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Sorry, what did you say? I was concentrating on Klondike. Could you repeat that please?
Cheers,
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"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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/giphy working hard
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I work alone, and have no colleagues.
I don't use "Slack" whatever that is. And I don't care. 
Choppa Style, Choppa Style. and Who Dat for good measure.
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Is an illiterate someone who is sick of reading?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Is "fill" another word for very very ill? 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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What a character! I sentence you to two years of VB6 programming.
Even if you don't font to do it.
If it was a book about computers, can they go on a rampage?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: two years of VB6 programming
I think that's against international human rights.
They abolished such cruel sentences before they abolished death penalty (and I know we'd all rather have the latter) 
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sure it's not someone repetitively getting sick?
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Or someone who is sick of repetitive tasks?
"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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That joke should be made a sick bird...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Only if you all send me an ill octopus. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Is an illiquid investment solid?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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It can be a pour choice.
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I was just introduced to this idea: "Blue Monday" is the most depressing day of the year.
There is an equation which calculates when it is:
TQ * (W + (D - d))
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M * Na
Where:
W - weather
D - debt level
d - monthly salary
T - time since Christmas
Q - time since failing our new year's resolutions
M - low motivational level
Na - the feeling of a need to take action
Not sure I can work out the result myself, but hey! That's science* for you. 
Apparently it's next Monday.
* Or at least, pseudoscience.
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Just going through Limit of a function - Wikipedia[^] , it will take a while, some years...
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I can't believe that APress just published (Dec. 2018) this book.
Amazon.com: Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing: Learn BASIC with a Commodore Emulator eBook: Gerald Friedland: Kindle Store[^]
Author says: True story. I was looking for a system that would help 7-year olds teach themselves programming. Hey it's 2018, right? After looking through what's available, the two major issues that I have with the current tools are: 1) Many of them require the Internet (too dangerous for self learning) 2) most, if not all, of them are drag and drop. I wanted a non-distracting environment where the kids practice reading and writing while learning to program. The sensation of causing an action simply by typing a word is priceless.
I don't know. Maybe just use JavaScript in a browser to teach. It's much more relevant and has far fewer barriers to entry.
I mean I would've really liked this book back in 1990 or before, but not sure this one will have a market.
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I don't know. I collect old computer equipment and it's becoming a big thing now to write old style computer games running on new equipment. The 8-bit guy on Youtube has a lot of cool videos showing his RPG running on old and new equipment.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: I don't know. I collect old computer equipment and it's becoming a big thing now
Yeah, I see what you mean. I follow a guy on Twitter who does a lot of retro.
It's just that I would expect it to be more of an advanced book instead of a beginner's BASIC learning book.
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That's true, but there are a lot of "old school" gamers who never learned how to program. It's also a cool way of getting your kids grand kids into it. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: It's also a cool way of getting your kids grand kids into it.
Kind of a "spread the infection" type of thing, I guess. 
It's a good idea because we don't have enough platforms (web (5 browsers), iOS, Android, Windows (7,8,10), plethora of Linux distros) as it is.
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Small Basic would have done the job
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