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honey the codewitch wrote: I want to disassemble the whole world and see how it works.
I want to disassemble the whole world and recycle the parts.
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In Grad school, we had a semester project that involved modeling in software (PL/I) the individual logic gates used for basic arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and basic assembly level program flow, etc. We actually had to model the input/output lines as if they were on a circuit board.
This circa 1976-80 if memory serves. Loved it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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honey the codewitch wrote: Why do you do what you do? What drives you?
I think that I'm driven by an insatiable desire to know all that there is to know. I've been driven by that since childhood. Even as a little kid, I had neighbors dropping stuff off to see if I could fix it. I usually could figure out what was wrong, even if I sometimes couldn't fix it. Dad used to tell the story of the day, when I was 5, that he ran to the parts store for a job he was doing on the car, when he returned I'd removed the bumper because I wanted to help, and that was the only part I could reach. Good thing I didn't know about brake lines back then...
As I mentioned in a previous post, a little thing called "The American Basic Science Club" lit my intellectual fire, supplemented by a fully stocked Gilbert chemistry set. For the rest of my life I've pursued knowledge and skill like a starving Chihuahua craves a pork chop. I can't help it. I don't program professionally anymore, but I still love the hardware, and having the ability to create programs to make it dance. I've designed complex electronics systems, and built steel and concrete electrical substations, created programs to control all sorts of hardware. I can fix cars and trucks, most any machine, I weld, and have a small machine shop on my porch. I'm a gunsmith, and I have the tools to fabricate parts that are no longer available. I have a tractor, and I know how to use it. There is absolutely nothing that I'm unwilling to learn, unless it requires a pole and a feathered boa.
I was raised by a man who taught that there is no such thing as too many tools, nor too many skills. Dad never paid anyone to do anything he could figure out; neither have I. My time in college taught me that there's no such thing as too much knowledge, unless you count the fuzzy subjects that do nothing of value. And my own life has taught me that there's no such thing as too much ammunition (unless you're trying to swim). Given the price of bacon these days, I'm glad I have so much; I can barter!
Thanks for your fascinating posts, Ms Codewitch; they often inspire me. But please don't think you're in your "august" years. I'm 67, and I ain't done learning yet!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: But please don't think you're in your "august" years. I'm 67, and I ain't done learning yet!
Ha! I don't think so yet. But I am getting some of the problems that come with it already. Not sure what that says.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Not sure what that says.
You're just ahead of your time.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Learning from errors and persistence are almost always the winning combo for any task.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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modified 1-Aug-22 7:32am.
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"Surely some mistake here": ed.
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Oh c**k.
Copied to A&A ...
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You seem to be having a bad time the last few days ... I'd suggest a or two, but I know you don't.
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There are times when it's tempting ...
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Oh, - I forgot Herself's cat pictures.
She likes to do jigsaws, and she really likes to do them on her tablet(s) where the cat can't get at them.
And she likes to do pictures of cats, rather than anything else. So every week one of my jobs is to create a dozen square pictures of cats she hasn't seen before so her jigsaw software can accept them.
To make life easier I keep a folder of "unused" cat pictures that I can work from to crop and resize appropriately when she needs them.
That folder is ... on the NAS. And I can't get at them ...
Please, seagate support: get back to me quickly ...
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I would start to prepare blanket and pillow... the probability that you end sleeping in the sofa is increasing with each post...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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If there is danger on your life, Sir, we may have to send in the SWAT-team
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Are there battered husband shelters in Wales? It looks like you'll be needing one...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Where, oh where, could you possibly find a new set of cat pictures?
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The problem is finding ones she hasn't seen before.
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OriginalGriff wrote: The problem is finding ones she hasn't seen before.
That's a lot of cat pictures then...
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How could you not keep an extra backup of such important item?
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The clue below is one that I remember seeing in a UK computer periodical from the early 1980s.
Pamphlet about a biscuit or an alimentary canal. (9, 5)
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Digestive tract ?
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Yay! Dat's de bunny I got as well!
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DIGESTIVE TRACT!
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I just used the word "Paradigm" in a comment ...
Excuse me for ten minutes, I need to scrub my mouth and keyboard out with Soap and water. (Or possibly JSON and water.)
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