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Tinker Tailor Butcher Baker
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The hand that rocks the baker
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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With nothing purer it's just gathering dust! (6, 7)
My responses may be delayed - I have to take Herself for Physioterrorisation fairly soon...
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Vacuum cleaner!
Obviously:
Nothing Vacuum
Purer Cleaner
And if there are any obscure acronyms in there, I am missing them.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So you are up Monday!
That was quicker than I expected...
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Thanks,
"gathering dust" was a pretty strong hint.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Thought that would have been good for most of the morning - good clue
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I liked it!
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So the corollary of your believing to be easy what is mind-destroyingly difficult is to believe that the bleedin' obvious is intractably tricky? Interesting!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Now that I have a new job where I get to design and program new hardware once more, I thought it would be nice to practice a little. Last night I designed a new graphics card for my old computer. One with its own CPU, plenty of memory and its own little OS to manage graphics resources. The main CPU can then run at full speed and simply uploads graphics resources and commands while the graphics CPU does all the hard work.
Last night I started on the schematic, covered my desk with data sheets, scratched my head, routed about 3/4 of the circuit board - until I noticed that it was time to get ready for work.
This is going to be one long friday...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Agreed, you even typed the subject wrong, you may as well "throw a sickie" I can't see much productivity at work for you today.
Have a good weekend!
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Thanks. Surprisingly, the opportunistic sleeping habits that you acquire during a few years of military service still seem to work after all those years. Let's see how long it will last.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The old computer is really old. We are talking about tech from the late 1970s. My little graphics card basically is a small single board computer with an IO port to talk with its host, an EPROM, a relatively fat static RAM, the graphics chip and the finest 8 bit CPU ever.
Everything is in CMOS and the clock frequency is low by today's standards, so the circuit board design is not really a challenge.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: finest 8 bit CPU ever
I can feel nostalgia welling. 8085?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: I can feel nostalgia welling.
Definitely.
Rob Philpott wrote: 8085
Nope. Intel always used an awkward CISC architecture, I was more into RISC (but did not know that at that time): RCA CDP1802[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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... and now we have the explanation for the use of "goto" : sleep deprivation.
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...and very steady hands too![^]
I had an etch-a-sketch as a kid, and couldn't draw anything particularly recognisable.
But some of these...serious amounts of skill there.
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Ah yes, I remember. All those attempts to do a simple diagonal line, carefully trying to twist both knobs at the same time and the same speed...
...only to realise one has been turned the wrong way...
It goes without saying
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...and the only way to "undo" was to turn it upside down and shake it!
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Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Esher Sketch - that's good!
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OriginalGriff wrote: serious amounts of skill there.
You have to be an artist to begin with, to really go anywhere with this type of toy/contraption/facilitator of madness/... IMHO, that is.
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Yesterday, I got a call from someone posing to be a bank call center employee. They told me that I have not taken advantage of my cash back points on the credit card and they are expiring. They would put these points as money on my card which I can spend anywhere. However, to get that money, I need to verify myself. I asked again, which bank they are from, which customer they are talking to and which card are they talking about. Hesitantly, they named a random bank I don't deal with. I put down* the phone.
Told my wife about this and she said I should have trolled them. Now I would like to get a similar call again so I can be a troll!
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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You got to just confuse them and make them doubt their own grasp of English.
stuff like "Do you have if seven tops over before screen lined the wall over bank?" Then act angry they didn't understand.
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