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No. That would be all too easy to do if I accidentally jumpered the wrong VPP (the voltage for the programming pulse).
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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phil.o wrote: Wrong place for your question
Only because they are not a regular, The Lounge[^]
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, what do you propose instead?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: what do you propose instead?
Consistency.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well in this case I invite you to communicate directly with either the moderation team, so that this kind of post is finally authorized in the Lounge, or to @code-witch if you think he is abusing the forum.
In my opinion, he is not; he is not asking us to help solve/understand a development issue. This is more a conversation a team of developpers would have around a cup of coffee during their pause, imho.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Don't take it personal. I don't care either way, I just wish people would be consistent.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I trust people, at least most of them on this forum, to be as consistent as possible. I just don't think both questions are in the same category.
I'm not taking it personally; since this is not the first time you do this remark and it seems to annoy you, why not opening a discussion about that in the appropriate forum? It could enact a better formulation of what is allowed and what is not on the Lounge. And if you really don't care, then let it go 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: I just don't think both questions are in the same category.
In this case you may be right. However, I have often seen newcomers post questions similar to code-witch (who is a woman by the way) and they get told off by frequent Loungers. But then have no problem having code-witch's facebook feed dump right into CP.
phil.o wrote: And if you really don't care, then let it go
I think you misunderstood what I don't care about. I DO care that CP is clickish. Why? I don't know. It's just annoying. People annoy me. I should have been born a deer. Let's hope for reincarnation. 
And each time I have brought it up I get ignored or argued with, like you here, so bringing it up elsewhere won't do any good.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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You get ignored or argued with. What other option do you expect?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: What other option do you expect?
For people to agree with me, duh. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I empathize then, must be frustrating
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: must be frustrating
Indeed. The world would be much better if everyone thought like me.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm not a woman. I'm quite male, just genderweird.
And i don't use facebook
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm not a woman.
Stop it. I could have sworn I've seen you tell others that you are a woman. However, please do not send pics either way to prove your point. I believe you. I was wrong.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nope, I've told others the same thing I've told you. =)
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have an old notebook which I only use to toast EPROMS, sample the Elf's old cassette tapes (or as digital recorder when I save something with the Elf) and to run terminal emulation, also for the Elf. It has one of the first Intel Celery processors. THE CD drive has been dead for almost 20 years now, but for the other stuff it's good enough, even if it's a museum piece itself.
I just started it for the first time in a while - and it tried to boot from the supposedly dead CD drive. That CD must have been in there for ages and it never even try to boot from it. Now it did and promptly complained that the (copied) CD is not quite readable.
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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I have two seagate 1TB HDDs that do the same thing, which is why i don't buy seagate
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Seagate oder Seagate nicht.
That's a pun on 'sie geht oder sie geht nicht', which means 'it works or it does not work'.
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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perfect
Real programmers use butterflies
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The EPROM is now toasted and verified. Now I only have to wire up the data bus on the breadboard and then...
Then i will need a little more time to check a few hundred wires and measure all voltages before I toast some ICs which may be hard to replace. But then...
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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Google suggests that "sie geht" on its own translates to "she goes".
...straight to trash heap, she does.
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Yes, if you translate it literally. The grammatical gender for a harddisk is indeed feminine and another mistranslation for 'geht' would be to say that it walks.
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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I find the German language to be fascinating. In French a hard disk ("disque dur") would be masculine.
Why inanimate objects have a gender at all, I have no idea. As a software developer who thinks in algorithms, I've never managed to come up with a simple rule that would help establish the correct association. Back in school, I simply "got it" going with my gut and always got great grades in French, but ask me to explain what the actual rules are...and I wouldn't know where to start.
Just as well I've never had to write a grammar checker.
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I don't think that any rules exist anymore. Languages are older than most objects and the words for these objects often were inherited from previous meanings of the word, along with the gender. We would have to know the original meaning of the word and the culture at that time to get a hint why they would have used a particular gender.
A little like seamen referring to their ship as 'she', even in languages that have no grammatical genders. At least we can still understand why they do that.
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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Several years ago we bought an expensive external hard drive with 4 Seagate 1TB drives configured as RAID-5. Over the course of our first year of ownership, each of the hard drives failed. Fortunately with the RAID-5 configuration we never lost any data. I did not replace the drives with Seagate, especially after the manufacturer of the external drive was charging 3X the price of the same drive from newegg. I replaced them with used Western Digital drives salvaged from another project. After replacing all of the original Seagate drives with WD units, the external drive worked like a champ for quite a while. We bought another external drive, except this one has 4 6TB drives, again in RAID-5. Shortly after it arrived, and I copied the data to it from the original drive, the RAID controller in the original unit crapped out. I still have the WD 1TB component drives for use as extra storage in our development machines when we need it.
I'm not a fan of Seagate if I can avoid them. I've never had a Western Digital drive fail.
Software Zen: delete this;
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