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ditto
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Your question makes me think even further back, when we could increase disk performance by formatting the disk with the proper interleaving factor. I can't remember, though: Was the interleave factor a parameter to the DOS 'format' command? Or was an external format program required? If so, what were the names of those programs?
For the youngsters: Interleaving meant that 'logical' disk sectors 0, 1, 2, ... were allocated at physical sectors 0, 2, 4, ... or 0, 3, 6, ... The disk electronics were so slow that after reading sector 0, it didn't 'recover' to read physical sector 1 until its sector head had passed, so you had to wait for a full rotation of the disk to read sector 1. Maybe the disk managed to make itself to read physical sector 2 in the time it took sector 1 passed, but maybe even this was not enough; it required the time for two physical sectors to pass, with logical sectors allocated on every third physical sectors. Obviously, the skipped sectors were not unused; they were allocated for the second and third rotation of the disk. To read an entire track, the disk had to spin 2 or 3 complete turns - but without interleaving it might require as many turns as a the number of sectors per track.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I remember those days, even the venerable 386SX. Hard to fill up that 40 meg drive.
Spinrite is the only program that I remember doing it. Don't recall it being a parameter of the DOS format command.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people.
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Me: "who would write GUI code in assembler? that's not 10x that's insane"
Also me: probably guilty of writing a few lines of inline-asm, in the distant past, to thunk from a static callback function pointer to an instance-method
Also also me: (closes this web page and resumes reading tutorial on WebAsm)
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"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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Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I'd like to go get another cup of coffee while installing yet another VS Code update. 
Jeremy Falcon
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If you walk to the nearest Starbucks and join the queue, the update should be part way through by the time you get back. Or maybe just waiting for you to click "Yes".
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I've only had one VSCode update take more than about 30 seconds, and that was because of a different (and extremely buggy) program taking over the CPU with what was effectively a thread / process bomb.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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VSCODE updates are like vitamins. Once a day.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My experience is the same, but there is always the chance of things going wrong.
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I just wish that reloading the extension in one window of VSCode would update ALL the windows of VSCode.
I normally have at least 8 different repos open in VSCode at all times.
Projects I work on and then any other components we've built that get included in the projects.
I was today years old when I learned about the Command + grave (the back tic) will cycle through those windows. I am so happy about that.
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Iβm begging you for the benefit of everyone, donβt be STUPID.
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How about coffee at Milliways?
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Last night I learned make/Makefile more or less by osmosis. I poured over assembly code. Datasheets. Compiler arcana and the varying meanings of the word "freestanding" to different years of C++ committees.
This morning I woke up with a ponytail and also a beard like Karl Marx.
If you don't hear from me, it's because I've gone off to live in a cave adjacent to Richard Stallman.
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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If you see Dennis Ritchie, you've gone too far.
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Karl Marx is buried about 20 miles from me
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'd rather visit Groucho's grave. In my pajamas.
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