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I didn't raise my progeny in anything like a normal manner (surprise !).
Not scared of the dark.
Loved math. No TV limits for things like nature shows.
Were absolutely dying to learn to read by kindergarten.
And doing homework was a 'given'.
Each got their own outings, separately, on a rotating basis.
The very first tantrum, by the eldest, got the following out of me: "Let me know if you turn blue - I'd like to watch" and I moved on. Roughly, the last tantrum and the siblings seemed to pick up on it.
Worked great for 2 of 3. Third did well with everyone - until she got home.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: No TV limits for things like nature shows. Parents limiting watching nature shows don't have a clue
We had borrowed several National Geographic videos at the library, enjoying them a lot. Then we discovered in the childrens' department that NG also has a "Kids" series of nature shows. The photography was at the same level as for the "serious" movies, but overlayed with "funny" animations of comic-strip like figures with high-pitched voices pointing and laughing hysterically, and of course, lots of "joyful" music rather than the nature sounds. We were not halfway through the first one before the girl exclaimed: "Couldn't we rather find something decent, daddy?"
We did watch the NG Kids movies we had taken home, but for later, we stuck to the "decent" ones.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Third did well with everyone - until she got home.
Ah, I think I've spotted the mistake.
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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One year's supply of dates? (8)
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Correct - you are up Monday!
I thought "a nice gentle end to the week", and I liked it.
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I won ! I WON ! Yes ! Yeeeeeees ! My first CCC ever ! After all these years ! Youhouou !
I still cannot believe it. (Thanks Griff for this CCC for toddlers).
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Congratulations!
And you have the whole weekend to come up with your own ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: you have the whole weekend to come up with your own
I am sure you have one as backup, just in case...
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... to the challenge[^], not the technologies I am working with nowadays. But it does really look interesting, and the prizes are awesome. Well done, @Chris-Maunder.
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I've been on a CERN tour - incredible place. And that was long before they build the LHC - I used to have a girlfriend who worked there, so I visited regularly.
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Wow, this sounds awesome. Can you tour as a simple visitor, or are ... special bounds needed ?
/edit: Actually, if the prizes are tours, I think it probably answers my question.
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Depends on how fast you are moving. Close to c you don't even need a passport!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Close to c you don't even need a passport!
Is that the language or the universal constant?
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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Anyone who has time to whip up an app that's cross-architecture and uses oneAPI is good to go for this challenge. It doesn't need to be rocket science.
I'm going to have a go at using DevCloud and oneAPI to train some AI models we have planned for some of our nefarious schemes. Not sure if it'll work but there's some serious hardware they are letting everyone use so we're going to take advantage of it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I told my manager this morning that it's POETS day today but I only managed to get out about 20 minutes earlier. Oh well.
On the plus side, Thursday/Fridays I work from from home so I've saved an over an hours commute.
Used that time to do the lawns which gives me a couple of hours back on the weekend.
Now I'm calling its beer o'clock.
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Poets day .. that should inspire Bill.
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And what makes it [XYZ] Day? There's no presidential proclamation, there's no organization that keeps track of these and there's no official registry for it. I'm free to make up my own day (I say today's Curmudgeon Day) and it's just as valid a claim as yours.
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True, but . . .
POETS = P**s Off Early, tomorrow's Saturday.
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I've been playing around with the ESP32's deep sleep mode where it basically turns off except to monitor whatever you have it registered to "wake up" on.
It changes the coding model a lot though. Absent using flash or an SD to store data your code must be stateless, because every time you "sleep" the whole thing goes poof. It gets amnesia.
I'd like to make powerful connectable devices that work on tiny power sources like watch batteries, and this is how you do it.
The bloody things have bluetooth and wifi and yet barely use any power even without this "deep sleep" stuff. And all this is dirt cheap.
What a world we live in.
Real programmers use butterflies
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EEPROM is cheap and easily interfaced to the ESP chip.
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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Yeah you have flash built in too, but you have what, 100,000 write cycles in the thing before it quits?
They add up quick.
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honey the codewitch wrote: what, 100,000 write cycles
Yes, flash does wear out, which is why it must be managed (usually by firmware built-in the the device, sometimes by the host). The problem isn't as bad as you think - you have thousands of P/E cycles for the entire device, i.e. a 32GB device guaranteed for 3,000 P/E cycles would be able to sustain ~96TB of writes (usually abbreviated as TBW).
Assuming you write 10GB/day (probably an overestimate for IoT device state), the flash should last 9,600 days, or over 25 years.
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Fair enough.
Math is hard.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: because every time you "sleep" the whole thing goes poof. It gets amnesia. That must be some kind of quantum entanglement. Why else should it get amnesia when I go to sleep?
And now I will go to sleep.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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