Gah! Can I have a better day today?
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I'm not convinced by laser eye surgery to be honest - I have annual eye tests, and end up with new glasses each time, indicating my eyesight is changing. So I just get the feeling that if I fork out the money for the surgery, I'll end up back with glasses a year or so later...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Our little Dij has gone back to "Winter mode" where he sleeps between my ankles (or knees) but on top of the duvet. Which is nice, but...you do wake up with stiff legs, and it's a PITA to roll over in your sleep. And, if he wakes up before me, my toes are fair game apparently...OUCH! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Ah yes, my little cute kitty (under year, male) still doesn't sleep long enough. He has the habit of sleeping on my legs (4.6 kilos when we visit the vet last week) and he wakes up he goes to my head sits on top and stats purring. Oh the joy of his purring in 4 am. I develop the special skill of not moving my legs with unnesessery movements. Note i love sleeping in a cocoon mode with the duvet folded on the both sides and under my legs and he stills manage to scratch my legs...
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Yesterday was a stupid day: my reading glasses fell apart, and so I had to scrabble round on the carpet looking for a teeny, tiny little screw (without my make-little-things-bigger glasses) until I found it, then it wouldn't go back in without spinning round and round uselessly. OK, trip to the opticians, get 'em fixed. New screw, spinning round and round...Oh oh... Took the nice lady about half an hour to fix 'em, no charge (which was nice) and then found out I am due another eye test (my mother had glaucoma so I have to have annual tests instead of bi-annual). Ok, arrange that for later in the week. Pull out of the parking space to drive home...clunk, clunk, clunk... :wtf: Don't go home. Go to garage. CV joint has gone on the right front. They will order the parts, in today, will fix it tomorrow. Get home, and realize that it's lunchtime Monday and due to the two appointments I didn't know I was going to get, I'm already over a day late for the week... :sigh: Then 1AM, I'm woken by Herself yelling at the smoke detector to shut up. Not, you will note, by the smoke detector, or by Herself dealing with the smoke detector - just by her yelling at it from the comfort of the nice warm bed she is not about to get out of. Get out of nice warm bed. Open smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Open other smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Look at both smoke detectors with torch. Neither have any battery or mains connector. *BEEP*. It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery. *BEEP* It's screwed together, so lights on, find screwdriver, open. *BEEP* Can't see battery. Get reading glasses, read sticker on *BEEP* inside: "no battery, when it beeps replace whole unit". *BEEP* "Cut this wire to stop beeping". Scissors, scissors...cut wire. Ahhhh.... Back up to now cold bed. Herself snoring away like nothing was happening, myself now wide awake... So I'm now over a day behind schedule, tired, and just a touch elephanted off! How's your week going? Good I hope! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
That's what I can call a day full of satisfaction...
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My week isn't necessarily going better. Caught a damn cold yesterday and it is getting worse. Not much sleep last night, at least not for someone having a cold. Now typing away in agony, with a presentation of one of my final projects due tomorrow. Gonna be nice to present this one, buggered by the cold. Oh, and I am supposed to make the Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams for a STK600 Assembly-Language Real Time Clock, due by tomorrow and handed to the respective teacher (And I know that guy pretty well, a cold is not accepted as excuse).
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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I'm not convinced by laser eye surgery to be honest - I have annual eye tests, and end up with new glasses each time, indicating my eyesight is changing. So I just get the feeling that if I fork out the money for the surgery, I'll end up back with glasses a year or so later...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
My wife made it and she is ultra-happy with it, no more glasses neither contact lenses. She always says it was like a reset on her eyesight. Don't know, I find myself with a good vision so I've not tried it. She ended up at Barraquer's clinic[^] in Barcelona which is like a referral in he vision world (at least it is full of Dubai people). So if you are thinking about it you could combine it with a leisure travel to make tourism in Barcelona. The recovery seems to be fast (two days was what it took on my wife). But after all this, I've seen you are not worried about the Mercedes neither about the nest thing... will you get any of them?
