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OriginalGriff wrote: You'd wake up if that hit you. Or more likely, never wake up again.
You'd wake up dead for sure.
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But on the positive side:
Quote: Onlookers had enjoyed a meteor sighting earlier that night at Lake Louise
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I repaired a house where a tree limb, about 24" in diameter came through a woman's roof into her bedroom and took out her bed. The thing about it is she had just got up to go to the bathroom. She left and went to a motel for the rest of the evening.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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My wife and I had a tree fall on our house right over the master bedroom. Fortunately it was a pine and the branches weren't long enough to reach from the roof line/slope to the bed, but they did break through both the upper roof and the drywall ceiling over the bedroom.
The worst part was it was pouring rain so everything go soaked.
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You were lucky, hers was an oak and went all the way through floor too!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Agreed. We were lucky. We also got lucky that it was daytime and the bedroom had no one in there. The luckiest part occurred after the fact. My renters insurance, the property owners insurance, and the insurance company of the guy whose tree fell were all USAA, so there was no wrangling over which insurance company was going to pay for the repairs. The sad part was that the tree's owner had been out doing his due diligence and removing dead trees from his property - the one that fell looked like it was healthy. I made sure USAA knew this.
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Call Websters now. We must redefine bedrock.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'd rather be lucky than good!
sam vimes
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I had them all arranged until I got interrupted, now I have to start all over. 
Working with Z80 assembler
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I liked Z80, particularly the HD64180 compatible with the MMU and so forth added on which I used for decades. And most especially the Z180 which runs / ran at 32Mhz. That seemed like a lot at the tail end of the 90's!
"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
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Always liked the Z80 and the Z180 looks awesome but don't have the ability to SMD. 
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Herself used to build the prototypes and hand soldered SMD stuff, including 0.5mm leg spaced 304 pin QFP using a "wave soldering" Weller bit and a lack of alcohol the previous night. We eventually went BGA for production, which annoyed Tim the hardware designer immensely as it was a true PITA to get the leads out.
That wasn't Z80 based though - we moved to ARM for that one and a considerable jump in processing power. We needed it: jumping from 128 jets to 512 on a single printhead is a major change, and the Z80 just wasn't up to the job. (Even at 32MHz is was barely keeping up with the 17mm 128 head thanks to some seriously optimised assembly code - and seriously unreadable as a result.)
"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
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modified 11-Oct-21 15:33pm.
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Old school memories, not Z80 though: Dazzle kaleidoscope. I remember thinking 'Holy cow, that is a fast program!" For the times, it was.
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I liked working with the Z80. Back in the early 80s, I used a Z80 extension card built for the Apple II, and wrote an entire spectroscopic analysis package (partly in Z80 Assembly Language and partly in BASIC).
The project cost the University less than US$ 10,000, while the spectroscope manufacturer's terminal cost over 3 times that, and couldn't do everything my software could!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Having a lot of fun, haven't wrote anything in assembler in a while and Z80 assembler in a very long while.
Wired up a 24 key keypad through some 74C923's and a ATmega328P to the Z80 PIO. Simple stuff!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Sadly, too true.
And not only related to programming.
I was having a nice day... until 20 mins ago.
Damn it!
And just in case... don't ask, I won't explain further.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Go on... indulge everyone's prurient curiosity... you know you want to...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I am back at my.... 4 years old Maths & drawing problem! 
Doing better low level primitive from scratch again...
not just better numerical Maths, but also different data primitive and results, who knows, might solve it this time!
(in a while, writing the Maths primitive is quite slow, it turns out... )
Anyway, wish me luck! 
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YAY optimization!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Unfortunately not.. it's still at the stage of making the algorithm work reliably! 
But I think and hope the new way of doing it my bear fruits.. we'll know in a little while I guess... (now rebuilding it all from the ground up...)
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Luck
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Super Lloyd wrote: I am back at my.... 4 years old Maths & drawing problem!
I often think about time spent on development.
I notice that, for example, a Pixar movie can take > 5 years & require hundreds of people.
Then I start thinking, "Have I ever worked on one piece of software for 5 years?"
I do have a thing in production (sends / receives 80K files a day) that I've worked on for 2 years but it is totally self-managing now.
What's the longest you've ever worked on one project for?
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