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Yes! Which explains why I think OG is very patient. I would not treat them so gently.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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<snicker> OG has a text file he C&P from for these idjits, minimum effort for max result. Exactly the same response in Q&A.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Sure. Coming right up. My rates are very reasonable.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Go with the proforma!
"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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If you cannot cope with your programming homework, how can you cope with a programming job?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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just google it...
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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I managed to optimize the elephant out of my GFX library. The drawing routines use run lengths to plot horizontal and vertical lines instead of pixels at a time for less bus traffic. At the driver level I also cache the address window of the display device for reuse so I don't have to set it every time. I've overclocked the display from 10MHz to 26MHz with no issues, and the thing is just running like a little champ.
The only issue is I'm generating so much bus traffic so quickly that I'm tickling the watchdog timer and making it puke to the serial port. Fortunately this doesn't happen when doing large DMA transfers like bitmaps, or extremely large buffering batches like screen fills.
Still, I've managed to impress myself, and I don't impress easily. This library smokes on an ESP32. It's ridiculous.
Here's the video of my mess. Ahh wow draw::bitmap_async<>() is just hot! Asynchronous DMA transfer goodness! That's how I'm doing full frame animation on this little monster:
latest gfx on an esp32 w ili9341 display - YouTube[^]
++frame;
for (int y=0; y<240; y+=PARALLEL_LINES) {
pretty_effect_calc_lines(lines[calc_line], y, frame, PARALLEL_LINES);
if(-1!=sending_line)
draw::wait_all_async(lcd);
sending_line=calc_line;
calc_line=(calc_line==1)?0:1;
const lines_bmp_type& sending_bmp = line_bmps[sending_line];
rect16 src_bounds = sending_bmp.bounds();
draw::bitmap_async(lcd,(srect16)src_bounds.offset(0,y),sending_bmp,src_bounds);
}
Real programmers use butterflies
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Congrats! It is always a good feeling when you have a break-through on difficult stuff.
This week I discovered how to use a SQL CTE (common table expression) to do a multicolumn-multivalue update (based upon values in another column).
That's some freaking Rocket-Science right there.
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yay us!
Real programmers use butterflies
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This is a fantastic video. It's a bit long but it shows how this independent inventor/creator created a pool stick that can take your pool shots for you. Really great!
He also exposes the struggles he goes through and how he "shot himself in the foot" by leaving dead-wood test code in his program. Who hasn't!?
Automatic pool stick vs. strangers - YouTube[^]
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Would German cats fly Meowsserschmitts?
"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 gato know they carry Mauser side-arms, if you Katze my drift.
Ravings en masse^ |
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 7-May-21 10:58am.
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If they were Aristocats,they'd fly Junkers.
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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Ja! Und he takes orders from der Fur-her!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Have you ever met a female cat who wasn't the boss lady?
At one point we had three females at once, which meant frequent, er, precedence issues.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The engines would purr as well.
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Alternative spelling: Mouserschmitts
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And cat/dog fight with a Focke-Wulf!
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When they crash, would it be a Cat-astrophe ?
I don't know, I really don't.
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There are a few great interviews with Elon Musk on Youtube where he describes his dislike for people with MBA's and why we need less of them in business.
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I always liked something a friend of mine said after he got his MBA. He got it because it was a required lodge pin in order to move "up the ladder". The class material was useless bilge, with the exception of a couple practicum courses he took. One was conducted as a practical business exercise executed by the entire class, which was taught by a local business leader. The other was essentially job shadowing where you worked one-on-one with a local mid-level manager one day a week.
Software Zen: delete this;
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As someone with an MBA, I agree. Some of the classes were total fluff and what I refer to as "refund classes". Some of us in my cohort still joke about them!
The best classes by far were those taught from active professionals in the industry, where we worked on real exercises, and not those cooked-up case studies from Ivey, Harvard and Darden. Thankfully there were enough of them to make it worthwhile. It was a nice journey and I learned a lot, but yeah I wouldn't spend $250K at some overrated business school.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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I just followed those seven steps and I practically already have a new Master's Degree
I'll add an eighth, make the bed when I wake up, and become an instant millionaire tomorrow
Also reminded me of this one: Every Inspirational Video - YouTube[^]
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