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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.
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 enough.
Math is hard. 
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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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Sure, make fun of my writing.
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honey the codewitch wrote: What a world we live in.
I love living in the future!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I thought the future would be cooler.
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Obligatory xkcd: Flying Cars
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Flying Cars
How well do your various neighbours look after their cars.
Now do you want them flying over your house? 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I thought the future would be cooler.
Thats because you listened to climate scientists in the 1970s!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I have recently started using OneDrive. I am not sure how it works.
I believed the data was stored in the Cloud. Yet there seems to be a folder on my disk drive. whet's up with that?
More importantly, how secure is it? do you know?
Finally, are any of you folks using it yourselves? What do you think of it?
I been dazed and confused for so long - Zep
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As I use it, I have it installed on several machines. Each machine has a local folder with all the files stored there. there is also a cloud with all the same files in it. When you add a file on one of these machines, it is replicated to the cloud and then the to all the other machines' folders so you end up with a copy of everything everywhere.
Basically the same as DropBox.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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thank you
Tech is wonderful - when it works!
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Slow Eddie wrote: More importantly, how secure is it? do you know?
Whether it is secure enough depends on your security requirements.
Speaking for myself, definitely would not store anything whose leaking would cause me financial or legal problems. These include state secrets (stolen or otherwise  ), anything for which I had to sign an NDA, my personal (or my employer's) IP, etc.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: These include state secrets
I like how this is your first example.  Nice. Something you want to share with the group? International super spy?
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He could say.. but then he will have to kill us all! 
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It's really related to a Humus recipe. But, you're right - you would be killed.
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Humus? We should be.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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