The risk of losing something doing all that was greater than the risk that Win10 would actually fucking work. So yeah, I thought about it. Had I known how flaky Win10 was gonna be I'd have probably done it. Shit happens.
You seem to think I wanted this upgrade. The Win10 update "wanna update?" box came up when I was about to click on something completely different, then I was afraid to stop the upgrade for fear my laptop wouldn't boot again.
So no, it's not a clean install. It's also not a desired install.
Yup. Win10 uptime is well under a week, figure 3-5 days before a reboot. Typically a reboot that happens while the laptop is closed and your snug in a rug sleeping.
Got the uptime up to 3-5 days by realizing I could restart Windows Explorer when it crashed, which it does 1-2 days in.
Win10 is the buggiest, most unreliable PoS I've run in decades.
Did I mention I "upgraded" from Win 8.1 to 10 because I was installing something, and Microsoft took that millisecond to put up the "Pssst. Hey bud, wanna upgrade?". I clicked yes but Microsoft changed what "yes" meant on me.
Games. Gotta quit playing games and put Microsoft into the categories of toilet paper I've wiped my ass with, then flushed and forgot.
Why the fuck to I have to put HTML formatting into posts here? I can't just hit CR twice, I have to enter between paragraphs. Really?
Get the miners out, let the big-ass machines think for themselves, see what happens. Shit happens, software gets tweaked, try again. Lather rinse repeat.
Good side is fewer miners get trapped in cave-ins. Bad side is those miners are now on unemployment.
Bingo. With C, C++, Java you can easily disable a block of code. With Python you're just as likely to introduce a new bug into the code you're debugging than to isolate code you don't care about.
Don't get me wrong, I love Python. But IMHO using whitespace to define blocks was a stupid move. And yeah, I'm well aware of the arguments for and against for the last 15 years.
Almost 24 hours after I made my snarky first post, the discussion rages on. Sez I hit a nerve:)
I seem to have hit a nerve:) Been using Python off and on (more off than on) for 15 years or so and am well aware of the curly braces, um, discussion.
My biggest issue is sometimes when tracking down a problem you want to comment out blocks of code. Easiest is an "if(0){....}", that isn't really practical with Python.
You'll typically get 30 seconds of info in 4+ minutes (Hey followers, Joe Blow here. I'm a gonna show you something you googled for, but first I'm gonna impress you with how important I am. Follow me at somewhere dot somewhere. etc etc etc).
Unless a friend sends the link I never watch You-Tube. I don't have a FB account, so my friends are actually people I've had a beer with and occasionally bumped uglies with.
I used to have a HAM license when I was a kid, late 60's/early 70's. I quickly learned I enjoyed building the electronics, but talking to random joes did nothing for me. Got a couple QSL cards, sent a few out, but I did it for maybe 3 months tops.
Got a job later on as an electronics tech, then turned into an embedded software engineer. Getting the HAM license was a good thing for me to do, even though it turned out I hated being a HAM.
I had more fun listening to radio stations in the midwest, or in Europe, far more interesting than talking to some random dude (I was in San Diego).
Both candidates played under the electoral candidate rules. If the electoral college did not exist they would have used a completely different strategy.
Can you imagine the constitutional crisis had the electoral college not elected Trump? Total loss of faith in the process for at least 1/3 of the population. Pretty much would guarantee a civil war.
I'm always hearing about cars hitting deers. In my neck of the woods it's cars hitting squirrels. Every couple years there is a big media splash about how we're spending millions so wildlife can take underground tunnels and not turn into roadkill on a 70 mph road. Keep in mind, this is where squirrels are the issue.
So who is surprised wildlife habitat has been divided into x times 1000 little bitty chunks, each too small to support the wildlife?
Too many people, not enough land.
I'm getting to hate/,, preferring soylent Why should I have to \br\ when I want a paragraph break?
