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5teveH wrote: I confess, I have never looked at the posting rules, (rules aren't my strong suit!  ), but I'm surprised "climate" is off limits. Is it a contentious issue?
Yes, climate became contentious, thanks to fat_boy.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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5teveH wrote: My aim was to highlight the insight, vision and brilliance of Carl Sagan, rather than push any agenda. Why would I? I'll be long dead before droughts, fires and floods have devastated large parts of the planet. Not my problem!
...and that's why, on the No Agenda podcast, they keep saying Build Back Better - for someone else. They even have a great jingle about it.
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Sadly the worship of money overrides the self preservation instinct.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I commented: "Finally, two children of the same father"
She blocked me...
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Two different fathers is a possibility.
"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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Apparently, I really suck at rolling them ...
"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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Tsk tsk
"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
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On a petty little machine, once every 10th of a second I need to update a graph in real time. Currently it's a graph where each point is a line that starts at the origin and continues to the value, so it is like a line graph but it is all "filled in".
I need to overlay a second graph. I'm connected @ 20Mhz to a display that even if I could figure out how to read from its framebuffer i couldn't do it at the speed necessary to do true alpha blending.
So I'm going to do fake alpha blending.
Each point in the graph will now be a multicolored line, where each line segment is blended to indicate the data point(s) it represents. For example if one dataset was red and the other was blue, where they intersect would be purple.
That means I divvy the line up into 1-2 segments and draw those instead of drawing a single line.
And I should be able to do that every 100ms without dropping frames.
Woo.
The project is starting to get fun.
As an aside, I put my foot down with my client on behalf of our end-end client (I'm kind of in a multi-layered client structure right now. I work for someone and we collectively work for someone else)
He's an electrical engineer, and I enjoy working with him, in part because of that, but I won't let him get his dirty fingers all over my beautiful UI. I told him "less is more" over and over again. Normally I give my clients what they ask for good and hard, but I'm taking a different approach this time because I actually like this project.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Finding a new way is the fun part ... coding it up is work, again. I'm still waiting for the brain keyboard connection.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Sewerslvt - goodbye[^]
I got to know Sewerslvt somewhere in 2020 during lockdown.
Pretty good stuff, so I shared it with a friend.
I think he listens to it more often than I do, and last week he shared their new album with me (how the turntables!).
Their style is defined as breakcore and drum & bass, so it's pretty eclectic.
I found a definition of breakcore that sums it up nicely: speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density.
This track is the last track on the album (aptly titled "goodbye") that sums up the entire album in about 17 minutes.
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Quote: how the turntables
GROOOAAAANNNNN
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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So basically darkwave!
I've listened to the genre for a while, but can't say I'm still a fan of it...
Nice for an incidental change though 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Nice for an incidental change though
Agreed. Not a total fan myself, but it is interesting and worth a listen.
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At zeroo Greenwich is one, but Iron Maiden rioted on leaving the area (8)
"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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on leaving the area - take out "on"
Ir Maiden
rioted - anagram
meridian - definition
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
1.
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And that means you are up on Monday!
"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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Do we have any tools packaged with windows 10?
I couldn't find a proper screen recorder.
Google takes me to expensive options.
For mac, it's available
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721[^]
Any similar free tools available for windows?
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That's a new one on me. I followed the instructions, hit Win-G and got a little pop-up message that says "You'll need a new app to open this ms-gamingoverlay link". It's got an OK button that is disabled, and nothing else.
Now, I've not clicked a "link", I've pressed a Windows key combination.
OK, so I'll need a new "app" - what one and where do I find it? Or even how do I find what application? (and don't patronise me by dumbing everything down to "apps")
WTF is the point of showing me a dialog with one button that's disabled!?
Until recently, I used my free copy of Jing (from TechSmith) to record voice-annotated movies, which it saved as Flash files. That is, of course, until Microsoft deleted tools for playing Flash - without my consent or notification, on the basis they were "insecure". Including the ones I'd created myself or had proven safe from many years ago.
PS apologies for going off at a massive tangent. But if something's free and "included" with Windows, why doesn't it work????
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I've just tried Win-G on W10-Pro and I get a 'Welcome to X-Box Game Bar'. I don't have an X-Box.
For comparison, I've just tried it on W11-Home and that does the same. And I still don't have an X-Box.
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jsc42 wrote: And I still don't have an X-Box.
It comes preinstalled I believe. No need for an xbox.
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DerekT-P wrote: Win-G
That's the xbox gaming bar. Sounds like you might not have it installed or it needs reinstalled or something changed your shortcut keys.
What happens if you click Start and type xbox? You should see the xbox game bar app.
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