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Stress never kept me awake like this.
I don't drink coffee (well, sometimes a 50/50 chocolate milk/coffee with milk).
Today I'm on my third chocolate milk/double espresso 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Stress never kept me awake like this.
Stress works like erosion. A few days of it should not have much effect. If it continues over months or even years, it will slowly grind away your defenses.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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But I don't stress all that much.
Actually, I haven't been this relaxed since last year!
I've had some stress this year due to a book I had to write (but that's finished now) 
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A book about driving cars with a camping trailer in tight formations?
Or one about cultivating cucumbers, tomatos and tulips?
Making and wearing wooden shoes?
How to operate windmills?
Survival guide when the dam breaks, special chapter about where to get cheese?
Boating with the camping trailer (in case the dam breaks).
Anything, as long as it is not about JavaScript...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I know, I've been sleepy behind the wheel before.
Scary sh*t, you know your life, and possibly other lives, depend on you staying awake, yet you can't fight it.
Just one remedy, start talking, singing and banging your head to music.
Too bad you can't predict it, today went pretty well.
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If you're anxious to wake up in time, then you may not sleep at all indeed. Put away your telephone and turn the alarm-clock so you can't see the time - when waking in the middle of the night, don't look at the time. If it is dark it means you should sleep.
Also, "stress" is not just when you're doing a lot of stuff under pressure. If you put something heavy on a piece of wood, that piece of wood will be "stressed". Waking up every day while even the birds outside are sleeping is a form of stress, since it is not part of the natural state.
Lastly, you should not drive indeed. You may become sleep-drunk in a few hours, which starts out with slower reactions and drifting of concentration.
Good luck today 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Welcome to the start of "getting old".  Unbroken sleep is one of the first casualties.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Heard that before, but I still can't believe it.
I usually sleep like a log, like my neighbors seriously complained about them waking up by someone's alarm every morning at 7.
They said it couldn't be mine because I never got up at 7...
It was mine and they were right, I never got up at 7 because I'd sleep through my alarm
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Sander Rossel wrote: Went to sleep at about 22:30 last night, little on the late side considering my alarm goes off at 05:00.
Forget about that, I woke up at friggin 01:00 for no reason at all and haven't been able to sleep after that
Ah the heartbreaking travails of those who still still sleep through the night!
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I cannot give you advice regarding HP machines. I only buy Dell.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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VISWESWARAN1998 wrote: are these pre-installed keyloggers accidental?? Is buying HP safe, cause I planned to buy one?
Blow the OS away. Reinstall from a clean MSDN ISO (as a developer, you do have an MSDN subscription, right?)
Then go to hp.com for the one or two drivers for the hardware that Device Manager doesn't recognize out of the box.
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Quote: as a developer, you do have an MSDN subscription, right?
In the case of Windows 10, once your new machine reports that Windows is activated, you can download a Windows 10 Install Tool to replace the OS. No need to have a MSDN subscription. I have done this several times.
Once the new OS is up and running, it should report that it is activated.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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True - my point was that getting an ISO from Microsoft, rather than an OEM's, is about the most reliable way of ensuring you're not getting unexpected third-party crapware.
As an MSDN subscriber, I'll go to those images first, when this is for my own machines. For anyone else--yeah, I've used their general download page...it's about time that Windows can re-fetch the key from MS, once it's been registered on a given machine.
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Probably jus some lazy programmer included it in his standard library.
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Or maybe a side effect of "Made In China" ? ? ?
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When I buy a pre-built machine or laptop, I ALWAYS install a different copy of Windows on it as opposed to leaving their crapware-filled OS on the box. Then I let Windows update take care of the drivers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: I ALWAYS install a different copy of Windows
Ditto for me! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So, I'm testing some ftp s/w on Windows. Standard code, details deliberately dropped:
handle myHandle = FtpFindFirstFile();
if (NULL != myHandle)
{
do
{
} while (InternetFindNextFile());
}
I'm in the debugger, I just want to see the values in some data structures. Code keeps dropping right out of the do loop. Code steps in, loop exits, I know there are more files matching than just the first... wth is going on?
duh, compiler be too smart - nothing in the do loop, why bother? Add a variable increment in the loop, all works.   so much time lost
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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