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honey the codewitch wrote: It's all very fun, but now I worry I'm going to get lost in it to the expense of everything else.
There's an "everything else" you have to worry about?
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In seriousness I used to live like there wasn't. But that's no way to live, either - getting sucked down every rabbit hole I find is endlessly fascinating, but what about social relationships for example?
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I still like to learn, but I have changed a bit my priorities when I got the kids.
I still try to learn tech for my job and private.
But I now spend a lot of more time playing with the kids and handicrafting for them or for the house, since I do a lot of basic furniture on my own.
My next big tech project will be the automation of my future new house, for what I have a lot of ideas. I will give some of the parts to companies (but I will still learn a bit before to be able to manage a bit or to avoid getting fooled), but I will do some (specially the security parts) myself.
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?
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I'd like to work in a R&D role, or somewhere where my job was to try out new tech, etc. instead of just writing business software. I guess there's a thrill in working with something new / different and it also satisfies curiosity.
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I don't think it goes away (if you've got the time!). Back in my middle 50's I started working on devices that did all kinds of audio processing (audio control units for 911 call taker stations). All kinds of tone generation/detection, digital filters, AGC, etc. It was exciting times for me learning a new area of embedded systems. It would have easier though if I could have remembered more of the math I'd learned back in college (in the 70's).
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In the past, I have had some deadend jobs without much learning. During those times, I took on new learning experiences building a water-cooled computer one time and a 504 hp engine that got me 30 mpg another. When I cannot learn on the job, I am so driven to learn that a new project will always pop up.
Now I am getting older and slower, and money is tight. Projects for learning are often slow and meticulous things that don't drain brain or wallet.
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early on in my career I learned everything I could get my hands on, now much further down the road I'm a little more careful on what I want to learn and balance it with home life.
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If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline.
Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?
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Of course I would. Then I would know to wear a bulletproof vest to the twin pines mall the night I test my time machine!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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The guy at Twin Pines mall got killed. The guy at Lone Pine mall wore the bulletproof vest!
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I'd like to know a future where this wasn't a setup for some pseudoscientific claptrap like "astrology" or "black magic" designed to part the gullible from their money and give it to parasitic morons.
"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 peddle in magic of all hues, even black. If anything, it has made me money, but the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.
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Yeah, but you don't generally tell desperate people you can make everything in their lives better if they give you all their money (and possibly sacrifice a crocodile).
"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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Yeah, I don't even want their money.
I'll stick with my own money. 
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Tele-evangelists have been doing that (successfully) for decades.
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honey the codewitch wrote: the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.
I know for a fact that some of your demons, including Abaddon, Leviathan and Kimaris, would disapprove of your methods!
Me, being your friend, am less judgmental 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Me, being your friend, am less judgmental
Unless for the place of the brackets  
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: Unless for the place of the bracketsbraces
FTFY. 
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haha perfect!
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Thank you
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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Quote: pseudoscientific claptrap like "astrology"
It is possible to predict when the sun will rise in your area ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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OriginalGriff wrote: give it to parasitic morons.
Parasites? Perhaps. Morons? I think not. They are predator, not prey.
Sometimes they set up huge megachurches and get rich in the process
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Beware of the prophet who profits.
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Sure, there are some interesting experiments with that. To start with, I'd plan to either go drink a coffee or a tea right after getting that info dump, whichever is the opposite of what the information said I would do. What does the information say? Will I be able to do the opposite thing? Will I somehow be forced to cancel the whole plan?
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If you were to do the opposite thing then you were always going to do the opposite thing and so the first thing never could have happened.  
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