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Taking the lappie to the beach...
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And drowning it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nope, it is taking beach to your laptop. Laptop don't usually move, environment does. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't know what a "holiday" is, but I can tell you I do neither know about a "holday" or even "holiday"... 
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Did you offend someone on your holiday?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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No, I offend people all the time.
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Don't you think you are inviting potential downvoters by publicly notifying your leisure of having holidays, thereby touching their nerve?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Well I did very littlework for more than 40 years, so I think I have earned a little time off.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: ... someone found a QA answer of mine from more than 5 years ago and downvoted it
...and that is the first thing you notice after getting back from vacation?
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No, the first thing I noticed was that there was no wine in the house.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: No, the first thing I noticed was that there was no wine in the house
Sounds better. Though of course it was a big crisis that needed your immediate attention.
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Next time when you are even thinking about taking a vacation, you will know better 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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no, that Chris punishing you for not being on CP whilst on holiday, he has cunningly trained Hamsters to identify miscreants and to automatically down votes any of their articles
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Damn, I did not think you would notice. 
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Today I learnt a new term that I wish I had known before. It can be applied to many competent and incompetent people I have come across in life:
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
Google it.
The following is all from Wikipedia:
"This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others."
Shakespeare: "The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole"
Darwin: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Confucius: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Suddenly my confidence is very shaky! 
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Old 'proverb':
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is simple; teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep; wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows is wise; follow him.
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and
a noise annoys a noisy oyster, but a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster more.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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That's quite interesting, and that makes sense also. The more we learned about something, the more conscious we are of what we still ignore; I'm not sure a limit can be put on knowledge, at least a limit reachable by contemporary human brain.
Thanks a lot 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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phil.o wrote: The more we learned about something, the more conscious we are of what we still ignore
Err...some people are conscious of that.
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I did not know that!
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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phil.o wrote: The more we learned about something, the more conscious we are of what we still ignore;
This is why I never revised for exams. It made me less confident as I started to realise how little I remembered.
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I went on a Trainer-training course twenty or more years ago, and they said the same thing. They give four stages, and training is designed to move you from one level to the next, and so on:
Unconscious incompetence: You don't know that you don't know how to do it.
Conscious incompetence: You know that you don't know how to do it.
Conscious competence: You know how to do it.
Unconscious competence: You don't have to think about how to do it.
And it's very common for someone with unconscious competence to assume that everybody else is the same, and have a lot of problems instructing people how to do it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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When I went on my teacher training course they said the same thing (although in a less simple but clear way). I was having difficulty teaching at first because I knew so well a lot of the simple stuff that the stuff I was teaching was built upon that I assumed my students (and the entire world, in fact) must know this stuff, surely? They didn't always, not all of it anyway. Once I had mastered the art of assuming my students knew nothing, my teaching slowed down quite a bit in pace - but increased massively in effectiveness.
Getting the balance right between explaining every little thing and moving forward assuming they "got it" was the key.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's a skill - and it can be taught to a greater or lesser degree.
But it's a difficult job: you're always at risk of patronising people or confusing them! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: But it's a difficult job:
It is! Well done! You're completely right on this one!
OriginalGriff wrote: you're always at risk of patronising people
Oops!
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