Knock yourself out. That's all I use Evernote for. I'll even save you the effort, here is this week's sorted by store and store location:
Plan:
A steak & lobster
B black bean soup
C chicken pizzaiola (70)
Need:
sandpaper
soy sauce
cereal
B chorizo
B dry black beans
C 2 oz pepperoni
C 2 cans tomato sauce
A broccoli
A lobster tail
C 1.5 lb chicken tits
wasabi
eggs
milk
hash browns
C 4 oz mozzarella
avocados
garam masala
Oddly enough the article is on Yahoo, which breaks the rule. I can tell Yahoo why their eyeballs keep dropping. It's because crap like this makes your pages hard to read.
and Linux device drivers. It was fun going through this quiz, when few of the choices represented my reasons, and knowing the quiz wasn't aimed at me.
Best question? Rank the top 5 things most important to you. Only 4 of the listed things meant jack shit to me. I'm writing a device driver before the device is publicly announced, I don't care about social media support, it doesn't exist. I'm lucky if 1/3 of my documentation is in english, I'm happy if I can figure out what a register does and what it's values mean. A snippet of C code surrounded by Japanese/Korean/Chinese symbols is a godsend, C is always in english. Sucks when the C code references a hard coded address without mentioning the register name, but I can usually decipher the code to figure out which register they're referencing.
Second most important? Tech support that speaks both english and whatever, so I can ask "um, what register are they talking about on page 23?" and, 2-3 days later, find out it's 0x242.
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How exactly is my comment offtopic? Whomever modded me, chime in any time.
When Trump is in this will get canned,
1) Never heard of the company
2) Laid of 50 peeps, kinda insignificant
3) Offices closed are 3k miles from me.
Oh, it was some startup trying to feed me ads. So 4) fuck you.
So they failed my personal goal.
The risk of losing something doing all that was greater than the risk that Win10 would actually fucking work. So yeah, I thought about it. Had I known how flaky Win10 was gonna be I'd have probably done it. Shit happens.
You seem to think I wanted this upgrade. The Win10 update "wanna update?" box came up when I was about to click on something completely different, then I was afraid to stop the upgrade for fear my laptop wouldn't boot again.
So no, it's not a clean install. It's also not a desired install.
Yup. Win10 uptime is well under a week, figure 3-5 days before a reboot. Typically a reboot that happens while the laptop is closed and your snug in a rug sleeping.
Got the uptime up to 3-5 days by realizing I could restart Windows Explorer when it crashed, which it does 1-2 days in.
Win10 is the buggiest, most unreliable PoS I've run in decades.
Did I mention I "upgraded" from Win 8.1 to 10 because I was installing something, and Microsoft took that millisecond to put up the "Pssst. Hey bud, wanna upgrade?". I clicked yes but Microsoft changed what "yes" meant on me.
Games. Gotta quit playing games and put Microsoft into the categories of toilet paper I've wiped my ass with, then flushed and forgot.
Why the fuck to I have to put HTML formatting into posts here? I can't just hit CR twice, I have to enter between paragraphs. Really?
With face recognition we can nail those ne'er do wells, hence putting their organs up for transplant.
Get the miners out, let the big-ass machines think for themselves, see what happens. Shit happens, software gets tweaked, try again. Lather rinse repeat.
Good side is fewer miners get trapped in cave-ins. Bad side is those miners are now on unemployment.
Dafuq, they make stuff. They made some bad decisions. They cooked their books. Business news yeah, /. notsomuch.
Not like I'm writing router or server code, I'm just a clueless dude surfing the web. Bad stuff happens, "the network" is hosed.
Bingo. With C, C++, Java you can easily disable a block of code. With Python you're just as likely to introduce a new bug into the code you're debugging than to isolate code you don't care about.
:)
Don't get me wrong, I love Python. But IMHO using whitespace to define blocks was a stupid move. And yeah, I'm well aware of the arguments for and against for the last 15 years.
