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No huge loss. I keep saying it's too bad Star Trek died before it could reach its 50th anniversary.
Because what's been produced since, even though it says "Star Trek" somewhere in the title, bears no resemblance whatsoever to what Gene Roddenberry had in mind. It started with the Jar-Jar Abrams movies, and only went downhill from there.
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I quite liked Discovery.
But there's lots of box sets I've never watched on Netflix and Amazon Prime so I won't be getting another streaming service!
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Taxi, the (French) automobile. Not a vehicle for the plotters (5, 3)
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Cable car ?
"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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And there was me, waiting an hour ...
"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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I expected you to get it and appreciate your patience
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I posted because I didn't think it was right - don't get the plotting 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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What was the plotters part about ?
"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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The 'plotters' was a back reference / homage to your CCC of yesterday ... "Plot a clever and brilliant autumn leaf at first (5)"
The word 'Cable' is almost a homophone (sound-alike) for Cabal; so, not a cabal car.
modified 17-Nov-21 10:34am.
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"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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That explains a lot...last week I started for CodeProject and ended up ordering 1-1/2 tons of dog food off Amazon. WTF, I don't even have a dog, but I now have a dog house!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Greetings Kind Regards Nice site Too bad I know little re/ hardware You might wish to consider utilizing a spell checker I tried it and found it even knows how to spell Raspberry Pi Pico Photos Quite Impressive - Cheerios
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Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah I'm a lousy typist and still getting used to my new keyboard that is worse than I am.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Yea, same, what else hey?!
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Thanks for posting. That is a really great video.
Veritasium creates some great instructional content.
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The days of 16-bit minicomputers (PDP-11 class) were in the period when alpha radiation was being discovered as a source of bit rot. People were seriously afraid that 64 kbit memory chips would be the end of the pat for static RAM, fearing that we would have to use dynamic RAM (i.e. flip-flops) in the future, or develop some completely new memory technology, not Si-based. (Such as waves in mercury filled tubes ).
The video mentioned ECC RAM, but not in much detail. The first computer I got to know in any detail was a 16-bit mini where the customer had a choice between 21 and 22 bit memory cards. Each 16 bit data word was protected by either 5 or 6 ECC bits per 16 bit word. I believe that the 21 bit memory could automatically correct any 2-bit error, while the 22 bit version could also detect 3 bit errors.
When I some 15 years later got my first PC, discovering that common PC RAM doesn't even have a simple parity bit, my reaction was What??
I never found a good explanation of what happened with RAM production, how they got around the problem. The alpha radiation certainly didn't disappear. RAM chips of today are six orders of magnitude(!) as dense as those 16 kbit chips mentioned in the movie (and each memory cell is correspondingly smaller). Yet, RAM chips do not suffer from those problems. I'd like to know why not!
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Quote: Suggestion [3,General]: The command go was not found, but does exist in the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default.
My understanding was that PowerShell was to be the bestest thing ever, way more better than bash or cmd, or Windows Terminal or any of the billion shells out there. They even introduced a most inscrutable syntax to make it feel even more awesome.
And yet, on my Plain Jane Windows installation, running as an Admin, with a PowerShell instance launched as Admin, I can't actually just run a program. I can, I just need to say pretty please by doing .\command
Why do they do this? Why are there constant barriers to productivity thrown in front of developers every day? I feel like I'm pair programming with Google when I code these days. And I've been coding a looong time.
Programming used to be basic (no pun intended), then we got IDEs and integrated debuggers, and it started becoming fun, and crazy productive. We had intellisense, and auto-complete, and real-time linting and then...then they couldn't stop.
The complexity introduced by those who know their own tools deeply, and who in turn forget that we do not care about their tools, is staggering. Their tools are a necessary evil. Their tools should be totally and completely hidden from view, even hidden from knowledge for new developers, and help, not hinder.
Man. What happened to this industry?
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 16-Nov-21 13:57pm.
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PowerShell just baffles me. For me I don't really spend a lot of time writing scripts. At the beginning and end of projects mainly for generating or loading images (bamboo server stuff). cmd.exe has simple syntax and I can search for examples and get a script up and running quickly, bash is another straight forward tool. But PowerShell, if you haven't used it in a while it takes days to get even the most simple thing to work. When I'm told to run a PowerShell script they never work the first time (typical MS). I worked briefly at MS years ago (was fired, I can laugh about it now, the area I worked in failed miserably and was disbanded) but it is filled with people that think they are at the top of the food chain, look at the 10 billion dollar mess Windows CE was. It was like being in a cult, I said early that Windows CE would never work (I worked on bare metal systems enough to know) and they looked at me like I was stupid and said their mom wears army boots. I have to say the new CEO is doing a great job all things considered. PowerShell is just one example of a group that got paid good money to write software that didn't have a hard "earn money" metric. In the end they are the smart ones, get paid to write software that no one cares about when looking at the revenue numbers. Its like the CA life guards that get $120k and full pensions. So when looking at that sometimes I do feel stupid but I like having challenging projects to work on.
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Stolen from the Linux work around for path stuff, although many of the commands work without it. Reminds me of a project I worked on that was almost impossible to install and configure. The reason: "They told us the users were sophisticated, so we made it complicated to use".
Yesterday, I said something in the house and my wife wasn't there. Was I still wrong?
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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True story!
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Totally agree with this. Tried Powershell, hated it. I'm old enough to remember when the whole point of an IDE was to assist in moving away from arcane command line tools so that the developer could focus on the application being developed. My personal theory is that universities teach using *nix command line tools, so graduates only know those tools. But many of those tools date back to the 1980s (or earlier) and back in the 90s we would have thought that they were hopelessly outdated. We'd moved past that, or so I thought. It's like the younger developers don't even realise how much easier everything could be...
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