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What do you think of mashed potatoes?
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You can mash them when they are raw, add some rye flour, shape balls about the size of large snowballs, with pieces of salt mutton and mutton kidney fat in the center of the balls. Boil for 20-25 minutes. Serve with a "sauce" of the boiling water stirred with butter (real butter, not margarine). This is one of the few hot dishes I know of where the accompanying drink is full fat milk.
Maybe that is not the dish you were thinking of. Anyway, it is delicious.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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No programming questions in the Lounge...
oohhhh wait ...
Anyway ...
As long as there is butter in them, yeah.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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If I never have them again, that'll be ok with me.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm strange.
I do not like mashed potatoes.
I like them baked, twice baked, raw with salt, french fried or any other way but don't you mash my food.
However, I will eat KFC mashed until the gravy is gone.
Told ya I'm strange.
My wife on the other hand (like just about anyone else) loves em.
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From scratch or instant?
Doesn't matter, tell me when they are ready.
Or, showing my age, I prefer the Frug.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Until just now, I wasn't.
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Samsung or Android (don't know which) has idiots at the helm.
My phone moved a spam message to the bin and blocked the sender for me.
Unfortunately it also notify-beeped my phone.
Now why in the hell would I want to be harassed by that? It's just spam. Just bin it since you didn't show me what it said anyway, and don't annoy me with it - isn't that the point? Who designs this software?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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My watch sends me notifications when I stand up for a pee: "Oh good, you're active 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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That watch would quickly find itself victim of a rapid, unscheduled disassembly.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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The Clippy among watches!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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My watch ticks whenever a new second arrives.
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There would be more than just pee going into the toilet.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So, is it just me or does Microsoft Loop look like a gound up re-work of OneNote? Microsoft Loop: Collaborative App | Microsoft 365[^]
Many of the core facilities of Loop were already available (admittedly by somewhat dubious pathways) in OneNote (real-time collaboration, embedding of documents and web pages, live sketching/writing sharing etc) albeit in a much 'clunkier' UI.
However, with a little investment, OneNote could IMHO have become a fantastic real-time collaboration tool without the need to be permanently on-line (something that is only possible on a small percentage of the world's surface despite what MS, Governemnts, telcos etc tell you) -improved handwriting tools and better recognition, plus the ability to properly embed/edit PDFs would have got it very close to the Loop feature-set, adding a code window linked to git, VS (locally hosted or on-line) or other dev environments would have got it the rest of the way.
I did try to log in to the discussion forum provided (which had no comments when I tried), but I got an 'unknown error', all of which rather sums up the whole mess of Teams/OneNote/Loop/Sharepoint etc - tools which all seem to provide lots of advantages if you can get them to work, but only seem to work in certain very tightly specified environments that most smaller orgs etc do not, and cannot, run cost-effectively.
I have relied on OneNote almost since it first came out (Desktop not APP version) but recently, after extensive research for something with a better feature set re handwriting/PDFs etc) have switched to Nebo Nebo[^] , which does everything and more that OneNote did, across multiple platforms, is still being actively developed, and still allows for off-line working and later sync. THe only drawback for me really is the 'app'-like UI, but I can live with that...
I'd be interested in hearing what you think!
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onenote desktop team in ms was maybe three people....also now that things move to app format... desktop = stop
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Indeed so - that was my point (I think!). OneNote could have become much more, but was effectively abandoned (probably for good reason, at least from the MS company culture viewpoint). If you have to start over with Loop, then that's fine for new teams etc, but for us oldies with years of project notes etc already, it makes more sense to move to something that allows us to retain/migrate our existing workflow etc.
As almost always happens with MS (and indeed most large orgs) the attraction of the shiny and new is greater than the consideration for what has gone before and so long-term customers are, once again and at best, simply not considered.
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onenote was interesting and it tossed out some new ideas. I've been looking for an electronic engineering notebook for decades, and I actually had hope for one note - nah. It just got too clunky. Worse, somehow Microsoft managed to shove their head up where the sun doesn't shine and start indexing folders everywhere. This irritates the living daylights out of me because I use SVN heavily. So the stupid little files show up yada yada yada.
Microsoft does do some interesting work, but they always seem to manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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 am so installing Unix.
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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Ah - so that's the update that shut down my machine while I was at lunch with a ton of windows open 
It's not Updates fault: it's the default settings on my new install. Evidently "Active hours" are set for "Night owl developer" and were 3PM t0 7AM or something. I can't even imagine the thinking behind that one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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