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Today is the day. It's the longest night of the year and from tomorrow on the days will become longer again. Sitting at home and recovering from a few operations, this is going to be one sad christmas, so I need something to do.
How MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries[^] would be great, but it's still not out yet.
So it had to be something old. Something trhat I had skipped and that has enough content to last a while. After a perverse download of updates (about 20 Gig), I have this now ready to go: Fallout 4[^]. They actually have a suit of power armor (with almost dead batteries), a minigun and a Deathclaw to get a level 2 character to get started and have some fun. A small army of Raiders just gets gunned down inbetween 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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To kill time watch some movies
1. Trancendance
2. Lucy
3. Fury
4. Interstellar
5. Gravity
6. Martian
Watch some episodes of 'Game of Thrones'
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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I saw #4 Interstellar last week for the first time. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Hope you feel better ! A few movies; a good book; answering confused questions by newbies in QA ?
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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gonna hibernate till this festive crap is done.
- Fridge/cupboards stocked, no need to go anywhere near a shop. (missus is welcome to go, on her own)
- Got me own vids/music for emergencies like this; the radio & TV is [even more] total crap than usual.
- anyone phoning should know better: send a message and I'll decide if I wanna talk or no.
- Kids are all growd up: they know the drill.
- Even if news comes out that the World's gonna blow up all I have is: 'bout friggin time!
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yep, it's peak season for grumpy old farts, and I'm in my prime.
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I'm jealous of your freedom to do that.
I want my hermit life back. 
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Looks like we will be watching the bears, panda's in fact, as there is an Xmas brunch at Ouwehands Zoo next week 
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Thats a day dream for me
Christmas day for me is to be invaded by the in laws and family friends who own a Chinese restaurant in town and my mother.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: Christmas day for me is to be invaded by the in laws and family friends who own a Chinese restaurant in town and my mother.
Your mother is owned by family friends?
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Oh, goodie, it's not just me then...
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I'm with ya man! Christmas, Just another day!
Holidays, just a reason to avoid all shopping malls.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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After 4 months of semi retirement (isolation) I'm looking forward to having the family come visit 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Following on from JSOPs rant!
As a developer the only stuff I had on my office machine are projects I was working on for the company. Everything was both backed up and in source control, no databases on the local machine and no personal stuff at all.
I had access to the development and UAT boxes and intranet. Why do I even need a password there is nothing on there that is not company specific and available to all my peers. And yet every 90 days I had to go through the same old routine.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I didn't know they had computers back then. 
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"My day" finished a couple of months ago 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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On our server, who's file system has been with us since 1993, are drivers for ISA cards.
I'm just lazy, and who knows when they might be needed again.
I actually used our WFW 3.1 disk 3 years ago so, yeah you never know.
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Sure servers, especially file servers, have loads of crap hanging around but what is so precious on your desktop - discounting network access which was very limited for the developers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Cakewalk by Bandlab
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: And yet every 90 days I had to go through the same old routine.
Started at this company 254 days ago, still using the same password.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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SCROTUM ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The really silly thing was that they were happy for me to increment the numeric suffix every 3 months. 00 then 11 then 22 etc. when I got to 99 I would just start again. Essentially my password was the same for the last decade.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It'd not so much that they expect someone external to just try to get file access to your machine. If they remoted to your machine, they'd have access to the entire intranet.
Essentially, it's a foot in the door.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, the only precious thing is the freakin' password I have to enter dozen times a day.
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OK, so I've been playing with the node/angular stack for a month or so now.
Short version, it reminds me of a solution looking for a problem. I can write clean Javascript with a nice and simple service-oriented layer. With Angular, I'm constantly adding tags to HTML, C&P'ing common imports into every controller class, C&P'ing common DI's into constructors, often I feel like I'm duplicating things at various levels of the "app" just to support the architecture of Angular, basically spending way too much time managing the boilerplate framework code. All this gets in the way of doing actual real work.
And, while it works great for a small project, and while automatic rebuilding and browser page refresh is great when a code file changes, the warts and the slowness of Angular/Typescript builds reveals its ugly head when you have a real project. And the "real" project at work is actually still pretty small.
And then there's the Node version hell -- I had installed the latest version of Node and Angular, but the product doesn't build with Node v.10, throwing some arcane exception in some C++ code (!!!) it has to compile for something in Node, so I had to downgrade to Node v.8, which involved installing the Node Version Manager so I could switch between the two.
The whole thing reminds me of my Ruby on Rails days.  But maybe with a only dribble of instead of a full technicolor yawn.
On a positive note, the framework forces you to do things the Angular way, which probably cleans up a lot of the crap Javascript that developers would normally write. So, that's a good thing, IMO.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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