It's up to 25 now, and counting.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

I have found it to be a very good collection of knowledge from previously asked questions. I refrain from asking questions there though. Thankfully, I have rarely had a question that I did not find an answer for either here or there.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Mine is a Peruvian restaurant in Corning, CA. Unfortunately they are closed now. They made the best version of my favorite dish that I have ever had and I've had it at a lot of places. That dish is Lomo Saltado. I really like it with a blasting hot rocoto sauce. The dish has just a few very simple ingredients but when the sauce is made right they work together really well. Contrary to most recipes for it on the net, the key is to use no vinegar. That's how they made it in Corning and I asked them specifically about this because I have seen and had such a wide variation of tastes. My other favorite place is Pappadeaux's. It's a chain of Cajun restaurants in the Southeast USA. I have been to about four of them in Dallas and Atlanta and I really like them. The last time I was there I had blackened rockfish and it was tremendous. Probably the best seafood I have ever had. At one of the thems in Atlanta they had a live band playing for people waiting to get in. It was pretty cool.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Another Visual Studio update almost always comes with a new set bugs. This one is no exception. They have broken Find In Files this time.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

I have done something like this just a few times and I remember them fairly clearly. One was because of performance reasons and the other was because C does not have templates. This does not appear to be either case. In fact, it's a single-pass pseudo-loop. I have done that too but never in a macro and never when there wasn't at least a few breaks in the "loop." I see no good reasons at all for this monstrosity.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

You keep pointing out how you are working on a memory-constrained, embedded system so why in the wide world of sports are you supporting TrueType fonts? JUST SAY NO!

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

I never have. I tried the newer version of their 2D Paint program with its ribbon interface and I couldn't stand it so I use an older version of it from 2008. I think that means it is from Windows 7 but it still works fine and I like it a lot better than their current one.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks it was actually Equifax who did it in a scheme to boost subscriptions to their service.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

It could be universe telling you, "thou shalt not do anything important on Friday."

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

That was interesting to read. Adam's interjections got a bit annoying but that's OK. I found one line in particular to be hilarious :

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I’ve never seen anybody use a GUI in a clever way. Ever. There’s no cleverness to it.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Thanks for the warning. They are sure doing a great job convincing me to avoid W11 and I am certain W12 will be even worse.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

The state of California and a few others have already banned them.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

That is very good news. I hope they have LOTs of trouble with that and I have zero interest in an "AI PC", regardless of who makes it.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

That explains it. Apparently I pressed that combination randomly and I didn't know it. Thanks!

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

A while ago I pressed some combination of buttons on my key and all the windows of the car went down. I have no idea what buttons were pressed and it hasn't happened since.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

There are (at least) two variants of the protocol. One is called RTU and has the checksum because it sends the data purely in a binary format. The other is called ASCII and as the name implies it sends the data in ASCII hexadecimal mode with two bytes for each byte of data. It has also been adapted for use with TCP and that data is sent in binary mode but it relies on the TCP packet checksum so there isn't an explicit one sent with the data. That reminds of a funny old story. Sorry, I'm an old codger and I have a million of 'em. :cool: In the late 1980s I was working on automation projects that used VAXes as controllers. We were polling a bunch of actual RTUs with a VAX-750 and the CRC calculation was taking the CPU to its knees. DEC was aware of the problem so they decided to do the CRC calculation in hardware using the table lookup method. To implement the instruction(s) required them to retrofit the CPU boards of the computer and to do that they sent out their local service representative. He proceeded to remove the CPU circuit board, which was about a two foot square, and he changed a whole bunch of wire-wrapped lines on the board. This was a bit-slice architecture minicomputer using AMD 4-bit wide chips. I was truly blown away seeing this transpire as I had never seen anything like it before or since. It worked too as we used much less of the CPU after the changes.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

There is no need to pass data through it at all. All that does is unnecessarily add another potential point of failure. This is RS-485 which is inherently multi-drop so it would be much better to have a listen-only device.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

When I was in school we used to impress the girls when we said, "monostable multivibrator." Most thought it involved bedroom accessories. (it's a 555 circuit configuration.)

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

As was said in Calvin and Hobbes, "Verbing nouns weirds the language."

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"