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I'm blessed (?) with a boss who understands that I, as a developer, am a lot more expensive to him than a brand new machine with ridiculously high specs, and that any wait time saved pays for the machine within a few months if not weeks.
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On a not so unrelated note, why do we need machines with more than 16Gb RAM ... damn bloated software everywhere ...
But I am with you - I was not even a developer and I insisted of having the best laptop available in the pool. I ended up being the "guy with the good laptop" and had to install and test quite everything because I had a good machine.
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Quote: damn bloated software everywhere
^this
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:laughs:
This reminds me of the time I had to visit the dental hospital for some work on the roof of my mouth. Having already been to have the CT scan done on my head, I arrived with my laptop and the disc I'd received from the radiology joint.
After about 3 minutes of their PC chugging on the disc I'd given them, I suggested that we look at the scan on my laptop. I'd done so already and knew it'd be quick to load. I was only carrying a $1000 i7 with 8gb and their computer was still trying to load the disc after we'd manipulated the model on my lappy and got the desired info from it.. 
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16gb is enough for me. on the laptop. On the desktop I have 64gb and I just RDP to that all the time to work.
Also, I do think 16gb is enough if they don't handcuff the machine with the bloatware Virus that is the virus checker (McAfee)
I am fortunate. In my current and hopefully forever home now. I get to decide what gets installed and what doesn't. Of course it is a very small IT shop.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Can I suggest you to look at ram doublers ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Been looking over VS2015 icon files for some ideas. There's lots of icons and almost all come with an .ai, .png, .svg, .xaml, and 1 or 2 .bmp file versions.
The icons themselves are about 1 or 2 KB, on disk.
The ".ai" file, Adobe Illustrator, (I assume) was used to design the icons; it averages 370 KB.
The .svg and .xaml contain actual drawing instructions. One would think that would be enough to get Adobe back up; without an .ai file.
So, with over 3.6 GB of image files, Adobe is probably using 3.5 GB for "meta data".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Apparently a .ai is just a PDF with a funky extension. Rename one to .pdf and use your PDF tools to see what's inside.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I only looked at the binary, and saw "Adobe Illustrator". But you're right, it's a PDF with an image of the icon. Nothing else. So, use the PDF to look at an icon you can see with explorer.
On top of that, there is a master PDF in the root that lists ALL the icons and their folders. So, yes, it all makes sense now; in an MS sort of way.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Holy Jack Jacob Jingleheimer ... who knew? 
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Mansplaining is short for ‘Man explaining’.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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For example:
Her: You left the toilet seat up again!
Him: Just be thankful that I bother to put it up.
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If anyone demands that I always leave the toilet seat down for them, I simply reply that I also demand that they always leave the seat up for me!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Let me explain it to you, so you can understand.
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No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
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You are doing it all wrong. Let me show you the correct way to do this.
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Complaining is short for 'Communist explaining' 
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With SWMBO any explaining is wasted effort. 
If she does understand, she accused me of lying or making it up
Zaphod.
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Because they're dead.
(This joke is courtesy of Herself)
But I liked it.
"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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Have to like that dry British humour. 
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Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because it was dead.
modified 15-Aug-21 10:08am.
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Because the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) sat on it?
"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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This might be totally inappropriate, but I've seen my cat play with dead things... So it depends?!? 
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Would you consider Hobbes dead or alive?
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