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lopatir wrote: do some work
I've worked for about 10 years now.
I didn't become my own boss so I could do even more work! 
But seriously, the more work the better (and I've got some of it lined up) 
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Congratulations.
My best work place was at home. We temporarily had three cats. The two males would take turn sleeping in the bed on the shelf next to my desk. The female stayed away unless I was on the phone. She knew I wouldn't make much of a fuss until I hung up. Whenever the phone rang she came trotting in and got in my way.
Miss them all, they were my sons cats and we haven't gotten our own because my wife couldn't live on allergy medicine forever.
Rich
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My only companion was a cat, but unfortunately she passed away last week 
She wouldn't pay any attention to me during the day though.
She was kind of an evening cuddler I guess 
Anyway, last week, more than ever, was I glad I didn't work at home anymore... It's VERY quiet without her
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Sorry for your loss. Cats are cats, but yet each relationship is so very unique.
Rich
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Good Lord!
I don't know how you could go through all that description without mentioning the most important thing!
WHAT KIND OF COFFEE MACHINE HAS IT GOT?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A machine with fresh beans and plenty of options.
I don't drink coffee though, so I can't tell you how it tastes
It does have different flavors of chocolate though, and choco coffee, which is how I get my energy these days 
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Well, if it's not a Douwe Egberts machine, I will have to think several times, before visiting.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't worry about that, I will have to think several times, before inviting 
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Don't be silly; you won't even have to think twice!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Congratulations, Sandor; may your new workspace nurture your talents and creativity !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Thanks Boll!
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First strike, Ubuntu lightdm's GUI taskbar thing has popups and sometimes they get "stuck" and obscure other windows and won't go away without logging out, meaning killing my VM because of a stupid sticky UI issue
Second strike, Ubuntu just froze on me and required a hard reset.
This is 18.04 LTS. The LTS means this is unacceptable, in my view.
What a joke.
I'm about this close > < to going back to MINT
Real programmers use butterflies
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People: "How do you fix your Windows computer? Install Linux LOL!"
Linux: "Haha, joke's on you "
As a developer, I see a pattern so I'd like to add in some variables and make this a general computing law.
(string badTechnology, string supposedlyGoodTechnology)
People: "How do you fix {badTechnology}? Install {supposedlyGoodTechnology} LOL!"
{supposedlyGoodTechnology}: "Haha, joke's on you "
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Pretty much. I hate computers, but I love to code. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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because it so resonates, at least sometimes.
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Punch cards? Then you can make a flipbook of them and have movies.
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is that a valid code, or just another hanging chad?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Learn to code for the Abacus and you'll find there are no OS problems.
Performance - unless you are 70 years old and Chinese - is pretty uninspiring though.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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reminds me so much of how linux and similar used to be 15, 20, even 30 years ago. (SCO unix)
weird stuff happens, and there will be a fix, it'll just take:
- some searching and downloading patches (warnings that it's a beta - last update 2014),
- running scripts and commands and moving things about
- download some more, if that didn't work try this other one, or this other other one
- more commands, move this, rename that one, change permissions over there, edit something...
.... and a 29 hour day or so later "not going till sleep yet, almost there" it'll be mostly half fixed.
but with age comes wisdom.
... bugger all that farting about, I'll just find another one that just works* as-is, out of the box.
If mint is working fine for you why change?
Why waste work/play time trying something else when the goal is to work/play?
For me lubuntu (ubuntu with less bundled apps) works fine - mint would have been the next one I tried if ubuntu didn't - but it did, so I simply stopped looking/testing. That job was done. who knows, mint probably world have worked too, dunno, not going to waste time just to find out.
* "it just works" - why apple succeeded back in Job's days.
and: "it works most of the time as long [as you don't push or run it too hard]" - why ordinary users should stick to windows. (it's true I dislike windows, but I also do not deny it's by far the best choice for 99% of the sheep out there.)
wait for it ... wait for it ...
...
too bad! you missed it!
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Quote: For me lubuntu (ubuntu with less bundled apps) works fine
Same here.
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i installed without extra apps, but not a special distro.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The reason for ubuntu was mint doesn't have near as large an install base meaning the odds of me finding a fix for a problem with ubuntu is much higher. That's one of the reasons
Real programmers use butterflies
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My own personal experience?
With Windows, pray there's already a fix, and if so, go ahead and install it. Otherwise, you're SOL and whatever you're seeing could very well never get fixed and there's nothing you can do about it. So move on and find another way to accomplish whatever you're trying to do.
With Linux, you're never out of options for things you can try to fix some problem yourself--everything's open. The solution just depends on how much time you're willing to invest, and you could very well get to a point where you'll have to explain to Linus Torvalds why his code is wrong and he should use your fix. It's a double-edged sword.
[TL;DR]:
Windows: It's Microsoft's problem, wait for them to fix it.
Linux: You can make it your problem.
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Hi all,
I need help in a math issue:
Let's say I have 3 measuring devices which give me a distance.
Mechanically those 3 sensors are mounted more or less in the right position, but we can't be sure of the angle neither position the measuring devices are mounted.
I have 3 Mastering parts (3 circumferences of a known radius) that I can mount into the machine at any moment and that I want to use to calibrate the system.
The measuring error of the 3 measuring devices can be dismissed.
this is a small diagram to represent the problem: https://i.stack.imgur.com/a2AyG.png[^]
2 known master circumferences give me a distance [d1] between circumferences (d1 = radius 1 - radius 2).
For each circumference the sensor will give me a different measure m1 and m2.
Given the difference between r1-r2 and m2-m1 could I find the angle in which the measuring device is mounted?
Summarizing:
2 master circumferences mounted in the same center.
3 external measuring devices mounted completely unaligned with the center.
I don't know the measuring devices position.
The red lines in the drawing are the vector lines the measuring device measures would be placed into.
The real measures (in this drawing) would be the distance from the sensor to the position where the red line crosses a circle.
Any help will be welcome...
Thank you all...
modified 3-Feb-20 10:43am.
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