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I’m in the same situation. One good thing we can do at my work is ease into retirement. Presently I have voluntarily moved to 4 day week, and I can at my discretion drop further days and slowly transition work to other people.
After working for nearly 50 years I would hate to go from a 5 day week to nothing all at once. Sounds good in theory but I fear in reality it wouldn’t be. Hence I see this as a training period and readjustment of my lifestyle for retirement.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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The customer is willing to do that, and has said, hey, if you ever want to come back.... which was very gratifying. I'm starting to see the benefits of sabbaticals with one looking me in the face.
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've been working for 39 years and have anxieties about dying of boredom in retirement.
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They say people live longer if you don't "retire". Doesn't mean do the same thing, but find hobbies or a different type of work to give you something to wake up for. The mind, body, and spirit are really all connected.
Jeremy Falcon
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Good luck. You will love it. Play with the grandchildren, they grow up too fast. Our youngest just finished college.
Busy? you will wonder how you ever found time to work.
I did the FIGMO on my hat many, many years ago. USAF
First retirement after 28 years as employee.
Second retirement after 6 years of traveling the country setting up networks at trade shows, contractor. Empty nest so wife went along.
Third retirement after 22 years of IT/Network consulting, programming.
Fourth retirement ? still doing some surveillance camera/system work, mostly remote.
We did take time for some cruises and such.
You need something to retire to, don't just retire from.
(sitting on the porch watching the grass grow sucks)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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"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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IP-API.com - Geolocation API[^] is a little web service to get a bunch of info about where you're at based on your IP (or an IP you give it)
I use it for my little internet clocks to fetch the timezone since they don't have GPS.
It can return values in CSV, JSON or other formats.
Arduino already has stream.readStringUntil(',') so parsing CSV seemed trivial. For quite awhile I was doing that.
On a lark, I decided to swap it out to use JSON and my little JSON pull parser for embedded.
The resulting code is actually a bit shorter than the CSV approach. And it doesn't take a lot of RAM because it's a pull parser (like XmlReader), and not a DOM
I'm leaving it in JSON
I love when stuff like that happens.
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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honey the codewitch wrote: Arduino already has stream.readStringUntil(',')
But no honoring of quotes and escapes?
modified yesterday.
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Of course it does.
I should amend that: The CSV technique did not. The JSON technique does. In this case it doesn't matter, because the data formats are all known ahead of time. It's not generalized.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified yesterday.
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Quote: In this case it doesn't matter, because the data formats are all known ahead of time. It's not generalized
That is what I thought too. I had rolled my own JSON parser because the data was in a set format. Did not think I needed a whole big JSON library. Everything was humming along nicely until I was about 110,000 reads in, then the website threw in a different format and it all went boom. The fix was easy, but what a pain. I was glad I was the only one using the code.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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JSON is a bit different than CSV though. My JSON is compliant.
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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I rolled my own JSON reader -- converting JSON to XML as it goes, because SQL Server has an XML datatype and functions.
And every once in a while I would receive a corrupt JSON file (produced by a third-party product) and I would need to deal with it. In such cases I needed to report where the error occurred.
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I derived my parser from this, ultimately: JSON[^]
Although I first converted a lot of it to regex for reasons.
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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Yep, I have referred to that many times. All I need to do is load data from JSON files into database tables. My reader scans along, tokenizing the JSON, and checking whether or not it has located an item I want to send to the database.
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Yeah I do similar. I used my Visual FA project to render some state graphs, and then used those to hand roll a lexer/tokenizer in C++. I hand rolled it because even though I have a generator for C/C++ I do some extra things while lexing. Like when I'm scanning a number it parses the number into a double and a long long both at the same time. That way I get numeric values on those fields and I don't lose precision for very long ints. Since it streams it can process very long numbers, even though it will lose precision
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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honey the codewitch wrote: parses the number into a double and a long long
Because I'm loading to SQL Server, I let the server do that as appropriate. I just send XML and extract individual values via XPath and squirt them into columns.
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