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Just posted QA and You[^]
Personal goal: 200 by the end of the year. 
Marc
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Some of the images do not load. FYI.
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This happens sometimes with new articles. Reload the page and they should be there. I had one missing image upon initial load and got all after reloading.
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That'd take seven lifetimes, not seven articles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When I read the title I thought you meant Quick Answers[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A damned good beginning, and a much-needed place to send people who need to benefit from others' experience.
I'll do a full proofread/line edit, when I get an hour free; this is something that's worth getting absolutely spot on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'll do a full proofread/line edit, when I get an hour free; this is something that's worth getting absolutely spot on.
Absolutely! I look forward to the article QA process. 
Marc
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Damn, that means we have to create one...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're an article writing beast! You can reach that goal.
Jeremy Falcon
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I just can't find the time to sit down and focus on anything to write!
Yes I have plenty of time..........but it is all broken into pieces so keeping train of thought together is a nightmare.......
I have just come back from a week in the UK and took back with me, RasPi, Arduino, Beagleboard, EveAlpha and 4 Punchthrough Beans, with the hope of getting back into things. 
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OK so we may not be getting fully autonomous vehicles right now, but adaptive cruise control is my current favorite technology. I guess I'm late to the party because all this time our car has been just a box with wheels, engine and steering. However the new one (new to me  ) has got a few more bells and whistles.
Driving in traffic (which is most of the time) is much more bearable now. Slowing down is still a bit rough at very low speeds, but it does a pretty good job of following whatever is in front. At first I thought it would completely fail to see motorcycles, but even scooters are identified accurately (I don't trust it enough yet to actually allow it to follow one for extended periods of time)
Does anyone here actually have a Tesla with autopilot? Or anyone testing Google's car?
Other options have been a bit disappointing though. Lane-departure warning beeps for no apparent reason and is generally a mere annoyance, but to be honest a couple of dealers said it will be like that. Collision mitigation either completely ignores the thing in front or beeps a mile away. One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed. When I find a car-sized balloon, or tarpaulin or something similar set up.
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I am looking forward to when I get better cruise control. I have tended to set the cruise control a bit on the slow side so I can just cruise, but there are the times when I have to go off cruise control. I have managed to go maybe 200 miles without having to touch the cruise control. Almost made it from San Francisco to about 60 miles from LA on I-5 completely on cruise control, but there had been an accident on the other side. Fortunately not on my side since it completely blocked off traffic. On daily use it would help a lot since right now in SF bay area, and there is no way can just stay on cruise most of the time. I know have an old system since the cruise control does not maintain the set speed. Apparently still using the old tried and true system instead of computer control.
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That must have hurt! It didn't seem to even slow down.
No danger of that happening here, I won't be testing on people because mine uses some kind of radar that completely ignores pedestrians.
That gives me an idea though, maybe aluminium foil will work as a fake vehicle.
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Ford Active City Stop[^] has saved me from rear-ending the car in front of me in a traffic jam with my 2012 Focus.
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So, the guy a couple of cubicles down from me (really one cubicle as I've expanded to whatever I could grab) is talking on his sell phone.
His voice is getting louder and louder. He mutters names. He mutters numbers. He mutters "Agent".
His voice gets louder and louder as he repeats the process. Periodically, blurting out "Agent".
Louder and louder it goes around. "Agent!" "AGENT!" "AGENT!" AGENT!
I shall remain a safe distance lest he hurl the phone and I am injured.
Have we not all sat in his chair? Said his words? Felt his rage!
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: his sell phone
Is he a commodities trader, with a separate "buy" phone held to his other ear? 
Either "cell" for US-English, or "mobile" for proper English, would be accepted.
"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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Urh - Um - Uh - oh yeah. Now I remember.
I did that on purpose as part of my new campaign to simplify spelling whilst at the same thing confusing things.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've often found that the voice recognition software seems to understand swearing. Works well to get to a live person most of the time.
Marc
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I've been that guy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I used to work for a consulting firm that specialized in call centers back in the 90's. I was one of their lead developers. The problem then was silo or stove-piped setups, meaning that each division of a company would have their own call center. HP was one of the worst. There was a different number to call depending on what the product was. The automated systems were designed to get rid of that problem combining all of those support numbers to just one. It's much easier and cheaper to have a computer direct the call to a specific division/agent without having to support a staff of operators. Unfortunately, those systems are very complicated and in most cases, not very good at what they are supposed to do. My biggest complaint is giving a serial number or personal information only to have the agent to request it again. During those sessions, I would tell the agent that the company needs to get a new system or update the current, but it never works. After writing the software for call centers for years, I know that the agent doesn't know anything about the products and is only reading from a script. Sometimes I tell the agent to click the answer two down from the top, just to annoy them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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