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modified 16-Sep-19 9:31am.
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I no longer object to all of these smart version of anything devices.
The people who buy them are so stupid that any help they can get, even from an air-fryer, will be welcome
That could become a new catch-phrase: so stupid he/she takes advice from an air-fryer.
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My pita father-in-law recently changed his home wifi setup after getting a new 5G gateway. There were 62 devices of which 20 or so required a manual operation for the new config. (I suggested renaming the SSID and password on the new router, but a tech from the new provider told him not to  ) This included 3 Alexa devices, 3 ring doorbell/cameras, 2 door locks, stove/range, refrigerator, thermostat, garage door opener, iPad, iPhone, Macbook Pro, Surface Pro, toaster, smart things hub, and a couple of TVs...there's some I'm forgetting but you get the idea.
BTW, that new gateway was providing some really impressive throughput numbers: 430Mbps down and 140Mbps up.  (and that was hitting a tower 100 miles away) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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And I'm so excited because I have so much work to do and nothing says procrastination better than watching Tim Cook breathlessly talk about power chargers or the new shade of chartreuse for their phone cases.
Ah, technology.
Update: So the iPad Pro is to be the replacement for the Macbook. No one's come out and said it, but with the M1 chip, 2Tb storage, 16Gb RAM, thunderbolt over USB-C: it's a touch-enabled Macbook.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 2hrs 5mins ago.
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If that's all that clowns like this talked about, listening to their blather wouldn't be half as bad.
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Help, my mother wants an iPhone to use WhatsApp
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MMmmmmm, purple... 
TTFN - Kent
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I like the colors, maybe not for me, but I find them to be nice.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Chris Maunder wrote: iPad Pro is to be the replacement for the Macbook
Is that an oversized tablet or an undersized PC?
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If you inform to the police about dumb criminals, are you likely to need a witless relocation program?
"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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So witty I nearly felon the floor! Barring any objections I only need worry when this sentence ends.
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I have about 500 lines of C++ code devoted to representing and manipulating them. It's rectangles everywhere.
I blt a bitmap - source rectangle for copy window, destination rectangle for destination blt position and size, plus flipped if the rect is flipped, clipping rectangle for clipping the output to a window, and an offset rectangle for correcting for partially "offscreen" blts.
It's rectangles all the way down. Overlapping, containing, rotating, intersecting, confusing rectangles. 
I'm going to need a lot more coffee.
Ode to two humble points
That leave my mind all disjoint
Apparently simplicity's a sin
Where do I even begin?
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's rectangles all the way down
You should be using Turtle (logo programing language)[^] ... 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some years ago I read that there was a patent on saving the portion of a display that was being overwritten, so that it could be restored without regenerating it. Some folks just need a good caning.
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I'm fine with copyrighting software but I think software patents were a mistake.
Real programmers use butterflies
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At least you are not dealing with circles. They are pointless.
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Thank you. It was a goofy joke but it's just what I needed right now. Thank you for the smile.
Real programmers use butterflies
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How many sides does a circle have?
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I have no idea, but I suppose a case could be made for any of the three good numbers: 0, 1, or ∞.
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Behold - they shall swarm in vast numbers[^]. But, all in all, just enjoy the show.
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Wow, 17 years underground!? Kind of cool, I think.
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So ... seventeen years in the dark, and then they come out for sex?
They are developers, aren't they?
"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: They are developers, aren't they?
Only the addicted to coding kind, I would imagine. 
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