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well once (not that long ago) computers lived in buildings or small (i.e. PC's) occupied part of the area on a desk. even including fuzzy logic washing machines still way less than 1 computer per human
...computers occupied a small amount of space amonst the humans.
these days: phones, cars, tv's, shoes, coffee cups, smart cameras, iot chickens etc, even counting the poor nations must be >1 computer per human
... is it now humans occupying a small amount of space amonst computers?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: "To a nail, everything is a hammer"
It's the other way around: "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
It's called "the law of instruments" (or of instrumentation; something like that), if you want to look up its origins (which I forget).
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Just a guess, but if you ever take a survey I's suspect you'd find a lot more people who used something other than a hammer to bang in a nail but very few people who used a hammer to "nail" things together without an actual nail.
Your quote is ubiquitous, online - attributed to Mark Twain. The journal just swapped it because it was just coincidentally mapped the other way (i.e. a single problem with many tools to solve it rather than a single tool with many problems).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the other way around: "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
I always carry a hammer. Estwing, 20oz, leather handle, 30 years old now. Great for smashing things I think of as nails.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I had a leather-handled one, but now I use the rubber-handled version, because you can use the other end for banging things into place (it saves carrying a rubber mallet).
The leather one has two rivets on the bottom, which doesn't do much good to wood.
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I have a hand axe that when using the back end of the head doubles as a handy hammer.
When I carried my hammer in public no-one took any notice; however, when I switched to carrying my axe... 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You became a hatchet man and that's different than a guy with a hammer.
or something like that.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I had the impression that the idea was to make mobile phones "smarter and smarter" until they are fully computers with way-too-small monitors.
Bjarne Stroustrup had reportedly already made the observation that he used to wish his computer was as easy to use as his phone...and that he got his wish, because now phones are as complicated to use as computers.
Make of that what you will.
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back in the day you had these [^] & [^]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
modified 4-Sep-19 12:23pm.
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I've heard that prisoners like reciting literature and poems. Guess being incarcerated has it's prose and cons  
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I read that
Trembling in fear;
Turning, I spat
My conscience now clear.
(+ for you, anyway)
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Another pun thread with neither rhyme nor reason.
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Yeah, playing thebars is alway good for a blues song, too.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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So today a Dell engineer will come to replace my SSD (and motherboard, if necessary) and take the old hardware back.
He'll be here between 08:00 and 17:00, which is quite a time slot 
I don't really want to do a lot of work since I've got everything backed up now, but any work I do will not be backed up immediately and it requires me to install some software that I'll have to reinstall later today (or tomorrow, depending on what time he's here).
So I am now faced with what's probably some law:
If I start now the engineer will be here as soon as I've installed everything and am just beginning to get to work.
Or I could do nothing and he'll be here at 17:00 
On a positive note, a customer just approved a new project which I get to do so there'll be plenty of work for the rest of the month (and probably next month too) 
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It's a physical law, I suspect: we used to call it "taxifagging". As soon as you give in and light up a cigarette the taxi will finally show up ... unless you light up just to get it there faster ...
I no longer smoke, and as a result, I no longer use taxis either.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This works with city buses, too. I do use this trick, a lot.
while (!(success = Try()));
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I first demonstrated this technique, and subsequently perfected it, at the airport luggage carousel, back when you could smoke in an airport. Get to the carousel, light a fag, and my case would always be first out. A win, all for the price of a fag, which would have been duty-free anyway. 
Of course, this might have been because my employer graciously paid for me to fly first class. 
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Lighting a fag in the US is considered a hate crime.
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Lighting a fag at Eton or Harrow is rather frowned on too, although beating them is considered acceptable. 
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The difference between smoking a fag in Britain and smoking a fag in America is considerable jail time 
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So I guess I'll call it Dellworking today
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OriginalGriff wrote: I no longer smoke, and as a result, I no longer use taxis either.
Genuinely curious: How does one lead to the other?
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Without cigarettes, the taxi will never arrive. Which means I must make my arrangements as if taxis no longer exist.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Gotcha. Murphy's Law and all of that. Just like I can solve a drought by washing my car.
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If it's any consolation, I've much the same dilemma tomorrow: my electricity meter is being changed, which means no power for an hour or so ... and my UPS is dead.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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