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Yesterday was a stupid day: my reading glasses fell apart, and so I had to scrabble round on the carpet looking for a teeny, tiny little screw (without my make-little-things-bigger glasses) until I found it, then it wouldn't go back in without spinning round and round uselessly. OK, trip to the opticians, get 'em fixed. New screw, spinning round and round...Oh oh... Took the nice lady about half an hour to fix 'em, no charge (which was nice) and then found out I am due another eye test (my mother had glaucoma so I have to have annual tests instead of bi-annual). Ok, arrange that for later in the week. Pull out of the parking space to drive home...clunk, clunk, clunk... :wtf: Don't go home. Go to garage. CV joint has gone on the right front. They will order the parts, in today, will fix it tomorrow. Get home, and realize that it's lunchtime Monday and due to the two appointments I didn't know I was going to get, I'm already over a day late for the week... :sigh: Then 1AM, I'm woken by Herself yelling at the smoke detector to shut up. Not, you will note, by the smoke detector, or by Herself dealing with the smoke detector - just by her yelling at it from the comfort of the nice warm bed she is not about to get out of. Get out of nice warm bed. Open smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Open other smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Look at both smoke detectors with torch. Neither have any battery or mains connector. *BEEP*. It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery. *BEEP* It's screwed together, so lights on, find screwdriver, open. *BEEP* Can't see battery. Get reading glasses, read sticker on *BEEP* inside: "no battery, when it beeps replace whole unit". *BEEP* "Cut this wire to stop beeping". Scissors, scissors...cut wire. Ahhhh.... Back up to now cold bed. Herself snoring away like nothing was happening, myself now wide awake... So I'm now over a day behind schedule, tired, and just a touch elephanted off! How's your week going? Good I hope! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Can't you get a sick week or something and leave the beloved team deal with this situation ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
Tricky thing is that I need to present that Project tomorrow, and had to collect some signatures for the project documentation. I'd be up anyways, if I can collect the signatures I can work as well.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Not met them before: I can see what they are trying to do, but it does look - um - rather messy and forced?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
They have their use, but they were initially invented in 1973, so they are not usable for anything else than structured programming. Every teacher at my school thinks that these diagrams are the ultimate way to plan a structured program (which Assembler is, unfortunately).
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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My wife made it and she is ultra-happy with it, no more glasses neither contact lenses. She always says it was like a reset on her eyesight. Don't know, I find myself with a good vision so I've not tried it. She ended up at Barraquer's clinic[^] in Barcelona which is like a referral in he vision world (at least it is full of Dubai people). So if you are thinking about it you could combine it with a leisure travel to make tourism in Barcelona. The recovery seems to be fast (two days was what it took on my wife). But after all this, I've seen you are not worried about the Mercedes neither about the nest thing... will you get any of them?
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The Merc isn't my kind of car: I switched from a Mitsubishi Shogun to a old-style Merc A Class a couple of years ago and it's about the right size. Herself can get in and out of it, even on a bad day (she has arthritis in her hips, so some cars are close to impossible) and it's reasonably cheap to run. Cars don't enthuse me: I preferred the speed and acceleration of motorcycles! :laugh: I don't burn the toast. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The Merc isn't my kind of car: I switched from a Mitsubishi Shogun to a old-style Merc A Class a couple of years ago and it's about the right size. Herself can get in and out of it, even on a bad day (she has arthritis in her hips, so some cars are close to impossible) and it's reasonably cheap to run. Cars don't enthuse me: I preferred the speed and acceleration of motorcycles! :laugh: I don't burn the toast. ;)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
OK to the merc... Which kind of gasses where detected last night? :suss: :rolleyes:
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Your fire alarm system looks as annoying as an antivirus. And you 'fixed' it like I 'fix' the antivirus.
Veni, vidi, vici.
Our elderly neighbour (until she passed away) was forever saying she wasn't deaf - just the TV volume would make your ears bleed - and I walked out of our house about 100m away to hear a faint beeping...tried to follow it home, which isn't easy because that frequency I find difficult to get any direction from and ended up at her house, with the kitchen full of smoke, and her asleep in her chair. She'd stuffed her heat-in-the-microwave-comfort-pad in the microwave, set it for thirty minutes instead of seconds, and gone off for a nap...Smoke alarm? Didn't even register with her... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OK to the merc... Which kind of gasses where detected last night? :suss: :rolleyes:
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None - just the CO detector at end-of-life: the actual detector uses an electrochemical sensor (unlike the radioactive ionization sensor of a smoke alarm) which only lasts five years. Then you have to work out how to get rid of it safely... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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None - just the CO detector at end-of-life: the actual detector uses an electrochemical sensor (unlike the radioactive ionization sensor of a smoke alarm) which only lasts five years. Then you have to work out how to get rid of it safely... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
OK, never used one so I don't have a clue of how they work (trying to joke a little before :) ). No nest then, only replacements for your devices...
