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OriginalGriff wrote: You can't get the knife through the internet tubes.
A new problem for AI to work on!
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: We don't cut people open for that!
Haven't you heard of message-based applications? We just send a WM_CUT message, and voila!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I so wish that was true in QA... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The mailman wanted to see if it was something of his interest he could "make disappear" for himeslf.
Here in PastaPizzaAndMafiaLand it's fairly common.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I wondered about that same thing.
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I'd guess it just got snagged in handling and the tape was torn then. Probably when it was loaded in the mailman's truck or they'd've retaped it with a note.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
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?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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PS The barcodes you didn't white out are a machine readable version of the address you did. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
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?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I know, but I figured at that point it just didn't matter. But thanks.
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So I'm burning through some vacation time right now. I decided to revive my "old" gaming machine, which I had repurposed for hosting VMs about 2 years ago. Then within the last year, I got myself an Intel NUC that can handle 32GB of RAM, and I've since moved all my VMs to it. So this still relatively beefy machine had gone unused for the better part of the last year.
So I decided to reinstall GTA5 on it. 7 DVDs worth of content to copy. Then an 18GB update. Over my 5mbps connection. This'll take 8 hours, according to the installer. For the update, that is; the game's installed, but I can't launch it until it has updated itself.
According to an article that came out nearly 3 years ago, 25mbps is now considered "broadband", whereas according to the previous definition, 4mbps used to be enough to qualify. My provider really has some catching up to do...
Clearly I'm not going to be playing GTA5 today, so I decided to catch up with some Channel 9 videos I had been meaning to watch for a while. So I fired up a browser...and the video stutters all over the place. I paused the GTA5 update download, downloaded the Channel 9 video instead of streaming it, and then resumed the game update. Start watching the video...and I promptly fell asleep on it.
I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.
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dandy72 wrote: So I'm burning through some vacation time right now.
dandy72 wrote: I promptly fell asleep
dandy72 wrote: I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.
I don't know... it sounds about like what I would do for my vacation.
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue!
Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Welcome to my parlour said the spider to the fly...
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Quote: m I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Try to ask Q&A.
No, you are not alone in that.
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Just skip those questions, or ask for clarification.
I'm often enough seeing questions other people don't understand, but I'm able to answer. But the other way around is admittedly more common.
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Some of them are phrased very badly, but it is sometimes possible to read between the lines and work it out. Generally speaking, the worse the phrasing, the simpler the problem!
If you don't understand it, ignore it, or ask for clarification. What I hate is when people decide "this s a rubbish question - I'll vote to close it" instead of getting it clarified.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good advice, thanks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I also noticed that the questions seem to get more difficult, maybe a good sign as this might be interpreted that we trained the newbies well, and now they don't need to ask beginners questions anymore.
Another theory of mine is that the programming landscape is getting more and more diversified, and we oldies can not be expected to be knowledgeable on the plethora of subjects ...
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If you want to feel a little better, post some really obscure questions that only you'll know the answers to and then come back in 10 minutes and answer them yourself. 
Here are some suggested questions:
What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS?
Answer: VAX / OpenVMS (we will accept either answer)
What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS to hate on:
Answer : Same as everyone else, Win10.
Just make sure you can answer these questions correctly or it's going to be really painful.
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Don't get me started...
Q&A was a bad idea from the start.
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Is a Yule Log a record of who has been naughty, and who has been nice?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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in that case burning it would be easier than doing pennance
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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I thought it was Christmas dinner after it had been processed.
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Big + for that, as it wipes away any doubt that "It's the Thought That Counts"
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I wood imagine so, as they are flameous for these types of inflammatory gestures, as least a forest I can tell.
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no, actually a record of who has been knotty or nice...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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