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You sound like the ever optimistic engineer. You need a reality check on your optimism. Or kiss your sanity goodbye.
There is something maturing going to your customer and saying, "The bad news, it's not gonna get done, the good news, I haven't quit."
There are NO drop dead dates unless it's mission/life critical... drop dead dates are /edit "elephant dung"/edit.
If the date was so critical, there should be a bonus for you if you meet the date. No $$, it's not drop dead. Listen to my wisdom.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 24-Dec-22 15:36pm.
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BobbyStrain wrote: And, if they want it bad, that's the way they will get it. then they should pay really good
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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To do the same amount of coding as you do I have to spend so much time at the computer "QWERTY" is permanently burned into my retina.
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I think you have a lot more hours of coding in you.
If I read that correctly, you mentioned 2 hours a day.
That does not seem like very much, fast coder or not.
You need to pace the project with stages of code.
It's as much planning as speed.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I think you meant that reply for me.
What usually happens is 80% of the project is completed as I said in dribs and drabs, with about 20% of it being 6 hour stretches.
It's what I can handle at a time. It didn't used to be that way, but my mental health isn't what it used to be and there are some hard limits to what I can deal with and the amount these days.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I understand now.
You seem to know what you are doing and know you have constraints (you are not super-honey)
That's good. Protect yourself.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I never accept a delivery date I have not agreed to in the first place. Which means I probably made the estimate. One is only stressed when the path is not clear and one has committed to a time line that one is not sure about.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have to ask simple question here: how can I know my keyboard is a 3270 terminal or non-3270 keyboard?
just to see if there is enter key?
diligent hands rule....
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Get hold of a 3270 emulator and you should have all the information you need.
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thanks for good idea:
diligent hands rule....
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Is there a problem involving keyboards with no enter key? 
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3270 compatible keyboards will typically have two rows of function keys - although early keyboards will have none.
Can you give me some more information about this keyboard please? For example what connector is on the cable? Are there any keys on it that are not on a standard keyboard (a photo would be nice)? Do you know the make/model?
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Unless you have an old school terminal connected to a main frame, the answer is no.
3270 keyboards had a “return” key (with a hooked arrow picture like a bent “tab” arrow) where PCs have the “Enter” key.
3270 keyboards had an “Enter” key where a PC keyboard right Ctrl key is located. Many 3270 emulators use the right Ctrl key for Enter as it is consistent for typing.
On 3270, carriage return is a local operation like tab.
Enter sends all data entered in the screen to the host. IBM 3270 dealt with screens of data at a time versus character at a time.
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I did learn something from old school
diligent hands rule....
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I now possess answers to all the hidden secrets of the universe thanks to Chat GPT. I am now the most powerful wizard of all time. 
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Please don't be so condescending. This 'thing' is really amazing from my point of view. Even if it's wrong every now and then. And we need to watch these 'things'
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Sorry, I don't read, write, or speak jibber-jabber.
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I tried ChatGPT in a non-software related realm. It gave me a rather confusing answer, so I asked a further question for clarification. That seemed to contradict the first answer, which I challenged indirectly. ChatGPT immediately apologised: "I apologize for the mistake in my previous response." and gave a fuller, and correct, response to my questions.
Which is great (and counterbalances your apology to it in your example above!) but does rather imply that it gives the first answer it comes up with, without further checking against its other "knowledge". I was just curious to test it out, but had it done that in - say - a medical diagnosis, I'd potentially be in big trouble.
Transcript here[^]
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It's very chatty. I think it's psycho-analyzing to come up with the best "liked" answer. Then files it for future reference. If it asked you for your name, it could even speak the sweetest sound in the world.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Results:
2 "thumbsup" message responses icons for "Continue next week"
0 "thumbsdown" message responses icon for "Leave it till January".
4 "trophy" responses icon to make @Randor do 'em all!
2 "beer" message responses which probably means he has to be drunk while posting them ...
So next week is a go, drunk or not, and you don't have to set the following days if you win. Except for Randor of course. He does. 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... So what is the most quotable movie? And the best (KSS) quote?
The Blues Brothers is damn good, but for me it's Pulp Fiction.
Most of the good ones are decidedly not KSS but "Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?" is just classic. As is nearly the whole "dead body in the car in my garage" scene.
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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