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dialog, circa 1776
English: Colour.
American: Color!
English: favour.
American: favor!
English: what are you doing?
American: getting rid of "u".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: English: what are you doing?
American: getting rid of "u".
English: programme
American: program
got rid of "me" too? So who is left over there in the good old US of A?
(and is that why it's so good)
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It all the fault of the French - of course.
The USA was first infested with Brits from a time when the English language used "ize" and "or" endings to many words.
Then came the pernicious french influence on the English language causing "ize" endings to become the more french-like "ise" and the extra "u" to appear to make "or" into "our" endings.
The USians were not affected by this foul corruption and so maintained the original English spellings.
In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
It's still wrong though. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
It's still wrong though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Forogar wrote: It all the fault of the French
The Germans, actually.
It took the US about fifty years to decide whether their national language should be English or German.
IMO, they made the wrong decision. Pissing about with the spelling of Germam words seems to be a fair-to-middling passtime; their pissing about with English spelling has proven to be a PITA.
Forogar wrote: In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
Here's the thing: Back when the Americas were discovered, there was no such thing as a dictionary of English, so it would hardly have been surprising had there been some branching at that point, but the spelling debacle came much, much later.
After the Pro-German contingent lost the national-language battle, they insisted that English spelling be simplified.
The result was not as bad as it could have been -- If they had had their way, written US English would have been phonetic (well German phonetic, anyways) -- which would (contrary to their desires, obviously) have made it impossible for grammar Nazis to later get all snidey about, for example, the spelling of "their", "there", and "they're", because they would all have had the same spelling.
So the English-spelling "simplification" was the result of a bunch of the latter-day "social media" bitching by petty little political pr1cks.
But it's established, and it's a dialect, so what the Hell. There are worse dialects, even within the British Isles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmmm... I still blame the French, anyway. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I was examining a cool project a Maker created a wire-bending robot.
Wire Bender | Hackaday.io[^]
He has the STL files (3D cad files?) on his github so you can view them and build the wire-bender yourself.
3D Models
Did you know you can view those in real-time in your browser grab them and move them all around to see from different angles?
Check it out (works in FF, Edge,) ==>
wirebender/Bender_ToolHead.stl at master · jpraus/wirebender · GitHub[^]
What is that file type that allows that? Is this native to the browsers? It's not Flash.
I've never seen this be so seamless before.
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I believe it's STL files? If you go to thingiverse.com, or any of the other 3D print sites they do this a lot also.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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raddevus wrote: Is this native to the browsers?
Yes, it's native to the browser via WebGL.
Off Topic:
Not sure if I trust these online 3D printing companies. Several years ago I uploaded a 3D model for a Qualcomm 410c case. A company from France e-mailed me saying they ordered 300 cases and that the case was performing very well in their product environment. They asked me to make some minor modifications for their next order.
However I can't seem to find the order on my online account. There is no record of the sale.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Did you tell them sure, but the price went up?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Did you tell them sure, but the price went up?
No, I declined... I'm just a software engineer not a professional 3D modeler/artist. It was a few years ago... I think I told them to make the changes themselves and sent them the project files. I didn't want to get involved... he had specific engineering tolerances and I didn't want to be 1mm off and get into a back-and-forth redesign loop.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: Yes, it's native to the browser via WebGL.
Interesting. It's actually a very cool feature.
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Hmmm,
I don't often advertise anything. But this is just too amazing to keep to myself. I happen to be experimenting with an embedded device that is limited to 1GB RAM. As you probably already know... it's very difficult get desktop applications to work nicely in a memory restricted environment. The Chromium browser engine is no different... it works perfectly until I start opening 3-4 tabs and the operating system starts swapping everything to disk.
Problem solved with The Great Suspender. I like this extension so much I've decided to use it on all of my development workstations. Now I don't have to deal with Edge/Chromium eating several Gigabytes of RAM. Even with a minuscule 1GB of RAM I am able to open over 30 tabs.
Highly recommended!
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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If you post it in Free Tools Discussion Boards[^] it won't get lost in oblivion that fast
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That looks amazing. I've been complaining about how much memory Chrome eats up, and continues to eat up, just sitting their looking idle. Will give it a try at work tomorrow!
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Very cool ! As a lotsa-tabs junkie, I can see its value.
thanks, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Hmm … nice igloo. Can we get Inuit?
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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You'll have to ask, in my opinion. I said, "you'll have to ask-IMO".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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only if you get a seal of approval for the head of the house.
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My wife says I'm the head of the house, but she's the neck, so the head goes where the neck turns it.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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lopatir wrote: only if you get a seal of approval for the head of the house.
My wife says I'm the head of the house, but she's the neck and the head goes where the neck points it.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Icy what you did there.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Only if you're not bipolar, otherwise they'll have Nunavut.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So some of you know I write a lot of parser generator stuff.
You'd think with how much time I spend writing this stuff, I'd use a generator to do most of my parsing.
I do not.
About 80% of my real world parsers are hand rolled, because they're quicker to develop for really simple parses, up to the roughly the complexity of parsing regex
So I write a class called ParseContext which helps with the task IMMENSELY, including error handling, abstraction of TextReader vs String parsing, and common functions like SkipCCommentsAndWhitespace(), and TryParseJsonValue (I use JSON literals all the time)
So I post it here, because it's crazy useful. More useful than my parser generators most of the time.
Easier Hand Rolled Parsers[^]
And what do I get? Not 5 stars like my parser generator articles. No sir. I get not even 4.
people just don't know what's good for them 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: people just don't know what's good for them
 That's not a surprise... you just have to see the news everyday 
On the other hand... there is a lot of people who votes down just because they think "that's bad" when they don't actually have a clue of what it is being said / shown.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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