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Those whippersnappers wouldn’t know a message loop if it bit them on their behind. 😊
Of course, web apps don’t need message loops. Just the browser.
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It really is interesting that modern Windows devs even know very little about the Message loop.
Actually, I trained some people via C# and I'm sure those devs would not really even know what I was talking about if I told them about the Message loop.
It's all hidden now for so long. It's interesting how that has changed. It's really for the better of course because it took a lot of boilerplate code to just get a simple app.
But it is good to know what is going on under the layers.
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We had one system that had a single message loop built into a framework such that multiple top level windows only shared one thread. One of our team members decided to kill the framework message loop and provide a separate thread for each top level window to have its own message loop/ dispatch. Worked like a champ.
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Windows 2.1 was also being distributed with Word for Windows and Excel. So it was getting a fair bit of distribution.
The company I worked for at the time was developing EGA and VGA display chips, so we had to develop custom drivers for Win 2.1 and beyond. I wasn't involved in that, instead was creating emulation code in x86 for MDA, CGA and Hercules modes on these chips. But I was using Word and Excel for my development documentation.
I can remember that our company was working with MS at the time to develop the Win drivers, so that we got a pre-alpha release of Win 3.0 to work with. I have to say, we were all pretty impressed with what we saw then....
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That's an amazing story. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.
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Prolly was supposed to say Boom. But, typo.
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Commercial Scotsman is hospital carpet? (8)
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Nice one
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'll take it
Admonish
Commercial = Ad
Scotsman = mon ( as in hoots mon there's a moose loose in the hoose )
is hospital = ish
Carpet is slang for being told off / admonished
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are up tomorrow!
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Is is hospital = ish east side of the pond colloquialism or CCC idiom I don't know.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Commercial AD
Scotsman MON
is IS
hospital H
carpet? (8)
ADMONISH
The conventional sign for a hospital on either side of the pond (and most of the rest of the world) is a "H" - for a road sign it's often a White "H" on a Blue background, on a map it's a Blue "H", and so on.
It's a pretty standard CCC convention as well.
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That I can understand.
Thanks Griff.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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You're welcome!
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I wonder of those salt drenched models will make it to market eventually and if they will be "fixing" the burnt ones for market again...
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Probably will be bought by lovers of salted-car-amel
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I wonder also, if this was a battery fire as VW is going for it in the EV space and there may have been more than a few battery packs on board.
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According to the Portuguese media today (2022-02-21):
- the ship was still on fire although with less intensity
- there are a number (not specified) of electric cars onboard with their lithium batteries which is preventing the firefighters from addressing the fire in a traditional way (they need special equipment)
- a dutch tech team, hired by the ship owner, is waiting to go onboard and tow the ship to Europe
- also, a dutch tow boat, the "ALP Guard" from Gibraltar, is waiting to tow the ship
- a second tow boat, the "Thor B", is spraying the hull of the ship with water to cool it
- the cars include Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini (some are/where Aventador Ultimae) and Bugatti Chiron, but there are other models too
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I need to download a driver set for my new notebook, but it always stops before finishing.
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Are they available by ftp? Most ftp implementations have a "resume" feature for interrupted transfers.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Good point. Even normal http downloads when they fail can sometimes be resumed. I just double click them and they either restart or resume in FF.
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