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OriginalGriff wrote: and @Nagy-Vilmos
You won't find the answers there.
Of course he won't; the contents of that bottle are not gin. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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1) Because it means you are getting old.
2) Because suddenly you can see better...
The second of those may not seem like a problem - but when did you last have a good look at your keyboard?
New varifocals mean that for the first time in years I looked at what I spend a lot of time touching. Bad idea. Filthy - and I don't eat at my desk for just that reason...
So. Unplug it, out with the stiff paintbrush. Then that leads to the the rubber gloves. then the Screwdriver. Disinfectant. Needle nose pliers. Wire brush. Biohazard yellow disposal bags. Bleach.
I'm amazed I didn't infect you all with something really nasty just by typing on it... 
All cleaned now. All working. Whole spare cat in loose fur remove, along with at least one small civilization...
When was the last time you had a close look at yours? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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At least at work, when things get bad I spill coffee in it and get it replaced.
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I wear gloves 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Just did the flip and tap. Not sure what some of the crud is that fell out... 
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My keyboard cleaning technique consists of:
a) Flipping it over
b) Shake-shake-shake
c) Good for another year
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I do the flip-over-and-vigorous-shake once a month. Seems to get all my cookie and potato chip crumbs out.
/ravi
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A friend of mine had Lasik and the first thing he said to his wife was 'Wow, I didn't realize you had so many wrinkles around your eyes!'
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I imagine your friend went on a liquid only diet shortly thereafter.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Was it a nice funeral?
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You think he got that lucky?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Seems like it would have been easier to buy a new keyboard!
Marc
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Cheaper, yes. But then I'd have to get used to it, and that takes me years...
They don't make these any more, and it's my second favourite K/B: Logitech Media Keyboard 967415-0403 Black 86 Normal Keys 34 Function Keys PS/2 Standard Keyboard-Newegg.com[^] Reasonably quiet, good feel, nice key sizes. And some extra keys that are occasionally useful. And the Zoom / music keys, which are well handy.
My favourite died eventually - it was incredibly cheap when I bought it, noisy, the keytop legends had worn off on most of the keys, but it was the fastest keyboard I ever typed on!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I completely understand. I am still using the HP keyboard that came with my first windows system from 1998. It just won't die! Here's hoping my next box has a ps/2!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You can get a little dongle to convert a PS/2 keyboard connector to a USB.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You cleaned your keyboard? What a wimp. That's like rinsing your coffee mug, or Samson cutting his hair. And I thought your were proper too...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Mine gets dusty but compressed air takes care of that quickly. Otherwise, I generally keep my hands clean out of habit 
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"for the first time in years I looked at what I spend a lot of time touching."
Soapbox please.
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When you break your leg, does the hospital tell you it's all going tibia OK?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Let me set you straight: who knee'ds these puns? Do you get bone-us point for them?
By to-marrow, thigh Karma willist be most sorely diminished thereby !
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Aren't theses puns getting a bit sprained?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hmm, never thought to look at it from that ankle.
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That's a fibula.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nothing to do with Windows 10 or gin, but I checked and 'Technical discussions are encouraged' [in the lounge].
Say you have created a GUI and you want it to automatically update the screen when the data it displays changes (typically by an action somewhere else). Simplest way is probably polling, in which you regularly check back to see if any updates have happened. In a client/server set up, this has the disadvantages of lots of network traffic even when nothing's happening, and the latency of updates depends on the poll speed.
Then you have 'long polling', where you make a call to CheckForUpdates and it blocks until something happens or a duration elapses. This reduces the latency and network traffic but now you have blocked threads, which are much out of favour these days.
Then there are the 'Push' architectures generally using some sort of pub/sub paradigm and wholly embraced in such things as Rx. You subscribe to updates and then get notified of changes as they happen on a thread of some sort from somewhere. These are more complicated as you end up with state (subscriptions and their targets), queues, (producer producing faster than consumer consuming), and dispatching concerns.
So, what about an asynchronous long poll? This gives you the low latency, less traffic solution and by using separate threads for the outgoing and incoming packet, no threads get blocked client side. State information is client side (which I'd argue is good). The problem is you have to send the 'subscription' repeatedly to the server after each event.
When I think of it as messages on the wire, it seems like a good solution.
You look like a technically minded bunch. Any thoughts?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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