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The government has announced it is phasing out Roman Numerals. Not on my watch …
"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
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"The metric system is conquering Britain, inch by inch."
OMG I've been waiting for this opportunity for 15 years!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 18-Aug-20 14:06pm.
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No joke: I was taking herself to Hospital this morning- nothing serious - and there were road works, with warning signs:
"Roadworks 600 yards"
"Roadworks 400 yards"
"Roadworks 200 yards"
"Roadworks 100 yards" And I realized that I no longer have an "innate sense" of how long 100 yards is - a metre, yes. 100 metres, yes. A foot, yes. An inch? Maybe. But not a 100 yards. "Y miles" I can relate to, but not "Y Km". Strange but true.
"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
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91 meters.
For all practical senses, when you're sitting in a car that is, you can substitute with meters.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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A few years back I saw:
Quote: "Roadworks 500 yards"
"Roadworks 300 metres"
"Roadworks 200 metres"
"Roadworks 100 yards"
Just to show we can cope with everything - all at once!
My father went to a wood store and asked for a length of 2x6 to be cut to 4ft, 2.2cm - which they did precisely, without blinking an eye.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My yard's 40 feet, east-to-west. Now you should have a handle on your perplexation.
Problem Solved.
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What about your yard-sale?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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That's a lot to think about, but for now I think I'll keep it (at least until my peppers all ripen)>
There's no telling where I'll land up.
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I LIVe for that, but with MIXed feelings.
Somehow relate to how I Coll-em-as_I_seum?
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That doesn't make a LIC of sense, everyone should be LIVID!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I, for one, like Roman numerals
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Yeah like old fashion trends!
they will come back... 
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Madness: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different (read weird) results.
VS2019, community edition. Office/Excel addin solution, about 4 or 5 years old.
Working fine on system A, have to fix a user error. "Don't let users make errors, they create unpredictable results". OK, so it's a bug, not a user error.
Create a fix, er um, hack.
Decide to copy the project to a newer system. Both on E: drive.
Get an error on build, "can't delete some file, access denied". Fix permissions, rebuild. Now: "can't delete same file, it is in use".
Move the solution from E:\ to C:\users\source\repos
"Can't open: the blah.csproj file it is in use". It isn't. Restart VS, wash, rinse repeat.
Delete the .csproj file and copy it back (from same E: source).
Solution builds and runs as designed, such as it is.
Copy solution back to the E: drive. Still builds and runs.
Color me confused. Do I get a piece of cheese? Or the dunce cap for moving the solution?
I just declared victory and released it.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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And now you know why letting Office anywhere near a LOB solution is a recipe for disaster - or at least a load of frustrating issues.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Piles of rubbish - junk the boy is well over (10)
junk SCRAP
the boy HE
is well spa
over APS (turn over SPA)
Piles of rubbish
SCRAPHEAPS
I'm up again tomorrow! Yay!
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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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Spa done!
No, I mean well done 
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I couldn't figure this one out. That is 273 in a row. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Well, at least you are consistent! 
"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
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That's hilarious. I must have misread it as "pile" instead of "piles" and thought of "scrapheap" based solely on the definition, and then dismissed it because it was only 9 letters.
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Yeah, I also find the ones you have to read to be be the most difficult. 
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:burn: 
"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
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I think it is all right, if you take in account that no Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server installed at all...
The question is why try to remove a piece does not installed in the first place...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It would definitely spice up my autobiography a little.
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Hmmm who to choose?
"S" and, er.... who again?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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