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 you got in a minute before I did
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(A) you don't .. you go to all the fish & chip shops (aka 'chippies') in the district and remove all their old oil for them (and either filter it or use a bio-chem process and convert it to diesel)
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makes your exhaust smell like chips! 
Real programmers use butterflies
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I didn't have to bang anything, pry anything, break anything or swear at anything. Even the trim fasteners were reusable.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Wow. That's like the opposite experience I had with my mercedes.
Real programmers use butterflies
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(It was the reusable trim fasteners that blew me away).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The trim fasteners on my mercs have all been reusable as well - I fitted reversing cameras and dashcams and I hate visible trailing wires.
Some of them benefit from a special tool to "pull the centre" but my trim kit includes a plastic one which just about does it without damaging things.
"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 know that I am not PC on this. Nevertheless: I see a significant agile problem here.
Before agile, we made thorough analyses of needed functionality. We structured it out in well designed functional modules, maybe implemented in the core, maybe specified as something to come as a future extension.
Today, we code and compile "int main(int argc, char** argv) {return 0;}" before even asking what the problem is. Only after that: "Let's take it from here! What was your problem, again?"
Lots of the Internet protocols are mislabeled: They are called Simple this-and-that. They should be labeled Too simple this-and-that! SMTP is a nightmare example of that. The number of functional warts grown on SMTP can give anyone shivers.
But with "agile" as the modern gospel, "solutions" like SMTP has come out as an ideal - as an architectural and functional mess, but created according to agile ideals: Whenever some need arises, let's grow another wart to fix it!
Contrary to common belief, 'agile' is in fundamental conflict with KISS, in the long term. Because KISS requires you to consider from an eagle perspective what you need. Growing agile warts, whether you do it at the implementation level or at the standard definition level, is for all practical purposes impossible to realize within an agile framework.
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I get what you mean, but you should see this thing. It's more than future proofed, it's gold plated.
It looks like a bad case of design by committee plus massive scope creep.
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From what little I read, it does seem complicated. I can see studio players, composers, and audio engineers grooving on a lot of the capabilities. I'm curious as to how much influence actual performance musicians have in this situation.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is a dyslexic Pope a Cataholic?
"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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And does he worry about the existence of Dog?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Of course not. He was CATaholic! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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I thought the pope was always catatonic
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Yes, and inlaffable!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I suppose that's why they chose spell the spelling for their a lady clergy NUN - just to avoid mistakes (I won't make a habit of this).
Probably also why Catholics gave up on ritual circumcision . . . remove the "wrong" part became a problem. And leads directly to:
Celibacy is NOT a cause celebre - at least if you end up taking part in it.
( and don't tell me about singing popes and CATstrati).
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Most recently, I spoke to my banking provider. I needed his help in changing the card limit. The chatbot helped me a lot, but it blocked my card at the end of the conversation. I think it happened because it didn't recognize my command. But it turns out that instead of helping, I unblocked the card for another 20 minutes. So I began to think about how long it will be released software with bugs that are not tested beforehand. And I also wondered if AI could change the financial sector for the better?
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William.Front-end wrote: And I also wondered if AI could change the financial sector for the better?
Given the class of idiot that runs much of the banking sector these days ...
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Banks exist for one purpose: to prevent people having any access to their own money, and where this cannot be prevented by legal means delaying such access as long as physically possible.
Once you understand all the ramifications of this, much of what they do - including apparent bugs in the software - begins to make sense.
The application of artificial intelligence - indeed any intelligence at all - to the financial sector would interrupt the flow of old boys networking, insider trading, and embezzlement that is the mainstay of the whole system and will thus be managed to be as ineffective as possible.
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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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You give them too much credit.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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first off wow. and I thought I was cynical.
I knew you were cynical. All geeks are to a certain extent after a certain amount of experience. But my hat is off to you. <grin>
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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When it comes time to renew your mortgage, the banks will give you 12 repayment options; only a few of which make economic sense relative to the others.
They leave it up to you to pick the wrong one for you, but better for them.
They also have a whole bunch of weasel words (from a 3rd party) to make you think you need "credit card balance" insurance and makes it sound "free".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I made a payment from my bank to pay off my credit card bill for the month. I then wanted to use that credit card a day or so later but it was rejected - lack of available credit. I called them about it and they said it can take up to 10 "business days" to clear the payment. Why? They knew about the payment pretty much instantly as they showed the "balance" reduced - but it took 10 more days for the "available credit" to increase because the sending bank had to confirm that they had sent the money and this can take up to 10 of those pesky business days (two weeks in other words).
At this point I became speechless because my developer brain could not cope, so I hung up and used a different card for my shopping. Luckily I have two cards and can alternate between using them and paying them off. How do people with only one card manage?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A good reason to use a credit union instead.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Actually it was a Credit Union - when I made payments from my regular bank they cleared in a day (still too slow since the actual behind the scenes transactions are near instant when TPF systems communicate).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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