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Going to bed with nasty race conditions, and waking up with an easy solution. 
Gonna be a good day.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Paul6124 wrote: All the best thinking is done while asleep…
Or while running. I run at lunch time three days a week. Many times I've had an intractable problem, gone out and [very slowly] did my miles, and come back with a solution in my head. All of this without overtly thinking about it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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One night at around 9.30 pm, was composing a poem in my language Kannada. Struggled to find two words to fit into the meter (prosody) of the poem, and just went to sleep 😴. At around 1.00 am, these words just appeared, maybe in a dream. Got up and wrote them down. These were perhaps the best words for that poem.
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Taking up farming is not that easy, though.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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If only all race conditions were as easy to resolve.
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Oh I was sweating it. What I first thought would take me an hour took me 4. After 4 i needed a rewrite. That's when I called it a night.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: After 4 i needed a rewrite
When debugging and I've munged the code so far I need a rewrite, it's time to step back, breathe, and go back to the original problem.
Software Zen: delete this;
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honey the codewitch wrote: Going to bed with nasty race conditions, and waking up with an easy solution.
My impression is that most girls do not enjoy going to bed with anyone with nasty race conditions. Being an "easy solution" is nothing to strive for.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Another example is going to bed with a performance problem on a gigantic persistent hash table and waking up with a solution that doesn't require a multi-hour table rebuild, because the hashing doesn't change.
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Let's just hope it won't be another Windows 95 launch
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Let's hope they do not use Windows in the control pc of their new nuclear plant...
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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Automatic unskippable updates are the best feature for a nuclear power plant management solution. It makes for exciting shifts at work.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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The BSOD would be even more exciting. 
"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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BSOND: Blue Screen Of Nuclear Death
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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That'll be the Cherenkov Radiation ... 
"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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Cherenkov blue, the most beautiful thing you'll see for the rest of your life.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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Gives a whole new meaning to Blue Screen of Death. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Clippy: It looks like you're having a meltdown. Would you like my help?
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From the link
"Microsoft spent six months collaborating with Terra Praxis, a nonprofit that advocates for transforming old coal plant sites into modern SMR[Small modular reactor] homes."
So in 200 years I suspect they will install the first one after clearing all of the regulatory, social protests and legal lawsuits.
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Microsoft goes atomic
[...]
World's most valuable company
I'm not sure why the second part needs to be brought up. They probably would still have hired that one guy even if they hadn't been the world's most valuable company. Does he command that big of a salary? Is he going to run a new department that only MS can afford?
Just something that irks me in headlines nowadays; they're not cause and effect; one didn't lead to the other.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong, if instead of MS, it was some rag-tag startup that (you know) would try to cut corners at every opportunity?
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dandy72 wrote: What could possibly go wrong, if instead of MS, it was some rag-tag startup that (you know) would try to cut corners at every opportunity?
As opposed to cutting corners based on financial risk analysis?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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k5054 wrote: As opposed to cutting corners based on financial risk analysis?
Including financial liability? I'd rather go with the company that has the deepest pockets. The small fish can just declare bankruptcy and disappear.
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Quote: A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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