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honey the codewitch wrote: My favorite feature of 2022
Visual Studio 2025 won't have a UI at all. You simply have to install it, and then it uses Chat-GPT² to generate the code you would have written.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I rendered (typically anti-aliased) vector fonts and an entire monitor screen on a 128x64 .96" monochrome OLED display. The display is impractical for most purposes, including this. I could make it legible, but there's no way to discern between the temp and usage lines in just 2 colors.
There was really no other reason other than boredom and curiousity, but because of the way the display controller works I had to rearchitect my user interface library to support it. I'm glad I did while it's still in its infancy, because I broke a lot of code.
Sometimes that's a good thing, if it brings design limitations and flaws to the fore in the early stages of development so in this case, it was all worth the effort, even though I didn't expect the result to be usable, and did it on a lark.
pic of device[^]
comparison: "normal" screen[^]
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Well you found an issue before it was shipped. I found an overflow bug that would have cost the company a small fortune, problem was the software had passed 'test' and was shoved in some subsea equipment. Put on a container ship and was mid sea when I found it. Told my Boss said well done, later in the day get a lecture that finding faults is not my responsibility and leave alone by the QA manager  . Thing went bang on the sea bed... Better to find bugs and squish while you can.
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honey the codewitch wrote: 128x64
So go for a 2x2 next?
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honey the codewitch wrote: I rendered (typically anti-aliased) vector fonts ... on a 128x64 ... display
I'm curious; are these fonts TrueType?
Back in the long ago times when I messed with font rendering, TrueType gave you the option of storing pre-rendered hand-tweaked rasters in the font for selected resolutions and sizes. We had a vetted set of such fonts for our 120 dpi inkjet printer products.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes, but my tiny engine does not support the raster feature =( you have to make a lot of sacrifices on IoT. I may be able to add it though.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Hi All,
Happy Days, Sun is shining, I have got a test rig working, I know have a plastic skull shaped item sitting on my desk which has the trachea action(!). Am building a test rig for testing a product (Medical stuff), task with designing test rigs for a new product. Hit a error, went to lunch, came back cured it, device started work (with a grinding sound) Let out an Evil Laugh, followed by a "They said I was mad, but it's alive, alive I tell you". Look around the marketing types are looking at me with a WTF expression. I looked up said "Sorry" and went back to what I was doing... Please tell me I'm not the only one who does things like that.
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One day, due to a construction accident the power went out on the part of the Microsoft campus where I was working, so I started running through the halls yelling that the GUID rollover bug came early.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I'm not gonna say that explains a lot, but, that explains a lot. 
I like the way you think. 
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There's a GUID rollover bug?! 
<panics, runs in circles>
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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Not happening until like the 31st century or something. We'll probably have wiped ourselves out by then. 
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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honey the codewitch wrote: We'll probably have wiped ourselves out by then.
... or upgraded to 256-bit UUIDs (Universally Unique IDs). That (~1077) would almost be enough to give every elementary particle in the Universe its own ID.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: would almost be enough to give every elementary particle in the Universe its own ID
You do realize how many other universes you would need to consume to list them all?
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Universes!"
:evil laugh:
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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Is you middle name Ming[^]?
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: middle name Ming[^]?
Well, my middle initial is M... 
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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To the best of my knowledge, the only other people that do so have Igors as servants.
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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Don't have an Igor, place is open, really I want a yellow Minion... how Gru get them again?
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I don't know, but if you find out, tell me 
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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glennPattonWork3 wrote: have a plastic skull shaped item sitting on my desk which has the trachea action(!).
where can i get one ? 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I have been looking for that Clip! Thanks!!
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It's humbling to a degree inform (7)
Humbling = definition
A degree = A ba
inform = sing (crim)
Abasing
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: A degree = A ba
Well done!
"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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