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I got a negative result. 
How do you do that with only two multiple choice answers?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I was positive I would pass, but it didn't happen.
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New conspiracy opportunity:
The tests are rigged so that only a certain percentage of people can have a positive result at any one time. This is to ensure the economy doesn't come to a complete stand still.
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But ... but ... I posted a question in QA ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You'll never get an answer there.... unless of course you mention that it's urgentz! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Since pkfox has changed his vote[^], I'm counting this one as a draw: 2 for, 2 against. I abstained, so I guess I have the casting vote.
I think it's a good idea in principle, but it'll be a PITA to organise, and sounds like extra work for me so I'm going for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
The result becomes 2 for, 3 against, and they stay as they are on this one.
If anyone can come up with a system that is self notifying / policing then I'll reopen voting - but for the moment, it's DOA.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Abe, Nicole & Nic score 5. Unbelievable! (13)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Abe ABE
Nicole NICOLE
Nic NIC
score (anag)
5. V
Unbelievable!
INCONCEIVABLE
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Spot on. Quicker than I expected. YAUT!
I intended 'score' in the sense of acquire.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Never seen score used as an anagram indicator. 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nor had I, but it was the only word left over when I'd taken all the rest out ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Quote: You keep using that word, I don't think you know what it means.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Even when you factor out the impossible deadline, the divorce, the kid arrested for drugs, the bills you can't pay, etc. ?
Because ... it's a tunnel: [^].
Previously, on "bill's brain" ... he believed this ever present dark-matter was the result of reading Poe's "Pit and Pendulum" at age 12: [^] 
This shrinking-walls image sometimes occurs to me when i realize a coding strategy i have invested time in implementing will never work, and i'm back at "square-one" empty-handed. Those experiences are rare these days, since over time i have become "religious" about identifying key unknowns and testing them in isolation to get "proof of concept" before moving ahead ... and using "divide and conquer" and "stepwise refinement" strategies.
Do you have a recurrent mental image based on a story, book, show, that you often find re-occurs as you develop software ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Time Vortex, it's called Time Vortex.
BillWoodruff wrote: Do you have a recurrent mental image based on a story, book, show, that you often find re-occurs as you develop software ?
Concentration camps hole digging: everyone in a circle digs a hole and dumps in the hole to their left. Everyone can finish when all the holes are dug.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You left out Sciatica from sitting in front of the keyboerd and screen in a crappy Office chair.
Got an epidural injection yesterday. don't know how women can stand it. If I was a woman, I would be childless.
As a man I enjoyed my 2-3 minutes of effort, and was done with procreatng.  
SWMBO deserves to be.
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Hi, i had severe sciatica during a very stressful period (age 40) of my life; my right leg was losing muscle mass. They were planning to remove some of my bulging disk with micro-surgery, but, on advice of a physical therapist, i started using ice packs on the right lower spine and buttock.
Relief was immediate and dramatic: i was able to recover w/o surgery. Turns out the hot baths and packs, and the acupuncture, and constant massaging and stretching, i was using/doing were contributing to the inflammation.
Of course, there are many causes of sciatica, and what worked for me may not be useful for anyone else.
If what they injected in you was a standard dose of the usual steroid, you should be mobile after several hours.
As you can, keep visualizing/seeing your new life on the horizon. i know it is there, moving towards you.
take care, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Hard reset a Husky[^] 
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I haven't used WinUI much.
If I have a big application in WPF, I wonder if it's worth moving to WinUI3?
From past experience I take it that the data models can be reused and View can probably be copy pasted and the tweaked the xaml namespace.. isn't it? (didnt really do code migration, so not 100% sure about possible snags)
Another bonus question.. does it offer any performance benefits to move from WPF to WinUI3?
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About a week ago I installed Win 11. I noticed some instability in the Edge browser and decided to go back to 10. Installed a Win 10 image and discovered I had a different problem: The desktop's BIOS took about 120 seconds to load! (As opposed to 15 seconds in the past.) Well, I had 5 different BIOS versions for my desktop from Dell and I tried them all: No difference! Al were painfully slow!
I tried going back to 11 and Presto! slow startup problem solved. I was still scratching my head when She reported her desktop (still running 10) was painfully slow. WTF is going on here? The only common denominator: The problem occurred after the last Win 10 update that happened this week.
Now I don't understand: How can a version of Windows affect the speed of the BIOS? And: Is MS trying to nudge us to switch to 11? I'm very perplexed. 
Anyway MS: You won! I am stuck with 11! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's not MS, it's your BIOS ... Here's a way to see again that slow BIOS load:
1. Remove the motherboard battery.
2. Short the board (short is slang for reset and the origin of it's use is recent ... more boards are skipping posts & jumpers ... and using > < solder points where a cold screwdriver blade can be used to bridge the gap between the leads).
3. Put the battery back in.
4. Powerup again.
That latency you said was so long should happen all over. You might even get screen posts with BIOS code that overlays the Windows 10 euroboros. Mine are visible in the lower right-hand corner of the monitor.
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RedDk wrote: 2. Short the board (short is slang for reset and the origin of it's use is recent ... more boards are skipping posts & jumpers ... and using > < solder points where a cold screwdriver blade can be used to bridge the gap between the leads)
I'm an old, broken-down software guy. Yet, the idea of using a screwdriver to do that gives me the creeping heebie-jeebies. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: using a screwdriver to do that gives me the creeping heebie-jeebies.
too right.
There used to be a Fortune cookie program on the old Unix machines. I remember one saying "Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers".
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Noobs. 
Once upon a time you had to build your computer before you could program anything.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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