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Reminds me of my opthalmologist's appointment two days ago. The technician sits me down in front of the machine, starts calibrating it against my right eye, and is obviously having problems.
Finally I take pity on her. "You probably don't want to do that with my right eye - it's a prosthesis".  (*)
As to why that fact isn't in big red letters on my patient profile, beats me.
(*) Irrelevant side note: My implant and prosthesis are very good and I have good motility (both eyes move together), so you can't tell it's artificial.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 4-Dec-21 12:58pm.
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Got my booster shot and my flu shot at the same time. It has knocked me on my rear end. 
Swmbo told me not to do it, but being hardheaded, I went ahead antway.
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Doc told us to allow 2 weeks minimum between COVID and flu shots. We took his advice, and had no significant side effects.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Fortunately, I listened to mine. Booster shot (Monday) made my pretty tired the next day, although nurse said it was half dose of originals.
Will get flu shot in a couple of weeks.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You dont do that, because vaccines activate your immune system. You got your immune system to fight a war on two fronts.
You'll feel baaaaad. Take your medicine hardheaded. And remember that you caused it yourself 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Weird how it affects people differently - I had the booster and flu at the same time and had no side effects
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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We won "the war" on smallpox and polio.
This generation knows nothing about that, they only recall privilege 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It happened again: Apparently I hit some ctrl/alt/win key by mistake (I can't tell which), and immediately all windows on my desktop were terminated. Not closed, so they could be opened again, but terminally terminated. I couldn't open them: None of them were visible in an ALT-Tab. Opening Task Manager showed the running applications: Everything I had running was apparently still active, and the MPC-HC media player continued playing music. But their windows were gone, and the "Switch to" alternative was grayed out, unavailable.
I could start new applications, and they behaved as normal. I found no way to make my previously active (and apparently still running) applications re-open their windows.
I am running Logitech software on a "Logitech Craft" keyboard (which is excellent), set up to hide all windows when I tap the wheel. That minimizes them, but they are still available by Alt-Tab, which isn't the case I am now experiencing.
Am I the only one to experience this? The same thing happened a few weeks ago; this was only the second time, so it doesn't happen "all the time".
Do you know of any way of getting in contact with those application having their windows closed?
Both last time and this time I resorted to restarting the PC, but I'd prefer a less brutal way!
Am I the only one experiencing this, or is it a well known thing?
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This probably won't work, but long ago when I had some weirdness happening, 'switching users' back to myself seemed to clear it up. Worth a try, but I only give it 5% (max) chance of working.
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You may have inadvertently created a new Desktop.
Hit Win+TAB and if you did create the desktop, you'll see it in a bar across the top of the screen. There would be a couple items names "Desktop 1" and "Desktop 2". Just click the X on the 2nd Desktop to kill it.
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"New desktop"?? This is news to me, after several years of using Win10. But while I personally can't see the need for a new desktop, what this does give me is the ability to scroll "back in time" and see windows I had open up to a month ago! (Which is actually really really useful as sometimes I'll open a document in Notepad or something and not be able to find it the next week; with this I can just scroll down and click it, and it opens the right app with the right document!!)
One of the many problems with Windows is that they do useful stuff like this that's totally "undiscoverable" but the (worse than) useless stuff like changing system sounds is obvious.
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It's not a bad idea really, if you have limited screen space - you can have multiple documents open in one desktop, VS and your debug app in a another, and solitaire in a third for when the boss isn't around ... 
"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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Thanks a lot, to you and to OG pointing out the Win+Ctrl-D. That is exactly how my PC was behaving when I lost (control over) all my windows.
I wasn't aware of this feature, or Win+Tab. I won't be a regular user of multiple desktops - the problems caused by my misplacing files in the wrong folders are enough; I don't want to misplace windows on the wrong desktop as well! But knowing of Win+Tab will bring me back on track.
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As Dave says, that looks like a "second desktop" has been created, and WINKEY+TAB will let you switch or close the "spare".
WINKEY+CTRL+D immediately creates a new desktop, and that's suspiciously close to WINKEY+SHIFT+S on a English keyboard to be a miskey while trying to get your "snip display to clipboard" working ...
"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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You got the Logitech Lovecraft model by mistake. It's haunted.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Sounds like a "the boss is coming" feature; you just have to find the undo command.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The other day I had to majorly refactor my GFX library to get it to work in a real world windows project. it was an unforced error, but it was aided and abetted by the fact that the technique I used to create the header-only library works against arduino projects. I thought I could get away with it.
In the end I now have a DirectX based driver for my GFX library so I can run my IoT code on my desktop, where I at least in theory have access to a full debugger and quicker dev cycles. To get that driver to compile *properly* under Windows with GCC I had to patch MiniGW's rendition of Microsquish's DirectX 2D header, d2d1.h. What a nightmare.
Finally, using that, and banging on it, I got an NES emulator working in Windows, and then on the ESP32.
It's not fast. Yet.
But here's the thing. I now have 3 projects I need to backport GFX into, and update two articles in 3 different places because of it.
On top of that, I'm trying to figure out if the way I'm creating libraries for Arduino all along needs to be revised, and if so what that means for all my existing code.
I'm frigging overwhelmed. I didn't picture this much work going into it. That refactor blindsided me, and the fallout is wafting across several projects like some dirty bomb of code.
And then I have to decide if I'm going to update my commercial project with the latest bits.
GFX was holding up so well to everything I was throwing at it, I *almost* don't know how this happened.
If I can just get a handle on it and sequence the tasks, I'll be okay, but I'm right in the middle of writing one of the affected projects, and I want to finish it before I even begin to survey the wreckage. I just wish I could get the larger problems off my mind and focus on the project in front of me. Sometimes writing about my frustrations helps. Sorry for that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Usually I feel like I'm buried under a mountain of code and wonder how I got there.
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My work circumstances have forced me to improve at handling this situation. As my team has down-sized over the last few years, each of us has acquired responsibility for more and more legacy code. I 'own' products now that had entire teams of 2-6 people on them at one time. The size of the code bases, plus the fact that a lot of it isn't mine, has made for some rough times.
"Find In Files" and WinMerge[^] have made this situation my bitch.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Happens to me all the time when maintaining legacy parts of our main application.
It seems some colleagues don't know about the KISS principle, instead they seem to be using the KICK method (Keep It Complicated Killjoy) 
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RickZeeland wrote: the KICK method (Keep It Complicated Killjoy)
I heard KICKASS: Keep It Complicated Kid And Suffer Sucker.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't think much about it except when someone mentions "codeless" development for the masses.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I think such a thing is possible using some kind of machine learning combined with a morphing "low-code" engine, but we're years away from that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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