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I once wrote a print spooler (on my own) that allowed operators to transfer print jobs to other idle computers / printers, and finish earlier. Only the operators appreciated it. Management was probably bothered by the initiative.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I once attended a department meeting with probably 150 developers (actual developers and not support) where among other things the VP that was in charge congratulated the initiative of a single developer who created a pass through API that allowed one large system to access functionality via another large system.
Must be good right?
Except I knew there was a team of 4 developers that had been working on exactly the same thing for several months. I knew this because I needed that functionality and I had been blocked because they were not close to being done.
I always wondered if the VP had any idea what was going on in the dept that he ran.
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Good call. I hadn't seen that one yet.
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I know I should know how to do this, but I am not finding where I can do this and make it stick.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Go to Setting and the "Forum and QA tab"
Be sure to save/update when done.
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Hover the mouse over you username in the top right corner.
Select "Settings" from the drop down.
Select "Forums and QA" from the menu bar,
Edit your sig in the "Message Signature" text box.
Make sure the "I have read and agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for this site" checkbox is ticked.
Click "Save my Settings".
"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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Result in sig below!
"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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Edited like this!
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Thanks everyone. New signature in place.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Power source ? god I hesitate (7)
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 “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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URANIUM?
(I never heard of a god called "URAN" though ... hence the "?")
"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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Nope
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 “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Thorium?
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Yay YAUM
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 “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Thorium
God THOR
I I
Hesitate UM
Power source = THORIUM
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Correct but pipped by ChandraRam
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 “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, I saw that! I hesitated (to spell out my solution) and lost.
Also, thanks to Griff for giving me the UM! 
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FreedMalloc wrote: Also, thanks to Griff for giving me the UM!
Me too Maybe we should declare OG as the winner!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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He did rather give the game away - but you posted the correct answer YAUM
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 “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nah, he's won plenty of these.  I look forward to your clue on Monday!
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I second this! 
"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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I've got a web wizard who has developed my htcw_gfx library's website so far, including this page:
Font/Image Converter[^]
Which despite the name is pretty much a one stop shop for converting multimedia assets into a header you can use in your htcw_gfx enabled C++ IoT projects .
It is entirely client side, so it potentially works offline (as long as you download the supporting web files), and we want to keep it that way.
However, I ran into a snag with doing the SVG -> header conversion.
The soon to be released latest version of htcw_gfx will happily parse SVG XML and so you can embed that in a header, but it's big, and parsing it is inefficient and leads to more fragmentation of the heap than is really desirable.
So to that end, I am producing a preparsed binary format that represents SVG data in a more compact and efficient form. The idea is that can be loaded and rendered readily.
Bear with me. How I plan to do that is to take the SVG data structures I've built up and write them out in a block with markers in it that tell me how much memory to allocate ahead of time and a fixup list for the internal structure's pointers when it's located into memory (turning offsets into memory pointers basically)
I then plan to store that and work with it. Loading it is almost instant and doesn't fragment the heap since i can do one allocation all at once with all of the nested pointers and such contained within that one single malloc'd block.
Implementing that in javascript in order to bring that facility to the web tool above is next to impossible.
I thought we were out of luck until I was reminded of this: Main — Emscripten 3.1.33-git (dev) documentation[^]
I'll just wasm my htcw_gfx library into the browser and call into "C++" from javascript all on the client side.
What a world.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 3-Mar-23 2:39am.
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Recommended it on Slant!
(oops I did it again, should not mention Slant anymore)
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I never needed to do any web-assembly, but always wondered how it can be smoothly done. Guess I aint wonderin' no more.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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