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Heh, excellent - thank you! Latest Articles: A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity Framework

Mike Hankey wrote: A deaf mute guy walks up to a foursome on the first hole Yeah, I had something completely different in mind than golf when I first read this. Jeremy Falcon

jmaida wrote: Der Wienerschnitzel They removed the "Der" from the name in 1978 but the restaurant still exists to this day as just "Wienerschnitzel". I used to go to this place for their double-bacon cheeseburger with guacamole. It was amazing!! There menu online is very different now then it was in the late 1980's.

Nelek wrote: cop-opt? Have no idea how that phrase came to be... but it means to avoid doing something. Taking the easy way. Not doing it, etc. Nelek wrote: Fvck... I just realized I have used "25 years ago", referring to me in adult age... damn it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Welcome to the club brother. On the upside we get to start taking Bingo seriously soon. Jeremy Falcon

I get where you are coming from, but here's an [Interesting intellectual excursion](https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U+28FF) Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver

You should have used inflation from 1979.... No win. :( :laugh: Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver

Nice explanation 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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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 .

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.

I never imagined loosing your primary email would have that much of an impact. Jeremy Falcon wrote: For what it's worth, hope you get it all solved man This is CodeProject! My email is updated and same password, within a day. Now, to update the taxman.. That's going to be harder ofc :D Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

This feature is useful to avoid all kind of bugs related to the usage of mutable values with multiple ownership shared through references. Think about scenarios when a method 'foo' receives an object as an input parameter. The initial contract is that the object's fields are not changed inside 'foo' . In a big codebase there would be many places where 'foo' becomes used over time, with the semantics of not changing the fields of the input object. If at some point someone makes a change in 'foo' to mutate one of the fields, this could cause many non obvious problems. In practice, in complex codebases these problems might be difficult to detect in a code review. Immutable types and non destructive mutation provide a solution to better express this kind of semantic. If you can't explain something to a six year old, you really don't understand it yourself. (Albert Einstein)

Yes, on MS-DOS there was char 26 (Ctrl-Z) which was an end-of-file marker in at least some cases. Even in the past ten years I've had to deal with char 26 appearing in string values and causing trouble. At most I would use P/Invoke to call the Windows API routines to read the file. And I would implement my own buffering system. Then add layers from there. But that's still just theoretical.

MarkTJohnson wrote: I love the "would you consider a cash offer on your house" calls too. I always say, "Yes, $100,000,000 firm." Well that is amusing.

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I've found that for some of these systems if I pound on the '*' key on the phone's keypad, I bypass the fricking "press 1 for xxxxx, press 2 for yyyyy" and go right to a (not necessarily competent nor understandable) human service rep.

It was a good clue. :thumbsup: "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!

apparently your fingers you can count on to count the muon