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One quirk my friend used to have was -
To move around every small thing on the table (paperweight, mobile, remote, etc) as a mouse, and expect something to move on an imaginary 'screen'.
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I visit often CodeProject.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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They used to not be considered strange, but I now work 8+ hours per day, own a home, and don't do social media.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Why does this feel like a survey coming straight from 1997?
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Nothing I do is strange - I'm a computer nerd...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Never! It's all other people that are starnge! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Back in the day, I wrote my own versions of some C string functions (which didn't blow up on NULL)...
# define strlen safe_strlen
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Israel's H2OLL unveils first full-scale water-from-air system in Negev
Water traps. And in a Fremen sietch!
(The Bedouin consider themselves the only free people, because they aren't tied to the land. Frank Herbert based his Fremen on them)
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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What best place to build moisture vaporators than one that looks like Tatooine?
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I find myself ambivalent about this. On the one hand, water is a basic need, so finding ways to provide it seems like it should be a no-brainer. On the other hand, if you're taking water out of the system here, then it's not available there, when it always was before, possibly creating an unintended consequence. I'm guessing if its only used for small populations, then the net effect will not be substantial. But at some point, surely someone will be wondering "Where's my water gone?".
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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If we assume that the relative humidity in desert air is 10%, that would mean that 22.4 liters of air at 25 degrees centigrade would contain 2.24 liters of water vapour, or about 0.040 liters of liquid water. We therefore need to process 560 liters of air to get 1 liter of water, or 560 cubic meters of air to get 1,000 liters.
The average domestic water usage in Israel (pop. 10,000,000) is about 100 liters a day, so supplying the entire country with water (assuming that the entire country were a desert, which it isn't) would require 560,000,000 cubic meters of air a day, spread out over the entire country. This is a cube 825 meters on a side, daily. Given that the area of Israel is about 25,000 square kilometers, and that a lot of the water will evaporate after use, I'm not worried about any climate effects.
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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I went to visit my sister and her fam today. I arrived as usual, bearing gifts, among them a 7" ESP32 based display+MCU combo for use as a CPU/GPU monitor.
Thing worked great on my desktop last time I tried it.
Got it hooked up to my laptop and it just hangs.
So now I have to take it back home with me to bang on it more.
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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I can't understand it; it works on my system. 
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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That hasn't happened to me in a number of years, to be fair, but it's never a convenient time when it happens. 
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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Murphy's law.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible moment. (usually important demos, version 1.0 releases, "no sweat system updates"... etc.)
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exactly
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Now to find that particular dll or registry entry which is hiding deep inside your system. And perhaps that holds the magic wand 🪄 to make it work on the other system.
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Did you try plugging it in and out ?
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I'm about to install QEMU KVM... in WSL... in Windows 11. It'll be Windows 11 > WSL > Debian 12 > Debian 12, so I can reset the inner Debian VM while testing some install scripts. 
Imagine having this chat with devs in the 1960s.
Yeah, I could just install VMWare... but we're going for cool points. And what's life without cool points?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: devs in the 1960s.
Wrote my first program in LEO III* machine code in 1966.
*The LEO III was a great machine, 16K of core memory, no rotating storage (other than magnetic tape), filled a huge air-conditioned room, and played music through a speaker on the main CPU control panel.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Wrote my first program in LEO III* machine code in 1966.
You da man.  Or should I say?
01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100100 01100001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00101110
Real talk, there is something magical about the early days of computing. Back when it was the wild west and being a part of something new.
Jeremy Falcon
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: *The LEO III was a great machine, 16K of core memory, no rotating storage (other than magnetic tape), filled a huge air-conditioned room, and played music through a speaker on the main CPU control panel.
Sorry, I blazed over this part. Us youngins and our attention spans.
That's really cool actually. Back when you didn't waste memory or disk space either. Nowadays we got Blu-rays that hold a 100GB and we think that's chump change. All so we can store stuff that's probably 90% useless.
Jeremy Falcon
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From wikipedia:
CPU @ 500 kHz
Memory 2K (2048) 35-bit words (i.e., 83⁄4 kilobytes) (ultrasonic delay-line memory based on tanks of mercury)
Good lord! And that was probably state of the art at the time.
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