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#realJSOP wrote: Forum:The Lounge
... how enjoyable desktop app development is.
My current ratio of desktop/web development is about 50/50 trending toward more web development. IMHO desktop is just easier/quicker for a POC for a lot of reasons...no back button, session state, richer controls are a few that come to mind.
I can't say I prefer one or the other, but for a POC or testing, it sure is quicker to design/test/debug a desktop app. I can't tell you how many minutes a day I wait for the VS IIS Express to spin up just to test a minor edit ...enough that I got a bigger hammer (new system with more of everything) waiting in the wings. Another weekend and I'll make the move.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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It has another meaning - which I can't refer to without making it a spoiler!
"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 those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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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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today when i tried to use firefox with my default page set to be https://ighome
it takes one to a block by Norton
BLOCKED BY
Malicious Website Blocked
You attempted to access
https://militantwitnessfelon.com/15874427e93bdcd82b28ba6919bed2ec/invoke.js
This webpage is a known malicious webpage. It is highly recommended that you do NOT visit this page.
it might be just be my problem or error. It seems to effect both my desktops which are not directly connected to each other. Work in progress.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Seems to be fine now. At least w3m and dillo both render pages that seem harmless enough. Maybe Norton has a false positive, or maybe whatever damage was done has been repaired. Or maybe the "dumb" browsers aren't affected?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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As of NOW 3/25/2024 10:30 AM AZ time
My Firefox using Chrome Tells me it is a Security Risk
Same story with the Duck & GO
https://ighome
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Working at fire control yesterday, a colleague lost his car key. One of those fancy proximity unlock, push button start beasties.
He could get in the car and start it but spent the best part of an hour searching for the key on his person, in and around the car.
So he called for help.
Step 1. get in the car and drive it 20m or so to another parking spot.
Still works, so not on the ground where he first parked.
Step 2. get out of the car and walk away, let me try to start it.
No dice, so not in the car. Must be on his person.
Step 3. go to the bathroom and strip.
Aha! internal fob pocket in his sweat pants that he didn't know about.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have the push button start in my 2018... doing some errands, walked out, got in the car, off I went. Finished my supply run at Lowes, got back in the car, it started... did another pass at another store... on the way back to the car, I noticed I did not have my keys. You know what I mean - you just know the keys are in this pocket, wallet is on this side, etc.
Spent 30 minutes going over my steps in the store... got back to the car... it started, okay wtf? Turned out the keys had fallen out of my pocket and under the driver's seat. It's a wonder I've not had the car stolen.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My 2017 Chevrolet Colorado is so base, you have to use the key to unlock the doors. No fob, but then also no cruise control (the one thing I miss).
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Iβm begging you for the benefit of everyone, donβt be STUPID.
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I hear you. Going to college, one of our friends had a 70s something like this: Redirect Notice[^]
Trivial to keep it running, basic engine. You did have to do the rotor and points every 5k miles. As compared to my daughter's 2017 Tahoe that has thrown a lifter. Now the engine does have 230k miles on it, but it has one of those efficiency modes that shuts down 1/2 the engine to get better mileage. I shudder at the added complexity of modern cars.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My friend Tim bought a car with keyless start and all was fine until one day Eryl had to drive it - and stalled it at the lights about two miles away. It wouldn't start, just dead. Where was the key? In Tim's trouser pocket ...
"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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Or dropping someone at the train station...
The first keyless we had in the fire district fleet, a newbie stalled on the roundabout into town.
She had to radio in to get instructions about how to start it.
It was a manual, needed to be in neutral as well as foot on brake.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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IIRC, when the Top Gear team were playing with supercars James May lost the key to his Mclaren somewhere inside the car and couldn't find - or lock - the car so anybody who wanted to could have just driven off with it ...
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Would this be called a strip search?
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I have a keyless Renault Clio, but, a few years ago, my wife had a Honda CRV which required a key. Many times I was driving the Honda and parked up to go in a shop and came back to find I'd forgotten to lock it!
My car just locks when I walk away!
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We've seen the reports of the global problem with plastic waste management or lack of management. Plastics come in a whole range of types identified by the little recycling triangle with the number inside. We can only handle a few the the types in recycling processes that chop up or pelletize the specific type of plastic for reuse in building materials or the rare case where they can actually be melted down and reused. But separating the plastics by the numeric type is nearly impossible.
Since all plastics (regardless of type) are simply carbon chains, why not handle their recycling as we do other materials that have long carbon chains (thinking of oil here). We distill oil products from randomized hydrocarbon chains by refining the oil in a heat process that breaks the chains into smaller more uniform ones. The specific weights of the chains naturally cause the chains to accumulate and allow for the refinery to draw them off into useful homogeneous groups. (The process is anaerobic because you know heat and hydrocarbons equals balls of fire). So there is a lot of knowledge about refining oil. What if that was applied to plastics.
It turns out that a heat of around 600C to 700C will break the plastic hydrocarbon chains back into the monomers that are useful in all plastic formulations. We have a lot of closed or unused refineries in the US. Why not revive one and build a generalized plastic refinery where we could simply dump any grade of plastic into the stack, cook it and draw off the useful monomers?
Cost is one.
It would be costly to revive an abandoned refinery.
Reliable heat source.
Gas would be one source but a polluting one.
One of the new class of small Thorium reactors that the Japanese are working on would be another. The reactor runs at about 1800C to 2000C and generates super heated steam for power generation. The waste heat after generation is still at about 800C so perfect for use in the refinery stack. (Japanese want to use the waste heat to generate cheap Hydrogen gas for use in electric vehicles)
Contamination of the monomers.
There is a lot of junk that is bonded to the plastics that can survive the heating cycle. This needs to be segregated and either removed or shunted to another process to remove the specific contamination. There are several universities that are researching catalysts to remove contaminants from plastic production but research funds are tight, so progress is very slow.
The contamination issue needs to be addressed since this is a major stopping point. Using oil is just cheaper because it is contamination free.
Political issues.
The currently entrenched plastic producers would complain that they are being unfairly competed against by a government funded enterprise.
We have the technology.
We have smart people to work out the kinks.
But do we have the will power to do a hard thing?
I hate to say this, "But government funded research and development is the only method of getting this done. No business would ever risk the losses to try it, even if it meant that we were polluting ourselves to death."
Just a thought for today.
Make it a good one!
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