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Politics adjacent (for which I whole-heartedly apologize  )
I think today may be the first (and possibly last) time that C# was mentioned during Senate testimony:
Transcript from C-Span (errors theirs):
Quote: ...and the election management system is coated with a programming language called c sharp there is no permission to bracket zero bracket is a placeholder for a parameter. so it may be that it just isn't good coding, but that certainly doesn't mean that somebody tried to get in there and zeroed.
And bonus marks (IMO) for him trying to explain 'log files' to people that probably think that's how you get saw dust.
TTFN - Kent
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Talking of elections:
The leader of a newly independent African nation was on a State visit to Beijing.
Over the State dinner, he told the Chairman (of the Chinese Communist Party) how in his country, they held an election with secret ballots and one-person-one-vote for all the eligible voters and that is how he became the leader of the country.
After about 5 minutes of this, he realized that he was doing all the talking.
Embarrassed, he asked the Chairman how often they have elections in China.
The Chairman replied, "Evely night".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: so it may be that it just isn't good coding
That Senator gets a 5! 
(This is based on my experience, actually language agnostic, that good coding is a rare commodity.)
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Ah, but that's the Sci/Tech awards - the geek kids night. Still waiting for Tom Cruise to break out some VB code 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: om Cruise to break out some VB code
Wait isn't that what Mission Impossible franchise is all about?
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It is kind of a VB of action movies. Nice analogy. 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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So we got there in plenty of time, and then waited - and ate lunch - in the car rather than enter early. Only to find the main entrance was shut because they are moving Covid patients around, so you have to enter via the old main entrance. Took extra time, but we got Brownie points for getting there right on time for the appointment.
And the first thing they did was send her for another test - A Lung Function. Which meant crossing the Main entrance as the only access to the Lung Function test equipment is via that.
So Security had a quick word, the patient transfer was suspended for ten minutes, a "clean path" was decontaminated through the affected area, and we were escorted through that and two sets of locked doors ...
Tests done, and we reversed our steps with another path being cleaned and back to the specialist.*
They are taking this seriously - even the elevators they were using were locked down, and have to be deep cleaned before returning them to "normal use".
* It's not cancer, it's not a fungal infection, it's a Long Covid effect that they are going to try treating with lots of steroids and a good amount of hope / guesswork. Looks like the weekly O2 deliveries will be continuing for a while.
"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
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I'm aware it is repeating what I post below, but what other can I do to wish you both especally to Michelle all the best.
That's why one tmie more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiXNIjGX1hY[^]
*sad* Bruno
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Best whishes
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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Hope she get well soon. Wishes!
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Hopefully. It adds 9 pills to her morning pill loadout, and I've got to watch for side effects (depression / euphoria, Diabetes, Osteoporosis , ...) so I've ordered a blood glucose tester and we'll both stab ourselves in the name of science (so we have baseline to tell if she is increasing or decreasing given we both eat the same food at the same time, pretty much).
This thing just doesn't stop ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hopefully.
 
OriginalGriff wrote: we'll both stab ourselves
That's clever.
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Good luck and best wishes.
But I do have to ask - why all the precautions for someone who has already had it?
If the answer is you can get it again - then the question becomes - How will a vaccine work? - since it is based on the bodies reaction to curing itself from the disease in the first place? 
( I will duck and cover now...  )
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Having had it should mean that you can't get it again - not that you can't come in contact with it and become infectious for some period (just like you have a infectious-but-no-symptoms period).
And this isn't something I want to start spreading to anyone, even antivaxxers don't deserve that ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I disagree. Regardless, how many of them do you think will take the vaccine?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That was my spine reaction as well. But you can't blame anyone for being cautious, and after thinking about it I came to the conclusion that I would probably do the same.
Reason being, while most people get long lasting immunity after an infection, this is not the case for everyone. So after having had it badly, would you really want to take a chance on that?
DRHuff wrote: If the answer is you can get it again - then the question becomes - How will a vaccine work?
Most probably better actually, that's why they give you two shots 21 days apart, to make sure your immune system remembers the virus.
The only reasonable safety is achieved when enough people are vaccinated and the virus goes endemic.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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wishing you and your wife the best, and to better health soon.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's not cancer, it's not a fungal infection
Well, there's a little bit of good news along with the bad. I hope your wife makes a full recovery from this.
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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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Bon rétablissement, Michelle ! Take care !
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I'm reading the book, Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way, (No Starch Press)[^].
It's perfect for my level of mathiness. And it actually is a fun book so far. Good book for thinking different.
Anyways, at the end of chapter 3 there is a quiz with a question:
quiz What is the probability of rolling a 20 three times in a row on a 20-sided die?
As you probably already know this is
P(X) and P(X) and P(X) -- each die roll is a mutually exclusive events
1/20 * 1/20 * 1/20 = (.05 * .05 * .05) = 0.000125
Flip it upside down 1 - 0.000125 = 0.999875 (99.9875% chance you won't succeed).
Turn that into a fraction and you get: 1/8000
Here's the Q
Does that mean, on average you would have to try 3 rolls of a 20-sided die 8,000 times (24,000 die rolls) before you would achieve this feat?
With odds like that, I can probably beat The House in Vegas. 
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raddevus wrote: What is the probability of rolling a 20 three times in a row on a 20-sided die?
Zero on a sensible die: the faces will be numbered 0 to 19 inclusive.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Zero on a sensible die: the faces will be numbered 0 to 19 inclusive.
Your Devish is showing. Better hurry, cover it up.
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Take this[^] and roll a save against reality. And no, it's not from the popular VB roleplaying game where normal users pretend to be smart code monkeys.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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