[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]
https://www.robotecnik.com freelance robots, PLC and CNC programmer.
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They have their use, but they were initially invented in 1973, so they are not usable for anything else than structured programming. Every teacher at my school thinks that these diagrams are the ultimate way to plan a structured program (which Assembler is, unfortunately).
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
I got into Dimensional Flowcharting from the late 70's / early 80's when I was on my first Industrial Training placement from Uni: it was structured as well, and did help with designing a logic flow that didn't resemble spaghetti! It didn't catch on, but I still use it to an extent for "paper" designs.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I got into Dimensional Flowcharting from the late 70's / early 80's when I was on my first Industrial Training placement from Uni: it was structured as well, and did help with designing a logic flow that didn't resemble spaghetti! It didn't catch on, but I still use it to an extent for "paper" designs.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
I'd stick with normal flow diagrams, If I had the choice. Whatever, the teacher sticks with "Flow diagrams end up in spaghetti code, use Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams!".
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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OK, never used one so I don't have a clue of how they work (trying to joke a little before :) ). No nest then, only replacements for your devices...
[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]
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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yesterday was a stupid day: my reading glasses fell apart, and so I had to scrabble round on the carpet looking for a teeny, tiny little screw (without my make-little-things-bigger glasses) until I found it, then it wouldn't go back in without spinning round and round uselessly. OK, trip to the opticians, get 'em fixed. New screw, spinning round and round...Oh oh... Took the nice lady about half an hour to fix 'em, no charge (which was nice) and then found out I am due another eye test (my mother had glaucoma so I have to have annual tests instead of bi-annual). Ok, arrange that for later in the week. Pull out of the parking space to drive home...clunk, clunk, clunk... :wtf: Don't go home. Go to garage. CV joint has gone on the right front. They will order the parts, in today, will fix it tomorrow. Get home, and realize that it's lunchtime Monday and due to the two appointments I didn't know I was going to get, I'm already over a day late for the week... :sigh: Then 1AM, I'm woken by Herself yelling at the smoke detector to shut up. Not, you will note, by the smoke detector, or by Herself dealing with the smoke detector - just by her yelling at it from the comfort of the nice warm bed she is not about to get out of. Get out of nice warm bed. Open smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Open other smoke detector, remove battery. Back to bed. *BEEP* -yelling- Get out of nice warm bed. Look at both smoke detectors with torch. Neither have any battery or mains connector. *BEEP*. It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery. *BEEP* It's screwed together, so lights on, find screwdriver, open. *BEEP* Can't see battery. Get reading glasses, read sticker on *BEEP* inside: "no battery, when it beeps replace whole unit". *BEEP* "Cut this wire to stop beeping". Scissors, scissors...cut wire. Ahhhh.... Back up to now cold bed. Herself snoring away like nothing was happening, myself now wide awake... So I'm now over a day behind schedule, tired, and just a touch elephanted off! How's your week going? Good I hope! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
OriginalGriff wrote:
It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery.
Hhmmm... And did you check whether it really was a false alarm ?
~RaGE();
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I'd stick with normal flow diagrams, If I had the choice. Whatever, the teacher sticks with "Flow diagrams end up in spaghetti code, use Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams!".
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
I can see what they are saying - "normal" ones do encourage unstructured code. But those aren't particularly well designed either to my mind. But...if you gotta use 'em, you gotta use 'em! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I can see what they are saying - "normal" ones do encourage unstructured code. But those aren't particularly well designed either to my mind. But...if you gotta use 'em, you gotta use 'em! :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
The tool we use is already on Version 98, IIRC, and at least stable. Written in good, old Delphi, directly accessing the Windows API. Oh, and there is no 64 bit version of it. Only a 16 and a 32 bit version. Have a glance[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote:
It's the Carbon Monoxide detector. Locate. Can't find battery.
Hhmmm... And did you check whether it really was a false alarm ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Well, I'm not dead... :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
