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I don't expect to ever retire. Given I get paid to do my hobby, why would I stop?
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Well, my hobby turned into a job. This is a double-edged sword. I've burnt out, and have stopped coding as a hobby. But I do want to keep coding when I retire. Only, I'll be doing it for fun, not the money.
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I like money too much 
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A few years ago, I was thinking that when I retire, I might spend a considerable amount of time on filling in holes in Wikipedia in areas where I have some knowledge.
It is not going to happen. I still have about eight years left until retirement. For several years I have had this feeling that noone cares about an old man's experience and knowledge. Things are done differently nowadays. The world is different. People have different tastes, thoughts and opinions. What I can contribute has no significant value. So how will it be eight years from now?
I have come to realize that whatever I do won't benefit anyone, except possibly myself. The same goes for the coding I do in my spare time: The software will never get out of my personal PC. I write a few posts in CP and every now and then in two other specialized fora, but 95% of my writing is read by noone. Its only purpose is for me to clear up my own messy thoughts.
Let the world go its own way. Remember how (un)important you considered near-retirement people when you were young. Accept that today, you have become as unimportant as you were thinking then.
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Member 7989122 wrote: I have come to realize that whatever I do won't benefit anyone, except possibly myself. The same goes for the coding I do in my spare time: The software will never get out of my personal PC.
That's exactly why I work for The Man and can't live off of software I actually would like to work on...
Member 7989122 wrote: Remember how (un)important you considered near-retirement people when you were young. Accept that today, you have become as unimportant as you were thinking then.
Yeah, no. You can't generalize people's thinking process like this. Unlike the smartass know-it-alls I see everywhere (now and back then), I've always appreciated the value of near-retirement people (as you call them). My dad worked as a mechanic for 40+ years, and I call tell you this much: he used to fix cars. Today's younger mechanics just replace parts.
There are parallels in the software industry, but I really don't want to get into that right now...
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I don't think that is true. It's a western thing and it's bullshit. I loved meeting old people when I was young. There's young people who will listen to you today. And on Wikipedia, no one knows how old you are
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There are pretty much many server infrastructure monitoring utility out there but all are programmed in PHP and all my servers are running in Python and I don't want to install PHP for this, so I wrote this small script which runs as a standalone webpage fully programmed in Python which does satisfies my need I hope you too find it useful
you can see the process, disk usage, kill the process and so on..
Screenshots attached:
https://imgur.com/a/a9tTdVd
It is 100% opensource and licensed under Apache with no monetary gains
https://github.com/VISWESWARAN1998/serverbee
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This is probably the wrong place for this - this forum moves pretty fast under normal circumstances.
Instead, why not post this as an Article or a Tip? It's pretty easy to do, and would be a "more permanent" record. Have a look here: Submit a new Article[^] and give it a try!
To give you an idea what you need for publication, here are two of mine.
An article: Using struct and class - what's that all about?[^] - which tend to be pretty "in depth".
And here's a tip which is a lot more "code focussed": Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms[^] which tend to be a lot more of an overview.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thank you sir, I cannot delete my message option seems to be disabled.
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You can't delete once there is a reply - I could dispose of the whole thread for you, but it does no harm to leave it here and add an article / tip anyway, so I'll leave it alone.
There is another possibility since this it Github based, which is a Project: Your GitHub Project on CodeProject[^]
Be aware that your Readme.md will need to be pretty solid, as the moderation criteria for a Project are pretty much the same as those for an Article; a lot higher than required for a Tip.
I look forward to seeing the results!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So I've been bugging out on a way to do LL(k) parsing and while I was stewing on that I was also coding on the slang parser parsley generated.
And I realized something. If Parsley can import other parsers, share symbol tables and lexers with them, and then delegate to them, what's to stop Parsley from simply using multiple parser algorithms to parse something?
each sub-parser, sub grammar, could be LL(1) (possibly LL(k)) table driven, recursive descent, LALR(1) or whatever as appropriate.
The only issue right now is error and continue in the recursive descent form, and possibly the lalr(1) form.
If I can work out those issues, then i can let parsley choose the algorithm to use for each imported grammar.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Question - would you say a DNA encoding is something that is ever 'parsed'?
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Certainly not with an LL(1) parser. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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What I'm interested in is the fact that there's really no proof that DNA or genes influence much past physical characteristics. I know from links sent to me by white supremacists that some scientists keep grasping for gene combinations for intelligence but as I understand there's basically nothing there....
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You must not be familiar with the studies that have been done in that regard. Not supremacist stuff, but real science.
Just google twins studies nature vs nurture - Google Search[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Can confirm.
I've been doing some work for the biggest twin study in the world, The Swedish Twin Registry | Karolinska Institutet[^], and I can't stress enough what a sacrifice some of these twins are doing for us, mostly
on a completely voluntary basis.
I can not go into specifics of course, GDPR and contract and such stuff, but there are plenty of more links at the link above.
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Care to elaborate?
And please keep it clean enough for the Lounge. You have been a bit over the border elsewhere in this thread. Remember, the soapbox is gone for a reason.
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I have become bitter in my old age.
I did Wacken, then Brutal Assault in Czech Republic, then Sabaton Open Air in Falun. We then flew to Norway to see Rammstein before spending a few days in Gothenburg and Stockholm. We also spent a day in Denmark on our way through. Out of it all, I LOVED Sweden.
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Sounds like quite a trip.
Should have called when in Sweden. I live outside of Gothenburg.
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That would have been awesome. I loved Gothenburg. I bought home In Flames tonic water, ate at 2112, drank In Flames gin at a steampunk bar..... There's an amazing metal bar there as well, really seedy, but super awesome.
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A lot of those old twin studies have been debunked. Stuff like 'they both married a red head called Karen' is basically just not true
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I think for the most part, both the mind and DNA are too complex for us to try to put our systems of quantification and classification on it. They're simply too overwhelming. It's a good way to remind us how minor and ignorant we still are - a bunch of apes with a parlor trick on a spinning ball of mud, hurtling through the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy.
Anyone trying to claw out some form of supremacy in the face of that? Well it just seems desperate, and kind of funny, but sad too.
The universe is too big for such nonsense.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well, yeah, people who are sure their skin colour makes them better are basically people who have achieved nothing in life. But sadly, here and in the USA, their message is on the ascendant, that's why its important to do more than laugh and walk away
And yeah, the whole thing is insanely complex. The book I'm reading at the moment is called 'the third ape'. Apparently we're only 3% removed from chimps. I think we're closer to chimps than bonobos, which is a pity
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Human foolishness is cyclic. We're repeating ancient patterns. Right now the west is in decline, and while I'd get some pushback for referring to it as a meta-empire, that's what the west is. Anyway, empires apex. The US particularly hit its apex in the late 80s to mid 90s, depending on which rubber ruler you use.
After that, every generation was bound to be worse off than the one that came before it, either in real terms, or in equity. We're experiencing that now.
And when people face loss, particularly of things they take for granted, like is happening with the white middle class in the US, they go looking for people to blame.
And that's how fascism happens, ladies and gents.
As economic fortunes of the majority class (petit borgie) sour, messages like white supremacist messages will come out of the woodwork.
Blame the blacks.
Blame the queers.
Blame the immigrants.
Blame the commies.
Blame everyone but ourselves for the mess we find ourselves in.
Such is the rallying cry of the hopelessly angry, frightened and lost.
There's not much to do at this point but ride it out - our window for heading it off closed about 20 years ago - at least in the United States.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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