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So it is gravity after all that kept me out of the NBA
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Just curious about his clothes; I wonder if it affected his feet and shoes.
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Well, you should be able to tell us. It's perfectly normal for people to 'grow' an inch or more simply lying in bed for eight hours which is then reversed through the day as gravity recompresses your spine while it is upright. We're all longer in bed than we think! So unless you sleep standing up you have this experience pretty much every day!
If the rigid exercise routine that ISS inhabitants go through every day to maintain bone density and muscle and tendon/ligament health has worked it shouldn't be that much different once the whole getting used to there being gravity at all process has been gone through.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm trying to imagine common sports without gravity.
- Football,
- Basketball, trying make a basket, no gravity induced arc, everybody slam dunks
- Baseball, every kid hits it out of the park
- Hockey, the fans would have to help put the players back
- Track And Field, "Oops, coach, we just lost another one !"
- Ping Pong, eternally changing serve, always score zero
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I think boxing would be pretty entertaining as well. A good punch could send you spinning.
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I don't know, I've played ping pong with people that put a tremendous amount of spin on the ball. It's obviously affecting the trajectories (by a lot!). You may be able to make it work in a zero gravity situation. I'd be willing to give it a try if someone would pay for the trip! 
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I'm trying to imagine common sports without gravity.
Yeah, I think there was an episode of The Magic School Bus about that.
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9082365 wrote: rigid exercise routine that ISS inhabitants go through every day
I'm guessing the air is not so fresh on the ISS.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It is fresh
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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He's the first ever 'Belter'...
'Remember the Cant!'
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Nah he didn't have the haircut!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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...or the tattoos, for that matter
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This is just the disks in the spine relaxing I expect, not bone growth.
We grow 1/4 inch each night because of this apparently.
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Working with another developer, I often give him trouble about using his mouse instead of shortcut keys. I was helping him and teased again about it. So he asked in a snarky way, "What is the shortcut to clear the data", sure that I didn't know the answer. So I said Alt + F4 without pausing.
He didn't find it funny.
Hogan
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The worst is watching another dev highlight text with a mouse then go over to the menu, again with the mouse, and select Edit -> Copy. 
These people should be forced to use Linux for a month.
Marc
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Hmm. My app's source code has a fair number of tables initialized with constant data. Constructing those tables by simple typing would take away my will to live. A lot of them were created using combinations of the following:
- Double-click to select a word, hold down the Ctrl key, drag to a destination
- Click and drag snippets out of the Visual Studio toolbox
- Click and select, followed by one or more VS editting macros (the f***ers who pulled it from VS2015 are morons)
It's whatever is the best tool for the job. I use ctrl-C, ctrl-X, and ctrl-V as well as ctrl-Insert, shift-Delete, and shift-Insert. Sometimes I'll use the keyboard to move the cursor, sometimes the mouse, whichever is faster.
I've known a number of keyboard jockeys who disdained using the mouse for anything. I've also known people who follow the pattern you describe: select with the mouse, Edit, Copy, and rarely use any of the keyboard shortcuts. Both of them are less efficient than they could be.
I take advantage of anything the IDE provides. One of the best things about Visual Studio and C# is Intellisense. It's positively scary sometimes how good it is at guessing what you need.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Careful. They'll be too good in keyboard and they might hate you when they see you while scrolling the mouse.
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They see you scrollin', they hatin'
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Marc Clifton wrote: forced to use Linux
Nah that's far too easy, emacs is much more fun.
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do you do all of your coding on a piece of paper, too?
If you teased me, I would tell you to fark off. Just saying... 
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snorkie wrote: I often give him trouble about using his mouse instead of shortcut keys
Your kind should jump off a building
I had a coworker who did that.
Personally I can't be bothered with remembering all those shortcut keys that are different on someone else's computer anyway.
So anyway, this guy keeps nagging about shortcuts, it would give me hours of productivity.
And then he spent literally ten minutes looking up some obscure shortcut key for a functionality I've never used since...
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My mouse claims his right to reply[^], you musinist!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Well? Did the data not get cleared?
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ctrl+ x/c/v at the least should be standard use.
The impatient of seeing someone using either toolbar or context-menu is unbarable
at some point, some people i just tell them ctrl+c instead of copy in the hope they use that.
same with SQL * - i just say 'all' not 'star' - it more meaningful as to what is wanted instead of the specifce characters I want someone to type.
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Right! I've seen this guy use the file menu to select Edit > Copy. On his own time, I don't care what he does, but when I'm helping answer a question, value my time as well.
Hogan
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