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Recently a cargo ship with thousands of expensive cars sank and the treehuggers are howling now about the environmental hazard posed by the cars. Am I stupid or are they? Whatever fuel may be left in the cars, it's a joke against the fuel oil in a wreck of this size. And does that not also go for every sunken ship, and not only for one loaded with cars?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Very important to fix your Twitter feed:
- Tap home button.
- Tap stars on upper right of screen.
- Select “Latest tweets”.
You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.
Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.
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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Who? What? 
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abmv wrote: You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize
Nope. Never signed up ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Same here.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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ditto.
"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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What's Twitter?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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... but right now we still have a chip shortage. It's not like I plan to invade another country and have to scrape together tons of components to keep my tanks rolling. I only need a single 74HC30. That's a very basic part that has been around since the early 1970s (if you count in the early TTL series). Just a tiny grain of silicon in a 14 pin package. Three of these pins are not even really used. It's also one of the fundamental parts of my DIY MMU.
Well, like the guy who wants to keep his tanks rolling, I have now scraped a 40+ years old TTL version (a 7430) out of some junk. Lets pray that all my fancy modern CMOS does not tell this relic to go climb a tree.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If not I have 19 CD74HCT30E PDIP-14 package
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Much better already. HC and HCT should not be mixed as well, but it's certainly better than an ancient TTL version.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Digikey.com has stock, CD74HC30 dip. Also I use findchips.com. Really problem is some of these parts are obsolete, not in production anymore.
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I use the standard win10/win11 mail client because I hate installing software, and I like things that are minimalist.
In Win11 however, they've "added features." You know what that means, particularly where it concerns microsoft - it means the new feature is awful and would be awful even if it worked, which it doesn't, of course.
The feature I'm talking about is the "Focused|Other" split in the Inbox now. Windows uses magic to decide which emails should be "focused" and which ones "shouldn't". Because somebody at MS thought that sorting your email through some means they didn't tell you about would be fantastic. There's a reason I don't own a firearm.
The not working part? Well, when you click on Focused or Other, windows makes a dice roll, and if you roll too low, it fails to respond to your click and you have to close the mail client and open it again.
I can't be the only one experiencing this.
Yet, no matter how I try to describe the problem to google, I get those cookie cutter "fix your computer by restarting it. if that doesn't work buy a new computer" websites that are thoroughly unhelpful.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I hate that app. It's typical UWP "no-think" development.
One handy windows feature was right click, then "Send to email recipient". You could directly send a picture by email if you had a client installed. Output Express, say. But ... along comes the new improved Mail app and "sod that - I don't talk to no-one, bitches".
Minimalist is OK ... but it has to be balanced against functionality. That's one reason I dislike Teslas* - in the name of minimalism (and probably cost cutting) everything is done via the tablet.
Including the air con / heating. So you have to look at the tablet while you navigate to the right screen, find the right control on that screen, and tap it. And hope you survive your trip into the ditch. Separate physical controls make it a lot easier sometimes!
* Another is the "fart jokes". OK, I'm still a child, I laugh when the ketchup bottle farts. But in a car? That's just puerile, not funny.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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honey the codewitch wrote: There's a reason I don't own a firearm.
I literally laughed out loud at that.
I do own a firearm or two, but not for reasons involving my frustrations with software. Microsoft lost me in the email client game when they dropped the one that came with 7 (or Vista or XP, I don't remember). I only use gmail (though I hate the goog and refuse to use their search engine) or a web client provided by my ISP.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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My hubby is pretty serious about his firearms. I try not to make too much fun of him for his "tactical" gear.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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They have it in Outlook as well. First thing I do is turn that crap off, so luckily I never found out how buggy it is.
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Every morning i get emails from Microsoft Viva with the subject "Your daily briefing" or "Your digest email" (i have no clue what Viva is).
I got one today and one of the links was saying "insert Some person name" 3 days ago they asked "insert the subject of an email i received 3 days ago".
The link then had 2 buttons with word "Done" on button one and button 2 had the word "Remind me".
We finished our email exchanges with said person on the same day i received their first email (3 days ago)
I wonder why i should now be getting this kind email and what i should do with it 
Its content is always just total trash.
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Pretty thin stuff from a music maker with unknown answer ? (7)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Pretty thin stuff
from a music maker ORGAN
with unknown Z
answer A
ORGANZA
(A type of silk fabric, apparently - thank Herself for this one!)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well done it was the best I could do for a Monday  It was a word of the day from some obscure dictionary site I must be registered with.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Fabrics aren't my speciality, either ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Will "Herself" be composing tomorrow's puzzle? 
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Wordle 331 4/6
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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 331 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My 3 reliable starters generally deliver in 4 (almost 50% of the time), less often 3 or 5, a couple of 6s.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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