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I was getting concerned I'd stretched the rules with "started"....
It goes without saying
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I don't think so, but maybe one of the more venerable participants will weigh in.
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Quote: The hive, then, extends itself as part of the environment through the social probings that individual bees enact where the intelligence of the interaction is not located in any one bee, or even a collective of bees as a stable unit, but in the "in-between" space of becoming: bees relating to the mattering milieu, which becomes articulated as a continuum to the social behavior of the insect community. This community is not based on representational content, then, but on distributed organization of the society of nonhuman actors.
This notion of the hive as a kind of headless milieu that moves, acts, and engages with its environment or umvelt relates closely to contemporary theories of swarms and the swarm-logic of networked communication. An emergent structure of multiple bodies or objects functioning in unison, swarm intelligence characterizes computer science algorithms, multi-agent systems, and insects.
Parikka, Jussi. "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. p. 129
And we, Homo Saps, are the aphids ... zombified by the virus of language ... who are the disposable embodied instrumentalities of the ultimate winter of pure disincarnate intellects ... what Goethe called "the Mothers," what Newton called "Intelligencers" ... that ... who knows ? ... what knows ? ... ultimately may re-invent us to have some sand in their playpens to make mud-pies, or castles, with. Or, erasing the current hologram, and, inventing a new one where they play dumb and re-stage the whole evolutionary farce again,
Of course, I'm just an optimist high on the opiate the virus (language) keeps me addicted to, and, numbed with.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It's not really worth a tip or anything especially since how and where you use it depends heavily on what you're doing but...
I needed a friendly way to name my devices so when they show up in bluetooth or on the home network ready to be connected or paired, and you enumerate them, you can tell each one from the other.
So rather than
Lung Trainer
Lung Trainer
you need something like
Lung Trainer (Foo)
Lung Trainer (Bar)
Where foo and bar, are well known names. Now you could set it yourself but it's a hassle and these devices don't have keyboards.
So I'm using this to get female names for English
Namey - A random name generator[^]
So now it starts out as
Lung Trainer (New)
And whenever one first finds its way online somehow or bluetooth paired to its corresponding app it will use this webservice to pick a name for itself
you have to append /name.json to the above url to access the service. see the script they point you to for the REST URL parameters
The upshot is you'll see things like
Lung Trainer (Alice)
Lung Trainer (Mary)
Of course, the name is then displayed on the device, and you can change them later from the connected app if you like.
I wish Windows would pick defaults like this for computer network names when it goes to install.
I thought it was a neat idea anyway.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I suppose that's what our spammers use when creating accounts  
M.D.V. 
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That's the programmers thinking and it looks nice as well.
But problem start already with backwards compatibility with NetBios which limits the computer names to 15 characters.
Then comes the DNS which disallows quite a few characters including braces and parantheses.
So there's a reason for our horrible computer naming conventions I'm afraid. 
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This isn't SMB though at least what i'm doing**. As far as windows? If they were smart (and sometimes they are) they'd use the API to get 50 names at once and choose the 1st one that's less than 15 chars. Most of the names will be. Almost all of them.
** My stuff shows up when you "add a bluetooth device" under windows, or skip it and use my bluetooth capable app which doesn't require recent windows 10 to prepair devices. It also will show devices on the local network, right now using a custom multicast protocol but eventually probably using uPNP
Real programmers use butterflies
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Neat - how could you call the API using curl for example ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I forget curl syntax but it would be like
curl https://namey.muffinlabs.com/name.json?type=female[^]
As far as the parameters, type is gender. There are others but you'd have to go to namey.muffinlabs.com and hit the landing page, click on their JS API link and dig through the minified javascript you get back to find out what they are. sorry.
The default is to return a single first-name as a JSON array so like
["Sarah"]
I don't even use a JSON processor on it. Since names won't contain quotes i just do a string extraction for the bits between the quotes.
Real programmers use butterflies
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That works thanks
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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To be completely unisex one should only use hermaphroditic names such as: Alex, Bobby, Charlie, Drew, Jordan, Kyle, Leslie, Marion, Robin, Sam, Taylor, etc.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm not a traditionalist in all things, but I firmly believe in naming gadgets after women, for reasons.
Real programmers use butterflies
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will assume role as executive chairman of the board. wow. wonder what happened.
pulled a Bill Gates, he did.
Edit: looks like it will take place this summer.
modified 2-Feb-21 16:38pm.
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Slacker007 wrote: wonder what happened.
His net worth hit $200 billon? Personally I wouldn't step down unless I had at least $300 billion but that's because I have more kids than he does.
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You have no idea  about kids. Want to have a measuring contest? 
Seriously, I don't think this would be a sweater issue (meaning he finally has enough. After a billion, is it even real any longer? I cannot imagine.
I suspect he's re-evaluating life after his screw up.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Coke was spilt on my desk a few weeks ago, and even though (as far as I could tell at the time) none had been spilt on top of my keyboard, the bottom part was soaking in it. Slowly but surely, after I've cleaned everything up as best I could (without taking apart the keyboard) the tab key started feeling sticky, and now for the past 2 days the tilde/backtick key (right above it) is now getting depressed at the same time I hit tab, adding that character to whatever field I was trying to leave.
Long story short, the keyboard's been taken apart and cleaned, those keys now work great, but the spacebar now either has to be hit right in the middle to register at all, or pressed hard. I can take the spacebar out and put it back without disassembling the rest of the keyboard, but so far all my attempts to pop it out/back in have failed to improve it or the way it's supposed to bounce back into position (the membrane underneath it is positioned correctly).
I found another box (that I had forgotten about) that contains an identical keyboard, and after plugging it in, I realize, has the same problem - and now that I've tried it, I remember going through the same thing with that one...and getting this one as a replacement, with the intent to eventually take it apart again and do a better job of putting it back together.
And honestly it's not the first pair of keyboards I've taken apart, and have run into problems after that, specifically, with the spacebar. It's not exactly rocket science, yet apparently I lack the "finesse", perhaps, to reassemble these correctly. And no, there are no leftover parts.
I hate buying replacement keyboards just for the sake of a spacebar that won't go back correctly.
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similar issue happened to my gaming keyboard. soup, not coke. "C" key, not spacebar. I guess I am a sloppy eater.
which brings me to - does one "eat" soup?
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Slacker007 wrote: does one "eat" soup?
If it's one of mine: yes! 
Bacon and potato chowder, with fresh bread and butter. Hits the spot for a winter lunch - but it's way too thick to pour into a glass!
"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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Damn straight, good soup has chewy bits
( well, tomato doesn't ( I grew up in S. Jersey - ever see a flat bed of bushel baskets of tomatoes going down the road? ))
Split pea & ham, chicken veg., c**k-a-leekie, even egg drop and sweet sour have bits. ( Note _I_ didn't censor "male fowl" that's auto-mangled.)
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I make mine as Tomato and Chorizo, so it does have chewy 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
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Slacker007 wrote: which brings me to - does one "eat" soup?
One is eating soup if the soup is in a bowl and a spoon is employed to convey it to the mouth. One is drinking soup if the soup is in a cup (or mug), and the cup is raised to the mouth.
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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I should have known there was some technical documentation somewhere on this subject.
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Slacker007 wrote: I should have known there was some technical documentation somewhere some nitpicky people in the internet on this subject.
FTFY[^]
Nothing against you Daniel
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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
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Slacker007 wrote: which brings me to - does one "eat" soup?
While we're on the off-topic, how about this one - Is cereal soup?
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