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Largely I am too. But another part of me sees that as the sloth of aging.
I get comfortable, I get complacent. If that happens too often, I stop learning, and then you may as well start kicking dirt over me. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Don't be afraid - as long as you ask yourself THIS Question you can't go wrong ...
By the way - I also prefer Forms and I have also no real connection to this "new World" ... (sorry for that)
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called retirement 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I probably won't ever fully retire. I'll be like Gene Winfield, loving what i do so much I'll be doing it until I'm 90 (if I'm lucky)
It's just who I am.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: I probably won't ever fully retire
One needs to find something that they will like to do 40, 60 or even more hours in a week.
And it cannot be something that they are already doing, because of course then there are even more hours to fill up.
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truth. Had a long conversation with my "boss" of 30 years. It's one thing to get to "I want to retire" - whatever that means, and entirely another to have something to do when you get there. I'm in the analysis part right now deciding what I want to do. Something different or a little less of what I do now? I love engineering and writing software, but I'm getting less tolerant of the pricks 20 years my junior.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: getting less tolerant of the pricks 20 years my junior.
lol
I won't advise you but myself I do realize there are only two possibilities going forward. Either I die before my friends or they die before me.
For the first that could mean quite a few years with no friends.
Work (those juniors you mention) provides a pool of youngsters that allow me to go for the first option.
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Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: It's one thing to get to "I want to retire" - whatever that means, and entirely another to have something to do when you get there
I'm not particularly worried about that.
I love to code, but I've burnt overdoing it (evenings, weekends), so nowadays I hardly ever work on pet projects during my free time. But, for decades now, I've been telling myself when I do retire, I'll probably be working on code I've been meaning to write for a very, very long time, but isn't code I can write in my line of work, or get paid for - programs that I'd like to work on, but won't pay the bills.
That's what I see myself doing in retirement.
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Okay - I have a funny for you . I'll get to your comment at the bottom.
My dad was an EE. Hard core. And as he got older, his buddies at IBM got into side businesses. At the time I did not know this - I was a young teen blundering his way through school, etc. But he bought a little sailboat. And I learned to sail it and race it in regattas. Hold that thought...
15+ years later I was in the middle of nurturing a GIANT family. Ask me offline if you want the details but 5 sons, 6 daughters, 3 combat veterans with a lot of combat tours (they got dirty) - lots of lost sleep. The boys went to war and the daughters are rougher than they are. I need a coat of arms that says "Piss and Vinegar".
So here I am at the "end" - and I thought it would be very attractive to go fishing and be left alone. I hate fishing. As for the sailboat - I live close to a large lake. I could grow old and die happy ....
"I'll probably be working on code I've been meaning to write for a very, very long time"
And you say that. I have a customer who really needs there manufacturing system re-written. It's on my list.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: It's on my list.
I had to laugh out loud.
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instead they will spend millions on some other solution .... I'm working it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I like the "newness" of UWP. And any pain along the way; because when it does what it hinted at, it was worth it.
"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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pinvoke.net[^] is down now for several days, at least? 
This is quite a loss to the development community. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I know I've been there before.
Used that website back when I was still doing WinForms.
Can't really remember what for though...
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I used it back when I was still learning P/Invoke ins and outs.
Was useful at the time, but I stopped using it when I had enough of a handle on it that was faster to just translate directly from the C signature myself. Even then I still used it occasionally for copying large structs and stuff, just to save time.
I know it's not quite the same thing, but I am a walking pinvoke.net so if you post a question in Q&A, tag me in on it, and I'll translate the C to C# for you.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Thanks for the offer. I foresee that I'll take you up on it!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I know it's not quite the same thing, but I am a walking pinvoke.net
Why am I not surprised by this?
I've had some decent results using ChatGPT for some coding questions - usually looking for how to get some obscure/poorly documented API going. It's not always 100% right, but often gets me on the right track. Come to think of it, I still hadn't had a need to ask it for any P/Invoke type of question...
[Edit]
Sorry for reviving week-old threads...I'm...let's call it, "catching up with a small backlog"...
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Wow, that project looks incredible. Thanks for the link!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I am more curious why.
Seems like author/owner is Microsoft employee named Adam Nathan. Also a author of a number of books. Googling doesn't suggest anything bad.
There is a github site. But I did not look at that.
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This is a terrible news for me. From time to time I'm working on an old VB6 project, and Pinvoke saved me lots of times. Even when many apis does not have vb6 syntax there it was still a helpful hand.
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That's annoying. We'll have to resort to installing VB6 and using API Text Viewer...
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FYI, it seems to be back up now. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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