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This machine came virgin from the maker with a clean, bloatware free, virgin Windows 10 Professional installation. It *has* had numerous upgrades over the years, but if there is rot, it's from Microsoft.
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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here you go Microsoft, your yahoos take the cake: clowns[^]
So, I'm starting to get a handle on the BSODs I've been suffering from. Thinking hard and asking myself what changed? Well, it just so happens that Microsoft pushed out to me 21H1. Now, we all know that when one has a latptop, the laptop maker inevitably has to tweak some drivers because, well just because. Enter Windows 10 where some Microsoft clown decided that users really didn't mean to turn off driver updates. No, they must be mistaken. . Low and behold, 21H1, turned of my "don't $#$%^$&^ with my drivers setting" and updated my Synaptics driver (and in the process completely hosing it).
The Synaptics driver for my laptop is very temperamental and does not suffer updates from Microsoft at all. Updated the driver to the oem version, and turned off driver updates.
But wait, the clowns are not finished yet. If you go to the location where you turn off this setting you come to this little dialog under System Properties:
"Device installation settings
Do you want to automatically download manufacturers' apps and custom icons available for your devices?
Yes (recommended)
No (your device might not work as expected)"
Note that there is NO mention of device drivers - just "apps and custom icons".
Microsoft clowns. It's gone from being stupid to just plain lunacy.
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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The average user doesn't know what a device driver is. It's all part of the dumbing down of the user interface.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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sadly, I agree. But changing settings without alerting people, rebooting machines, etc - clownish.
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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If so, how would you rate it/them?
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Spirit and resin boiling in pot? (8)
"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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Well, if it was a pot of batter then it could be
Spirit: Rum
Resin: Paste
Boiling: anagram indicator
Giving TEMPURAS
But I shalln't hold my breath ...
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There is - we are told by educators - no such thing as a "wrong answer".
But if there was, that would be it! 
"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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And now, not only am I a beacon of staggering failure but also have to quell the desperate urge for tempura prawns. 
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Oooh! Ruriko (a Japanese girlfriend I lived with for a while in the 90's) made lovely Tempura Prawns ... light, crisp batter, even vegetables were good when she did them that way ... I remember them even now.
"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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resin -> gum
boiling (anagram)
in pot
spirit (def) gumption
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"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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Anticipating pxfox, it wasn't very Ximenean, was it?!
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You know me ... just say what you see!
"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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"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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Yes, one of CodeProject's legends [^] is going to lead us to the promised-land where the dreck of untyped EcmaScript (aka JavaScript) cannot go.
Thanks, Pete !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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You're welcome Bill. I'm having a great time writing them. It's no secret that I love TypeScript; I thought I'd write a series to try and inspire that same love in others. It's funny that this series is where I am having the most engagement from people, it must be something they have wanted.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I thought I'd write a series to try and inspire that same love in others.
Don't be so unrealistic. It is already a big success if you manage to take the aversion for it from some devs... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nifty - I shall make sure to read, as I'm just starting Typescript, with a view to type-ifying some old Javascript I wrote, as I'm pretty sure it's buggy as anything...
I've already found one or two... 'anomalies', shall we say, as I've started to add type annotations...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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With the endless proliferation of JS frameworks out there, I've never really been interested in trying to commit to something that risks being unsupported next week or next month.
That being said, if TypeScript is useful with what would otherwise be vanilla JS, then that has some appeal to me. I'm looking forward to go over Pete's series (presuming I find the time).
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It has been late nights trying to make Reggie pass tests. Until the other night I took the wrecking ball and leveled it to the foundation.
Too much maintenance trying to target SQL and C# (and Python and Java and C++ and Rust and Mind$%_@ and whatever else the way I was doing it) It's too easy to make one off code that does the wrong thing under the right circumstances.
I'm creating a legolike way to write the code, to where I describe the machine and various targets can render it like
PROCEDURE_MATCH
MATCH_DECLARATIONS
WHILE_CHARLOOP
MARK_LOCATION
MARK_STATE
STATE_TRANSITIONS
DO_STATE_BLOCK_END
DO_ACCEPT_OR_ERROR
END_WHILE_CHARLOOP
END_PROCEDURE_MATCH
Something like that, and then that invokes the templates for the given render target to render each of those elements in the target language at the given indent level
The whole app uses asp like templates now. Even the CLI "using screen" is rendered using an asp template.
So you want to be a carpenter, do you?
Well it takes more than a hammer, boy
You're gonna need blueprints and a will to build, and...
Straighten your cap! you look like you've been through a war
Wipe that grin off your mug, you got a sturdy frame?
Sluggish posture just won't cut it
You're gonna need schooling, and, and, and take notes!
And god if I catch you yawning again you're gonna regret ever asking for my help
And dammit you gotta hustle, this is a slacker-free zone
And, where's my pencil? Go get your hard-hat
Here's a nickel, go get us a ruler and a saw and a drill and lots of graph paper...
Yo..
I used to have a rope ladder but tattered were the rungs
I strung it from the highest willow, trying to hug the sun
The seventh level buckled and I tumbled from the summit
Now I'm back to re-climb and this time light my cigarette from it - Aesop Rock
How to Be a Carpenter - Aesop Rock, from the album Float[^]
Real programmers use butterflies
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AAAAAARGH!
I can barely get ASP to format my using screen correctly, i don't even want to try to mess with that using tags. Besides, in the end the idea is to save me typing, and XML is very verbose. meh.
Real programmers use butterflies
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xsl:variable - assign once, you can never change the value.
How much time did I waste on trying to vary the value?
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