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I've spent most of this morning scanning, checking, and generally trying to work out what's up with my PC - It suddenly when into SHIFT mode, so I couldn't access any lower case characters or numbers once I'd pressed SHIFT once and nothing would unSHIFT it. "Pile of SHIFT", I thought. So, check Sticky Keys - nope. Turn on Sticky Keys. Same thing. Turn off Sticky Keys again. No change. Reboot, power cycle, scan my whole PC for malware and viruses ... nothing.
Finally, reboot to PE from USB for a restore from my last backup. And ... it's the same there.
Odd. Not malware then.
Try my old (as in bought-in-the-nineties-really-cheap for a DX/4 I built) keyboard. Dead as a dodo.
Steal keyboard from Herself's computer. Works fine, provided I unplug my one.
Plug my KB into WookieTab. Same problem.
Weird hardware error on keyboard - once you press either SHIFT, it doesn't notice the release.
Gah! New keyboard time (BWA! I liked that one ...)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No wonder your keyboard gave up after all that hammering 
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Well, I just picked up the new one, and - apart from feeling "weird" because it's new and Microsoft instead of Logitech - it weems to work OK. Feel isn't too bad, but no dedicated "Zoom" keys may be a pain. Ho hum. At least I don't have to SHOUT all the time any more... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: Shout
Shout
Let it all out
These are the things I can do without
Come on
I'm talking to you
Come on
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Nice cover, like the bagpipes, but they also should have used coconuts like Monty Python did
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It seems to me that new keyboards get worse year after year. Same with mice.
My recommendation: If you find a keyboard you feel is vastly superior to everything else, then immediately get 3 more of them as future replacements. I wish I would've done that with my mouse (the original, plain, simple, 2-button USB MS optical mouse). They're nowhere to be found nowadays, except from the hoarders reselling them on Amazon for $250.
My last one is acting up, and I'm struggling to find a good replacement.
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I wish I'd done that with my mouse as well - a Logitech Trackman Wheel - it's buttons have stopped a couple of times, but I took it apart and replaced the duff microswitches. You'll almost certainly find that yours is equally fixable if you are / know a competent PTH solderer, and most of the bits are available on FleaBay, they aren't complicated devices!
But my keyboard? Given the problem is with both shift keys it seems to be internal to the IC, and that's a microcontroller, so I'm elephanted....
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So me and the missus watched Beware of Mr. Baker[^] (a documentary about Ginger Baker) last night. She had never heard of him, I said he was the drummer for Cream who was known to be an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) from time to time. Whoa! is that an understatement! The guy defines "full of piss and vinegar", not often you see someone so vilified and revered at the same time. It was interesting viewing (at least it was for me), but not for someone who doesn't want to hear a steady stream of expletives hurled towards just about everybody (his own family included).
"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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It's "The missus and I," not "me and the missus." 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: It's "The missus and I," not "me and the missus."
As he's a Yank, we're lucky he didn't say The Missus and Myself.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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No it's not!!!
Always age before beauty.
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Without him and the bass player cream would have sucked, because on his own Clapton was crap.
Not only cant he not play guitar with any real originality, his song writing is limited. I mean, after midnight, lay down sally, I shot the sherif? What a load of garbage.
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Clapton did not write "I Shot The Sheriff" or "After Midnight" and he co-wrote "Lay Down Sally" with two other people.
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So he didnt even have enough talent to write those then. You reinforce my point. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Without him and the bass player cream would have sucked,
Won't argue with you there, though I will say that I liked his tone more once he started playing strats. Jack Bruce was certainly one of favorite bassists. But the ego of Ginger is a tad overwhelming, everyone's an idiot and/or can't play worth a s**t according to him, yet he's the broke one of the bunch, karma?
"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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At first I thought this was about George Baker who did some quite corny things after his big hit "Little green bag".
I never could believe that it was the same person that produced dubious songs afterwards like "Una Paloma blanca".
But that's my opinion of course, lot's of people loved that song and it sold very well ... 
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MIT Review: [^]Quote: It’s much easier to build an AI system that can detect a nipple than it is to determine what is linguistically hate speech.
— Mark Zuckerberg, on a conference call with analysts after the company’s first-quarter earnings report
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Quote: ... abreast ... detect a nipple ...
ICWYDT. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's gotta be a coincidence. Bill's too much of an old fashioned gentleman to go for a double entendre.
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Nish Nishant wrote: That's gotta be a coincidence. Bill's too much of an old fashioned gentleman to go for a double entendre.
Either that, or you're all too naive to trust Bill that much.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: you're all too naive to trust Bill that much
I don't trust myself enough to respond to my brother, Rajesh-ji, on this.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The coincidences are etymological: [^], but, mea culpa, the intent was not.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Mark Zuckerberg, the AI, on AI.
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He seemed to keep saying to congress that facebook was building AI to solve all the problems..and to sell more user data..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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