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All the time, don't let it get you down. Years ago, I had to hire a dev team for C/telecom development. Once I got it hired, they switched me to the manager of the DB team (only hired one of them). Funny, telecom team was excellent, the DB team had all the problem children.
HR insisted we use this tool to generate job descriptions... it's elephant s***. It finally got down to doing very simple white board tests to just validate if the candidate really knew C. Mind you, not C++, inheritance, etc - just plain C. Does the candidate have any idea of computer architecture (like binary values).
Question 1: what is the largest unsigned integer you can put in a byte?
Candidate: Blank stare...
Me: okay, so it's 2^8-1 right? 255. Follow?
Candidate: Oh right, of course!
Question 2: what is the largest unsigned integer you can put in a word?
Candidate: excitedly, 510!
 
Don't even get me started on the very simple pointer questions. There were candidates with either 5 years of experience after a degree or fresh MASTERS degrees in CS.
So when I see a giant list of requirements, I see a company who really isn't serious.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I got PRANG working! Woot. It's my MIDI "score sampler". I'm prototyping it using microswitches but the real device will be controlled by another MIDI gadget, like a keyboard. When I hit a button (or IRL, hitting a key on a keyboard or a pad on a drum machine) it triggers a score for as long as the button is pressed. This way you can pre-compose portions of backing accompaniment or just use it like a MIDI DJ spitting to some delicious fat analog synthesizers or something.
And all in < 512kB of RAM. I don't even need the second core at the moment because I've simplified (but I'll probably use it again and add some graphical feedback)
PRANG (demo) - YouTube[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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For me, any morning I wake up is a Great Day. I agree that the coffee is icing on the cake.
Glad you have those "Accomplishment" endorphins. Hope they last a while.
ed
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Thanx for the memory of that movie. Forgot how powerful. Saw James Brown live in Houston years ago. What a performer.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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yeah if seen this, but forgot until you brought it up.
Got kicked out of H.S. senior physics class for a day for saying "I feel good" instead of "here" at roll call.
Got an A anyway.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Slow Eddie wrote: I wish I could stop that.
Install Chrome? 
"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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Install Chrome Brave or Vivaldi (chrome without some of the spying?)
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I think you have hit on the solution. 
ed
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But he'd still have an edge window open with the download chrome page afterwards.
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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C'mon you know you shouldn't be looking at those websites!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I am too old to look at those websites. My heart wouldn't stand it. My wife would beat me. I am not very interested anymore... 
ed
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Slow Eddie wrote: I am too old to look at those websites. My heart wouldn't stand it. My wife would beat me.
This is exactly the time to visit "those websites".
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Probably a setting to open the last opened tabs on startup, you should be able to change it.
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Open Edge's settings and select Start, Home, and New Tabs. There's a radio group on this page that controls this feature.
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So I set up this Azure tenant for a customer some years ago.
Long story short, turned out a third party already set up an Azure tenant for their O365 AD sync, which no one knew.
Had to migrate my subscription to their tenant and locked myself out as an administrator (for payments) in the process.
I recently regained access to payment details and I'm now in the process of moving all my resources to a subscription of the third party.
Easier with payments like that (I'm currently paying for them in advance and then sending them my invoice, which isn't ideal).
I already moved our DEV and TEST environments a few weeks back without any major issues.
Currently in the process of moving the PROD environment, which has some additional sync resources.
So Azure is moving stuff around as we speak and I'm just hoping we'll have a working environment at the end of it.
If it doesn't, I'll have until Monday to fix it.
Whether this goes well or not, it'll cost me a few years of my life 
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Do you have some interesting music to enjoy white you sort it all out?
Wishing you the best as you untangle the mess. - Craig
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Not your specific problem, but otherwise, Welcome to my world.
ed
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As my IoT code gets more complicated, so do the circuits required to take advantage of it.
For example, I now have a pretty capable little MIDI library that runs on IoT.
I've got a great demo project that uses it to create something that works like a sampler except it emits MIDI scores instead of raw audio.
The problem is that in order to use it you either need a special edition of an ESP32, or you need to wire up your own USB rig to your MCU, and you need to wire a rather involved little input circuit with an encoder and four microswitch pushbuttons on it.
That's not that bad, except that it undercuts anyone who is still getting their feet under them. They won't be able to build the demo.
And even those that can, it's quite a bit of work.
The creativity required for my projects isn't chiefly in making the code work anymore. It's in figuring out how to make it demoable.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I'd like to congratulate you on your success with IoT projects.
Did you have previous experience with microcontrollers before you started?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I did not, but I had experience on 16-bit CPUs because it's what I grew up coding so this was more like a continuation of my youthful endeavors.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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