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The road is one big chaos system. The longer it displays a reliable pattern the more likely that the very next moment it will go completely pear shaped. I've gotten in the habit of working from home the first snowfall of the winter every year. It's like freaking clock work. We have decent* enough roads 7-9 months and then the day that snow falls every moron and their dead grandmothers decide that the best way to drive on snow and ice, is to go as fast as they can so they spend as little time on it as possible**!
*By "decent" I mean the majority of them are paved, potholes aren't quite big enough to swallow a horse, and they haven't been condemned. They are however rated "poor" by the road committee.
**I guess this isn't an entirely inaccurate thought process. If they slide off the road into the ditch, they are no longer technically on said road.
modified 27-Apr-17 9:22am.
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RJOberg wrote: the first snowfall of the winter
As if this event was a total surprise, but then they are also absolutely surprised when that funny light changes from red to green.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's why we don't have to worry about the 8,327 clones they made of Hitler.
One alone managed to conquer most of Europe and start a world war; the 8,327 can't even decide which tiles to play in Scrabble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Uncle Adolf is about the last who I would suspect to have been a Ninja.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Why do you think his moustache was so meticulously cropped and shaped the way it was?
Ninja magic, Man!
Rubbing it in particular directions and with particular cadence with the left-hand's thumb and forefinger caused Terrible Things to happen!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You are a brilliant person.
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"Nobody drives around here. There's too much traffic."
I'm sure somebody will correct me on the exact quote and provide its source.
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CDP1802 wrote: While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys.
Once traffic reaches a critical density, the cumulative effect of gentle braking rushes back over drivers like a wave and leads to a standstill. It's a chain reaction similar to the push and pull of an accordion or Slinky, or the traffic-wave effect.
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The same reason that the "good guys" in TV shows are crack shots and the "bad guys" can't hit the broad side of a barn?
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I, too, have observed this effect with cars - and with everything else people do. It's fear, you see: crippling, stupefying fear: and let's face it: it doesn't take much to stupefy most people. They're paralyzed by it: it occupies so much of their mind that they literally have no processing power left over to use for anything useful or constructive. It makes them stop moving in the middle of the road, or drive into other cars, or vote for Donald Trump, or void their colons into their trousers (also an option after performing any of the above).
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Emergency room rush after a shiny top is nonsense (10)
Good Luck
modified 27-Apr-17 4:28am.
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Balderdash
BALD = shiny top
ER - Emergency room
DASH = rush
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Right on the button. You're it tomorrow
Must have been too easy 
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Think it may have been alright...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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RossMW wrote: Must have been too easy
The only way to guarantee people not solving one quickly is to write what you think is the easiest clue in the world because you're not going to be around the next day. This has worked for me on many occasions.
The ones that I think are really fiendish tend to get solved in a matter of minutes.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Yep. Been there is the past. 
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Window Server R 2000
We have several servers with a singular purpose of running a display application. No one depends on them but the developers and the analysts during mission time. I like to turn them off when not in use and over the weekend. Others say servers are designed to be run 24/7. That statement can be re-worded to: Servers are not designed to be turned off.
I do not agree with that.
I suspect that all computers are designed to run 24/7. Would you design one that can only be run 8 hours before being turned off? So how might a server, or any computer, be designed differently to run 24/7? Or designed to not be turned off?
By turning it off we save power running the server, we reduce the total amount of dust and air borne debris moved through the server by the fans, we reduce the run time drives by 2/3 or more, and we save the money that would be spend removing the heat from the room.
On the negative side, you gotta push the button and do something else for a few minutes before it is ready.
I have had PCs since about 1983, turned them off every night, and never had a failure, drive or component.
So, Please, what is your opinion? Please reference any supporting information.
Thank you for your time
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The hardest period of time during a computer's life is when it powers up and when it powers down. This is especially true for disc drives that either move the heads to the landing area and spin down or spin up and move the heads on to the data surface. Then there are the surges of power into the PSU and then the motherboard and the rest of the components. In my experience, I have never had a component fail during normal operation. The only failures I can recall are during power on sequences. For this reason, I try to minimize them.
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It's uncommon for a light bulb to blow while it's still on, they usually fail when they're first turned on.
But you wouldn't leave a bulb on all the time to make it last longer (there are of course, exceptions[^])
What you'd need to know is where the crossover point is, how long does the computer need to be idling to match the stress of it starting up?
And if you are able to prolong the life of your computer by leaving it running, does the cost of keeping it powered on outweigh the cost of replacing a component if it does fail?
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Anthony Mushrow wrote: It's uncommon for a light bulb to blow while it's still on, they usually fail when they're first turned on.
But you wouldn't leave a bulb on all the time to make it last longer (there are of course, exceptions[^])
Only that computers are slightly more complicated beasts than light bulbs. When a power supply fails, it can easily fry the entire computer. Therefore you need a good power supply that has reasonable protection against this and then let it do its job. Who cares when it fails after some years? It's easily replaced as long as it does not take the whole computer with it.
Servers often even have a dual power supply to keep going when one fails. You can replace the defective power supply (or even drives or memory) while the server is running. I really don't think all this is a real problem. Servers may be designed to keep going, no matter what happens. That does not mean that they will instantly fall apart when you shut them down when you don't need them.
Dang, I have a computer that almost 40 years old and still runs with its old power supply and its old monitor. I don't know how often it has been torn apart (sometimes by people who don't know that CMOS is not an exotic dish), put back together again (sometimes after years in a box) or been switched on or off. Once I even had accidentally reversed the polarity of the power supply, giving the power supply a mighty start and the voltage regulator (a good old LM7805) got a little hot.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The bulb was just a simplified example. I'm just challenging the idea that leaving a computer on will save it some stress and make it last longer. There will be some duration where turning off the computer will be better for it than leaving it on and idling, but how long would that be? An hour, a day, two weeks? I have no idea.
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The items I was referring to that are stressed the most during start up and shut down are the mechanical items - disc drives and fans for example. Electronics also get stressed from the inrush current but not to the degree that the mechanical parts do. The stresses during these times are much more severe than the steady state stresses and take a much bigger chunk out of the lifetime of a product. At least, that is what we were taught at my engineering school.
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For new hardware, its probably not an issue, but if its old hardware then it is best to keep them on.
The disks prefer to be kept spinning and the electronics prefer a constant temperature. The cooling and warming can slowly start to cause issues.
modified 26-Apr-17 23:45pm.
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I'd say this also comes from applications running on servers that need to have high availability and are even working overnight. Just take a database server as an example.
But yeah, they are design to be able to work 24/7 but you surely can turn them off if not needed, though as already mentioned before, the older the hardware gets the less it should be powered down.
For example we had some switches 15yo and they ran perfectly, sadly after electric breakdown they werent able to start up again. Hardware died.
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