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Do you think Da Vinci would have been more productive with CAD and Photshop?
I find myself doing things that seem harder than they were before. Sometimes, I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to: I'm using Visio and create 10 pages of diagrams and still feel unsatisfied.
I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I used to do drawing for my woodworking projects and kinda wing it with measurements, but I have TurboCAD and became fairly proficient at drawing so now I use it to do my woodworking projects. I akin it to typing as opposed to had writing, you can move thing around, change them, etc..
Makes life a lot easier.
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For 2D I use NanoCad and for 3D I use SketchUp.
So far, they fullfil my needs.
I do find that when "thinking" about a project I still prefer to do drafts with pencil, once I have a better Idea and details start to be important, then I go to the PC
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Yeah same here, I still do hand drawings to get a general idea of what I want.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I still do hand drawings to get a general idea
I think doing things by 'hand' to get started helps by minimizing the tool(s) required to express your idea. Pencil/pen requires almost no thought to move the idea from your head to the paper. Using an application on a computer is more indirect, putting the mouse/keyboard/application between you and the screen.
One of those "ePaper" tablet devices with an intuitive CAD program might give you the best of both worlds.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I think it's about getting old; then I remember I'm not using the same skills I used to:
Err...you are also more experienced now. So your perceptions are colored by that.
Not to mention that one must keep in mind that human memory is very selective. And not necessarily exact.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: I finally resort to pencil and paper away from the computer and ... success.
Yes but you probably don't present the napkin to your co-workers from which you intend for them to work.
Sometimes the tools get in the way just because of their precision. If I don't know the solution at all then I might stare into space and/or doodle on a piece of paper. When I know the solution then I use the tools.
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Ever since Chrome introduced the feature of making unused tabs "sleep" to save memory, I've had a problem where the entire Chrome window goes black. Not just the client portion either. The whole thing.
Anybody else experience this?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Nope, but I don't know if the sleep option is on ... I just checked and yes, it's on. Which means it's been running for about 6 months or more with no problem. And it gets hibernated overnight rather than shutdown, so Chrome doesn't get closed often.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thanks for your response Griff. I appreciate the feedback.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I haven't seen that, but I found and disabled the sleep mode a few weeks ago.
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i wasn't aware Chrome had that feature.
i had been using a free Chrome extension "The Great Suspender" that suspends unused tabs.
Then, Google blocked that, and i started using "Tab Session Manager." [^].
i'll try turning on the Google feature,.
thanks, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Glad I could put some light on that for you!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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mmmm ... in latest Chrome on Windows (10/64) i am only seeing a memory saver in Settings/Performance where you add specific sites.
and, in Settings/On Startup: an option to resume where you "left off."
with these enabled and google.com added to "keep active" ... i sure do hope i will not lose my tabs !
thanks, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Not just Chrome, but entire Windows shows a BSOD (which I call as Black Screen of Dumbness). And the screen starts flickering.
Was initially thinking it was a problem with my display driver, but everything is the latest and greatest.
Cannot find a reproducible pattern, but it most likely is related to Chrome.
(Black screen of Dumbness, because the entire screen will be black, and unresponsive for a few moments, and when I use Alt Tab to shift focus, the screen comes back to life)
modified 2-Jul-23 15:04pm.
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That happens occasionally on my home HP Elitedesk Mini with it blacking out then coming back in a cycle.
I think it's something to do with the Displayport to HDMI Adapter or GPU(memory leakage or something...), as if I unplug the screen cable then plug it back in the issue is fixed for a while.
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#Worldle #526 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
really easy one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 743 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
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Almost a wild guess as I was running out of options!
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Wordle 743 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
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All green.
Was the only word I could guess starting with those letters given that I had eliminated 8 other letters.
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Wordle 743 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
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By the powers of deduction
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 743 4/6*
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Not easy at all ... it reminded me I was in hard mode! 
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I haven't got hard mode turned on, but most of the time I play that way.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 743 4/6
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hit n try!
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Wordle 743 5/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 743 6/6
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Did this just now - put PC time back a day as suggested on another thread
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