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I used the Java version to build a Sudoku solver that works with human strategies.
This is one those legacy Rules Based systems that have lost out to ML.
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Last week I replaced the EPOS system in our social club which left me with three touch-screen tills (running Windows) looking for a role in life.
We have a problem with radio reception in the building and can usually only get one station on FM so the staff tend to use one of the Sky TV boxes to play a music channel though the sound system. But this falls apart if both Sky boxes are needed to show TV.
We already had an Ipod on the back bar also wired into the sound system.
So, I ran an ethernet cable from the router, through the ceiling to this point. Connected up the internet and the audio to the till and have a simple Winforms app which has 20 buttons, each with a radio station logo on the touch screen - along with a volume slider and mute/unmute button.
Just plugged it all in at lunchtime and it flew first time. The staff seem to like it ...
So, who can come up with a sillier idea than using a till (I think it cost around £1,000 when new) as a radio (worth a tenner)?
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I mean, if it was already used and done with it has probably long since amortized its cost, so actually you're making it worth something again. Just sayin' 
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Rich Leyshon wrote: So, who can come up with a sillier idea than using a till (I think it cost around £1,000 when new) as a radio (worth a tenner)?
1. Replace the front door bell with one, add an application requiring visitors to identify themselves, and use it to "screen" your visitors.
2. If you are asleep - require potential visitors to deposit a sum in the till if they wish to wake you. If, upon waking, you agree that they had a good reason, you refund the money. otherwise, you spend it on booze. [Taken from Robert Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]
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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Repurposing an ATM to Play Doom on[^]?
Not me - I was always far to busy playing it to spend the huge time investment on that ...
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I've never really had any formal electronics training, so a few decades ago, I was rather happy with myself having hooked up a discarded 2-line LCD display unit (the kind you used to find attached to cash registers) to a serial port, with no documentation whatsoever, and figuring out settings (parity, baud rate, data bits, etc) through trial and error, to make it display any string sent to it. I turned it into a simple clock showing full date and time.
Definitely not much of a thing compared to what some people here manage to do, but it was enough for coworkers called me a nerd when they saw it. I wore that badge with pride...
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... are for the people that can't get away with not wearing them.
In fact, I sort of gauge success as how much of your life you can go through without wearing them.
If you spend most of your time without pants on, you've made it in life.
Edit: If you are from the UK I am referring to trousers, not underpants, but I suppose the latter could be included if you're so inclined.
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modified 29-Nov-21 12:18pm.
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Well I work from home and I suppose I don't need to wear pants most of the time, strictly speaking, but I still might need to go answer the door at a moment's notice.
Even if I didn't have to? I'd still do it, out of habit more than anything else.
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A maxi skirt is way more comfortable, and still handles the door situation.
*hides*
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And protects the furniture.
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I suppose that Scots could wear a kilt, Arabs could wear an caftan, etc., but I don't believe that is what you meant...
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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I also love skirts, but my wife always wants them back.
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Skirts just aren't for me. I'd also get strange looks.
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I assume you are referring to outer leg coverings.
In the UK, going without pants is "going commando" which I suspect is not what you are discussing. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes, you would call them trousers, but if an American says that we get looked at funny. Two nations divided, by a common language and all that.
The Streets:Two Nations - YouTube[^]
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Also divided by spell checkers.
Labor/Labour
Centre/Center
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I prefer shorts, does that mean I've only half made it?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
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Shorts = made it because you can't typically wear them in an office.
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I did so daily for the first 3.5 years at my current job. The last year and a half I've been in the office during working hours exactly once; and was wearing shorts then too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Even if I was working from home, it's too cold to not be wearing pants right now
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honey the codewitch wrote: In fact, I sort of gauge success as how much of your life you can go through without wearing them.
I must disagree. Most (all?) of the events at which the successful are to be found are not clothing-optional.
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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I try to get dressed everyday.
I live in a small apartment, my desk is in my living room.
There's a mental/physical barrier that I need to put up everyday between home and work.
Getting dressed is one of them; I get dressed in the morning, and change to PJs after work.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Dang, you must live in a warm climate 🥶
That said, I cycle to the office every day and last week I caught rain in about the last 500 meters.
My pants were totally soaked.
Cold, wet... At the office.
Thing is, I was alone and it looked like no one was going to use the meeting room next to me, so I took off my pants and put them on the heater to dry.
I've been sitting there, pantless at the office, for about two hours.
And just when I put them on again someone came in to use the meeting room.
Dodged a bullet there, or at least a sexual harassment claim 
Anyway, pantless at the office, top of the foodchain material right there 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Dang, you must live in a warm climate
I do. My house. =) But seriously, I'm not the most successful person out there. You can tell because where I live, it rains all the time.
I'm glad you didn't get a sexual harassment claim against you. That would have been awkward. Not just at the job, but that sounds like the kind of thing your friends will keep bringing up to embarrass you. 
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Sander Rossel wrote: you must live in a warm climate
Far North Queensland - shorts but mostly a sarong. Since retirement long pants have not seen the light of day.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
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