|
If you have PowerToys installed, tapping Control key twice puts a handy little temporary spotlight around the cursor. I tap once to get the sonar rings, or twice for the spotlight -- very handy for my old eyes
|
|
|
|
|
I'd forgotten about them. Used them for "TrueType" way back when.
"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
|
|
|
|
|
Green, because green is the colour which tends to be the most visible to the human eye at the lowest intensity (which is why electronic night vision tends to be green meaning a lower battery usage than red which is a colour that helps to preserve night vision).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
Never asked, but may explain all the IBM 3270 "green" VDT's and the original PC green monitor.
I went for an "amber" display at one time ... and still have it. And the PC.
"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
|
|
|
|
|
I remember those amber dumb terminals back in the 80s and early 90s.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
It's big, yellow and ugly ))
Makes it easily findable when I need it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I don't know how long it's been there, but Windows 10 has an "Inverted" option for the mouse pointer color. What it does is show the pointer as the inverted color of whatever is below it. I find that's the best for me because a white pointer never hides on white backgrounds; ditto for black backgrounds.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
|
|
|
|
|
I've been setting my mouse to "inverted extra large" for years. "Inverted" so it's opposite to whatever color it is over, and "extra large" makes it even more obvious.
|
|
|
|
|
On my work computer, I prefer the unobtrusive plain white standard cursor. On my home computer, which is also connected with my tele on the other side of the room, I use red bc it's easier to spot when sitting far away from the screen.
|
|
|
|
|
Ginger Ale is just a more specific form of Root Beer.
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
|
|
|
|
|
technically the word "dumb" has nothing to do with intelligence or lack thereof. Just saying.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Feeling the Wis today?
I had to look up the difference, knowing "(G)root" always wins.
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.
|
|
|
|
|
Congrats on winning todays useless pedant award. Your trophy will be delivered to your porch in a flaming paper bag.
💩
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
|
|
|
|
|
feel better now, dan. you remind me of my kids when they were small. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is true. I have a friend who used to make ginger ale and root beer and sell it at festivals. He mentioned the recipes are virtually the same. The main differences are root beer has a bit more vanilla and has caramel for coloring.
"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?"
|
|
|
|
|
I think you will find "Root beer" is very much a north american thing, certainly not in Oz.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
|
|
|
|
|
My display code is too fast for my displays.
Worse, it's only too fast for some displays. And not some models of displays, but certain specific displays are okay. Like, I have two ILI9341s and the one that is soldered together works with my optimizations and the one that is wired on a breadboard only works when they are disabled.
*sigh*
All that work only to help it fail. TFT_eSPI manages so Bodmer must be sticking delays in his code somewhere. What a zoo.
Oh well, at least I'll be occupied today.
Real programmers use butterflies
|
|
|
|
|
I once stumbled upon a Thread.Sleep(1000) in some code.
Asked about it, apparently the code ran too fast, giving no visual cue "while running" to the user.
A Thread.Sleep made a light (on a scanner) briefly light up, letting the user know the thing was processed.
I guess if it looks stupid and it works then it ain't stupid.
Of course this thing actually worked and yours doesn't I guess 
|
|
|
|
|
I think this might be one of the rare cases where the code doesn't quite speak for itself and one could consider if a comment potentially could be somewhat beneficial to some individuals in the future. 
|
|
|
|
|
War story from ca1970:
We built a factory data collection system for an extremely hostile environment. Part of the terminal was a reader for punched plastic cards, somewhat bigger than credit cards. The terminal "grabbed" the card when it detected the leading edge, sent the data to the host on the next poll cycle. When the host had verified the data, it told the terminal to eject the card.
Initially this all happened too fast, and the UX was that the card had just "bounced" in the reader. We had to code in a delay of around 1 second before the users were happy.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
|
|
|
|
|
honey the codewitch wrote: and the one that is wired on a breadboard only works when they are disabled
Years ago, on basically a breadboard of a controller using some archaic 8 bit processor that the engineer had wired up, everything worked fine.
When we went to production with PCB's of the schematic, the assembly code would occasionally just blow up, randomly, anywhere. The hardware engineer blamed my code.
One dark and stormy night, I sat on the workbench with an oscilloscope and several probes and discovered there was a race condition on the address select line -- you know, those old processors that had 16 bit address lines but spit out the lower and upper 8 bits serially with an LSB/MSB line to be used as a latch.
Turns out that on the prototype hand-wired board, the latch wire was long enough for the address lines to have settled. On the PCB, the latch trace was really short. So occasionally and randomly, the latch would occur before the address lines to have settled.
We cut the trace, added about 3 inches of wirewrap wire, and everything ran solidly.
The hardware engineer was impressed. It actually was quite a turning point for our work relationship - he never trusted software geeks before, and now he did.
|
|
|
|
|
So to speak your intention is to fix the wrong wiring by software?
Not sure whether this is the correct solution 
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
