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Most of Florida would take up all that space, then. Looking at all the new housing single family residential) going up near me, I see that virtually all water, sewer and electric is entombed in the poured concrete slab the building is built on.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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A friend from Europe liked to call residential houses in the states “cabins” due to the wood framing.
The houses in his country are concrete and rebar designed to withstand a sizable earthquake!
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Well, Florida regulations require hurricane proof construction now. My house is block and rebar with the block spaces filled with concrete.
Dominican houses go even further, my house there is of poured concrete with rebar.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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The same MS anti-principles were at work in the design of System.Windows.Point/Size, and System.Drawing.Point/Size 
Hope that makes you feel better !
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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As a temporary fix, just cut a filler piece that will make the cabinet opening wider!
Back it with a slightly oversized piece so that there will be no cracks when you glue it into the opening.
(If this was a program, would you implement the “fix” in the completed module(the door) or add some “extension” method outside the working code.)
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Nah, it'll look wrong - and I'll see that door every day and "know" it's wrong.
I'll make another door, but I'll have to order another sheet of Birch ply - I can't get a good panel out of what's left of the other two! 
"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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Good to see you are not following standard software practices!
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There is a new games console out there – the Nopunintendo!
"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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No pun in 10 did. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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That's given me an idea for a CCC clue
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In one innuendo and out the other
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Howard Shore - The Breaking of the Fellowship[^]
An iconic track in the The Lord of the Rings franchise!
A favorite of LOTR and soundtrack fans, the Breaking of the Fellowship.
Last week, I was assembling some all-time favorite tracks and this one came up and it kind of stuck.
It features the beautiful main theme of LOTR, which can be heard in other tracks as well (for example, in "Concerning Hobbits", another fan and personal favorite).
Now I need to re-watch the trilogy.
Wasn't there a new extended 4K release a while ago? 
For now, I'll just listen to this, SOTW!
Pro-tip: listen to May It Be (by Enya)[^] next, they're the last two tracks on the official soundtrack and they kind of fit together.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Wasn't there a new extended 4K release a while ago?
Looks like you're right. I either forgot that had happened, or was simply unaware of it. I will probably have to splurge for this.
I usually avoid doing this sort of thing, but this'll be the first [series of] movies I will have bought on DVD, then Blu-Ray, then UHD...
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I wanted the Blu-Ray when it came out, but I didn't want to spend so much money for something I already had.
Then, some years later, I found it on sale, only about €60 for the extended Blu-Ray trilogy, if I remember correctly, not expensive in any case.
Didn't buy it that day and I've always regretted it, until I read that an even better version was coming 
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An "even better version" is always coming.
But, I suspect sales of physical media is going to take a nosedive (it already has), and even though we'll have better formats like 8K, very few titles are ever going to be re-re-re-released, thanks to streaming.
But then, we'll need even more bandwidth to stream at those resolutions.
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Waiting for 32K or even 64K before I buy the next version
dandy72 wrote: very few titles are ever going to be re-re-re-released
Tell that to Bethesda (Skyrim) and Rockstar Games (GTA V) 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Waiting for 32K or even 64K before I buy the next version
I understand what you're saying, but there is a point of diminishing returns. In order to appreciate an 8K video, you start to need a ridiculously large display - larger than what's considered a large TV nowadays. If they ever bother with anything higher than 8K, you won't find that in consumer electronics.
Sander Rossel wrote: dandy72 wrote: very few titles are ever going to be re-re-re-released
Tell that to Bethesda (Skyrim) and Rockstar Games (GTA V)
There's a huge difference between redoing a game, and re-releasing a movie to take advantage of higher resolution and a better sound mix.
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Eliminate the first entry, since I wrote "if [...] anything higher than 8K". 8K is not higher than 8K. I have little doubt we'll see 8K in time. I'm questioning beyond that.
As for the second entry - I'm not trying to move the goalposts, but "it exists and is available" isn't quite the same as "you can find this in every home nowadays". The $5M figure from the article doesn't exactly make it "consumer electronics".
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dandy72 wrote: The $5M figure from the article doesn't exactly make it "consumer electronics".
Sounds like something a poor person would say
Already ordered mine (together with the LOTR 16K remaster, of course) 
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Lemme know when you receive it, I'll be right over to watch on your 63-foot "TV".
Too bad none of the pictures from the article were showing that "63 foot" beast. Clearly that wasn't a typo (63 inches) as it's clearly larger than that. But it's nowhere near 63 feet either; that's longer than a tractor trailer.
And they say it's modular...so, it's a matrix of smaller screens...? I'd really like to see the bevel on those. I find the lack of pictures disturbing.
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Nice ...  it's not my cup of tea, but I appreciate the quality and the composition. But, today something happened  ... when I found 5 minutes free from work to check some MDM on YT, the algorithm gave me suddenly this
WALK IN DARKNESS - Bent by Storms and Dreams (Official Video) - YouTube
- another great Italian band, out of nowhere ... Perhaps their best track, there are also some other on YT, less interesting ...
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