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pkfox wrote: How do you know peoples birthdays ?
He communicates with God particles.
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Ah! I wondered what the voices in my head were! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Heh, excellent - thank you!
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Happy Birthday Marc
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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Thank you! It was so great I didn't touch a computer and didn't see this til today!
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I can't stand doing text layout code. It's so clunky and rube goldberg like. I've been working in dribs and drabs over days on getting my graphics library to support VLW fonts as a compromise between truetype vector and non-antialiased raster.
One issue is, since I only supported a couple of different font styles so far I didn't really need a generalized layout system, but now with 3 different font formats it would be beneficial to make the fonts use a universal system for laying out text.
But the big problem for me is the code is boring and tedious, like hand written parsing code tends to be. Can't bear code like this.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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I feel the same about writing RTS code.
I had admiration for RTS games since I was a kid. I thought if I’ll succeed to code the part of units traveling on the map it would be more than I could wish for. After many trials ( it took years ) I managed to do that. Now the question is should I start building everything else a RTS has? Even if I perceive it as being boring?
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I wondered where you were. 
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The pleasure is in solving the problem; not in implementing it ... unless it involves lights.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Right? Problem is I've solved it before. It's also not clean enough that I can just use my existing solution.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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a future possibly next project is an editor which will require text editing . i was not looking forward to this aspect of the project as transforming pixel positions to text will no doubt require various font dependencies which i barely understand . however i decided to challenge myself to implement an elegant and knowledgeable solution . further as the editor will also display non-displayable characters as Notepad++ does nicely yet more complications result . again i am challenging myself to find an elegant solution to this problem also . this is intended as an improvement of a prior project which handled only the simplest of fonts and characters .
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according to MSN[^] "Russian military equipment found in Ukraine famously had legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers."
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BernardIE5317 wrote: legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers.
Chips are multi-purpose. That's a good thing.
Wanna bet the US could've used similar chips in some of its military hardware, but opted to spend $10B to develop single-purpose chips instead?
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I can not believe it: the merge is only $5.4 dollar
Earlier this week, China scuttled a $5.4 dollar merger between Intel and Tower Semiconductor. Tower does not manufacture advanced chips using the latest technologies. Instead, it builds legacy chips–chips manufactured using much older technologies.
diligent hands rule....
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If your are an American (as your profile suggests): You wouldn't believe how often we Europeans (except the British) have to transla4e
'bilions', 'trillions' or 'wahtever-illons' to European illions and illiards. We are so accustomed to translators ignoring the illion difference between English and Germanic languages that if it at all matters, we search up alternate source to get the magnitudes right.
A bigger problem is that most of the public has no clue about magnitudes. Areas are given in 'football fields', and few if any know the size of a football field. How large is an 'olympic swimming pool'? Noone really knows. These are no more than new terms for "big" and "huge". No more exact, no more meaningful.
Unfortunately, even the European public rarely cares to distinguish between billon/milliard: Three magnitudes, who cares? Trillion/billiard - six magnitudes, it is so big anyway that we cannot relate to it.
So when we see '5.4 dollars' we automatically adjust it by 6, 9, 12 decimal places or whatever the context suggests. I must 'admit' (is it an admission?) that first time I read the article, I never noticed the lack of a unit indication; it was supplied mentally, unconsciously.
European misinterpretation or ignorance of US/English use of -illion units is a much bigger problem than the absence of any such unit.
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Back in the 80's a story going around at Univac was the the Soviet military was buying Speak-n-Spell and other toys to get the chips. They had the ability to design the chips they needed, they just didn't have the ability to make them.
I'm not sure how factual this was, but it did make for a good story.
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Wordle 791 4/6
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Wordle 791 6/6
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Wordle 791 6/6*
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That was close ... too close ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 791 6/6
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