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Dax...KDJ and his girlfriend...Lester...shall we make a list?
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Add English Dave to it ... 
You talked me into it: I tried again. Trivial, don't know how I found it hard the first time - under ten minutes from "go to the plane" to "here's a car".
Which means ... I don't have to do them again! 
"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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English Dave was annoying, but I've completely forgotten about him as he stops calling after the last mission he wants you to do for him. So...I haven't heard a peep from him in many years.
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I have a small piece of note paper covering the three LEDs on my keyboard. The lights are only ever on when I hit a wrong key anyway.
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Quick fix: Take a course in Touch Typing 
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Last time I touched my typist I nearly got arrested. 
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We got married in Georgia...or was it Tahoma? Not sure I was drugged and dragged and woke up just in time for the vows.
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It was a military wedding.
Well, ... there were guns there, let's put it that way!
(Old Red Skelton/Clem Kididdlehopper bit) 
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He was one of the great comics.
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I did, in high school, it didn't take.
Besides, typing code is nothing like typing prose. If you spend more time writing documentation than coding, then maybe that's a benefit, but you don't, do you?
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"double mold injected"
if your keycaps aren't advertised as the above, forget it. They'll wear out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah I'm finding that out.
They just don't make them like they they used too.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely
You've done well. My keyboard hasn't had W, E, R, T, I, O, A, S, D, F, G, K, L, C, V, N, M, < or > for years. Actually that was a useful exercise, hitting all the "blank" keys - I was wondering what some of them did.
Really limits my choices for variable names though, especially since I've not seen a vowel (except U) since 2019.
And there's a long key at the bottom that I don't think ever was labelled in the first place...
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OG
Don't know if I am repeating, but any bright blue LED's will cause problems with human sleep over time.
Scientific proof.
So avoid them. Not so bright, not so much.
I have very dim blue backlight on my temporary keyboard
another reason for shopping around for new one.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My computer stays in my office, and I don't sleep there (except during Teams calls).
"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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I have had a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard for years and it gets heavy use every day. Only left, right and down cursor keys are missing their markings; all the others are completely intact. (No, I don't play games or anything like that - just coding and documentation.)
Oh, and part of the Microsoft logo is worn away.
It's not a brilliant keyboard (it makes lots of tryping mistakes) but it's good enough that I don't want to be looking for anything else.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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I've just sent my DAS back ( too noisy ) very well made though
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Get them to replace it with a Cherry Brown version instead of Cherry Blue - they lack the audible "click" that makes them noisy.
"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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Lempel gone on the 4th of February, and Ziv just yesterday, on the 25th of March...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Eh ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Prof. Abraham Lempel, Inventor of PDF & MP3 Compressions"
I never ever heard about Lempel being involved in MP3 development. So I checked Wikipedia on MP3: It names 6 developers, none of them being Lempel. "And others", says the list, with a link: "Lempel" is not found on the referenced page. Lempel certainly did not develop the primary, psychoacoustic (and lossy) compression method of MP3!
I also never heard of Lempel developing PDF, so I checked Wikipedia on PDF as well, including the "History of PDF". No mention of Lempel in either article.
The Wikipedia article on Abraham Lempel makes no mention of neither MP3 nor PDF.
Lempel and Ziv (and Welch) did some tremendous work in developing the most influential lossless compression algorithm of all times. The importance of this should most certainly not be underestimated or degraded.
The journalist's problem is that 95+ % of his readership has never heard of LZ77 or LZW. Thousands of formats use some LZW variant; Lempel cannot be credited for all of them. So, let me dig out a couple that are well known to common man, and attach Lempel's name to those! It doesn't matter if Lempel himself never even heard about those formats (well, he certainly did know both PDF and MP3!); the essential thing is to associate his name with something great!
So why didn't the journalist mention e.g. Microsoft .docx? Probably because the majority of the readership would refuse to believe it. You can make them believe that Lepel could take credit for MP3 or PDF, because they know very little about the development of those formats, so let's go for those rather than .docx!
Many (40+) years ago I read an informal study of major technical innovations, among them the car, telephone, radio and several others, and correlated the information in the major encyclopedias in the US of A, England, France, Germany, Italy (maybe others as well; I don't remember all the details): Which importance did each 'national encyclopedia' give to developers of their own country to the technology? To which degree did they downscale the contribution from persons of other nationalities? When presented side by side, the results could be described as 'hilarious'.
After I read this study, I always have been somewhat skeptical to any source trying to glorify beyond limits any person of its own nationality. Lempel doesn't need that! His work certainly was so great that it can stand on its own, without trying to give him credit for other format that he never touched, as a developer.
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trønderen wrote: So I checked Wikipedia
You might be right in this case, but you should rely on better sources than that.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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