Almost 24 hours after I made my snarky first post, the discussion rages on. Sez I hit a nerve
I seem to have hit a nerve :) Been using Python off and on (more off than on) for 15 years or so and am well aware of the curly braces, um, discussion.
My biggest issue is sometimes when tracking down a problem you want to comment out blocks of code. Easiest is an "if(0){....}", that isn't really practical with Python.
Cuz IMHO using whitespace to define blocks is brain dead.
You'll typically get 30 seconds of info in 4+ minutes (Hey followers, Joe Blow here. I'm a gonna show you something you googled for, but first I'm gonna impress you with how important I am. Follow me at somewhere dot somewhere. etc etc etc). Unless a friend sends the link I never watch You-Tube. I don't have a FB account, so my friends are actually people I've had a beer with and occasionally bumped uglies with.
I used to have a HAM license when I was a kid, late 60's/early 70's. I quickly learned I enjoyed building the electronics, but talking to random joes did nothing for me. Got a couple QSL cards, sent a few out, but I did it for maybe 3 months tops.
Got a job later on as an electronics tech, then turned into an embedded software engineer. Getting the HAM license was a good thing for me to do, even though it turned out I hated being a HAM.
I had more fun listening to radio stations in the midwest, or in Europe, far more interesting than talking to some random dude (I was in San Diego).
Both candidates played under the electoral candidate rules. If the electoral college did not exist they would have used a completely different strategy.
Can you imagine the constitutional crisis had the electoral college not elected Trump? Total loss of faith in the process for at least 1/3 of the population. Pretty much would guarantee a civil war.
I'm always hearing about cars hitting deers. In my neck of the woods it's cars hitting squirrels. Every couple years there is a big media splash about how we're spending millions so wildlife can take underground tunnels and not turn into roadkill on a 70 mph road. Keep in mind, this is where squirrels are the issue.
/,, preferring soylent Why should I have to \br\ when I want a paragraph break?
So who is surprised wildlife habitat has been divided into x times 1000 little bitty chunks, each too small to support the wildlife?
Too many people, not enough land.
I'm getting to hate
Knock yourself out. That's all I use Evernote for. I'll even save you the effort, here is this week's sorted by store and store location: Plan: A steak & lobster B black bean soup C chicken pizzaiola (70) Need: sandpaper soy sauce cereal B chorizo B dry black beans C 2 oz pepperoni C 2 cans tomato sauce A broccoli A lobster tail C 1.5 lb chicken tits wasabi eggs milk hash browns C 4 oz mozzarella avocados garam masala
Oddly enough the article is on Yahoo, which breaks the rule. I can tell Yahoo why their eyeballs keep dropping. It's because crap like this makes your pages hard to read.
and Linux device drivers. It was fun going through this quiz, when few of the choices represented my reasons, and knowing the quiz wasn't aimed at me.
Best question? Rank the top 5 things most important to you. Only 4 of the listed things meant jack shit to me. I'm writing a device driver before the device is publicly announced, I don't care about social media support, it doesn't exist. I'm lucky if 1/3 of my documentation is in english, I'm happy if I can figure out what a register does and what it's values mean. A snippet of C code surrounded by Japanese/Korean/Chinese symbols is a godsend, C is always in english. Sucks when the C code references a hard coded address without mentioning the register name, but I can usually decipher the code to figure out which register they're referencing.
Second most important? Tech support that speaks both english and whatever, so I can ask "um, what register are they talking about on page 23?" and, 2-3 days later, find out it's 0x242.
My headphones with the headphone plug get left and right at the same time, everyfricken time.
Nobody I know liked either candidate. I, and probably 1 other friend, went for Gary Johnson. Yeah, I went GJ.
All my other friends bitched about the 2 choices, yet voted for one of the evils anyway.
And I care because?......
Last movie I saw in a theater was Return of the King. Now I just wait for the DVD. No, I won't pay extra to get it earlier.