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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Did this one in less than a minute
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I did it.
I'm subscribed to a number of RSS feeds. Very often I simply don't have the time to go through everything that gets posted in a single day. So I delete what is clearly of no interest, but keep the items that have a subject line that's at least interesting enough that I figure I'll want to read later. Then the backlog grows.
And right now, the oldest item in my feed is from October 5th 2021.
Of course I have links to technical articles from other feeds that go way farther than that, which I don't mind...but this particular one is for the BBC's general news feed, so dozens of items get added to it daily, and unlike technical articles, most of the stuff is somewhat time-sensitive, in the sense that the older the article gets, the less likely it is I'm going to find it relevant by the time I decide to read it. Yet I can't help myself but keep these around and accumulate. I'm a bit of a news junkie in that way.
Then every once in a while, I'll take a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon and read through stuff and find out the article count has dropped by something like 3%.
Please send help.
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The problem isn't purely that I'm taking so long to read...it's that I rarely go back over those articles to actually read them.
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I feel your pain
TTFN - Kent
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I bought a cheap - £3 - USB Bluetooth adapter for my desktop and it's so useful - I can type SMS texts on a full size keyboard and send directly through the phone using Windows Phone Link. Nice.
"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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Both of my laptops and my server machine have bluetooth. I'll have to check this out. Wait, I have an iPhone. Hmm.
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 almost exclusively use Whatsapp for that so Whatsapp solved that. It is still useful for some equipment though.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Whatsapp is a Farcebook thing, so I expect them to be datamining every message ...
"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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The sensitivity of what I discuss on the Internet is low... because every single company with an infrastructure does it. I received targeted ads from my phone company when smartphone didn't exist.
So on any kind of communication medium I just talk about bullshit. Oh no, Meta now knows that I do my grocery from the only local supermarket in my hometown - shocking, shocking I say. Ah yes, they saw some OC meme and some blasphemy, heh, ok.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: some blasphemy
One never expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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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OriginalGriff wrote: Whatsapp is a Farcebook thing, so I expect them to be datamining every message
As opposed to...?
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I tried to use the Windows Phone Link last week and found the app to be garbage...or maybe it's my devices. Even with the phone sitting on top of the tower it still shows as Offline in the app. Right now, the phone is a mere 3 feet away from the tower and it's Offline in the app! Intermittently, it will show Connected but even then, my messages, phone calls, photos do not show up.
It also has the annoying behavior of randomly switching off the speakerphone on my cellphone while on a call. I have to disable Bluetooth to make it stop.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Yep - I was receiving and sending texts to my boss yesterday afternoon via the My Phone app on my Windows 11 machine.
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If you have a Bluetooth keyboard, you can pair it directly to your phone or tablet.
A lot easier and more portable. Handy for chat/messaging storms like coordinating a small group meetup.
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My Logitech Bluetooth keyboard has buttons 1 / 2 / 3: When I push '1', the keyboard input goes to my desktop, '2' sends it to my portable, '3' to my phone. The PC may be turned off while I write SMS-es: it is not at all involved. No transfer required, the keystrokes are already in place on the phone.
The 'Craft Advanced Keyboard' is definitely not the cheapest one in the marketplace, but I have never been more satisfied with a keyboard over a long time of use.
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This Android initially could be the new king's mail service (4)
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C3PO !
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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YAUT! I had wondered if it would go quickly or if the fact that there was a digit would make it invalid.
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New King = Charles 3
Mail Service = Post Office
Initially = Charles 3 Post Office = C3PO = Android
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Highlight the above (e.g. select it all) to see the solution
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I like this method of revealing the answer.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Aaarrrggg! Not being British and also not one to follow the royal family very closely I thought he was King Charles II. Had I bothered to look it up I probably would have solved it.
I don't know why a digit in the answer would be invalid, but I'm certainly no expert. So, in my opinion, nice clue!
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I think any creative process can rise to the level of art when you can't teach someone how to be great at it.
I think you can teach any structural engineer how to be a great structural engineer, IMO. If you have the skillset, experience will carry you to greatness.
I do not think you can teach any engineer to be a great software developer. The skillset alone isn't enough to foment greatness.
Software development in some respects is like cooking, acting, painting, or dancing rather than like blueprinting.
Some people just have a knack, but most people will always plateau after a point because raw skillset only carries you so far, no matter how well you know C++ for example.
It doesn't mean that most coders can't code. they will just never be what I consider great. You have to have some artist in you, I think.
I don't say that to discourage anyone. I routinely code with someone who will never be an artist at the craft, but it's not to say he's not intelligent, or capable. There's nothing wrong with the code he produces. It's a solid average, and easy to understand, so it has that going for it. I can work with that. Very utilitarian.
But then there's great code. Code that makes you go "wow, I wish I would have thought of that"
He's not going to produce that code, and that's okay.
But there's an art to doing so.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 5-Oct-22 3:14am.
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