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I put up a clock on the wall where I have never had a clock, but always look at when I want to know the time.
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Perhaps the time machine will have worked, and you knew there will be a clock there someday.
Bit of a depressing use of a time machine if true though...
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We moved into our new house last week and I put up a clock at the top of the stairs. It's an old pendulum clock with a pleasant chime on the hour and half hour. It makes my insomnia bearable as I don't need to check the time as I lie there awake awaiting doom of impending ageing.
As with any mechanical clock of it's age, and I have three of them, it needs to be balanced and the pendulum adjusted for god time keeping. So when the clock went up I set the time and and checked the next day to see how it was going. It was five minutes fast so I adjusted the pendulum, reset the time and waited another day. Sure enough the next day it was spot on five minutes fast. So I reset it and adjusted the pendulum. This went on all week until Saturday. We were all out all day and I got home to find the clock was now 20 minutes fast!
All week long, my dear loving wife on seeing that the clock was fast had been putting it back ten minutes or so. So as I made the clock faster she adjusted it more often.
Words were exchanged and I adjusted the clock back, slowing it down this time, and yesterday and today it was fine.
I like clocks.
veni bibi saltavi
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I know what you mean - I have an old fashioned alarm clock by the bed which I wind up every night. I don't use it to wake me up (it's far too brutal from that) and I can't use it to tell the time (I use my phone for that). But I'd miss the regular tick ... tock ... tick ... tock ... if it wasn't there. Strange, but true.
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Aren't those benedictory sunset years for an alarm clock - it gets wound up regularly and doesn't have to do anything but its tick-tock, no alarm, not even having to show the exact time 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: for god time keeping
Is your new house a converted church? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Heaven knows!
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Fat numbers are personal and unique. (7)
Well, Duncan EJ was close(st) with languid - but the answer is <drum roll="">
PINGUID = PIN + GUID
The word is defined as "adj: of the nature of or resembling fat; oily or greasy" and knowing that I don't think there's any need to further explain the clue on this site!
modified 13-Nov-17 8:02am.
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Is USERIDS a word?
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It could be...  but it isn't in the dictionary yet, so nope!
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Been 3 hours so you need to post the answer now.
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Rules say 4 hours, so not til 1:00 GMT
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Old rules were 3 hours, so yeah 1pm is good.
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Nice clue. I was nowhere near it!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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IN fairness, it's a pretty obscure word! But you 'orrible lot got my last efforts too easily, so... 
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Have to agree - I was nowhere near! Nice one!
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Docker! More specifically, testing out the .NET Framework 4.7 image.
So first I had to enable Hyper-V. No problem, methinks. Riiight. After rebooting the computer, my multimonitor setup is totally trashed, thrashes, and ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) 'ed. As are my Fences icons. And there's these extra monitors suddenly showing up. 
Get that finally squared away, download the image (the instructions on the github repo are fubar'd) and launch VS2017.
Where is it? I get the VS2017 splash screen, then nothing. me, it looks like VS2017 & VS2015 are blown away. Uninstall both, reinstall both.
Same. ing. Behavior.
Just by chance, I hit Alt-Tab and I see Visual Studio is one of the running applications. Where the is it??? So I think, maybe it's on one of those weird extra monitors I saw. So I poke around, and there's this "disconnect monitor" option in the display settings. So I try that for one of the "ghost" monitors. OMFG. Suddenly VS appears.
Next, I discover the BS that is Microsoft's attempt at bringing .NET onto Docker. Oh sure, there's .NET Core (or is .NET Standard or is it .NET Creator or is it .NET Next Gen???) but no, I wanted to try the full blown .NET Framework 4.7, because that's what I write in, and I don't want any of this "Core" BS.
So there's this image. OK. Docker tells me it's downloading some 10 GIGA (yes, that's GIGA) bytes of data for the image. 
When all is said and done, my poor little 256GB SSD only has 1.4GB free (it was pretty stuffed already) but it turns out the whole Docker/Windows/.NET thing sucks up 17GB of disk space uncompressed (then again, maybe those compressed files are still lying around somewhere???)
Well, at least the stupid demo Microsoft gives you compiled.
Oh, but I forgot to tell you, you need to switch to "Windows containers" in the Docker applet. Oh, and what I really forgot to tell you was the three install attempts for Docker for Windows because I had a previous "Docker Toolbox" installation (which I did uninstall before doing anything!!!) but that left various breadcrumbs - PATH entries (I might have added those), and a ".docker" folder in the Users\Marc folder. All of which caused Docker For Windows to be "No Docker For You". Two separate SO posts resolved those issues.
So, we finally get to compiling. Fine. Then we get to running.
And We wait (at this point, it's the royal WE)
And We Wait
await Marc;
And We Wait
And it ran! There's the output of the stupid "bot" in the console window.
So, it takes something like 15 seconds on my 8 core 16GB fast machine to spin up the container, undoubtedly because I'm running a near full instance of Windows.
So I decide to try a few other things, all of which work, and finally landing on "let's write a simple HttpListener" as a container. Great, 20 lines of code later and I have something that works in Windows. Let's see if it works in the container.
Nope. Sesame Street time: One of these things (or most of these things) doesn't belong: http://localhost, http://127.0.0.1, http://0.0.0.0, http://*
The last one, http://*:5001/ seemed to help. I haven't tried localhost again. Who knows. So I go to my browser, to "localhost:5001" and...
nothing.
Hours later, I discover some interesting things. By now, after fussing with Dockerfile EXPORT and that http://*:5001, I discover that entering the container's local IP into my browser works. But that's container's local IP, which changes every time the container is fired up, for each container that is fired up, all hail Mary to the container that never rules anything.
Various posts say you can't access a container from the host. Some posts say you're not using a container correctly if you're doing this, you should use a VM instead (and indeed, I had a VM of this working with Python.) Some say other BS, but at the end of the day, they're all saying BS, but I still can't figure out the problem.
I make a post on the Docker forum. I refuse to give up. The oxygen tank is redlining, but I refuse to give up. And then I find it.
[GitHub - Kymeric/DockerProxy: Proxy localhost for Docker Windows Containers(https://github.com/Kymeric/DockerProxy)
Indeed you can't access the container through the host's localhost unless you proxy localhost:port to [containerIP:port], and that's what that little gem above does.
Sweet. Everest has been vanquished. No s where harmed in this post.
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I've been ripping old VHS tapes to digital.
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I binge-watched stranger things S2 ... or is it strangerer things? 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Definitely "strangerer".
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Tine Svete wrote: I binge-watched stranger things S2
Did that last week.
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Quote: Next, I discover the BS that is Microsoft's attempt at bringing .NET onto Docker
Fully accept I'm speaking form ignorance here, but why is it Microsoft's problem to bring .NET onto Docker? Docker is not a product I'm familiar with, but on the face of it, I'd have assumed it was Docker's problem to bring .NET onto it.
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