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Oh my ... a fusion welder ...  I can help with that as I had a lot of practice with it while doing some fibre optic research many moons ago. This was fun ... But, Autocad design of trunking is not my cup of tea, I must admit ...
modified 2-Mar-21 9:26am.
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Haven't seen it yet, sounds like a prop from Star Trek, "Scotty, put that Trible down and get the fusion welder"!
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sounds futuristic indeed ...
modified 2-Mar-21 9:44am.
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Where I worked in the late 90s I became the go-to person for custom serial cables.
That's about the limit of my ability to do hardware work.
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I have often stated, "a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing." It has a related corollary, "what ever you do, don't admit to having what ever little bit of knowledge you have." That's where the danger comes in as you found out.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Don't be the person who knows who how to get thing A talking to thing B if you are not on the project, You are hounded to death by other teams, who can't be bothered to read the document you wrote on thing A talking to thing B as they 'just don't have time' to waste (by that reasoning you are merely playing minesweeper and nothing else)  .
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Yes, I've been there too. It's very, very annoying.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Hear granny's legs the wrong way around? (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"WITH 'ER SHINS" I suspect. But only after you pointed it out ... I completely missed the "LEGS"-"SHINS" connection. 
"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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I think the "hear" part makes it a Homophone indicator, so it may be the other spelling. I quickly searched, "withershins" is the "opposite", whereas the other spelling is "wrong way around".
I don't want to swoop on this as I think Greg did all the hard work.
edit:
Ignore me, answer got posted while I was typing.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Yep. I'd also accept WIDDERSHINS (widow...)
Have a free gift of Wednesday!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Let's say you had a genie in a bottle that could make your daily developer life slightly better. What would it be?
I think about this a regularly and it's not necessarily things like "A better IDE" or "a faster computer". Often it's things like
- A TODO list that thinks like I do
- A means of managing source code reviews simply
- A set of templates that actually work
- Something that will scan my setup & tool/component versions and fix it all up (Python, for example, is a nightmare)
- Something that will actually help solve those Nuget / .NET DLL reference issues
- A way to emergency fix my code using my phone (hey - sometimes I break things properly and I'm not near a computer when the screaming starts)
- Something that warns me when a package I'm including (pip, npm, Nuget) has an issue (security, use of a bad library, deprecated soon etc) without needing to do anything (I want a popup notification)
I could go on, but I'd love to hear your wish lists.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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so many things.
a final end to source dependency hell.
a big undo button that lets me unhose my dev machine after I destroyed it.
a shiny object I can distract clients with when I won't have the deliverable they want, when they want it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: a shiny object
You mean a knife?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote: a final end to source dependency hell.
OH PLEASE YES !!! THIS THIS THIS.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Organizations have to get rid of all of the shims, especially the manager types.
~d~
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I've been called a shim before, but not professionally. I've only ever understood it as
1. A slim chunk of material used to space two things or otherwise wedge them into position
2. A (usually dodgy) adapter or interface unit of some type
3. An anti-trans slur.
I'm assuming #2 here? maybe between developers and the people at the company that sign the checks?
Real programmers use butterflies
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I think of them as being interfaces, kind of like that guy in "Office Space" whose sole job was to take specifications and hand them to the developers.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Shim==takes up space
Nothing personal.
~d~
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ADOS - attention deficit OH Shiny!
( Or as the bosses old poster said "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. )
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'source dependency hell'
oh, that's what I call my life. Thank you for naming it. 
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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I’d like management to stay the hell outa my way.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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