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How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 2:36

honey the codewitch wrote:
Tell me: Why in the world would *anyone* think it was a good idea to install MSVC++, not put it in the PATH, and then make it near impossible for you to do it yourself? Why?

Mostly due to the same as always...

Somewhere in the process a manager comes with totally bizarre requirement and additionally ordering a magenta icon opening the pandora box. Then all technicians have to interrupt what they are doing and a time later when coming back to the developing process with 5 different "what was I doing?" ending a time later in some critical "oops, I forgot XX". Then it continues with "damn it... without XX I can't YY... I will need to workaround it with ZZ" and having to ship the release version with an unfinished chaotic version...

Is not that obvious? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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swampwiz28-Jan-21 23:47

swampwiz

28-Jan-21 23:47

The character I'm having a problem with is the double quote. I tried using [\"] but that didn't seem to work. Mad | :mad:

I'm trying to get a certain size and thickness zip bag (7" wide x 5" deep x 4 mil thick), something I was able to get a few years ago, but now that I've run out of the 25 that I had gotten, I'm looking to get more. Mad | :mad:

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

Rage28-Jan-21 23:50

Rage

28-Jan-21 23:50

Use "feet" or inches or whatever fancy unit " is supposed to stand for.
This is what happens when one does not want to use proper units.

*sits back and grabs popcorn*

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Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

OriginalGriff29-Jan-21 0:03

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 0:03

Ah. You aren't a imperial measurements fan than?

Quote:
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is "Go %^$# yourself" because you can't directly relate any of those quantities.

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jsc4229-Jan-21 0:38

jsc42

29-Jan-21 0:38

I once overhead a conversation from someone stating that the metric system is awful, citing as an example that if you wanted a piece of wood 12ft (4yd) x 1 1/2in x 2in (a common size) you would have to ask for 3.6576m x 38.1mm x 50.8mm.

quote:
Whereas in the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?"

The answer is 'not the same as an imperial gallon'

Did you know that Americans only have approx. 6 pints of blood, whereas Britons have approx. 8 pints of blood? (Due to the difference size of their unit of 'pint')

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

Richard Deeming29-Jan-21 0:43

Richard Deeming

29-Jan-21 0:43

jsc42 wrote:
Did you know that Americans only have approx. 6 pints of blood, whereas Britons have approx. 8 pints of blood? (Due to the difference size of their unit of 'pint')

US pints are smaller than Imperial pints - 473ml vs 568ml respectively - so I'd expect that to be the other way round. Smile | :)

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Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

Nelek29-Jan-21 1:05

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 1:05

Don't be so nitpicky...

he is just applying the commutative property (wrong or not is another topic)

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Nelek29-Jan-21 1:06

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 1:06

jsc42 wrote:
The answer is 'not the same as an imperial gallon'

What did you expect?
They don't even speak the same english... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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obermd29-Jan-21 4:21

obermd

29-Jan-21 4:21

jsc42 wrote:
Did you know that Americans only have approx. 6 pints of blood, whereas Britons have approx. 8 pints of blood? (Due to the difference size of their unit of 'pint')

The other two pints are coffee. Big Grin | :-D

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

theoldfool29-Jan-21 1:28

theoldfool

29-Jan-21 1:28

I am trying my best to find a way to become offended by all that but failing. Perhaps you should start with the cubit. We tried to convert to the metric system some time back but failed, starting with the standard 19" rack.

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

W∴ Balboos, GHB29-Jan-21 2:07

W∴ Balboos, GHB

29-Jan-21 2:07

That metribigotry - you disappoint me.

Think, for a moment, about those who read languages such as Chinese. It actually stimulates the brain functions.

So it is with us in the US: we've resisted your comparatively-no-brainer system for one that stimulates our intellect and maintains a romance long missing from the dry solemn environment of Europe, and, at the same time, not only maintains more easily divisible subunits (without going to fractions in day-to-day usage) but even, as I've pointed out several times, maintains a base-two relationship as one progress upwards from the ounce.

