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kmoorevs wrote: IMO, starting a dozen years or so back, we have entered a sort of 'hardware plateau' where decent hardware coupled with SSDs, and faster broadband internet has been good enough for most. Combine that with the extremely low failure rate for SSDs and people find that their 10-12 y/o systems still get the job done.
The plateau ended a few years ago when mainstream desktop core counts stopped being capped at 4. The only reason I haven't replaced my 2014 CPU/mobo yet is that I'm waiting for AMDs next generation platform later this year. (For Intel I wouldn't bother, they cycle sockets every 2 years so there's no point; but AMD's 4ish year lifecycle is long enough to offer compatible parts that are worthwhile upgrades.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"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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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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STUPID STUPID Windows decided to not only restart (completely) without my say-so, but has ALSO deleted all my Chrome cookies. As a result NYT doesn't know who I am and has lost not just my current streak but everything else as well. On the plus side, at least I've got rid of that 98% success score and now have a nice round 100% 
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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A piece of code I wrote 15 years ago hit its first error, ever. Turned out that a different department broke their own rules on the format of a shared configuration file.
Add a few more defensive checks as I plan to be retired before it happens again.
I am sure that Honey would have solved this with a state table!
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I thought I made an error once, but I was mistaken.
Will Rogers never met me.
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In a similar vein: People who think they know it all really annoy those of us who do.
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Ive got a T-towel with that on.
Andy
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Lol ... i.e. I never tell the truth.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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In my first university course on programming, we handed in 'coding sheets', which were copied to punch cards by a group of ladies having card punching as their meaning of life. (At least of working life.) Then they put the card decks into the batch job entry system for the huge mainframe. A day later, the job had been run, and we could pick up the listing (from both the compilation and run, if compilation was successful) and the card deck from the handout shelves.
Those ladies were certainly not perfect, error free typists. And, in rush periods, it could take two days before the mainframe got around to run our job. So we grumbled a lot ...
Around Christmas time, after four mandatory hand-in coding exercises, one of the girls in my class couldn't understand our grumbling. Who cares if it takes a couple of days before you get the results? What is really this thing about 'error messages'?? We slowly realized that after half a year as a programming student (with no prior coding experience), she had never made a single coding error, neither in syntax nor semantics, in any of the four exercises. Furthermore, the typing ladies had not made a single typo when copying her coding sheets. So after a full semester, she didn't have a clue about what an error message is! We tried to explain it to her, and she had problems understanding why we didn't fix such errors before handing in the coding sheets.
When she left the room, the rest of us where very much in agreement: She had been missing out on some very important learning experiences
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trΓΈnderen wrote: So after a full semester, she didn't have a clue about what an error message is!
Well, she could have been one of the super-programmers you occasionally hear about. I would be interested of knowing how her studies (and career) progressed...
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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We had to do much the same in college, except that we had to punch our own cards. All in all, it wasn't a big challenge, if one didn't mind having to arrive at school at 3 AM to find an available machine. But speaking of errors, I tried creating one program in COBOL; IIRC, it was 83 lines, but managed to spew 107 errors. Even the COBOL expert in the white coat who worked in the computer center couldn't find a single error in my code. I never tried COBOL again, since FORTRAN was all the school required us to learn.
Will Rogers never met me.
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trΓΈnderen wrote: ...she had problems understanding why we didn't fix such errors before handing in the coding sheets.
Maybe she was a fan of one of Knuth's famous quotes.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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trΓΈnderen wrote: So after a full semester, she didn't have a clue about what an error message is
Sounds like a case of "on error resume next"... 
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Sometimes when I don't get bug reports from my software I wonder if it's even being used 
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