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I like learning things that aren't nonsense. 
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Learning those things may one day server you well.
"Just ask Alice. I think she'll know."
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I've learned enough that I wish I could unlearn that now I understand there are certain things I'd rather not learn.
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You just caused my recursive descent parser to overflow the stack. 
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"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" - Bob Seger
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 16-Nov-20 10:26am.
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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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Not trying to drag this to the gutter, but the first thing that came to mind in a like vein were a few items of internet porn (from years and years ago) that I'd love to unsee.
If I think about it, I'd probably find some more mundane examples, but, logically, I'll not try to pursue things that are best left undisturbed.
Mistakes are like that. Scars of body and mind - to teach lessons that won't go away.
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And now you just pulled a thread that got a song stuck in my head.
Battery by Aesop Rock
Well it appears the scars of learning have spoken
Some are burning, some have frozen
Some deserve tall tales, some wrote them
Some are just a brutal repercussion of devotion
Mine are all of the above cuz everything leads to erosion
By brain often thinks in music
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Well, to be fair to him, he prefaced the whole QA paradigm by proposing that a deal was already done and in place; the post is about something written in stone ... he just can't find where it's lodged itself in between which of six-pairs of wheels he has on his undercarriage.
I occasionally respond to posts by saying "I see it, it's there, and I can reach it; if you want me to pull it out for you, I will".
A style thing, right?
A bone in the throat? Really?
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In QA, I got given an error message - only it's in Korean and as an image.
So I installed a translation app, and tried it: it translated a MS error message into actual image by pointing my phone camera at the screen ...
So: OCR in one language, translate, and display in a different alphabet altogether, pretty much instantly. I'm impressed. Wish I'd had it for my french and latin lessons at school ... 
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: Wish I'd had it for my french and latin lessons at school
Then, you would have learnt neither French nor Latin. 
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So ... no real change there then? 
"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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French is on my list of languages to learn.
Right after pig-latin and bop-talk.
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When in China, 5 years ago, I was impressed with the translation program then os I'd be astonished if it had not improved even further. Point you phone at a sign in chinese, hold really still and read it in english via google.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I do not speak English well, but it's perfect for today's translation project! (Thus spoke Google Translate)
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You can install an accompanying browser feature that will automatically translate pages in foreign languages. The main thing I've noticed are lack of clarity in the pronouns he/she/it, due to the language itself, whatever it is. I have in my TODO list an app that would use the Google Translate API to prepare a set of exercises to memorize words and phrases from any web page or paragraph that you point it to.
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I'm sure most of you get it or you wouldn't be developers. We're always accruing new knowledge not just to keep up but to get ahead. I don't know about you but I'm a sponge. I sustain myself on learning things. It's such a rush to challenge myself to do something new or something better.
I went from not being able to wire up a 16-pin hitachi interface LCD to building IoT gadgets with them, all the way to doing it for money in under a month, drawing from a hobby I abandoned for programming back when I was a kid. Now I'm doing both. It's seriously challenging me.
I haven't used my brain this much in years. It's one thing to learn more in a field you're already familiar with, like when I learned parsing theory. It's another to learn a different, even if related field. That's what I'm doing now.
It's all very fun, but now I worry I'm going to get lost in it to the expense of everything else.
Can it be an addiction? I wonder.
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I am speaking for myself here...
when I was young and single, I had the "learning rush". Once I got older, got married, and had two demon spawn, my "learning rush" disappeared. Now, all that is left is trying to survive and keep what is left of my sanity.
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I'm 42 *sideeyes Douglas Adams* and I still have the learning rush. No kids though.
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I'm 67 and still have the learning itch
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I love seeing your sig flash by me in my notifications because even though I can't see all of it in the little blurb it gives me i immediately know the reference and mentally recite it in Johnny Depp's Hunter voice. (say what you will i thought the movie did HST justice)
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I prefer the book but Depp did pretty well in the film - the special effects weren't my experience ( mine were much worse ) when I dabbled in taking that stuff but hey ho. We are coming into bat season very soon...
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm 56, and still have the learning itch. The problem is that there are many more claims on my time than there were when I was young, single, and childless, so the pile is growing at the bottom faster than I can clear it at the top. 
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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I'm sorry. I am older (than I was at least) married and childless so I have less claims on my time. I suppose I'm blessed in that, but I can also only deal with so much so it's for the best.
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Wait till you're asked to build another one. It's never again like the first time; money or not. Once you figure it out, the little birdie inside says this should now be delegated and to find something new / different.
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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