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So are you going to start spending your days out in the sun nude (best way to get the most sun)?
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Hoy! This is not the Soapbox! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So you get more wrinkles and skin damage and a year or two longer in which to 'enjoy' them? Woo-hoo!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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That dark day when the Grim Reaper comes for you, two extra years may seem a very good deal! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've got nothing to worry about on that score. According to my Chinese life horoscope the second half of my life is going to be far better than my first and it's been absolute pants for the last decade. If I'm still in the first half I'm going to be looking at a Guinness record for longevity for sure!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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What a load of crap - how do you get exposure to the sun, you go outside and presumably do things therefore you are probably getting more exercise than the troglodytes.
And they probably got paid for the study tcha!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So relaxing and de-stressing is good for you?
Whoda thunkit?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What about us folk with no Melanin to process the Sun's rays?
Burn, peel, pail.
Me before 30 minutes of sun 
Me after 30 minutes of sun 
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Vitiligo?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nope, Caucasian American Red Head.
Carrot Top, Pumpkin Head, Walking Road Cone.
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 Gotcha!
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Me being out in the sun would probably shorten the lives of those poor, poor souls that see me. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I was on to send a complaint (software related) either in Lounge or Soap Box. I recognized, both top messages there were related to Bruxelles. Yep it gave me a kick, software is not really the main thing in our live.
For the victims
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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But, er, life goes on (except, of course, for the 7,000 people a year who die from sporting injuries), so what was your complaint?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Only for you:
Interbase only sucks
I try to delete “duplicates” older than "15 Versions". But subqueries in interbase do not allow ROWS/ORDER BY for subqueries.
The justification from embarcadero:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/30296
Cool, boah
Not an important Thing These days.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Scented teas are ridiculous.
The only reason I can see for adding scent to tea is the same reason as for keeping a can of air freshener in small rooms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For the past seven or eight years or so I’ve been running (amongst others) two nearly identical computers. One is my development machine, which is used pretty extensively most days, and each night I put it into “sleep” mode. The other is running tasks for a client and has been left running pretty much 24/7 (with tis screen off!) though it’s never under very much of a heavy load.
Over this time, I’ve had to replace the hard drive on my development machine (a couple of years back) and it also runs far more noisily now than the other one, which has just kept going sweetly all this time. My gut feeling (which could be completely wrong, and is getting to the point of this post) is that a constant daily routine of sleep/wake takes its toll on a computer, especially the hard drive (they don't half make a grumpy noise when waking up!), and that really these machines are happier just left running all the time. With their screens turned off when not needed, the power consumption isn’t that great..
..so – is it a good idea to leave them on all the time?
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Wait, wait!
I only recently discovered that computers have "OFF" buttons! Are you now telling me that they can "sleep"?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah - and wait til you find out what they dream about....
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Dali-esque running blades?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Could be - they won't tell me. But I heard them whispering once... something about sheep and machines and electric ghosts...
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Well, we'll have to Ford that river when we get to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google did some research on the life expectancy of drives quite a few years ago.
They were actually surprised by the results. The results were what you discovered - that a drive that is in fairly constant use lasts longer than one that is used infrequently.
It seems that starting and stopping a drive may place more strain on it than having it in fairly constant use.
They also discovered that drive would generally break early in their life or towards the end of their expected life - those breaking early were generally due to poor batches.
These studies were not on SSDs so I don' know what the results would be with an SSD.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Interesting... although I left that one machine permanently on, the power settings were such that it would turn the hard drive off after 20 minutes of inactivity. So I presume it did that, but I've never been aware of hearing it make the sort of grinding noise that both it and the one on my development machine makes when powering up after being in sleep mode (or a full boot). Just from the noises they make, I definitely feel that powering-up puts quite a toll on the hardware.
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