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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: nipper
Although this is the lounge and you should have kept it KSS, it's a general truism that most guy start out as 'nippers', stop for a while and then, upon reaching puberty, become even more interested in nippers.
(What was that? It's not what it means?)
(I'll post it anyway.)
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I think my rabbi will want a word with you.
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Actually, I'd like to offer him a chance to really "make it big" (obviously figuratively).
Let's "cut" to the chase:
Train to do some freelance work with a pinking sheers. The kids are rather popular when they grow up. Big seller!
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I have no idea what you mean - a nipper, in British venacular is a small child "nipping" at the heels of adults, nothing more.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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There are other meanings to nips, nipping, &etc., which I'd wager are used orders of magnitude more often than that 'British vernacular'.
"Poking" some fun at your remark with this shameless pun.
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No problem. 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Uhhhh, bring someone along!
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APOD: 2018 July 12 - Centaurus A[^]
Images of far distant galaxies are amongst my favorites. I wonder if humans will ever reach any of them?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Space, the final frontier...
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Images of far distant galaxies are amongst my favorites. I wonder if humans will ever reach any of them?
Considering the time it took for one man-made craft to leave the heliosphere (let alone the solar system), I'd say it's highly unlikely we're ever going to leave our galaxy. So forget about the far-distant ones.
While Voyager 1 is commonly spoken of as having left the Solar System simultaneously with having left the heliosphere, the two are not the same. The Solar System is usually defined as the vastly larger region of space populated by bodies that orbit the Sun. The craft is presently less than one seventh the distance to the aphelion of Sedna, and it has not yet entered the Oort cloud, the source region of long-period comets, regarded by astronomers as the outermost zone of the Solar System.
(From Wikipedia)
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Considering the evolution of technology in just the last 115 years coupled with our lack of understanding of the cosmos, I have higher hopes of future generations ability to do what now seems impossible.
"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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Well, at the very least, we'd need to be able to build vehicles that can exceed the speed of light to make it viable, come up with working hibernation or build generational ships and that's just to explore our own galaxy. Only when we can exceed the speed of light will interstellar travel become worthwhile.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I finally have reproduced a customer's bug. And what do I get as the exception object?
$exception
This is not acceptable. Even more so because the '$' suggests I pay for it. Mexico perhaps, but not me.
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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So the exception was returned as the name of a PHP object? Or another language that prefixes variables with '$' at least.
Unfortunately I can't think of an appropriate PHP joke this early in the morning, coffee hasn't kicked in.
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Nope. No PHP, fortunately. WPF, falling on its nose when trying to digest a form's XAML.
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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Ah, forgot that WPF/XAML uses the $exception object. Well, just need to parse that object then assuming you have access to the code. If not hopefully it returns the entire object and not just the string.
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It's just missing a resource. The original assembly has been split up into two parts for a better separation of layers and now it looks for some image resources at the wrong place. Nothing really complicated. It's only weird that nobody has noticed that for years.
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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Ransomware for dummies.
Pay me $$$ to fix the site.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Not a website, sorry. WPF missing a resource while loading a form's XAML, that's all. Thanks for the offer, but I will have it shot dead in a minute.
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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A Taco Bell in Benton, Arkansas and that explains a lot. My wife's family is from there and she agrees with me. It's why lots of them have moved away.
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I prefer to receive the exceptional$ message
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After four years, the DBA finally got tired of having to follow the rules he set forth, and gave me Sys Admin permissions on our database servers so I would stop bothering him about toggling ownership on jobs so they'd run (or not run), and so I could run jobs with my own account (while testing) instead of using the service account.
I knew I'd wear him down.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Give him some gift! He earned it!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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