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Hi All,
Had an interesting weekend, to say the least. First my Dad's had his Birthday which leads to my Uncle and Aunt visiting my parents. To say there is some friction all sharp/heavy items are moved or hidden to make the area safe around them. That went OK. It's all looking up I thought, then looking through Farce Book, I have an invite from a friend (we went to school together) to his funeral! Now thats odd I think contact his brother and it turns out to be true(feeling a bit guilty for picking on him)! He died in sleep I am told. So  he is a month younger than me. I am now getting worried. I always thought I was in the ' mean time between failure ', old enough to know better, young enough no to care. 
modified 1-Oct-18 3:30am.
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Sorry to hear about your friend ... I'm all out of the friends I had in Uni now myself. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I guess MTBF is a bell curve, so there have to be those at the younger end of the spectrum. I hope the funeral goes as well as these things ever can.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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The key words are "Mean Time", there are always outliers in both directions. The question you should ask is what the standard deviation is.
Have you heard about the bathtub curve?
It's when you blend together the curves for "Infant mortality failures" with "Wearout failures".
Personally I passed from negative to positive inclination yesterday.
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Well that is true. It's just that is unsettling...
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Have you heard about the bathtub curve?
Is that a spiral? You know, when your life spirals down the drain and into the Great Reclamation Center of the universe?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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That actually makes sense. 
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There's always Soylent Green to look forward to!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
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Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Never heard of the game Day of infamy before, but as it was on offer on Steam and got positive reviews I spent a few bucks on it. It turns out to be a fantastic WWII FPS game (and that means a lot from someone spoilt by games like Battlefield).
One problem though, on my Dell gaming notebook, which is not exactly low spec, it runs hot after only minutes of playing and the fans start blazing. So be warned 
https://www.slant.co/topics/6407/viewpoints/5/~world-war-ii-games-on-steam~day-of-infamy[^]
modified 29-Sep-18 14:01pm.
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Thanks for the heads up, I was indeed looking for some FPS to kill time - and bits.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As I suspected "Day of infamy" is not on the list of NVidia supported games: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/games/
A well known title like Skyrim is, and this runs much better on my gaming notebook without generating too much heat.
The free to play "Heroes & Generals" is on the list, but sadly still generates a lot of heat 
modified 30-Sep-18 16:07pm.
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Infamy, Infamity, the Elephants have it in infamy! To quote the late Frankie Howard!
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Quote: Howard T. Duck: I've given up trying to assimilate. I've got to get back to my own kind!
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This just won't die, no matter how hard I try: people keep inventing square wheels and connecting them to t'interwebs.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: SMALT: The IoT Salt dispenser[^]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Let SMALT be the centerpiece of your dinner conversation
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Yeah that was my thought too.
Hey come look at my new Smart Salt Shaker.
Dumbass!
Or the old Ronco commercials...but wait there's more!
I had my patience tested...I'm Negative!
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Ronco renamed itself to JML, I suspect!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Do you remember the K-Tel Portable sewing machine?[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, my only thought on that at the time was what a piece of junk!
I had my patience tested...I'm Negative!
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What no Pepper?
I had my patience tested...I'm Negative!
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OH FFS! Really?
This is why we can't have nice things. EVERYTHING has to have a battery in it, be rechargeable, and WiFi connected?! It'll be on a few tables for a week and then the land fill!
What's next? A ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing pencil sharpener!?!?
Simple things should be left SIMPLE!
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I agree: I use a mortar and pestle to grind the pepper, then it goes in pinch pots on the table. Much easier to get the amount you want and no ing batteries to go flat.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: OH FFS
I've noticed this phrase here enough times that it's rubbed off on me. I actually used in on a colleague last week.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: What's next?
I've said for years that some demanding clients expect software to wipe their arse….maybe that's a remote possibility nowadays.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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This gave me a vision of a landfill full of dispensed IoT devices, a million voices crying out in harmony for connectivity. Creepy.
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