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Kent K wrote: Hmm, it's multiple, all related to building and fixing things. It's a curse, too, because I somehow can't get out of the rut/feeling that I should/must? repair and build EVERYTHING that breaks or that I want/need in life.
That is, I basically have not, in my half a century+ of life, ever called a plumber, electrician, auto mechanic*, appliance/lawn & garden/heavy equipment mechanic. . .or for any home improvements.
That's a great set of skills to have. I'm not just referring to building or fixing things, but I'm referring to any mechanical system. Air compressors, phones, power tools, cars, and various other things.
As time progresses, technology advances and I've come to find that it gets more difficult to repair these things on your own. Taking something apart is easy, but knowing how to reassemble the item after repairing it requires more and more obscure tools, as well as sophisticated knowledge. I'm glad we have YouTube, because the knowledge needed to repair more advanced systems can't be done without it. I used to be able to do this stuff through basic mechanical skills, and intuition.
The one exception where I have failed (epically failed) is in fixing the rotating control knob on an old clothes dryer. Sounds simple enough, right? Ha! Nope. After taking it apart, I was glad to see that I could go about repairing it without dealing with any electronics. Little did I know that the nested arrays of metal pins allowing the knob to operate the functions of the clothes dryer were extremely complex. I gave it a try, but soon realized I needed a trained technician with the proper tools to do the job.
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what other areas do you have knowledge or experience with? What are they, and how do you use them?
The thing that made a colleague go "Woah - how did you do that?" was when his car broke down in the company parking lot with a snapped clutch cable, and I drove it all the way to his home without once needing the clutch[1] even though I worked it through all five gears, both changing up and changing down.
[1] Stalled at every stop, started with a jerk after every stop.
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Ahh, floating the gears. Nice. I used to do that on my old 80s something mazda pickup, for fun sometimes (only after using the clutch to smoothly start moving).
Nowadays the only need for that technique is in my dump truck where that is required (again, after using the clutch to get moving) since heavy truck manual transmissions don't have synchronizers - so it's either floating them or double clutching, with the latter too much hassle).
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treating my Κώδικαςέργοπαράξενοςαίθουσααναμονήςσυζήτησηφοβία .
also Sitting .
modified 21-Dec-23 5:16am.
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Just saw this thread now.
For me, they seem to be:
Ability to explain things in simple language, of course, in my native Kannada language. For example, i recently mentored a girl in middle school, who was getting about 50 percent score in her elementary maths, and now she is consistently scoring more than 90 percent. All in a three month period.
Motivating others. For example, I recently motivated an Indian student studying for his Master's in the US, and he successfully completed his first semester.
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Amarnath S wrote: For example, i recently mentored a girl in middle school, who was getting about 50 percent score in her elementary maths, and now she is consistently scoring more than 90 percent. All in a three month period.
Motivating others. For example, I recently motivated an Indian student studying for his Master's in the US, and he successfully completed his first semester.
I think your efforts to educate and motivate others are admirable. You're making the world a better place for everyone.
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Me: "Father, last night I had sex with George Clooney."
Priest: "When was the last time you made a confession?"
Me: "I'm not Catholic, I’m an atheist."
Priest: "Then why are telling me this?"
Me: "Are you kidding? I’m telling everybody."
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Me: Father last night I had sex with a woman of a loose nature.
Father: Was it Rosemary O'Leary?
Me: No father.
Father: Was it Patricia McNab?
Me: No father.
Father: Was it Mary Smith?
Me: No father.
Father: Well say 10 Hail Marys and come to mass on Sunday.
On leaving I met a friend and he asked me; Well how did it go, what was your punishment?
Me: No too bad 10 Hail Mary's, but I got 3 names.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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I got a new computer a few months ago with Win 11. I've always had File Manager set to 'expand to current folder' because it was helpful for things like dragging folders out of zip files into a parent - that sort of thing. I'd noticed that it didn't work in Win 11, although I'd remembered it working in 10. Did a search and found that you can 'Ctrl-Shift-E' to expand to current folder. It works. So MS now disregards the 'Expand to current folder' setting in the options.
By 'not working' I mean that if you click on 'Documents' in the 'pinned' or 'recently used' folders, or whatever section of Explorer that is, and then drill down into those directories in the right-hand pane, the folders aren't expanded in the left. If you go down to 'This PC', 'Local Disk...' and continue drilling down there, it works. I don't remember this limitation in Win10.
So now have to remember another keyboard shortcut - get too many of them to remember - that's why I used the 'options' setting.
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Not for me. I did see something elsewhere about clearing some registry entries somewhere (or something) and rebooting, but didn't try it.
Looking at the previous, I think I need to work 'everywhere' and 'nowhere' into this post somehow. I'll give it more thought...
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Send them letter. I prefer oMega commander.
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Another feature they borked is that you could edit properties directly in the preview pane.
I used it for MP3 a lot, but it doesn't work anymore.
At least the task bar is sort of back to its old self (but now with bugs, like half width programs or even just the icon without description).
Start menu is still less than what it was.
All in all, Windows 11 is a bit of a wreck where they maybe(?) fixed some stuff, but borked everything I use ALL the time and that has worked for the past 30 years...
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PS - StartAllBack is the best alternative I've found. Not as good as the older options available for Win 10, but at least it gives me a hierarchical folder structure I can customize instead of tiles. Call me old-fashioned if you want, but I still consider Win 7 to be the peak of Windows design. Even the glass interface was well thought out. None of this "When active, becomes transparent - when inactive becomes non-transparent" crap.
Because you reminded me about StartAllBack, I finally purchased an official copy to support the author.
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David O'Neil wrote: I still consider Win 7 to be the peak of Windows design
This.
At least, Microsoft has finally rediscovered colors, even if only a tiny bit, with Windows 11...I've said numerous times the Windows 10 Settings page, for one, looks like it would be right at home rendered by a CGA video card, except that CGA offers an extra color...
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