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There's this thing called an ESP8266 and it is a little wifi adapter that is exposed over a 2 wire serial interface basically and you communicate with it using AT commands like those old Hayes modems.
It's meant for wiring into Arduinos and some Arduinos come with one built in. The Arduino processors are little 16mhz 8 bit monsters and aren't so good at running a TCP/IP stack and all that, so these little ESP8266 widgets have a built in Tensilica processor running at like 3 times the speed of the Arduino, and the firmware for it is flashable!
So you can gut the AT firmware and flash say Micropython on it. Hello little tiny python machine.
So now I have 3 of these gadgets but only enough parts to deal with the onboard one I have. The others need their own power supply and I don't want to deal with it.
I really shouldn't brick this board since its earmarked for another project for my in-laws but I am curious and don't want to wait for the mail.
I did manage to bring this chip back from the dead once already after nuking the onboard firmware but I'm not entirely sure I could repeat it.
This seems like a perfect time for doing something foolhardy. 
ETA: Micropython is neat, and I say that as someone who doesn't even like python.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 1-Nov-20 14:54pm.
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Brick or Treat!
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YES PLZ!
OMG now I have to mess with these things.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I did not try it myself, but maybe you will find this thingy interesting: nanopi-neo3[^]
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That's adorable! I was hoping for something with digital and analog I/O pins I could tap, and then I found the pyboard which is similar to what you linked to but more geared for industrial microcontroller applications. That one was a little much for me. I think a hacked $15 arduino mega 2560+WiFi with the wifi bit cannibalized for micropython instead would serve me fine. pyboards are like $50. Still cheap, but I kinda want bragging rights of hacking it into an arduino, even if the end result is a slower machine.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Forget all else within your post - perhaps all your posts, ever, and all of ours, as well. This, piece of wisdom - guidance and surety of purpose is far beyond even priceless:
honey the codewitch wrote: This seems like a perfect time for doing something foolhardy.
Indeed, my gratitude is beyond all frail human attempts at expression, for now I may boldly set forth upon any task or trial with the sure knowledge that a path forward is always at hand!
Excelsior!
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I use a UWP DatePicker control in my UWP app to get a birth date.
I named my control UxDate.
DatePicker has a .Date property which is a "DateTimeOffset".
But since I want a DateTime, I can call .DateTime on .Date which will return a DateTime.
Since I don't care about the time portion, I then use just .Date on DateTime to get just the date portion.
So, once the user selects a date with the DatePicker, I can retrieve it so:
details.BirthDate = this.UxDate.Date.DateTime.Date;
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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You could use one of the programming forum 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Sorry if you think this is a "programming question".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I need a date too
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You're already past your "sell by" date, just like me! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Holy Hallowienerschnitzel !
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Thank you.
In general, I lack a sense of humor, but once in a while I find something amusing and feel the need to share. I agonized about posting in the "Lounge" (of a "programming web site"), but since I wasn't able to come up with a comparable "computer cartoon", I though I would risk it. Some people are better with words than pictures, obviously.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Next time you might consider posting it in: The Weird and The Wonderful[^] 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm not saying you're old or anything but...
You are dating yourself...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Oh, you mean like with "birth date"? .... 
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: this.UxDate.Date.DateTime.Date;
Without context, it would be fun review comment once they see this code.
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Exactly! You got it too.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Actually, leaves do make great fertilizer, even for lawns, provided that they're not lying too thickly.
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The DateTimeOffset already exposes the Date property:
DateTimeOffset.Date Property (System) | Microsoft Docs[^]
So your code should be:
details.BirthDate = this.UxDate.Date.Date; There, that's much better!
"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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Like most people lately (I suspect) I've been using Amazon and FleaBay more than usual simply because I can get the bits I want reasonably quickly, and don't have to meet infected people ...
And I've noticed that since the start of the pandemic, their backend systems have been getting worse and worse - most of the time now I get a "we're going to deliver your order today!" email about 6 or 8 hours after the goods arrived on my doorstep. You can sort of understand this, volume is way up, and systems are getting clogged.
And that means one of two things:
1) AWS doesn't expand automatically / gracefully to meet need / volume levels
Or
2) Amazon don't use their own cloud offering.
Neither of these exactly fills me with desire to use AWS: either it doesn't actually do what they say, it costs way too much to expand it to fit the need, or they don't trust it enough to use it ...
Anyone here from Amazon and have an idea which it is?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1) AWS doesn't expand automatically / gracefully to meet need / volume levels
Or
2) Amazon don't use their own cloud offering.
Both...
(I suspect that if we have here an Amazon employee we will not know it  )
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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OriginalGriff wrote: since the start of the pandemic, their backend systems have been getting worse and worse
Yes, I've been suffering with that as well. 
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This was in regards to informing me of a looming presentation for several islands in the middle of the Pacific which I'm not looking forward to. 
I don't have the time or inclination to argue so I agree to...whatever it was 
and get back to...whatever it was I was doing before being interrupted my numerous phone calls since I started this message over 2 hours ago! Sorry, rant over! 