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For days I have been looking for my passport and car papers, turned the whole house upside down, emptied the garbage bins, called colleagues at work if they found something etc.
Today we did search everything again and surprise, the papers were still in my laptop bag.
I had put them in a different compartiment than usual ...
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I have the same problem: I can find anything I put down, provided it hasn't been moved ... and provided I haven't "Put it somewhere safe so I won't lose it" ... 
"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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I chalk all of this and more up to getting older and the gradual decline of mental cognition and memory. If you add stress to this as well, it makes it much worse.
I write notes to remind myself to do things, only to forget where I put my notes, or to forget that I wrote a note to remind myself to do something. 
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This is why Google Calendar knows so much about 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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On the positive side: I only need one movie.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Here's hoping it's a good one!
"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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Alas, I don't remember.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Did you find my driving licence in there by any chance?
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If you think about it, things are always in the last place you look. Maybe you should have looked there first.
I am very fortunate that my head is permanently attached.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Well we looked about 10 times in the laptop bag but just overlooked it.
Good idea about attaching the head!
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All I can say is: ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I once spent half an hour looking for my glasses. Finally found them when I had an itch on my nose. 
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Lost my credit card ... for a year ... in a shirt pocket.
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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A comment by an American commentator got me thinking about this. Basically, he said that there is a tacit understanding between the Russian government and the Russian hackers that so long as Russians aren't affected, they will not be targeted. Now it seems to me that the way that a hacker virus would avoid a Russian computer is to look to see if the Russian keyboard is installed (it doesn't actually have to be used, just installed). Ergo, all American companies & individuals would have to do is to have the Russian keyboard installed, since the virus will first look in the Registry to see that it is there before proceeding with its payload.
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Nah, those viruses check the DNA of the computer user through the keyboard, it is well known that the ENTER key is longer because it includes the wireless DNA test probes and devices.
You are doomed if your DNA doesn't show you eat blinis at least one a week.
Of course, having a picture of Vladimir Putin in bikini riding a bear in the web cam vision range has been also proved to avoid any cyber attack. This method is much better as it avoids the problem of not liking eating blinis.
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Would it count if I have web history of checking out the dyevs at rt.com?
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Joan M wrote: You are doomed if your DNA doesn't show you eat blinis at least one a week.
Not good enough. The left shift key detects the presence of vodka (Stolichnaya, not the Western rubbish ) in your bloodstream. If it goes too low, your computer is toast. 
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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Best to just unplug everything.
Went for car oil change Tuesday. I was only one in waiting area reading a real book. About a dozen others on phones and computers using open WiFi. What could possibly go wrong?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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This has happened to me too. The only one in a waiting area reading a real book!
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Yeah, I purposely don't use mine when I'm out waiting or eating. I love being a rebel and going against the grain. A bonus is you can watch people and they haven't a clue.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Same for me at doctor / hospital lately... even the roommates... noone has a real paper book.
All with phones or even tablets.
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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servers aren't likely to have keyboards. so it's probably just doing setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL) to get the system locale.
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swampwiz wrote: there is a tacit understanding between the Russian government and the Russian hackers that so long as Russians aren't affected, they will not be targeted get their salary.
FTFY.
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I thought "hey, I don't have a solid design on the generic interface for my video displays because I haven't a clue what all the differences between them are, so I'll write two or three, and then flesh out my general/abstract design based on those, and then backport/refactor the two or three drivers to use the new generalized design"
It seemed like a solid plan. Solid enough that faced with a similar, or even the same problem, I'd still consider this approach.
But whoa... I've quickly turned things into spaghetti and had to untangle the mess and try again.
Now I'm at the point where the coding is like a protracted game of chess. I make a move, take a break, go think about something else. Come back, make another move, go do something else for half the day.
At this rate, it will take me a week to refactor. Part of it is because generic programming doesn't always lend itself to refactoring very easily. There are a million reasons for this, some of which I'm (re)discovering.
I still will use GP. But ZOMG what a mess I made. It's bad enough that I want to blame it on someone else. 
I think maybe when I'm done I'll write an article about some of the ways GP can bite you.
Real programmers use butterflies
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