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<WarStory>
A distant battlefield, covered in smoke, mewling quietly with the last cries of the dying...
In my ever-progressing battle to maintain control over my development machine from the IT of Sauron, I once wrote an app called Twitcher in an effort to keep the screen saver from timing out and locking the PC. I occasionally will sit and stare at the screen longer than the 10 minute timeout period. It's a PITA to have to three-finger salute, log back in, etc. Doing so invariably makes me lose my concentration. Twitcher was a little app that woke up once a minute, checked the position of the mouse, and if it hadn't moved, moved it a few pixels and then back to its original position. At the time, this was enough to defeat the screen saver. Unfortunately that stopped working a while back, and none of the other methods I've found are effective. I've seen ads for hardware dongles that emulate mice and do the same thing, so I may give that a try.
Today the field is barren, with only scrub grasses growing midst a crop of bones of the fallen.
</WarStory>
Software Zen: delete this;
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At the core of every PITA is, of course, IT.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ayrton Senna died 25 years ago today. There will probably be a lot of retrospective videos and such. It's sort of crazy how far cars have come since then. Of course they actually DROVE the cars back then, instead of the cars shifting, balancing, correcting, rotating, throttling, etc... themselves.
It's sort of sad that the natural aspirated super-car may not survive to see the 30th anniversary of his death. Porsche and Lamborghini/Audi are sort of the last men standing in terms of the non-boutique, non-luxury GT super-cars. The GT3(RS) and Huracan/Aventador may be the last hurrah. Almost everything else is already turbo'd and/or battery assisted and sound like hair dryers in comparison. The GT3 and Huracan sound like demons making sexy time.
Explorans limites defectum
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He was respected, not only in South America, but also by other drivers. In a talkshow on Dutch TV a few days ago they remembered and spoke highly of him. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I was a F1 fan than and saw it live on TV with my dad - it was totally unbelievable...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Christian Graus wrote: Who?
Not a vegan Tasmanian, so you would have no idea.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I know a couple of vegans, I think....
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When they are talking about F1 they do not mean the Function key 
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I've been to a memorial exhibit on him in Asti, a month ago. He's been one of the last heroes of F1.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ayrton Senna, 25 years ago! Wow, that was when F1 was really brutal.
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Dean Roddey wrote: Of course they actually DROVE the cars back then
Grand Tour season 3 episode 5 was about Jim Clark. It was really amazing to see that and then drive in a car that accelerates and de-accelerates by itself, steers itself (scary) and has more cameras and radars than I would imagine.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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These days racing is almost as much about limiting technology as it used to be about encouraging it. Technology is such that, at this point, if they didn't limit it the whole thing would just be a joke and a dangerous joke at that. But is also means that, in some ways, innovation has moved from the racing world to the super-car and sports car world, where those limitations aren't in place.
When Porsche retired its 919 LMP type car, they went back and did a version of it for fun that wasn't limited by regulations. It is ludicrously fast. It lapped the Nurburgring so fast that makes your palms sweat just to watch it. He spends very little time under 120MPH and plenty of times he's 200MPH+, and that's on a very bumpy, tricky track. If you watch the little inset video of the interior, I'm amazed he wasn't concussed by the time he was done.
The 919 Tribute Tour: On-board record lap, Nordschleife. - YouTube[^]
There's some footage from Spa that literally looks like a cartoon because it's going so fast that your brain refuses to accept it's real. At about 1:50 and again at around 2:25, it just doesn't even look real.
|Lap Record!| Porsche 919 EVO "Tribute" At Spa Francorchamps - YouTube[^]
If they allowed real racing sort of leeway, there would be people splattered like bugs all over the track.
Explorans limites defectum
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in case anyone want to see what this quantum computing is all about you can and cannot register at
https://www.dwavesys.com/events/webinar-machine-different-kind-quantum-computing-2019
May 2, 2019 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In 1982, Richard Feynman envisioned a "machine of a different kind," one that could simulate physics by doing exactly what nature does.In this webinar we will discuss how close quantum computing has come to realizing Feynman's vision. Our speaker will explain the different approaches to building quantum computers, drill down into quantum annealing, and discuss classical and quantum programming models and applications.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Ah, the solace of quantum
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abmv wrote: by doing exactly what nature does
So first we need a computer which can tell us what that is.
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Try these: Roast OxF Lavour Crisps[^]
All I want to know is: what's a "Lavour"?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What a load of bull!
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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Hedgehog Flavoured Crisps[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I remember those - they were pretty good! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When I was a very wee lad, I was often encouraged (?) to eat with statements like "people are starving in Europe". I didn't understand what that meant then, as I I was too little, and now . . .
. . . well I understand what it means . . . what I didn't realize is that apparently it's still true.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I'm not seeing much "ox" in that ingredients list.
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