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Quote: Don't push too far your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might have set upon yourself
China in your hand
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I remember I ordered a Scope thinking it won't turn up for the job I was ordering it for, it arrived three days later. Started to think some companies have stock in the country you are ordering from... which thanks to Covid has been exhausted... 
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Since I never get around to actually building my ideas, I find it's much faster to just have them fax me the parts.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I believe that companies in China sending things abroad get to use a special postal service that is either free to them or super-fast - it's a way to get dollars etc. into the Chinese economy and outcompete companies in other countries.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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honey the codewitch wrote: I'm still holding out for a MIME extension that allows me to just attach electronics via email
I don't know if you're a Star Trek fan, but you do recognize that 3D printers are the first step toward replicators[^]? A design is just data...
Software Zen: delete this;
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The travel time is not the big issue. The availability of shipping containers is.
The Asians don't buy enough of our stuff to fill the containers and ship them back to the Asian harbors. We are not (sufficiently) willing to pay for the shipping of thousands of empty containers across the Pacific Ocean or through the Suez canal. So they pile up in the destination harbors - with us, that is - unavailable to the Asian manufacturers for sending us even more goods.
If we could only make the Asians that their quality of life was dependent on products that is only manufactured in the Western world, then maybe the containers might come back to Asia a little faster. To a large degree, we defined our quality of life by products made in Asia (cellphones, playtoys, cameras, cars, sports equipment, entertainment electronics, ...), so when we export our culture to them, they fulfill their dreams without having to buy very much from us.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's neat, though I'm still holding out for a MIME extension that allows me to just attach electronics via email. 
I worked for a computer company making a competitor to the VAX series. In those days, the CPU consisted of quite a few circuit boards - the first model from this company spend an entire 'Eurocard' (approx. 30 by 40 cm) for the floating point multiply/divide electronics.
If you ordered the "BCD arithmetics" CPU extension, most customers expected to receive another Eurocard to plug into the backplane. What they did receive was as floppy disk. So in principle, they could have received the hardware upgrade by email.
Obviously: The BCD 'circuitry' was a pure microcode implementation. It was not fast, but if my memory is correct, it was about three times faster than the library emulator functions running without this 'hardware' extension. Cobol users were happy.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Add a few days to the shipping time, maybe. It's not bad for coming from the other side of the world as me.
Cargo container ships take about 6 weeks from Asia to the US.
So if you get something from Asia in less time then that then either it is coming by plane or it is being sourced from somewhere closer.
There is of course a lot of work done with predictive supply chains so even though one might consider it an unusual item there are still a 'lot' of people ordering it (or they wouldn't make it in the first place) so it is probably already being sourced somewhere closer. Improvements in that helps a lot. Of course the dependence on that is also why it became a problem during COVID.
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When I track the packages they typically fly into Los Angeles.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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 Great song!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Too late, already pressed F5, Someday I or someone will get a mild chuckle.
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Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement.  took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.
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modified 12-Apr-23 12:31pm.
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Yeah, I've done that more times than I care to admit. 
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Their cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.
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Edit: got it (the fishy part)
Here, let me clear the picture:
<pre lang="C++">
if(obj->nVar > 0);
{
//unreachable code
//more unreachable code
//even more unreachable code
}
It was verry confusing because it was CLI manageable section and without a special pragma you cannot debug this code.
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modified 12-Apr-23 12:31pm.
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um... Not only would that ode be reachable, it would be executed every time.
Truth,
James
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Yes, exactly - bad wording on my side.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: heir cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.
Beware of people with a non functional cod piece.
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Mind bleach, I need mind bleach!!! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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For some reason - maybe it's my editor? - but lately I've been dropping a lot of { open braces after if (K&R style for me in C/C++) and it rains absolute mayhem down on my source code. My editor lights up like a $5 {expletive, use your imagination}, and of course nothing compiles. It's also just the sort of thing your brain will fill in for you automatically if it's not there while scanning code. Thanks brain!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah, with K&R your brain will register the harmful semicolon. But I for instance always use Allman style with any language.
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Single Step Debugger wrote: always use Allman style with any language.
If you can: GO forces you to use K&R style. Allman is a syntax error 
Mircea
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I always use braces, even when not required. It future proofs for later maintenance.
There was a great article supporting the always use braces approach, but I can’t remember the exact format used.
The article had extensive test cases around merging changes from multiple branches and showed how braces protected correct merging.
I have tried googling it, but with no luck. I guess I could just Chat GPT to provide the answer now? And if I do not like the answer then I will ask Chat GPT to write a white paper proving that my preferred brace style is superior and force my team to adopt it.
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I *was* using braces. I'm talking about typing:
if(foo!=nullptr)
printf("foo valid\n");
}
Like that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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