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I've had this happen with as pair binocular with a 'rubber' coating and a rechargeable power pack.
What is it that these coatings/casing are may of that they break down after a number of years?
Is this deliberate built-in obsolescence or just they didn't think people would still be using their products after so many years?
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just wear work gloves.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Peter here is a link to a YouTube guy in Canada
that will show you how to wrap your tool handle
How To Wrap Your Tool Handles - Get a Better Grip - YouTube[^]
Search Google with this Hockey Tape: Stretchy, Non-Adhesive, Top Wrap
It comes in White and Black
I am curious what brand of tool you are having this issue with?
I have 5 power tools from Milwaukee 4 years old light use but no issues with the
neoprene handles
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: After a few years it starts to break down and gets sticky.
Just curious so checked one of my drills that is at least 20 years old. Handle seems fine to me.
Maybe the key is to store it somewhere with a normal temp range (in the house.)
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Wrap handle in duct tape. Intentionally let it wrinkle/fold a bit.
This is an aesthetic "rugged look" choice.
As the tape frays with use, the haphazard nature will tell people you're too awesome to care about the handle because you're all about the business end.
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The Win10 bootcamp partition on my iMac became corrupted and no matter how many days win10 spin their little dots in the centre of the screen, it could not recover the partition. (macOS had no trouble reading any file it wanted to, though, so, ahem, Windows)
Anyway, I've switched to a DELL laptop for now and it refuses to let me install Win10. It says I can, but it won't. After each install it's surprise! Here's Windows 11! Isn't it great!!?
Anyway...
The emojis. What is going on with the Windows 11 emojis? I thought I was in Sesame Street. Or on Facebook 2010. They are startlingly ugly. A who-needs-a-second-coffee arresting.
I assume this is a design approved by the accessibility team (contrast, inclusivity, scaling, colours etc) which is all good, but I'm also guessing someone in the design team is still curled up in the foetal position, twitching slightly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The entire Windows 11 UI is a step backwards from Windows 10.
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I don't know. At least Microsoft's designers have rediscovered colors with Windows 11. Ignoring the higher resolution, the Win10 UI could be rendered on a 4-color CGA video card. Seriously, look at any of the Settings screens...blue, white, black, and...gray? And if MS had it its way, everything would look like that throughout. No thanks.
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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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Glued together from a web of dependencies, development "organized" via agile methodology.
How long before we just fire software packages out of a t-shirt cannon?
"Hold my beer, I've got a version update to deploy"
I am really uncomfortable with the state of software development these days. Dependency hell didn't used to be a distributed problem.
I suppose I'm just getting old and this is the new normal. Eventually we'll *need* AI just to keep our import hierarchies straight. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Forget the t-shirt cannon, if you go to QA you will see that the current development methodology is the "software party popper": grab a dozen small chunks from the internet, chuck them all in a file, and watch your software explode... 
"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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People complain about dependency hell, but they forget the alternative being that you would have to write everything yourself from scratch. I'm sure for some people this is fine ("HTTP server? I'll do it myself!") but for a large majority of people this isn't going to cut it.
I use Java and Maven to manage my dependencies. If I choose to upgrade my dependencies because it's overdue, does it cause me headaches? Absolutely! I might have to spend an hour or two carefully adjusting versions until everyone is happy. But the trade-off is that I haven't had to build entire frameworks from scratch, and would I even want to do that if I could? Absolutely not.
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The problem is not the presence of dependencies, but the number of dependencies. Instead of using a single framework and then writing the things missing in this framework, many programmers will import a package for each minor piece of code.
Leaving aside the security issues (without reading the code, how do you know that the package doesn't contain malicious code in addition to the useful stuff?), the maintenance overhead of so many packages tends to be prohibitive. I would prefer to use fewer packages, and not have the headache of working out whichg version of X is compatible with Y, etc.
I won't comment on the practice of some developers of making breaking changes to their code - either by renaming functions or by changing the functionality of existing functions. Any such comments would not be KSS.
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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I mean, hey, people obviously weren't having enough trouble managing local dependencies, so now we've flung them across the Internet.
So when your guy making a Widget control goes through a messy divorce, maybe one of the things he does is pull his project.
Then what?
Like I said, dependency hell didn't used to be a distributed problem.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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What are the options then? You either:
- Build your own libraries from scratch and maintain them yourself, potentially taking weeks or months of work
- Manage your own dependencies with version control by manually downloading whatever you need and having them copied into your projects
- Use dependency managers like NuGet, Maven, Gradle, npm etc
You make it sounds like there is no winning solution. I'd much rather make use of a dependency repository and know I can almost click + collect a solution to whatever problem I have, than spend a long time Googling for an answer and then trial and error'ing until I find a working version.
And the issue of people pulling libraries is a non-starter if you're using an appropriate dependency proxy. In Java we have Nexus, which acts as an intermediary which downloads and caches dependencies, so even if they're pulled from the internet (or someone maliciously overrides an existing version) we have constant access to what we need.
I'd be more than happy to hear alternatives to dependency/package managers!
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