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It's a weird world when the only way to reliably get the numlock key to toggle on coming out of sleep is to have Task Manager execute a program for that event. MS - come on, you can do better!
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You have to understand, there some (backward) compatibility issue with WordPerfect 2.0 that prevent any changes! 
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It toggles on from sleep mode every time for me. No event handlers needed.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think it has something to do with the BIOS of my machine. I followed all of the registry changes I've found online, and none of them worked. The triggered custom program is the only solution I've found.  It was super annoying to start typing away, to realize I wasn't typing numbers!
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Most BIOS options have a "Num lock at startup", so you might as well check, but I don't think should have an effect on sleep, where the OS is still in control.
Mind you, it's winio, so anything is possible.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unfortunately, no BIOS option here. But I've got it working, as indicated in my rant.
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David O'Neil wrote: But I've got it working, as indicated in my rant.
It's just bloody annoying to have to use workarounds because the OS is borking up its job.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have an old laptop (ok, a netbook) with no keypad that, every once in a while, reverses the "normal" state of the NumLock key so at a password screen, I'm trying to type my password but the keyboard registers numbers.
The first couple of times it happened, I spent an awful lot of time trying and retrying, until I typed out the password in the user name field to show up in the clear. I can't recall what OS that was (some version of Linux), but it didn't have that "show password" option...
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Found it.
I don't know if you've tried this one, but it should do the trick:
Key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
Value:
2147483650
Again, though, it's winio, so it might not work if there's too much yellow in your desktop wallpaper, or somesuch.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I recall trying that when the machine updated to Win10, and again last week, after completely reinstalling. It never worked for me. There was even a method where you had to reboot, set the numlock status without logging in, shut down again, and then boot up normally. It didn't work either.
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I have the opposite problem, sort of. Since I use the numbers on the top row of the keyboard I like the keypad to be num-lock-off. I set it up in the BIOS for startup but every now and then it gets flipped (most annoying!).
Keypad numeric input makes me feel like an accountant - bah!
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To me, delivery of a Knock-Knock joke is a fine art, indeed; so much so, I practice in front of a mirror.
Problem is, I'm obstinately searching for the doorbell.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Is "rap" just a knock-knock joke put to music?
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You call rap music? 
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Please take into account the context, as in 'pun' - which demeans the topic appropriately.
One place I used to live had an FM station that proudly used as their slogan "No Rap - No Crap".
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Must've been popular with a certain demographic.
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Do developers get drunk on screenshots?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And do basketball players get screened on d(r)unkshots?
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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And do drunks screen shots?
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No. 
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I'll have to monitor them next time they have a few drinks. Apparently their vision does get pixelated a bit.
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I'll think about distill I come up with something.
Maybe:
Does SHA get hypertension from too much salting?
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I feel the need to reach for a bottle whenever someone sends me a screenshot that is actually a picture of a monitor taken with a phone, then printed, then scanned, then faxed, re-scanned, and then embedded in a Word doc and emailed.
And it's a screenshot of some plain-text message that could've been copied/pasted.
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By the end of the day I should have a rudimentary implementation of GLoRy, my GLR parser.
GLR is the most powerful parsing algorithm known. It allows you to express your grammar however you want with never any conflicts (all "conflicts" make the GLR fork its stack and try each conflicting rule)
It can process highly ambiguous grammars, including natural language!
The tables are only LALR(1) sized, and how fast it is is inversely proportional to how many times it has been forked. This is all very very good, as it leads to linear time O(n) parsing when there are no ambiguities/forks
Also this is the only GLR implementation i've seen capable of streaming. The rest force you to load the entire document into memory at once.
The upshot of that is you could feed it an entire Bible and not worry about memory.
If there is a parser generator to end all parser generators its this.
It only has one real disadvantage and that's that it's more difficult to use depending on how you're using it. Since it can return multiple parse trees for a single parse the code to use it has to be able to handle that.
Anyway, GLoRy is peak parsing. If you can't parse it with GLoRy chances are it can't be parsed. =)
So cool!
Real programmers use butterflies
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