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Kind of was making a silly joke. When you buy a lemon, you've bought a troublesome car; maybe more of an American expression perhaps?
and Citroen looks like "citron".
Dutch?
Quote: André-Gustave Citroën (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡystav sitʁɔɛn]; 5 February 1878 – 3 July 1935) was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. He is also remembered for his application of double helical gears.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Well sort of Dutch
Quote: The Citroen family descended from a grandfather in the Netherlands who had been a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit, and had taken the surname of Limoenman, Dutch for "lime man"; his son however changed it to Citroen
André Citroën - Wikipedia[^]
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I test drove a Citroen once, many many years ago.
My first note of caution was when I shut the driver's door and it felt and sounded like a paper bag.
It drove OK-ish, until I wanted to slow down. Gentle pressure on the brake - nothing. A little more - nothing. Pressing pretty hard - still nothing. Standing on the pedal and pulling the steering wheel to get more pressure - an almost imperceptible reduction in velocity. Fortunately there was nothing in front of me and at the bottom of the hill, I parked it and walked back to the showroom. Luckily I'd walked there (my car was fine, but it was close) so I just threw the keys at the guy and told him where his POS was.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If I'd paid money for it, I'd probably be parking it somewhere that it will almost certainly be stolen from.
Well now that you've mentioned everything that's wrong with it, there's probably not gonna be any takers...
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Quote: A characterful supermini
"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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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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See? Sounds like a lout unfit to manage change! (11)
"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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You on dem pills again ?
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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We give up
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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#Worldle #502 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
easy
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 719 4/6
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Wordle 719 3/6
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Wordle 719 3/6*
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"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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Wordle 719 5/6
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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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Wordle 719 2/6
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Very lucky guess, and fast too!
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Looks like it's a day for lots of green only results!
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Wordle 719 4/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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We have been finally migrating to git for source control. We've got the source for a product in a git repo, and I'm modifying our automated build (a Windows service written in C#/.NET) to use git for this product instead of *cough* SourceSafe *cough*. Stop your snickering, dammit.
The updated builder works fine on my machine. When I installed it on one of our servers, git clone fails with some weird authentication messages. I fiddle around for a while getting nowhere, and then break down and enlist the aid of The Youngster. The Youngster is fairly fresh out of school with only a couple years of experience, but very sharp and knows git well. He set up our GitLab server which works a treat. He gave us a nicely-done PowerPoint on how to set up a machine to run git for us.
It really, really is a good idea to follow all of the instructions so helpfully provided .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Git is unusable. VSS is too. And Subversion of course.
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We've used Visual SourceSafe since 2000. It's worked okay largely because I'm rigorous about backups and regular maintenance.
I don't 'get' git yet. That's going to take time and plenty of day-to-day experience. My impression so far is that the command-line interface grew as a yeast culture. The developers added or changed things as they occurred to them, and there's no rationale or consistency as a result. The GUI operations provided in Visual Studio 2019 (we're not using 2022 yet) are the bare minimum you need while working on your code. I haven't tried them from Visual Studio Code yet, but I expect better support there.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I never used VSS, but back in the 90s the company I was working for considered it as a replacement for CMS (OpenVMS) and found it lacking.
TFS is probably the next best option.
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