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I escaped the Net.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yesterday, I had a phone call to say "my computer isn't working"
She had been trying for days, but nothing was happening. So she rang, and told me about it. She turns the computer on while I'm "there" and ... it all works fine. No problemo.
Programming God. I did say.
Today, I go to vacuum seal some Lemon slices for the freezer - ice lemon makes a nice summer drink cooler, especially with Elderflower Tonic Water - and ... the vacuum gauge starts working for the first time in a year or more, without me even opening up the Chamber Vac to see what the problem is.
Programming God. Machine fix themselves in my (even virtual) presence.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Many a times, where I've faced a similar situation and couldn't find a solution, my excuse has been "this is a hardware problem, I'm a software guy".
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Oh ! Do be careful ! At least put on a "cup". The domesticated bots are planning something.
Oh dear. Pride commeth before the fall!
(Aside: find out to whom he left his rep points in his will).
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You don't want to end up like Dilbert[^]
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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My Dell desktop has sound output jacks on both the front and rear of the machine. The rear feeds speakers and the front I use when I listen with headphones. A few weeks ago I upgraded Windows to 20H2 by doing a clean install. Today I discovered that the front sound jack was dead. After about an hour's struggle with sound settings, I started to suspect the sound driver that came with the new Windows install.
I dug up the original sound driver installer that came from Dell. Got several warnings from Windows that I am installing an older version of the sound driver, but I insisted. And Presto! Suddenly I had sound from both front and rear jacks. Stoopid Windows!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Indeed. It helps to have "a system" in place.
I have a "drivers" folder on my NAS that contains a subfolder for each of my systems. In turn, under each are various subfolders such as "video", "wifi", "audio", etc.
And then in each subfolder, I have a copy of the current driver ("current"), and the previous one (the last one I was using - "previous"). If it takes me a month to realize something isn't working quite right, finding/reinstalling the one I had before is never a problem. When a newer version comes out, "previous" gets deleted, what used to be "current" gets demoted to the "previous" folder, and the newest goes into the "current" folder.
Whenever I change the OS (and with Windows 10, that hasn't been the case in a long time), only the latest "known good" driver gets archived.
Never trust the latest to also be the greatest.
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I thought this was going to be about Tesla!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran
This calls for another
Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
I had a similar experience with Blazor today.
First time trying it ever and I was able to :
1) get Blazor code (server side c#) to call my JavaScript method.
2) "send" data to Blazor code from JavaScript
Those two things are interesting and challenging and I was able to get it working.
Of course I also learned that Blazor doesn't support a thing I need (ability to use cryptographic libraries to gen a Sha-256 hash) but such is the life.
Blazor is quite interesting. Could challenge JS and that is always a good thing.
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Is that becoming a meme now?
I used that (but in all-caps) in a work e-mail a month ago after finding a fix for a bug in some of my code.
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I'll just say yeah.
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Part of me is awestruck because I have to summon lots of inner strength to attempt this sort of thing. I'm next to hopeless at installing and configuring anything complex, partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss.
The other part of me says this is tech support, not programming. How many lines of code had to be written? I guess it's a sign of the times that this, not writing code, is a sign of godhood.
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Greg Utas wrote: partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss.
I'm with on this.
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Good for you, you should feel that good! That's a bit of a handful...
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Chris Maunder wrote: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
Rarely. All too often, I have to deal with "stuff" that programmers wrote with, at best, the context that they are writing it for other programmers. It's a rare thing when a programmer thinks at a higher level: yes, this is for other programmers but I should think of them as users and see how I can make their life as easy as possible.
So mostly what amazes me is that I haven't ditched this career and become an organic farmer.
Regardless, congratulations! And we all knew already you were a programming God.
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