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I'm partly through (and thoroughly enjoying) Bill Bryson's book about Australia "In a Sunburned Country".
For the folks that know, is it pretty accurate description of your world?
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I don't know, I've never the book.
When I Googled it:
Quote: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.
Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extroverted, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this...
Its's certainly how we like to see ourselves.
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yacCarsten wrote: Glad we have a pool, have been in and out all day; & we avoid the beach where the entire population seems to occupy a single stretch.
Why not go to a different stretch then and have a private beach? 🤔
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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Dan Neely wrote: private beach
Near Sydney, I there is no such place within 100km that will not be overrun on a hot public holiday.
Cairns on the other hand is hot, wet and we have no problem finding a quiet beach.
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That's because you locals guard your beaches with stingers and crocs
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C or F - too lazy to do conversion.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Would not be swimming if that was Fahrenheit.
37C = 98.6F
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Feels like TX.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wondrous sounds, like miners tally. (7)
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AWESOME?
Sounds line "Ore? Some." and meaning "wonderous"?
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Yep. I had "ORE SUM" in mind as the homophone.
YAUT!
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Not sure if "ORE" and "AWE" are pronounced the same... ?
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Down under, definitely.
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and the UK
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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Where's the tally bit ?
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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"How much ore did you dig today, Joe?"
"Some."
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Uhmm the jury is out on homophones in cryptics
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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Still nothing to do with tally
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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To tally something is to add it up or to sum the values. SUM is a homophone for SOME.
And, in answer to another query in this thread, AWE and ORE (and OAR and OR) are homophones in my variant of English (British).
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Can you think any justification to VS 2022 to hold to over 8GB of memory while compiling a solution with less than 20 solutions in it?
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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To seem important?
I know some developers increase the size of their executables so customers don't have a reaction like "is that all"
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: less than 20 solutions
Depends how big and/or complicated those projects are.
Did you expand the node in Task Manager to check which sub-process was using the memory?
What happens if you try building the solution with dotnet build from the command-line?
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- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Depends how big and/or complicated those projects are.
Nothing special about those project - most of them a few lines only...
Richard Deeming wrote: What happens if you try building the solution with dotnet build from the command-line?
It is much faster and do not hit event the 1GB boundary...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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If it has windows forms or components in it - anything with a designer, it will be loading your built binaries into your process so that it can update the visual designer aspects.
And since they are (I am assuming here) .NET, that requires the CLI which tends to preallocate gobs of RAM for doing just about anything.
If I had to guess, I'd say that's at least in part what it is, based on what you wrote.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It is a .NET Core (Blazor) app...
And the code and the final binary is less then a 100 Mb combined...
And if I do the compilation from the command line it is much faster and eats almost 90% less memory...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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