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Sean Ewington wrote: this would work as a reasonably structured song if you made a chorus about being a coding master.
Reminds me of the song: Juke Box Hero - YouTube[^]
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One of my ultimate bands and songs!
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DR. SEUSS EXPLAINS COMPUTERS
(Original author unknown) Extracted from A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer by Gene Zeigler
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disc abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index does not flash,
Then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I’m a poet, the suckers gonna hang.
When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disc,
And the micro code instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you have to flash your memory, and you’ll want to RAM your ROM…
Quickly turn off your computer and go and tell your Mom.
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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We are no longer allowed to appreciate Dr. Seuss in America as he has been deemed a racist. Just by reading this post I could technically, literally, and figuratively be canceled.
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That is entirely USians' loss.
I followed the controversy as it developed in the US. All I can say is that if an author can be deemed racist for a couple of elements in one drawing out of N illustrated books, then something is very wrong in the US. I remember reading the controversial book (And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street, IIRC) as a child, and all I thought about the drawings of "foreigners" was that they certainly dress funnily in "foreign parts".
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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I'm a redneck American through and through. My blood bleeds red, white, and blue. That means I can talk about it. 
100% agree with you there on it being our loss. The US is in a state of decline and, unless something drastic changes, our course is headed towards being nothing more than a story of what used to be. Which is very, very sad to see happen. But it's also the reality of the situation.
Can't really say much else without getting in the weeds... but the US is hurting as we watch it be intentionally destroyed from the inside out.
Jeremy Falcon
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Nice lyrics indeed ... I was not that lucky to talk to ChatGPT, as he usually greets me with "I am busy, come back later ..." 
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Sucks, Keep your day job.
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Roses are #ff0000,
Violets are blue,
zeros and ones,
but never a two
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Taking a leaf from JavaScript's clarity of definition for equality, in Span<T>.Inequality(Span<T>, Span<T>) Operator (System) | Microsoft Learn , the following definition of equality seems a bit suspect...
"Two Span<t> objects are equal if they have different lengths or if the corresponding elements of left and right do not point to the same memory."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Someone forgot to add "not" when they copied the remarks from the equality operator. 
Two Span<T> objects are equal if they have the same length and the corresponding elements of left and right point to the same memory.
IIRC, there used to be a way to report such problems directly from the page, but it looks like they've abandoned that idea.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Managed to find the option to edit the page by creating a pull request on GitHub[^]. The documentation should be correctly shortly. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I opened up my laptop and noticed that it was responding super slowly.
It's AMD R7 8-core (4 core with threading-tech) with 16GB RAM running Win10 and it always performs very well.
Internet?? or was it the laptop itself??
8 Cores All At Same Level of Utilization? Unlikely!
I checked the CPU Utilization and saw this (snapshot)[^].
Isn't that interesting?? I've never seen all 8 cores report that they are exactly utilized the same.
I closed CPU monitor and opened it again and saw the same thing.
After Reboot: Looks Normal Again
Here's a snapshot that seems more realistic[^].
Then I Noticed...
Hey, check out the first graphic and you'll see that the Speed was at .38GHz -- even though these chips are really at 2.0GHz
Not sure what happened there, so we are filing it under Weird!! 
modified 25-Jan-23 14:37pm.
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Fake processor!
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That flat 19% utilization of all cores is rather strange.
All modern general chips are prepared to reduce the clock speed when load is low, to reduce heating and battery drain. I have seen my 3.3 GHz CPU going down to about 1000 MHz, never as low as 380 MHz. Maybe I am good at keeping it busy  . Maybe the OS routine that should increase your clock speed when needed crashed, and 380 MHz is some sort of minimum value (for your processor), so it never was raised, and that is why your PC was sluggish.
Your CPU was stuck at approx. 1/5 its max clock speed. The CPU utilization was approx. 1/5 of the total capacity. If 19% utilization refers to the capacity at full clock speed rather than the current one (I don't know which is the case!), then the flat 19% can be read as '100% utilization at the current clock speed'. If there is a great backlog of CPU tasks, it isn't surprising that all cores are saturated. When I run Handbrake, I see all cores at flat 100% utilization for minutes at a time (at the nominal 3.3 MHz clock frequency). Trying to use the PC for other tasks in parallel with Handbrake is futile.
If you immediately after boot up turn on the Resource Monitor CPU view, you will loads of processes coming and going, for completing the boot up. When you see the login screen, there is still a lot to be done in the background. It takes several minutes before activity calms down, even if you do not touch the keyboard, activate no user task. If the CPU is strangled to 1/5 the normal speed, it may take five times as long. Maybe this startup activity is what you saw saturating all cores (given the clock speed reduction).
If this theory is correct, the one remaining problem is: What caused your PC to refuse to raise the clock frequency? If it had done so, that backlog of startup tasks could have been processed before you even noticed it. I have no idea about what could cause the clock adjustment to fail. (I have never looked into Windows source code at all - never had access to it, never cared to.)
