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I verb nouns all the time, works great in Dutch too
In fact, I'd say it's even better in Dutch.
For example, a verb (as a noun) is "werkwoord", but "to verb" translates to something (non-existing) like "verwerkwoorden" and I love that
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I turn nouns into adjectives quite often, like I'll tell my husband "the food is foody" to indicate that the food I just cooked is ready to eat.
I'm not sure how well it works for normal people, but we understand each other.
Real programmers use butterflies
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That works well too! The code is code-y, the butterfly is butterfly-y, etc.
Back in University I went to watch a friend's band, and her boyfriend was in the band and he was talking to the audience and wanted to announce the next song.
"Are we all having fun!? Alright, we're going to play our next song so get ready for some epic... Ehhh... Epic!"
Or in Dutch "epische epiek!" (the epic is epic).
Never forgot that and still love it
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It can be used jokingly if the verb form exists, but with a completely different meaning. In this covid age with home offices: If you have a webcam, you are recommended to pant before joining an online meeting. (Anlogous to "you are recommended to dress".)
Or you could tell that you were caring to work today (not bussing). In spoken language, you could tell that you were meating for supper (that one won't work in written form). And then the classical ambiguous one: Behind every paradox lies a Cretan.
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An entire blog of loveable malcontents from the isles has just decided I should be the new queen* of England, and I'm not even british!
Fun times.
On with the petitions. I expect her present majesty shall be very displeased.
*perhaps they mean drag tho.
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Be careful what you wish for.
You will no longer have time to write software. You will be meeting and greeting sweaty, mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry, with their cloth caps and cardigans...
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The minions can help you reach your goal: YouTube[^]
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Pictures and/or link or it didn't happen!
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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You'd have to brave Going Postal. I don't recommend it. To be honest their politics are toxic, but I don't mind because I live thousands of miles away.
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honey the codewitch wrote: To be honest their politics are toxic
Unlike the USA, where collegiality and bipartisanship rule the day.
To be honest, I can't think of a single country these days where politics aren't toxic. All too literally in the case of dictatorships.
honey the codewitch wrote: I don't mind because I live thousands of miles away.
So you intend to be the Queen Over the Water.
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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Fair you should bring that up, I hadn't actually thought it through that far.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Surely you must be joking.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Roger, Roger! What's our vector, Victor?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I run a tech shop
I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two.
If yours is running - good, count your lucky stars.
If it's not, it's because it sucks.
I remember XP's setup R (For repair mode) that mickeysoft thought good to
do away with when they lost their way and gave us Vista. It could bring a thrashed XP
computer back from the edge all by itself.
It's gotten so bad that in many cases even Reset and wipe the drive will fail.
Forget system restore, M.S. forgot how to do it.
Not only does ms not seem to know what they're doing today, I honestly think they outright hate
the innocent people who know no bytes and have to use it by default and expect some level of respect from that company.
They ask me why? As if I know. Why the automatic corrupdates? why this, why that.
Remember, they dumped windows 8.0 on an unsuspecting world who were using 7 for oh, point of sale
where is is super critical that that "cash register" works today like it did yesterday and doesn't have to "Get Ready".
I run Windows 7 lustfully and will take it to my grave.
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I have to say that I run Win10 on two devices now (Desktop and Surface) and while I still think it's ugly, it's been damned reliable. It's even survived a motherboard and processor upgrade without a re-install.
So I haven't needed reset and wipe - and if I did, I'd use my AOMEI backups, and it'd be fine (I check, from time to time)
It's finally losing Fisher Price Mode, and returning to being a desktop / lappie OS instead of being mobile focused.
It's not bad, both from a user experience and as a dev.
Just to add a little balance to the discussion.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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There's an idea. I've been thinking of what primary OS to use on my machine i plan on building.
I need win10 but i want to run it in a VM anyway.
And linux (my current primary) OS, is giving me as many problems as Win10 these days, including updates that cause boots to fail.
Win7 is solid. I might just have to fire it up again and resurrect it as my primary OS to manage my virtual machines.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I need win10 but i want to run it in a VM anyway. IMHO, Win 10 isn't a good candidate to run in a VM. I tried doing that on my Win7 box (3GHz 8-core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB fast-write SSD with lots of space) and it barely crawled. Had no problems running XP, Win7 and MacOS in a VM. Ironically, I'm about to upgrade to (actually do a fresh install of) Win10 in a few days. Wish me luck.
/ravi
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I wonder why. This machine is running in a win10 VM with only 5GB allocated to it, and an HDD. It's fine.
Good luck.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: IMHO, Win 10 isn't a good candidate to run in a VM.
Give it the resources it needs, and it'll be fine. Also...I'd try an OS that's newer than 7 to host a Win10 VM. I'd bet this is where your poor performance experience is coming from. Newer versions of Hyper-V do a far better job than...well, I honestly have no idea what you're using on 7. Clearly it won't be Hyper-V, so I can't bring much more to that particular aspect of the discussion.
I came across a decent article (podcast discussion?) a while back and whoever was involved made a good point, and I totally believe it:
MS has gotten rid of most of its QA people years ago, and most of the internal testing nowadays is done on VMs. Beyond this, they rely on the Windows Insiders program for additional feedback.
So Windows 10 works well on VMs, the virtualized drivers are well-known and tested. Personally I never have any driver or hardware-related problem with Windows 10 on VMs. But the instant you throw it on "real" or strange hardware--anything that deviates from the predictable behavior of a VM - then you're more at risk of finding something that wasn't tested, or at least tested as thoroughly.
To me that makes sense - we all keep hearing about people running into all sorts of horrible problems with upgrades, and it seems that the consensus is that they're getting worse over time, not better. Not a single month/Patch Tuesday ever goes by without having about some percentage of people running into issues. Yet the vast majority of my Windows 10 VMs ever have any problem with updates.
So IMNSHO, saying Win10 isn't a good candidate for a VM...at least on Hyper-V...I just can't agree with that. It'd make the argument it might better as a VM than on real hardware for the reasons stated above.
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dandy72 wrote: I'd try an OS that's newer than 7 to host a Win10 VM. I'd bet this is where your poor performance experience is coming from.
/ravi
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honey the codewitch wrote: And linux (my current primary) OS, is giving me as many problems as Win10 these days That's what is kind of giving weight pondering if I switch or not.
But... for my relatives... no way, at least not for a while until I have done all my tests with linux and found something that they can live with.
For the moment I think I will buy a couple of those cheap win10 professional licenses and do a fresh install in their machines, then deactivate all auto crap that I can find and do it manually a couple of months later when things settle down and enough people have beta tested it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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