For all my life I have loved things that fly. It rubbed off on my son and he is now a bush pilot in the far north of Canada and loving his life.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I'd be very interested to see this. Upload times are irritating.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I like my Surface.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Self driving cars will work when they don't have to deal with human drivers on the roads.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I tried this a couple Windows versions ago and had nothing but pain. There were apps that didn't work and settings kept flipping back to their default location. I now blithely accept where Windows wants to put things and my machines just seem to work better.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I have to stop coding after about 9pm. If I continue after that, I am up much of the night and wasted the next day.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

raddevus wrote:

I've recently converted my breadboard prototype (rat's nest of wires)[^]

Where did you get the breadboard done? I've got a couple of projects and started the research, but was a little overwhelmed. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Any recommendations on "best" FREE CAD software?

I really like OpenSCAD - CAD for programmers. I've been able to make some pretty cool designs without a lot of difficulty.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I gave in and started using Edge. Not much difference for me.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Average age of my team is 56. However, seeing I'm the only one in my team right now, that's a bit of a cheat.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Yeah, I picked up Arduino in earnest. I just finished installing a Google Assistant voice operated system for individually controlling the 8 recessed lights in my kids' "Game Dungeon". "Hey Google, light pattern 'front half'" will turn on the lights in the front half of the room and the back half off. I have half a dozen named patterns, but they can also be addresses with a bitwise number. "Hey Google, light pattern 162" will turn on 10100010. I had great fun and taught my kids binary.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

... and we buy plywood in 4'x8' x 5.0mm sheets.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I live in Canada and have been using metric since grade school. That being said, I still buy 2x4's for framing, and sheets of plywood come in 4x8 sheets. The crazy thing is that our plywood is often 4x8 sheet by 5mm.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I have spent far too much time "correcting" data from US sources. It is frustrating.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I've put in a couple over the years. The one I liked best was every 17th time the mouse hovered over a certain small icon, the icon image would briefly change from the finger pointer to a middle finger pointer. QA saw it on the first day but couldn't reproduce it. He came laughing to my office and asked if he saw what he thought he did. I believe we took it out. I spent a lot of time making that image!

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I built a data warehouse and taught my users Excel Pivot Tables. Once they get it, I am never bothered for reports again. For ad-hoc queries, this is great. I use SSRS for pre-defined reports. It is so easy to use, to update and deploy reports.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I enjoyed the series right up until they were able to insert a little card into their existing engine that allowed them to travel anywhere immediately. I know that FTL is imaginary, but I'd think that "blink" might have required a completely different set of physics requiring a new engine or something. My "willing suspension of disbelief" became unwilling at that point.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

I can't express how much I feel what you're saying.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Some trivial apps will be possible, but these solutions always have bottlenecks that make somethings very difficult or impossible.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx