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I think it's just a matter of where you look. Newegg seems to always have one or more models on sale.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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hMMM MY SURFACE pRO 6 HAS SCREEN OF 2736 X 1824 BY DEFAULT. I COULD SET IT FOR LESS, BUT WHY?
And it appears tyo have crazy long battery life. I've had it going for 16 hours when I use it normally and 48 hours when I turn on battery saver and let it rest a bit.
Microsoft was right, this is the last laptop I'll never need with256 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM and an i5 cpu.
It works for me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Dan Neely wrote: ...looking on Amazon the only drives I'm seeing with 2 ports are no-name ones whose reliability and performance I have serious doubts over.
Are there any quality options...
Truth be told, they're probably all made in the same room in China.
"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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There's a big spread in read/write speeds between the absolute cheapest flash you can buy and what Sandisk, etc put in their premium models. With sketchy no name drives there's also the risk of them buying QA reject flash that has a higher error rate than the ECC can handle or being outright scams and reporting a much larger capacity to the OS than they actually have.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But won't they also disable the connection of external drives anyway?
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Unlike JSOP, or a few other people here, I don't work in an Orwellian Hellscape run according to the paranoid fantasies of Jackbooted Infosec Maximalists.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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sucks to be you. 
The security driven BS is a large part of why I'm uninterested in doing defense work at any point in the future. (The rest of the govt contracting BS is the remainder.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well what did you expect was going to happen after you turned it into a cat toy?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Algorithms are a lot easier to solve if you can solve them visually.
Then walk yourself through the steps your brain takes to solve it.
For example, if I have to scan a list of items with my eyes in order to solve it, I'll need a for loop to enumerate the items in the code.
But sometimes I forget to "watch myself" and then I make my job a lot harder.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Is that normal? Do most coders think visually?
I always thought myself in the minority, never occurred to ask how others create algorithms.
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Based on the dreck posted to Q&A here and on stack overflow, I'm pretty sure the average so called coder can't think beyond Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm not sure. I do know that I'm weird, even among coders generally, but I'm not sure if that's one of the reasons why.
I think in kinda funny ways.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Actually, it's more a ball of goo. A (new) problem induces a feeling of what to do - usually (but not always) right. Maybe best described as running on instinct.
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I personally think that most coders think visually. If I cannot picture it in my head - it is time to start drawing. If it looks to complex, then diagram it to see why. If you cannot diagram it, then you do not understand it and should probably avoid modifying it.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Anyone else write trap doors in their code or just me? Now and then I add alligators for some added protection, unless the client demands crocodile traps, which I never understand. They cost more due to salt water upkeep. Maybe clients see my tier pricing and just assume the highest priced is best.
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I think visually. If I can visualize it, I can do it. I can visualize abstract things that you can't exactly draw a picture of.
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I think visually in almost everything, not just coding. When reading directions or instructional texts I usually have to convert the words and concepts into pictures in my head before they make complete sense.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I've often solved harder problems by not thinking about them. Leave the machine, go for a walk / ride, go shopping... I'll be wandering along [not thinking about the problem] and suddenly the answer just pop into my head. To often trying to solve while at the machine, seem to get stuck in a loop.
But I'll readily admit I'm forgetful, for instance can wander off to the shops to buy something, and about 3/4 way back realize I've got everything except the item I originally planned to get and really needed most. (But I'll probably have an answer to something else.) And anyway mundane simple things like shopping what wives are for isn't it? ... yeah, she don't read this group 
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That sounds like me. And yeah, sometimes just do the dishes, or something. Wax on wax off, and the problems solve themselves in the background.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Lopatir wrote: I've often solved harder problems by not thinking about them. Leave the machine, go for a walk / ride
Same here. I go out for a run over lunch and by the time I get back, all those endorphins have rinsed away the brain cramps and I figure out the problem.
Or I'm a whole lot less frustrated and simply don't care, one of the two  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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What about those nights that all your dreams are series of indirect attempt to solve the problem. Or you solve it in your dream and can't remember the answer when you wake up. 
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I generally draw weird diagrams on a white board - thinking visually helps me a lot.
I used to work at a place where the room we two coders lived in had a special paint on the walls that turned them into whiteboard style surfaces. I loved just writing on the walls when I needed to.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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