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I had a near-miss last night. A skateboarder, in the dark, dressed in dark colors and on his cell-phone, made a turn from a side street right in front of me. I had barely caught a tiny glint of reflection from him or he'd be a road pizza with ball-bearings as a topping.
This was followed two blocks later by a biker, similarly clad and with no reflectors on his bike going the wrong way down a one way street and streaking into the intersection across my bow. Mrs. Wife, who'd normally criticize how I drive (on general principal) kept asking "did you see him" for both instances. The answer: barely in time.
Perhaps this is just part of an opportunity to cull the herd of stupidity that's beginning to overrun the gene pool. Particularly, the nocturnal components. Just sell hunting licenses to drivers.
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0 - This only works if HE CAN TALK IN CAPITALS.
1 - How do you convince the zombies to turn off their neural pacemakers?
2 - Would it not be easier to let Darwin take care of this?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: 0 - This only works if HE CAN TALK IN CAPITALS.
+5
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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CDP1802 wrote: 2 - Would it not be easier to let Darwin take care of this?
Definitively yes,
the problem is... the poor people that run them over are going to get a trauma or have problems with police, just because those bast... were not looking where they walked.
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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Nelek wrote: the poor people that run them over
How about being consequential and invoke Darwin once again?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That is brilliant!
Herself works in an old folks home, and they have compulsory fancy dress days (or you have to pay £5) and I keep suggesting the grim reaper for her on the grounds it's easy to do. Strangely she doesn't think it's a good idea?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So how many poképoints will players get for catching them by the in balls?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bloody hell I just wanted a dust gun to pop the screens of the distracted. Scaring the crap out of them would be infinitely more satisfying.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hi All,
I know this is outside most, but not all users but which PCB layout tools does the hive mind recommend.
I would like to use Altium DXP but cost is the main concern and for the PCB's we will be laying out it's Guided missile to a duck hunt (read for $$ reasons). Fritzing the Ardrino favored tool is being looked at as well as another TK something that has been used before, for the cost as cheap as poss (free, shareware if possible). Yes it is time for faffing...
KI Cad not TK...
modified 13-Oct-16 11:43am.
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do it old school: graph paper and pencil
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Send that to the PCB manufacturers and just wait to see what size of quote you get back! 
If it ain't Gerber ...
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Who needs them? If you want to have it oldschool, then do the cutting, etching and drilling yourself. You even get to inhale a healthy dose of epoxy dust. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Hah! Wirewrap the bugger!
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I was working on a modernized version of my old computer, remember? I have the basic computer and the memory (up to 16 megabytes for the old dog ) ready. Now I'm not sure wether I should first build a prototype on perfboard bfore I have a buggy PCB made.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Go straight to 2 layer - the bugs in your design can be fixed with judicious cut and wire, and you don't get the loose connections and crosstalk that make life such a PITA...
I've played those games, and it's a lot cheaper and less stress to go to straight to PCB even if you know you're going to bin it fairly quickly. Just socket everything and life gets pretty sweet!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ok, I'm convinced. I made some changes in the PCB layout and over the weekend I will check wether the Sub-D connector will fit, wether I can replace the EPROM by a compatible EEPROM, recheck the clock and baudrate generator and memory addressing and then let's hope for the best.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Done that, Wirewrap is easier to debug if (when) you make a boob 
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Ish. It also causes a pile of problems all of it's own, what with fallen off wires, dodgy connections, crosstalk, ...
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Breadboards are very noisy. If possible, test your design at a very low clock frequency and even then noise can still cause glitches. With an oscilloscope you can see errors of that kind quite well. Even under good circumstances you can hardly expect to see a nice square signal.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I have found breadboard and strip board a good antenna for picking up long wave radio... 
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Not if you encase the pin in solder, but then you loose the ability to swap around, what I have done in that situation is test everything and if I can't see a problem get busy with the soldering iron!
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That is called "makin' Pappys way", I have done that in my garage, I have a feeling it would an 'elf & safety' violation to do it on company premises...
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That's too comfortable. Use an acid proof pen and draw your pads and traces directly onto the copper.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Done that too! Back in the day...
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