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Wordle 853 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

I’ll have to send that one to my sister. She’s an OB/GYN so I’m sure she’ll get a kick out of it.

Back to Windows. I had bought a laptop with Win7 and had no internet connection + 13 exams to be passed in a year without any excuse. Well, I discovered that 7 was a beast of stability, no blue screens at all and was resilient to all kinds of software abuses. I quickly got used to it and never looked back. I had the chance to use Linux for embedded development twice in the past 3 years and :elephant: it all with renewed fervor, the various developers managed to insert Windows unpredictability in Linux's complexity - having the wifi/bluetooth drivers correctly activated on 50% of boots is Windows 98 levels of idiocy, and 98 was the one that couldn't resume from standby (until the famous 2nd edition. I was there, Gandalf...). GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next

Yupe, that's a nice point of view 😉

Wordle 852 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 odd one "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

StarNamer@work wrote: I definitely think the Pfizer vaccination has more side effects as I had the AstraZeneca one before and had no side effects at all. Of course, it could just be that I getting old... :) Not sure who's the older one between the two of us, but I had the initial Pfizer (BioNTech) shot and all the boosters since and didn't have any side effects, beside a bit of a sore upper arm for a couple of hours, but that was to be expected...

[Sandia to celebrate 40 years of solar power research – LabNews](https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2018/07/20/solar-tower/) You will like this. 5 MW thermal from solar.

Here is a link that provides reliable scientific information about Covid The conversations between Vincent and Dr. Daniel Griffin titled This Week in Virology https://www.youtube.com/c/VincentRacaniello/videos[^]

trønderen wrote: I have seen compile times drop by a factor far larger than 60! I think you read more into what I said than what is there. Given a current product which is currently running in a production environment. The performance for that and only that is impacted by the following 1. Requirements (highest impact) 2. Architecture 3. Design/implementation 4. Technology. (lowest) The above statement has nothing to do with the history of computing. It is specifically about the real world day to day needs of developers that might attempt to increase performance. trønderen wrote: The ability to trap to the debugger on special conditions can be very helpful, That of course has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with features of the debugger. Going on that it was a lot easier to debug 50 years ago because threads did not exist. And because the hardware was much slower.

But someone went to the extra trouble of blocking specific automations. I bet the t-word was uttered quite a lot during the design and testing of these. I’m not really complaining, if they want to not implement certain features, then so be it. I just found it curious that they considered these security risks. If that’s the reason. Maybe there’s some other explanation. [Shortcut automation does not have the opt… - Apple Community](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255047088) Unrelated, came across a cool use for automations [Use This Automation To Protect Your iPhone If Stolen While Unlocked – Matthew Cassinelli](https://matthewcassinelli.com/apple-shortcuts-iphone-automation-protect-stolen-unlocked/)

I was rough as a very rough thing from the planet RoughIsUs. "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!

Looks like you've found a solution. I'm going to have a look at qview as well, it seems nice. I think irfanview might also be able to do what you want. It has a compare images function which can zoom in and lock the zoom level.

Is there a connection between Longhorn and the worst code? Like was the worst code part of Longhorn? The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

OriginalGriff wrote: uBlock shows how many ads it blocked on the current page I suppose I just do not 'see' them because I do not look. So just now when I looked at the youtube side bar (right) I can see a list of 'videos' and some of them look like ads. But I almost never look at that. So I don't see them.

Just to be clear, I've no hatred of either Linux or Mac. I own and use a MacBook Pro and iPad for my music production and like them fine, as well as my iPhone. As for Linux I just don't have the time or interest to overcome the issues I've had with it or the learning curve of using it, and even if I did it cannot do everything I need it to do with the tools I already own. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.    - Thomas Sowell A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.    - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)

You're right, it is annoying. Just googled if it can be turned off and apparently it's simply a checkbox in settings (together with "send anonymous usage statistics"). Why didn't I think of that before? :laugh: dandy72 wrote: I'm reminded of the Winzip trial nagware That's a bit unfair. It's a good product and it's free. I start nagging too when my customers don't pay (and after 3,000+ days I'm not as friendly as Winzip about it) :D Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

I think he is Peter he hasn't posted since last night which is not like him 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