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Fascinating story !
I just learned that FauxNews.com's chief muckraker, Bim Jimbo, has announced that Floats and Doubles are on drugs, claiming they are under the influence of a mind-altering fixed point.
How low are these Decimal snobs, and their IEEE 754 hating collaborators, going to stoop ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Float4 / Float8? Welcome to the world of FORTRAN IV in the 1960s which had REAL*4 and REAL*8 which did exactly what you wanted. It also had INTEGER*2 and INTEGER*4.
<edit>Forgot the '*' before the no of bytes
modified 6-Sep-21 3:43am.
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I've been building new kitchen cupboard doors for a while now - it takes time because I have no workshop - and I'm in the final stretch: cutting the hinge pockets in the new doors and hanging them ready for lacquering.
But ... whoever hung these doors didn't use a jig or template - so the vertical position of the existing pockets varies by up to 15mm - half an inch or so. And since the hinge adjusters can only cope with a couple of mm, I have to cut the pockets to match each existing door. This caused some swearwords ro be released. It's that or drill more mounting holes in the carcasses and that's a recipe for disaster.
But I can cope with that!
Until I go to test hang one door and find the pockets fit but it looks odd - I can see what's inside the cupboard and I shouldn't be able to do that with the door closed.
Turns out one of the 14 doors is a little wider than the others. Guess who didn't measure that one?
Only a little though, perhaps no-one will notice? It's only 3 or 4 after all.
Inches, that is.
Oh swearword. Swearword, swearword, swearword, swearword.
Still, at least I didn't put any of the tools away properly yet and I have spare wood. 
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Maybe your wife will help you with your problem?
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She took one look, called me a prat, and buggered off ...
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good woman.
she's a keeper.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Yay! The bad luck is with you now!!!
Made an ethernet cable yesterday and tested it. It didn't work, so I thought I was going to have to cut an end off and try again, but thought, "Before I do that, let me crimp the heck out of both ends one more time!" (since triple checking didn't show anything miswired.) And it worked!
Hope you can pass the bad luck on to someone else soon, but NOT ME! I've had enough!  (And now I've jinxed myself super-hard! )
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When I fill holes like that I take a wooden match and glue it in the hole then cut off with razor knife then take some colored putty to match cabinet and putty the hole and end of match stick.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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If at first you don't succeed, elephant it.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Never understood the concept of having "doors" for your cupboards. As any Rimworld player can explain, those only slow you down.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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They keep "cooking gasses" away from the content - like micro particles of grease and such like.
Have a look at the top of your cupboards one day and you'll probably find a fine layer of grease and house dust / spider poo which is a git to clean if you don't hit it often enough.
Plus it hides all the bottles, jars, pots, and packets of cr@p you cook with when people aren't looking ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have a look at the top of your cupboards one day and you'll probably find a fine layer of grease and house dust / spider poo which is a git to clean if you don't hit it often enough.
I wont 
Like Mom, I put a baking sheet there. Helps keep stuff clean.
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There's your cupboard, with bottles of soy sauce, oystersauce, rice-vinegarm, fish sauce, ketjap, dark soy sauce. Put a baking sheet in that cupboard and keep it clean.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
modified 3-Sep-21 19:33pm.
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<snicker>original built by a "handy" man. We made the mistake of buying a house "improved" by a handyman once, never again.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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There's a special circle in hell for people that casts pipes in concrete
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Most of Florida would take up all that space, then. Looking at all the new housing single family residential) going up near me, I see that virtually all water, sewer and electric is entombed in the poured concrete slab the building is built on.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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A friend from Europe liked to call residential houses in the states “cabins” due to the wood framing.
The houses in his country are concrete and rebar designed to withstand a sizable earthquake!
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Well, Florida regulations require hurricane proof construction now. My house is block and rebar with the block spaces filled with concrete.
Dominican houses go even further, my house there is of poured concrete with rebar.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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The same MS anti-principles were at work in the design of System.Windows.Point/Size, and System.Drawing.Point/Size 
Hope that makes you feel better !
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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As a temporary fix, just cut a filler piece that will make the cabinet opening wider!
Back it with a slightly oversized piece so that there will be no cracks when you glue it into the opening.
(If this was a program, would you implement the “fix” in the completed module(the door) or add some “extension” method outside the working code.)
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Nah, it'll look wrong - and I'll see that door every day and "know" it's wrong.
I'll make another door, but I'll have to order another sheet of Birch ply - I can't get a good panel out of what's left of the other two! 
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Good to see you are not following standard software practices!
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There is a new games console out there – the Nopunintendo!
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No pun in 10 did. 
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