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That's some beautiful imagery, there. So useful in so many circumstances. Gracias!*
* just one question . . . when and in what context did you first hear it?🚽
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Hear it?
You don't have your own Baboon Clippers?
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: You don't have your own Baboon Clippers?
Not commonly on this side of the Atlantic (numerous expat's notwithstanding).
We do, however, have a substantial (read that humongous) quantity of cretins who's mental facilities are best describe as arising from "between the cheeks".
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Do they employ humans?
Those who are capable of learning to read or write need not apply. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The surest way to set off panic buying and shortage. Get some stupid 'expert' to predict a shortage.  Arghhhhhhhhh!  
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All rumors started by the shadowy bidet industry.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Nathan Minier wrote: shadowy bidet industry.
IBM - International Bidet Manufacturers? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Is a dancing ghost a Polkageist?
"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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That haint a bad post and will obviously get spirited replies (unless I spook too soon).
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Who you gonna call? DANCEBUSTERS!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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That reminds of one of my all-time favorite band names : Polkacide.
"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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Now we we have proof: Griff is getting dotty.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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We shall defer that question to the in-spectre
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Does going extinct mean one is leaving a smelly spouse ?
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Queen of the Nürburgring. Showed Jeremy Clarkson really how to drive.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Died on the 16th of this month of cancer. She was only 51, dammit, too young!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, gone far too soon. And every vid I've ever seen of her she was wearing a big, life-is-fun grin...lovely lady. And FAST!!
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Wow and 512GB...who would ever need that much memory?
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Mike Hankey wrote: 512GB
The new 640KB?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Yep that's exactly what I was thinking!
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So, I always thought after the 640K debacle.
And PART of that was ISOLATING the memory above it to 1MB for the O/S.
And I thought... How stupid, you just created a hole in memory when we go above that.
And we did!
But now, windows 10 has a feature for a restore partition on our hard drives. Instead of allocating it and forcibly leaving space BEFORE the drive partition we would like to expand.
THEY, OF COURSE, put it at the end of the disk. So, when you go to upgrade the drive, you have to play Partition Games, to move the partition to the end of the disk and expand the one you need more space on.
Is it me... Or do we KEEP CREATING the same problems, over and over?
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Is it me... Or do we KEEP CREATING the same problems, over and over?
It's not just you. There are at least two causes for this:
- Companies prefer to hire young engineers out of a false perception that they are (a) cheaper and (b) have more "commitment".
- Said engineers have learnt all the latest stuff in university or college. They all know what is supposed to work. What they haven't internalised is the difference between theory and practice - not all ideas that work in theory necessarily work in practice.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Experience Matters.
But I also blame managers. I had a manager in t he 1980s who taught me a lot.
But we were struggling to get the batch process that should finish over the weekend to finish my Monday Night/Tuesday Morning.
One OLD (and long gone) developer, wrote a faster version of the update programs. It was a 2 pass system, once would read a tape, and merge with the file, the other would loop over and rebuild all of the handmade index files for fast searching. One problem was that errors on the tape caused corruption, which caused us to restore the master file, which took the ONLY tape drive off line.
I had a different idea. One pass. Write an entire new set of files. Completely restartable without a restore, and the resulting "new" files were being created while tape access was relatively slow anyways. It simply required enough free space for one extra master file (which, we had).
On the back of the envelope, I calculated that this this reduces "reads" by at least 2.
The second week, the master file would be in the same order as the tape (which removed a need for an index file, I was forced to keep), and the sequential read of that file would be much faster.
The manager REALLY WANTED me to fix the OLD 2-pass version, so they did not have to claim the loss of investment???? (Sunk Cost Anyone???) I was a teenager still, and without his blessing, I stayed late, 1-2 hrs every night, and worked on weekends to write the first version of this...
It was MORE than 2 times faster. Especially with the new sort. We were finishing on Saturday nights, or Sunday Eve... No more Mondays (in the end)...
The reward, when I showed him the beta version/Proof of concept. they TOOK the project from me, and handed it to a less competent developer who crippled the speed, and I had to save it. Get it online, and PREVENTED them from taking it away, until they ACKNOWLEDGED the benefits!
My Reward, No bonus, and a tiny raise less than COLA... The excuse "you were not a good team player!
And we did not get ALL of the benefits you said" (using my absolute best case, not the base case).
So, SOMETIMES... It's Management.
In 2+ years, I learned a CAREERS worth!
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Incompetence can be found at all ages, and in all professions. My point was that part of the problem is the loss of "institutional memory" caused by preferring young hotshots to older people who have been round the block.
This is not to say that the young hotshots are not, at times, right!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Mike Hankey wrote: who would ever need that much memory?
Microsoft Word? 
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