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OriginalGriff wrote: I was playing poker and my mate raised me his mother's sister
Ah, a low-stakes game, then. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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at least he didn't go all IN
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Big deal. When the chips are down, I don't see how we can draw any conclusions to suit your preposition.
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The 3D printer is printing. Just a modest 5 hour job. Will it finish without getting stuck? One of the plugs on the cable bundle to the printing head had wiggled a little loose. That may have been the whole affair. After what I read online about the quality of the good chinese wiring and soldering of these printers, it's only a question of time until something will happen again.
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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The QC there is not Quality Contol its Questionable Chinese workmanship.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Or even CQC : Counterfeit Questionable Chinese workmanship
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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Maybe in this case, the counterfeits are the desirable ones...
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Not by my experience. I have a certain device from a chinese manufacturer. Once in a while you need a replacement part and most of the time just one in a package of three is good enough to use, but at least that one will last for years. There are cheaper clones of every single part, but the quality is so low that you don't save very much. They do so much damage when they fail. In fact, i have also a complete clone that slowly becomes an original because I only use original parts whenever it needs repairs.
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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MTTF: Mean time to failure.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Which for many Chinese-manufactured items is negative - it fails before it leaves the factory. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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2 recomendations, DeOxIt and more important (?) dental floss or tape to hold the frikin connector together. ( I hate tape residue )
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If no one minds too much I would like to get something off my chest and state my least favorite programming text i.e. Stroustrup's C++ Reference. Supposedly it was written in English but I couldn't tell. I wish I still had the copy to quote a particular paragraph I have in mind which I found particularly indecipherable but in general my complaints are he speaks at length about a particular topic but does not inform the reader what that topic is until late in the paragraph and does so in a vague abstract manner which leaves my head spinning as I am dumbfounded by both the vague manner and as yet undisclosed vague topic. It's only computer programming not the mysteries of the cosmos as revealed by advanced science and mathematics. It shouldn't be that hard to learn to print "Hello World" onto the screen. Thanks for tolerating my diatribe Best Wishes Cheerios
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: Thanks for tolerating my diatribe
No problem.
(I "bleep"ed over the boring bits)
"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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PaltryProgrammer wrote: speaks at length about a particular topic but does not inform the reader what that topic is until late in the paragraph and does so in a vague abstract manner
Sounds like my wife wrote it.
Be glad that he didn't adapt another of her techniques - changing the subject without letting me in on it until the story's half told (possible because of the first technique, above).
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Wonder if that's universal?
I guess me zoning out, when I haven't got a clue who or what she talks about at the moment, doesn't help either.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Alas (?), I don't zone out.
Maybe it's one of those things that enable a 45+ year marriage that keeps it going - I haven't stopped listening.
Some might consider that a masochistic streak.
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An anonymous email with a link to this post has just been sent to your wife. 
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Yes ... she starts in on "that thing" ... and you have to guess what that thing is.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I get that from my wife, but she's got it worse. She has to put up with me! 
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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*hands you a modestly sized copy of Accelerated C++ that's written in plain English*
Real programmers use butterflies
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: I wish I still had the copy to quote a particular paragraph I have in mind which I found particularly indecipherable but in general my complaints are he speaks at length about a particular topic but does not inform the reader what that topic is until late in the paragraph and does so in a vague abstract manner which leaves my head spinning as I am dumbfounded by both the vague manner and as yet undisclosed vague topic.
I'm pretty sure I have that book somewhere (or something from Stroustrup), but I don't recall him using run-on sentences with no punctuation.
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That was exactly my thought too!
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: my least favorite programming text i.e. Stroustrup's C++ Reference
Really? I loved that book! It was my reference for years.
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The one that says: "And all the samples are copyright and you can't use them in your own program."
(A couple of 2D and 3D WPF Graphics books by the same author)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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