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Leaving heads on pikes outside the castle walls is a profoundly useful motivator.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: I think I scared it into working
I have that effect. People have problems with their computer/phone/printer/whatever, I show up, ask them to demonstrate the problem, and it just starts working...
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Me too. The very same effect. On other peoples machines.
My own machines, are the opposite. They, really, really, love to infuriate me.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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That too.
My mere presence fixes other people's systems.
This does not apply to my own however.
And mine never present simple problems.
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Me too, my one and only super-power. Our office gremlins are terrified of me; stuff always works as soon as I sit down to observe the bug.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
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Ha, same here with the wifey. She'll have a problem with something
on her computer and when I come down and try it it works just fine.
She swears she'd did exactly the same thing I did (yeah right!).
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One of my colleagues has the opposite effect. You'll be testing a device, everything's going smoothly, you think you're done... then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, *KABOOM* something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: then this person inevitably walks up and touches something, KABOOM something breaks. This person is now our 'acid test' prior to release
I had a coworker from the QA department like that. I was just getting started as a dev, and in hindsight, he probably made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected.
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dandy72 wrote: made me a better programmer, as he would inevitably force me to expect the unexpected. Exactly!
"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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The Babbage programming language ([^]) provides a special programming mechanism for handling such situations, the 'conditional threat' statement: DO -so and so - OR ELSE.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: The Babbage programming language
In the 1980's I programmed in the real Babbage language on GEC 4000 computers at Manchester University and Daresbury Laboratory and thought "I don't remember that!", but the article you referenced is clearly a spoof!
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The two languages are completely independent of each other. The name coincidence it nothing but a conincidence.
(Note that even 'your' Babbage language has taken its name from somewhere else )
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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How fine do you grind your coffee grounds for american coffee? I'm curious to know how other people do it, as I have very little experience with that coffee making process.
I use coarse for french press, midway between coarse and fine for moka, ultrafine for turkish but I never know how to grind it for american.
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I just set my bean to cup machine to "finest grind" and leave it there.
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I tried with a fine grind yesterday and it seems it improved the taste quite a bit, I will sample better when not sleepwalking.
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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Greetings Kind Regards
By American do you mean Americano? If so from a video I just now learned it is an espresso poured into a cup of water. So presumably the grind is that of an espresso. By the way perhaps this site may be of use Coffee ad Astra[^] If not Americano may I inquire the meaning. The method of brewing I am most familiar wtih is "Cowboy".
Then there is this fellow. James Hoffmann - YouTube[^]
modified 4-Jul-24 9:55am.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: If so from a video I just now learned it is an espresso poured into a cup of water.
That's an Americano if you ask it in Italy. I'm referring to the drip coffee machines so common in the USA.
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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The only thing I hate about cowboy is that when you get older and into what you're doing you forget and take that last gulp and end up with a mouth full of grit.
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I always strain w/ metal strainer though plenty of grit remains but I've been successful in avoiding consuming it. Unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to strain w/ a paper filter as it always clogs. Some many months ago the paper filters did the trick. I do not know what changed. The result was a smoother flavor. Also according to Harvard drinking filtered coffee results in a lower rate of death. I am not certain such is to be preferred as it may be preferable to get to the big coffee house in the sky in an expeditious manner once your number is called.
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How would Jesus do it?
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I do not believe he would do it in any way as it is well documented he drank wine.
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BernardIE5317 wrote: it is well documented he drank wine.
So? Many people drink wine and coffee, though not usually at the same time...
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 guess I will have to read the Bible again. Maybe I will find the section he walks into Starbucks.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It is well documented that Jesus drank wine. That does not imply that he didn't drink water, beer, or any other drink extant at the time.
(I agree that coffee was not drunk in the 1st century C.E.)
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 just eat them whole. The chocolate-covered ones.
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