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I learn by doing to and I have an enormous codebase of fantastical experimental ideas from which I have learned a lot but would not employ in production code. Having said that, I am retired now and can afford to be wise and circumspect. In fact I specialise in it because it is less stressful.
Back in the day though, I used to innovate wildly and put it straight out in the field because it was needed. I had a lot of confidence in what I was doing but it did mean that I had to become an expert at completely refactoring my own innovations without breaking anything - usually because I hit a design cul-de-sac tying up loose ends. Yes, you do have to roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty and have confidence in your own brilliant ideas. I still do it but I now have the luxury of only publishing what I want to when I think it is ready.
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I believe that when I stop growing, I stop living. Even breaks from direct learning can provide growth just as rest periods are when the muscles grow when weight training.
I can always find ways to grow, even in an environment where I'm working with what I know, but absolutely new things are a delight to learn, it's true.
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that's not how you become a better coder
that's how you become a better human
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In some ways I guess. I think I get a lot more mileage out of helping people, in terms of becoming a better human in the general sense.
But I guess it depends on which rubber ruler you use, and what better really involves. It's a slippery concept, for sure.
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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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done - three for me:
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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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Lucky I got all 5 letters plus one fixed so it was again a simple anagram
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None of the previous ones are playing in dark mode?!
modified 27-Apr-22 7:19am.
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I do but I prefer using a single color system for consistency, and OG and Vivi practically set the 'default' scheme for me.
EDIT: the fact that I have thought about it and had a reasoned answer is... worrisome, to some degree. You can pull the boy out of Engineering but you can't pull the Engineer out of the man.
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OK, I fixed it to help calm your OCD.
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I love about Wordle that it so frequently goes from "Huh? This must be some exotic... Oh...."
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I magically got it in two guesses (pure luck). It feels kind of let down to get it so quickly.
Brent Hoskisson
Brent
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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is:
0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!)
1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.)
2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor.
3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they?
So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key! Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely!
I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over!
Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Quote: I suppose there might be an OCR solution
Yep, Snagit does a really good job for this: https://www.techsmith.com/[^] and no, I get no money from them
Maybe they have a trial version...
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It is free for a reason⦠I hope you did not feed it the entire string!
Always send it in chunks and hold back a few chars.
Kind of like a few email domains that accept ANYTHING you send them.
Xxx@noemail.com might be one.
Free password generators, always add a few more characters.
If it is free, you are the target/product/?
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Do you have the desktop version of OneNote? The "copy text from image" option sometimes works.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yet to be posted this week.
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I thought Chris had mentioned recently that there are no new survey submissions and that is why you don't see them. I could be mistaken.
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