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Somehow, rum becomes awkward (10)
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Someone woke up to Seven Mary Three? 
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Never heard of them until you mentioned the name and I googled ... 
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Cumbersome ?
Anagram of rum becomes
"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
modified 27-Apr-22 4:11am.
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And you are up tomorrow. 
Care to explain?
(It wasn't a complicated one, I've got a busy day since we have no hot water this morning and the immersion heater is well and truly buried so I posted an "archive" one).
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At last a proper cryptic clue
Why haven't you got hot water ?
"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
modified 27-Apr-22 4:32am.
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There's no mains gas on The Ynys, and we have no access to the rear of the house except through it so we can't use bottled gas either.
So we're all electric heating, with an immersion heater for the hot water. Turns out the thermostat is fried, so I'm fitting a replacement. Which takes way longer than it should because there is a water tank above the immersion tank and I could really use one extra inch of distance between them ...
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In the summer we need no use any kind of heater (we have electric too) as the sun is enough, so until winter comes we do not know if everything is working or not, so I have to schedule a maintenance day at the end of the summer every year... The first time I did it, found out that the builders put the water tank on 3 blocks, just to elevate for the outgoing pipe (like 5cm/2inch)... I had to move it to a metal-tripod, which took me an extra day (including the building of the tripod), but now I can maintain it standing up 
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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OG it sounds like you have an interesting home (This current problem, plus thinking about the stone walls you mentioned recently).
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It's several hundred years old, built for iron miners from local materials. It has been "modernised" in the past, but since the original didn't even support running water or a separate kitchen the mods make it ... unique.
And a real pain to do anything major to, and that includes putting up a shelf ...
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A REALLY old building in this part of Minnesota dates back to the latter third of the 1800's. No comparison.
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Anyone see this: Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C • The Register?
Looks interesting, I wonder if it will gain any 'traction'.
Paul Sanders.
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OK, thanks.
There's a better link than the one I posted on his blog for anyone interested in learning more:
Announcing the Hare programming language
Paul Sanders.
"Life is a minestrone" - which I take to mean that it's full of different bits and you should try to savour them all. I think that's pretty neat, I like that analogy.
And if you don't mind, here's a quick plug for my little one-man business. Follow the link if you're interested in ripping your vinyl collection: www.alpinesoft.co.uk. Thanks.
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If I were going to write an O/S, I'd use C++. Sure, maybe much of an O/S doesn't need objects, templates, and exceptions, but it's good to have them at hand when using them is appropriate. I can see why going down those ratholes is something that the designer of a "close to the metal" language chose to avoid. But because of that, pass.
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It seems to me that organizing the code by objects, even if they were static, which is essentially the equivalent of C code, would be a great help. And namespaces too!
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Forgot about namespaces. Yes indeed.
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Greg Utas wrote: If I were going to write an O/S, I'd use C++
I have a very vague and fuzzy memory that there were plans to rewrite some version of Unix in C++. This would probably have been back in the days of the old "cfront", and I think the effort collapsed under the additional weight of the technology as it was then. It would be interesting if that effort had succeeded.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Maybe that was in the day where templates, exceptions, and RTTI had enough overhead that Embedded C++ didn't support them. Their overhead is probably still too much for a toaster, but they shouldn't be a problem in most of today's systems.
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Did they also try to rewrite the Linux kernel? Linus Torvalds on C++[^]. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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There were dozens of Unixes before Linux! I remember one gathering of representatives for different Unix variants (I didn't participate - I was still a student then) when it was remarked that they were missing one variant: There were 31 of them. Then someone pointed out that computer guys love to start counting from zero, so 31 is actually a rounder number than 32 
My memory is not able to date this, relative to the arrival of C++. Maybe C++ wasn't a viable alternative at that time. But quite a few of those 31 Unix variants lived for many years after C++ became popular - a few are alive even today.
It took quite a few years for Linux to grow from a "toy
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Duplicate (truncated) post? Enjoyed the full version.
Paul Sanders.
"Life is a minestrone" - which I take to mean that it's full of different bits and you should try to savour them all. I think that's pretty neat, I like that analogy.
And if you don't mind, here's a quick plug for my little one-man business. Follow the link if you're interested in ripping your vinyl collection: www.alpinesoft.co.uk. Thanks.
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I did, by accident hit some key (don't know which one) that took me away from the 'Reply' page. So I hit 'back' (aka. Alt-Left) to get back to continue editing without noticing that the unfinished entry had been posted - not until you point it out.
I could delete the unfinished entry, but that would leave your reply orphaned. So I leave it in. I have made worse blunders 
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There were dozens of Unixes before Linux! I remember one gathering of representatives for different Unix variants (I didn't participate - I was still a student then) when it was remarked that they were missing one variant: There were 31 of them. Then someone pointed out that computer guys love to start counting from zero, so 31 is actually a rounder number than 32
My memory is not able to date this, relative to the arrival of C++. Maybe C++ wasn't a viable alternative at that time. But quite a few of those 31 Unix variants lived for many years after C++ became popular - a few are alive even today.
It took quite a few years for Linux to grow from a "toy" clone to become even a significant competitor to the non-FOSS Unix variants, and even longer to become the dominant *nix. I, too, have heard about these proposals to rewrite Unix (not Linux) in C++. It is so long ago that Linux was far away from the dominance it has today.
Another thing is that although we may be entertained by Linus' rant, this style of arguing (which is not atypical for the source ...) is part of the reason why Linux was not taken to be a "serious" OS in its first years. (Note that the rants are 15-18 years old.)
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CPallini wrote: Did they also try to rewrite the Linux kernel [in C++]?
Hope not!
Paul Sanders.
"Life is a minestrone" - which I take to mean that it's full of different bits and you should try to savour them all. I think that's pretty neat, I like that analogy.
And if you don't mind, here's a quick plug for my little one-man business. Follow the link if you're interested in ripping your vinyl collection: www.alpinesoft.co.uk. Thanks.
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