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  • J Joan M

    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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    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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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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      Joan M
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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...

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      • M Marco Bertschi

        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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        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 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

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          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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          Marco Bertschi
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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

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          • J Joan M

            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 – ∞)

            "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

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              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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              Rage
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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

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              • M Marco Bertschi

                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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                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 – ∞)

                "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

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  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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                  Marco Bertschi
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                  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[^]

                  Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

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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

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                    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 – ∞)

                    "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

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      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 – ∞)

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                      Rage
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                      Well, carbon monoxide is much more insidious, it may not want to kill right away...

                      ~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

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                      • M Marco Bertschi

                        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[^]

                        Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

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                        Mmmmm! The localization is good as well... :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 – ∞)

                        "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

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          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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                          Septimus Hedgehog
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                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          It's the Carbon Monoxide detector.

                          You are of course going to replace the detector? We'd hate to see you suddenly disappear from CP because you went to sleep and never woke up again because of an inconvenient CO problem.

                          If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.

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                          • S Septimus Hedgehog

                            OriginalGriff wrote:

                            It's the Carbon Monoxide detector.

                            You are of course going to replace the detector? We'd hate to see you suddenly disappear from CP because you went to sleep and never woke up again because of an inconvenient CO problem.

                            If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.

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                            Probably - but it's low priority. We got it when we were using the solid fuel burner, but we stopped a few years ago because it was too much hassle (and getting very expensive). At the moment we are on electric storage heaters, which don't produce CO anyway, so it isn't urgent.

                            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 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

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                            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                              Mmmmm! The localization is good as well... :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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                              Marco Bertschi
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                              DEUTSCH is the future world. Hmm, I guess I am not the first one who comes up with this...

                              Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

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                              • M Marco Bertschi

                                DEUTSCH is the future world. Hmm, I guess I am not the first one who comes up with this...

                                Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

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                                As long as you don't start demanding Lebensraum and start eyeing up my hard drive... :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 – ∞)

                                "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

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  As long as you don't start demanding Lebensraum and start eyeing up my hard drive... :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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                                  Marco Bertschi
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                                  You talk to a Developer. I am perfectly happy with the little desk I have here.

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                                    You talk to a Developer. I am perfectly happy with the little desk I have here.

                                    Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code

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                                    Ah! The famous Swiss neutrality! :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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                                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      Ah! The famous Swiss neutrality! :laugh:

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                                      Marco Bertschi
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                                      We heard what happens to the sheep and decided to stay where we are.

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        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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                                        glennPattonWork3
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                                        Sounds like my life at the moment :)

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          Probably - but it's low priority. We got it when we were using the solid fuel burner, but we stopped a few years ago because it was too much hassle (and getting very expensive). At the moment we are on electric storage heaters, which don't produce CO anyway, so it isn't urgent.

                                          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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                                          Dan Neely
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                                          Are your oven, water heater, and clothes drier electric too? The gas versions of them can produce CO if broken.

                                          Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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