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Reminds me of our local taxi firm. Had to use one a couple of weeks ago. Ordered using mobile phone. Anti-social time so taxi arrives within minutes ...
You sit in the taxi which sets off and then receive a text message to confirm your booking and how long it will be/how much it will cost.
Then one to tell you the taxi is on its way.
Then one to tell you it has arrived - by which time you're half way through the journey.
Still, there are good points. It recognises your number then suggests your most likely need e.g. "If you want a taxi from [home address] to [some place] then press 1 now." This appears to also take account of the time to decide if you're likely to be going out or returning home.
Saves all that forced communication with another human being. Even if it is a new journey, you have to fight with the voice recognition software for some considerable time with no success before it will grant access to a human.
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Then one to tell you it has arrived - by which time you're half way through the journey.
It's a crazy world!  AI is training us to accept this as "normal".
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I decided to take your advice. I went back to the site and looked for a way to contact them.
Check this snapshot out[^].
The "chat with a sales rep" link does absolutely nothing. So freaking hilarious!!
Old-school commerce processs:
1) find a product you want to buy
2) pay money
3) take product home and use it
New commerce process:
1) find a product you want to buy
2) pay money
3) ...
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Recheck your credit card. I suspect what you saw was the "approval" check to verify funds. I suspect the actual charge is not on your card (Federal CARD Act).
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obermd wrote: Recheck your credit card. I suspect what you saw was the "approval" check to verify funds. I suspect the actual charge is not on your card (Federal CARD Act).
I thought that would be the case too, however, the charge was completed and I've already paid the cash to the card too (paid bill off). I thought they would just put a $100 charge or something on there but it was the full amount.
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I don't know about Federal Law, but over here in the UK, your contract is with the credit card company. So you can demand your money back if you have not received the goods, and they have to reclaim it from HP.
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Thanks for the info. Good to know. 
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Well you know HP stands for 'Highly Priced' I have had two of their printers, good unitl they burnt out (or you had to buy new ink for them). I have a HP PC I got off Amazon for not too bad a price, had a couple of heat issues with it. If I'm paying I would not go for Computers/Printers from them, lab kit yes, home kit no! 
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I agree with you but this was the low-price leader on my laptop.
Only $622.95 with
AMD R7 chip
16GB Ram
256GB m2 drive (kind of smallish)
I bought my wife an HP a few years back (i5, 8GB) and it is still running quite well too. Had good luck so far.
I'm a cheap-skate and anything else comparable was breaking $1000 and more.
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They wanted that quick on the books before new years. Yours and anybody else ordering late in the year. Many of our clients order then to ease their income tax burden, and trade it in for the abomination that today's laptops are. The plastic has gotten so brittle.....
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I always build myself. Warranty service (me!) is reliable that way. And I can only sue myself if delivery is late.
modified 30-Jan-21 15:51pm.
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markrlondon wrote: I always build myself. Warranty service (me!) is reliable that way.
Me too. I bought all my components for my desktop at MicroCenter and put it all together myself. The first time I had a bad mainboard but I just took it all back and now this fantastic machine has been running for almost 2 years now. It's way better.
but I can't build laptops.
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I only order from Dell. However, a month or so ago I advised my daughter-in-law to order her new laptop from Dell. Dell had to ship her three computers! First the first unit mysteriously disappeared from the truck of the shipping company! Then the same happened to number two. Finally the third one arrived. I wish I knew what Dell had to say to the shipper! They lost money on that deal! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wow, that is crazy it took 3 tries. You'd think Dell would investigate. I guess it's just a write-off.
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Two rants in an hour. Geez
Turns out (from the looks of things, unless i messed something up) strpbrk() is poorly optimized in Microsoft's VCLib.
I'm only getting <500MB/s in JSON(C++) on a windows machine compiled with cl.exe:
cl.exe /Zi /EHsc /nologo /GL /D "NDEBUG" /O2 /Fe:main.exe JSON-CPP\src\main.cpp
(I never use cl.exe from the command line so maybe it's wrong?)
On linux on my old machine that was 20 times slower than this one i was getting almost 600MB/s on a standard HDD on an old i5. But that was linux. This machine is a Ryzen 7 on an NVMe drive. On windows.
And yet? WTH!
Does anyone know if GCC will work on Windows without some virtual env like MiniGW installed?
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Does anyone know if GCC will work on Windows without some virtual env like MiniGW installed?
I thought they brought up WSL for such things?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's the opposite thing, I think?
This would be running a linux based app on a windows machine, not the other way around.
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You asked about the GCC not about the executable app you are programing 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I meant GCC. my app should compile just about anywhere - even on 8-bit machines with no real operating system to speak of.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm only getting <500MB/s in JSON(C++) on a windows machine compiled with cl.exe:
I'm gonna play dumb:
What are you getting as JSON files, that is so large that processing half a GB of it per second is a problem?
I'm old-school, so I'm all for optimization. However to put things into perspective, 500MB is something that would take my internet connection a significant amount of time to download. Having some C++ code chew on a JSON file that large per second isn't necessarily what I'd be terribly concerned about.
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Searching and uploading bulk data, from JSON files, often in line delimited JSON form (each json doc on its own line in one big file)
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 Still playing dumb:
And JSON is the correct mechanism for this?
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Ask the people that produce these files.
Do you plan on insisting that they should move to a binary format?
Good luck!
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Like I said, I was just playing dumb. I fully understand that some of these things are probably out of your control.
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Fair enough. Yeah, JSON is used for big data for better or worse, like XML was. There are *some* advantages to a lexical format when it comes to transmitting numbers across platform, but nowadays the binary representations are so standardized anyway that aside from byte order it doesn't matter. But people will do what they will do.
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