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I noticed from your first screenshot, your last boot-up was three days ago, so those 19% load isn't startup tasks!
However, the PC spends almost 8 GiBytes of RAM on something. 18% disk activity on a fast SSD, is remarkable. For a good WiFi unit, 104 Kbps isn't that much, but some process is using it. I am not familiar with AMD GPUs, but if your are just displaying the Task Manager, 27% utilization is somewhat on the high side. There is something keeping your CPU busy (and RAM, and disk, and GPU), even if it isn't startup tasks!
Compare that to the second screen dump: Half the memory load, 1% disk, half the Wi-Fi load, less than half GPU load (still surprising high, though!), half the handle count thread count. 1:34 after boot up, some of the load could come from start up tasks.
Before rebooting your PC, you could have produced screen dumps of process lists and thread counts and I/O-activity, to see which might be suspected for preventing the clock speed adjustment (it could still be a long way to the answer, though). If you experience the same again, you may want to take dumps of all the Resource Monitor's displays.
In the DOS days, any software problem could be handled by Ctrl-Alt-Delete. This is the first time for many years that I hear of that
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Fantastic info! Thanks for replying.
trønderen wrote: then the flat 19% can be read as '100% utilization at the current clock speed'. If there is a great backlog of CPU tasks, it isn't surprising that all cores are saturated.
Yes, that was exactly what I was thinking too.
trønderen wrote: immediately after boot up turn on the Resource Monitor CPU view, you will loads of processes coming and going
I've definitely noticed this.
In my case my laptop had been sitting idle overnight (plugged in). I removed the plug then opened the lid. I think this is what caused the problem. It was probably in low-power mode then I removed the plug and I know from past that this laptop (and Microsoft) try to idle some cores to save power.
I think it attempted to do that but then I was attempting to activate the laptop also and something went screwy.
Also, notice that when my laptop is removed from power, it tries to idle the last 4 cores (to conserve power) even though I've forced my laptop to have the setting "prefer speed over power saving".
I've talked at length with people about this and many say "there is a BIOS setting!" But there actually isn't on my (quite new) HP laptop.
What I've Learned, What I will Try Next Time
In future I will first activate my laptop (open the lid) then after I see the desktop and only after will I pull the plug. Should'a been doing this all along but the hardware & software shouldn't do that anyways.
Thanks again for the discussion, really great info.
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Hmm, if this happens a lot I would check the CPU temperature. Probably just a bug though.
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As MS achieves wonderfulness by adding rounded icons and advertisements, one of their most used tools - windows explorer - continues to be trash. It's like it's just ignored with all the updates. One of my favorite "poorly implemented" features is search. Yes, I know there are better tools out there. So, I'm searching my dev drive for a particular file.... search is zipping along and displays file.zip. While the search is still running, I right mouse click on the file and select "open file location".
And the search aborts - going to that file. Why not launch another WE and keep the search going? NAh.
Fire up a search and change the sort order after completion - re-search.
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.
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I have just received a new craft knife from Amazon. As expected, they needed to verify my age as it is an age-restricted item in the UK.
My wife got to the delivery driver first - he asked her what her birth year was and then asked her to confirm her age was x - it isn't, it is x-1.
Then he tried me - he asked me what my birth year was and then asked me to confirm my age was y - it isn't, it is y-1.
I guess that their hand-held devices calculate age = this_year - birth_year.
Surely, every student learning computing is told that this only works correctly on 31st December and for the rest of the year it is just luck if it guesses correctly. At this time of year, it is wrong for 96.2% of the population. A company the size of Amazon that owns its own cloud platforms should have sufficient skilled staff not to allow such a simple Computing 101 error through their vigorous testing procedures.
I might mention this if I get a 'Rate the quality of your experience with the delivery of this item' request.
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Don't blame the driver - he's just following the on-screen instructions. Blame the idiot who wrote the app he's forced to use.
(Of course, if he couldn't see the problem with the question and just tick "yes", that's another story...)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Don't blame the driver
I didn't! He accepted that we were both over 18 (min age required for buying a knife) as the calculated (albeit wrong) ages were much greater than 18 and than was the only verification that he needed. The problem would have been if we were 17 year olds as the calculation would have erroneously said we could legally accept the knife as it said we were 18.Richard Deeming wrote: (Of course, if he couldn't see the problem with the question and just tick "yes", that's another story...)
I didn't even attempt to try to explain why the answer was wrong - delivery drivers have very tight schedules that do not include timeouts for lessons in basic algorithms. However, if Amazon send me a request to write a review, I will include this flaw and that there is the potential for a legal transgression in the review.
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And this is why we write unit tests...
Jeremy Falcon
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yes, I've heard the UK has a knife control problem 
But, just how big was the knife? You can die from injuries from a sharp pen knife. Just curious.
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.
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