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Quote: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."--Mark Twain.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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The one representing eternal truth is of course the one that states "There are lies. Then there are damn lies. And then comes statistics."
For my writing, I love his advice: Whenever you write 'very', replace it with 'damn'. Before publishing, your editor will cross our every single instance, making it the way it ought to be.
I have got a list of words, 'very' is one of them, that I search through my texts for before publication. I have done this 'filtering' for many many years. I am ashamed how often such null-words still creep into my writing.
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There are so many.
Twain's cruel but funny quote: "opera as “incoherent noise which always so reminds me of the time the orphan asylum burned down.”"
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" (BF)
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There so many.
Twain's cruel but funny quote: "opera as “incoherent noise which always so reminds me of the time the orphan asylum burned down.”"
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" (BF)
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Ah, the Ol' annual performance review.  Probably - no, absolutely, the one work task I hated the most and I miss least since retirement in 2017.
In 2015 HR couldn't locate my previous year's review. In 2016 the same. I had decided that since the company put so much value in them I would refuse to take part in 2017. But, instead, on the very week they announced open season on performance reviews I turned in my notice. The fireworks may have been fun had I waited though. 
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I told them that a year was a long time to wait for raising issues that supposedly needed fixing.
"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
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Wordle 318 5/6
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Wordle 318 4/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 318 3/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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5 for me too:
Wordle 318 5/6
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"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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This was easy.
Wordle 318 3/6*
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Wordle 318 5/6
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Wordle 318 4/6*
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Aaaargh! My first failure!
Quote: Wordle 318 X/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 318 5/6
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I am currently getting familiar with the Android Operating System, writing Android apps using Android Studio. It's going well most of the time, but every once in a while, when I start up Android Studio, it will start as a background service. (No user's interface!) Then I have go into services to stop it manually, before I can restart the studio. Why does it do this? 
Android Studio is a fantastic IDE (based on Jetbrains' IntelliJ). But this behavior is just weird. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've been using it for many years and I've never encountered this behavior. I couldn't begin to suggest anything that you probably haven't already tried.
When the app is closed, check Task Manager to make sure studio64.exe and adb.exe are all gone. I've gone through several major revisions without issue so even making sure you're up-to-date seems a moot point. Has it always behaved this way for you?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Quote: Has it always behaved this way for you?
Yes, but I have only been using it for 2 or 3 months.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I can't stand stuff like that. I use Android Studio quite often & have used it for at least 5 years so I've been thru a lot with it.
It is probably some setting in your idea.properties file -- found wherever you've installed Studio (c:\program files\etc)
Here are more details that may help you find an answer: Advanced configuration—IntelliJ IDEA[^]
But, there is another thing (that could mess up your installation) that could help.
There's a setting to tell it that this is a first-time run (since installation) to make it "configure".
You can disable that by adding this line as the last line of your idea.properties file:
disable.android.first.run=true
Then start it up & see what you get.
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Thanks. I have added that last line to idea.properties.
Now we will see! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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OK. I found the cause of the problem:
If you start an emulator and shut down Android Studio without shutting down the emulator: That is when it happens! Next time you start AS it runs in the background and you don't see a user's interface.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've never had issues running AS on Linux (my regular desktop) but had many issues running on Windows.
However, just updated AS a couple of days ago (on Linux) & I had an issue where I started the Emulator and then I needed to stop it but it wouldn't stop. But a similar problem where the emulator window was nowhere to be found.
I had to go and kill all the processes to be able to start it again.
I think this all may be due to the way the emulator "runs inside" AS now, where it used to be a separate process & window.
It's quite annoying.
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My first thought…
Whichever impostor web site you loaded it from is trying to run crypto mining software in the background. 😊
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