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Don't talk about rainfall, I live in the Netherlands 
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Maybe you have just gotten more comfy?
Not that we have those temperatures here but I remember hot summers, getting in old cars and just toughening it out, windows down and not complaining. Now if the AC is broken in a car you might as well tow it because its useless. ^^
I think a large part is that you adapt to new comfort levels. Same way you adapt to better and faster computers and internet speed.
Once isdn was awesome and adsl was the future but nowadays it feels like I'm back in the stone age if I'm not on a fiber connection.
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This is not a rant, nor a programming question. It is more like a plug cum programming answer. I am determined to publish something on my blog every day from now on. One of the items I want to publish every day is a mention of good blog or article I use during that day. I categorise these under Other People's Code.
Today's inaugural such post is one I find extremely helpful and almost life-saving. It is an article titled Dependency Injection, Logging and Configuration In A.NET Core Console Application. Here is my accreditation of that article.
Please note that my blog is not huge on aesthetics, as it is WordPress, and I very soon intend replacing it with Umbraco.
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modified 2-Jul-17 4:20am.
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I like the clean lay-out of you blog.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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It's ok, but a lot of white, could use some color, e.g. for the header background. Maybe the Canadian flag colors 
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Yeah, needs more red ...or orange (but then people might mistake it for Code Project).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I like the white. I'll throw pictures in the mix if I need more colour or special colours for special headings etc.
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Thank you, Bill. I think it will be getting even cleaner. It's quite a nice little WP theme I found that should get some customisation.
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Hi Brady,
I hope you keep it clean, and avoid excess decoration.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Oh yes, that is a huge requirement on my side. Aversion to excess decoration even tempted me to use the Jekyll static pages framework for the blog.
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Brady Kelly wrote: Please note that my blog is not huge on aesthetics, as it is WordPress
That has nothing to do with WordPress, and everything to do with design. Any path you take will require some design work - if nothing else, choosing a theme. Tons of free WordPress ones.
I'm not saying "Don't go to Umbraco," but WordPress can be changed to work as a type of CMS. See my site[^] for instance. A design revision is in the works, with content changes, but that is one idea for you.
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To Viviparous Mama.
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Brady Kelly wrote: cum
You shouldnt use that word, use 'come'. 
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You should learn English.
cum1
kʌm/Submit
preposition
combined with; also used as (used to describe things with a dual nature or function).
"a study-cum-bedroom"
I think my used of "plug [combined with] programming answer" makes much more sense than "plug [come] programming answer", which actually isn't even English. How can a plug "come" anything? What is the exact nature of the verb "come" in such a nonsense string of words. It's derived from "cum" but used by fools than think "cum" means something naughty.
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Dear oh god, do I need to explain it!
It's use, and meaning, has been, shall we say, subverted. A bit like 'facial'. It is a word to avoid these days.
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A useful convention is to format words/phrases that are not English in an Italic font-face.
That will, of course, be nihil obstat for people with lascivious minds perceiving smut.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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I like that convention as well when I, in fact, use non-English words or phrases. The only words not recognised by authorities like the OED[^] and Websters[^] as the English that I used are some proper nouns, which are all technically English words.
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Brady was right to use cum in this context. It's the Latin use of the word and means with, but could also be used as plus. You, of course, recognise the correct usage of the word from Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
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Its isn't so much what it's meaning was, but what it has become that makes it unusable.
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As it is still in common use in its common form, including in terms such as Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude, then it is perfectly acceptable to use it in the correct form, rather than the incorrectly spelled version of "come". Just because the word has also acquired a sexual term doesn't mean that it needs to be audited out of normal usage.
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Embedded in phrases it is still recognisable, used on it's own it's meaning has become 'polluted' shall we say.
And 'xxx come yyy' is not an incorrect sentence, it means xxx is like yyy, as in 'becomes'.
For example 'this is a request come cry for help'.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Just because the word has also acquired a sexual term doesn't mean that it needs to be audited out of normal usage
I do. Like 'facial', 'spunky', 'fanny', 'gang bang' and 'nonce' (to add words from either side of the pond), these are to be avoided in English because of their less apposite meanings. 
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'nonce' is used in cryptography to indicate a number that may be used only once. Lots of luck discussing cryptographic algorithms without using it. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Pronounced en-once, or nonce?
In the UK a nonce is a paedo. Good luck pronouncing it the second way in the UK!
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I know many women who still innocently go for facials and it's wholesome, KSS fun for them.
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Of course, I agree with you Pete, but, it is interesting to note that in Cicero's writings he explains that the use of nobiscum is a work-around to avoid the possible use of cum nobis because, when spoken, the "m" and "n" are elided into an "n," and the resulting word was obscene.
In our times, editors vary in terms of whether Magna cum Laude and such must be set in an Italic font-face. Harvard Law School's resume format guide says they should be both italicized, and, in lower-case.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Not unless you are at the giggly schoolboy state of mental maturity.
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