Yes, yes and YES. I've got 6 of the little critters - two from my sister and 2 each from my Darling's sisters. Currently driving 2 of them home from (a special) school every day and really enjoying the time we spend together. Started with the 12 year old about a 15 months ago and his 14 year old brother about a school term ago. I just can't stop pinching myself at how much the younger has improved in that time. Went from being a self-centered, psychopathic little shyte into a respectful, empathetic little boy. Their parents seem not to have had the energy to devote to them that I have and it seems everyone is benefitting from my input. Different sorts of problems to solve than when I was coding all the time, but I wouldn't give it up for the world. We've all grown and become better versions of ourselves. The others are 5 & 7, and 17 & 19. It's been interesting to see how I relate best to the middle pair. There seems to be an inverse relationship between how I relate to the parents and how I get along with the kids - absolutely fascinating. As far as I'm concerned, the oldest 4 are all simply inexperienced adults. Treating them as such seems to give me an edge. Happy days. :-D

I wasn't quite old enough to use Watcom back in that era, but I hae a similar reaction when seeing the word thunk. Came from the time I wrote a class library to wrap Windows objects with. Pulling a pointer to the class instance from the long value associated with a window. Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair. :laugh:

Nope. A low energy image displayed on an OLED is black, since none of the (light-emitting) pixels are emitting light. A low energy image displayed on an LCD is white, since none of the (light-stopping) shutters are powered. The backlight is a given cost, but to get a dark pixel requires that we polarize the light from the backlight such that it cannot pass through the display. On the types of displays found on old watches, calculators etc, the segments appear black because the segment is powered and the light from the environment cannot pass through the display to then reflect on the back of it and return to our eyes. Colour LCDs have a Red, a Green and a Blue channel (passive) filter for each pixel as well as a(n active) shutter for each of the channels. So a fully red image uses as much power as a fully green image or a fully blue image. You can get higher contrast ratios on OLEDs because there's less bleed-through from adjacent pixels and because emitting no light works better than turning an LCD shutter on. I don't know if OLEDs are similar to regular LEDs, in which similar brightness for different colours requires a different amount of power. Blue LEDs for instance, are considerably brighter for a given wattage than red ones. As an interesting side-note, LEDs can be used to *detect* light!

Yup, the edit nails it. For LCD, light-mode uses less energy.

I use dark-mode because I'm a tight-arse and the battery lasts longer, even though I prefer the aesthetic of light-mode.

Flagged as primarily opinion-based.. ;P

One of my favourites, that one. Haven't heard this punchline before and I like it. :thumbsup: I'm familiar with "It's not the joke buddy, it's how ya tell it"

An electric ear-cleaner? :laugh:

While it's not my preference from a visual stand-point, I now have it activated on both my phone and this laptop for the same reason - battery life. LCDs use the least power on white pixels, since you aren't powering the shutter which obscures the backlight. OLEDs use the least power on a black pixel, since you aren't powering the LED which makes the light.

Sander Rossel wrote:

time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time ;)

Sander Rossel wrote:

It's a bit of a "playground" for new tech and upgrades too, though.

Bingo, got it in 1, imo. I too started invoicing with excel and grew to hate it, so similarly rolled my own in html. Then I got the hump with the pdfs the virtual printer was producing so rolled-up my sleeves and wrote a pdf creation library. In javascript. :laugh: I'm in the middle of dealing with becoming frustrated at having to choose from one of the 14 inbuilt fonts. I've got a browser window open with more documents that say Apple on them than is reasonable and I've got a basic understanding of True Type Fonts, all ready to start creating a 'subset-font' which only contains the glyphs actually present in the document. Did you know that some TTFs are in excess of 25mb !? The last invoice I created with Excel has a single line-item and is about 37.5kb, while the ones my library is bashing out often have about 20 line-items and weigh-in at about 2kb The font I started using in Excel was Calibri. The TTF file for that bad-boy is something like 8mb. No. I'm not a complete masochist. I did grab someone else's library to handle the FLATE compression used in the document. (but only after becoming frustrated with my inability to create a compatible bit-stream) Even entering the 20 or so line-items for each client every month is getting a bit old now. Next step is to write a mobile-app with access to SMS messages, since I send "start work" and "stop work" messages and bill by the minute instead of 15 min blocks, as is the norm with the work I'm doing. But none of the software-dev is what I consider uselessly wasted time. It's all been as Sebastian Lague puts it, a coding-adventure. [Coding Adventure: Rendering Text - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO83KQuuZvg) /ramble

charlieg wrote:

I recommend watching as many of these videos as possible: Toodaloo! - YouTube[^]

Ahhh, that's it - thanks a million. I bumped into a few of them the other week and laughed my backside off. Then I couldn't remember what the channel was called and since I'd been watching in incognito mode, had no history. Soon as I saw the University of North Texas mug, I knew they'd be a hoot. :laugh:

Haha, that brings back fun memories. :thumbsup:

Ooh, unpleasant. I'd hoped it'd work when using a mouse, since you'd have a cursor. Nope.

I suppose so, yes; Which then prompts me to wonder why the "Allow private email replies to this message" checkbox remains on the Reply To Message screen; :laugh: I've just realized my brain did something funny. It somehow slipped into code-mode and ended the sentences with a semi-colon instead of a period.

Oooh. After seeing the remark about it being rap-like, the sound was unexpected and a lot of fun. Reminds me a bit of both [Chicks On Speed - We Don'T Play Guitars - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK9XQLSpFBA) [Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g\_1kziD6Lec) Thanks :thumbsup:

Ahhh, of course. Thanks for speculating. :thumbsup: I couldn't for the life of me come up with a theory as to why gender would play such a role. But when you put it that way, it seems perfectly reasonable that men simply had those less adept at the skill culled from their ranks, leaving only the proficient ones left to create offspring.

Both my Mum and my partner exhibit LRD quite commonly. I can't think of any men I've known who commonly confuse the two. For a long time, I'd jokingly say, "Oh.. you mean boys right?". I've long since learned to hold up a hand and point left or right when confirming directions in the car. That invariably works just fine. I've just read a few excerpts from research papers on the subject which suggest there to be a greater number of women afflicted than men. Fewer however, than has been suggested by historical studies - studies which often asked questions which relied upon mental rotation of an image to discern if it was a left or right hand being presented. Men typically perform more accurately at rotation tasks. When studies have been run which remove this task from tests, the difference is smaller but still present. On a side-note, I've just learned that about 65% of orangutangs are left-handed.

You need to have been awarded the Protector status. (That's the one with the shield on your avatar) It isn't listed here: [Member Reputation System](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Reputation.aspx) and I've either never known or simply forgotten how to obtain it. (I suspect it's awarded manually)

Sure, provided you consider both Lowes & also Bed, Bath & Beyond part of the "housing market".

What is data ? From a cursory look, it seems likely to be a text-string which holds "<tr></tr>" Updating the innerHTML of an element is discouraged, since it causes a complete recalculation of it and its children for the purposes of display. A better approach is to create elements and then append them to their parents. Depending on the quantity of content to be added, the <template> may be the best way of creating all the new elements. As a simple example, let's create a link

let a =document.createElement('a');
a.textContent = "Goto google homepage";
a.href = "https://www.google.com";
document.body.appendChild(a);

Which, is a much better approach than:

let parent = document.body;
parent.innerHTML += "<a href='www.google.com'>Goto google homepage</a>"