Bah! So far as I'm concerned, you've only done half a BREXIT.

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Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

OriginalGriff28-Jan-21 23:55

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

28-Jan-21 23:55

Everything I've ever seen about Google searches says the same thing: Google ignores punctuation completely, except for quotes, colon, plus, and minus - and they have special meaning and can't be escaped. And I think that Bong does the same, which makes sense when you think about it.

Unless one of the other engines (the ones that actually search for themselves, that is) does, you aren't going to find it easy.
Have you considered going back to your last supplier?, or checking FleaBay?

Nelek29-Jan-21 0:13

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 0:13

Have you just tried - Zip Bag 7x5x4 - ?
I did and got a lot of results with inches (even being located in Germany)

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GenJerDan29-Jan-21 0:40

GenJerDan

29-Jan-21 0:40

Skip the ".

I doubt anyone anyone makes a 7mm x 5mm or a 7' x 5' ziploc bag.

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Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

OriginalGriff29-Jan-21 1:17

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 1:17

GenJerDan wrote:
I doubt anyone anyone makes a ... 7' x 5' ziploc bag.

You'll find them in the "Serial Killer Equipment" section of Amazon (US only).

Nelek29-Jan-21 2:24

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 2:24

I don't know what is scarier... Unsure | :~

that they offer them or that you knew about it Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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OriginalGriff29-Jan-21 2:55

Re: How to do an internet search for text that has the character ["]?

29-Jan-21 2:55

Well ... you know how it is with those really awkward customers ... :InnocentWhistleSmiley:

swampwiz2-Feb-21 8:27

swampwiz

2-Feb-21 8:27

OK, I found what I was looking for, although it was a bit expensive. Mad | :mad:

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Sander Rossel28-Jan-21 23:07

Sander Rossel

28-Jan-21 23:07

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1[^]

This week I was just listening to some Satie and his gymnopédies and gnossienes are just really nice.
Very relaxed and perhaps a bit nostalgic as my dad used to play them on the piano (over and over and over for about 30 years until he retired and took up piano lessons again).
So I just wondered what the words gymnopedie and gnossiene meant...
Gymnopedie, apparently, comes from the Greek words for "naked" and "youth" and in ancient Sparta there was The Gymnopaedia which was a celebration where youths would dance naked war dances.
If Satie wrote this piece naked when he was young I don't know, and I really don't want to know either.
Gnossiene is just a made up word used by Satie to indicatie a new type of composition.
My choice this week could've been Satie's first, third or fourth gnossiene as well, but I went with his first gymnopédie as it's just slightly more relaxed.
It's also probably his most popular work, with Wikipedia stating that "Gymnopédies have been heard in numerous movies and television shows" and then gives some examples of the first.

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5teveH28-Jan-21 23:30

5teveH

28-Jan-21 23:30

Love Gymnopedie. Simple and beautiful. And as you say, very relaxed.

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David O'Neil29-Jan-21 4:00

David O'Neil

29-Jan-21 4:00

Here's some old-school cool for you: Sadistic Mika Band

Sander Rossel29-Jan-21 11:30

Sander Rossel

29-Jan-21 11:30

Never heard of them, but they sound nice!
Too bad they're not on Spotify (well, only three short songs) Sigh | :sigh:

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trønderen29-Jan-21 12:49

trønderen

29-Jan-21 12:49

I never trust any streaming service claiming that a video or sound clip will be available "permanently" or "always". I have got a disk full of video and music that I have permanently available - not because the website claimed that they would be, but because I ripped the contents and saved it on my local disc.

Disc storage is cheap nowadays. If you think a piece of music is good enough to hear again, or a movie is good enough to watch again - possibly because you want to show it to your friends - then you preserve it, so that the day it disappear from you streaming service provider, you still have access to it from your local hard disc.