tl8
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Well, it is now under a month until I am in Germany for a conference. I better get cracking on the talk, and what I want to visit while I am there.
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tl8
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Berlin, Hamberg, Cologne. A week in Berlin and a couple days each in the rest.
jedidia
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When you are in Hamberg, you should eat Hamberders... :lol:
In all seriousness, if you happen to be into harbors, you should definitely go take a look in Hamburg.
tl8
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I will be looking at the boats...
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That is probably how I picked Hamburg over another city.Miniatur Wunderland. Wasn't there but it is definitely on my TODO list
Linguofreak
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If only 57,005 people have been able to read hexadecimal in the history of humanity, how many people currently living can read hexadecimal?
jedidia
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Define "read". Read as in "natively read without having to do any conversion to another base", or in other words "read in the way I read english", there's not going to be many. Pretty much only people that have to work with hex almost every day.
Read as in "can identify Hexadecimal notation and (possibly with the help of some paper or a calculator) convert it to base 10", or in other words "the way I read french", the number would probably be pretty large.
PhantomCruiser
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It took me a few minutes to determine that 1270005 people could maybe convert that to octal.
Linguofreak
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The answer is 0. Because (decimal) 57,005 = 0xDEAD.
Therefore, only dead people can read hex, which means that nobody currently living can read hex.
jedidia
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Ok, why did I not immediately assume that a comment about hex contaning a specific number might have a joke burried in the conversion? Looks like I'm seriously off my game...
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Well, that's my holidays job gone:
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If you think the backwards compatibility of Orbiter 2016 is annoying....
you should not take a too close look at Windows 10. I just fixed an annoying bug in a more arcane batch file because the semantics of the good old MSDOS heritage MORE command changed (Enabling extended mode with /E is now mandatory again if you want to skip lines with +... )
you should not take a too close look at Windows 10. I just fixed an annoying bug in a more arcane batch file because the semantics of the good old MSDOS heritage MORE command changed (Enabling extended mode with /E is now mandatory again if you want to skip lines with +... )
jedidia
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Ok, deprecating commands is perfectly fine in my opinion, but subtly changing their semantics is just evil...
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Was luckily no showstopper and quickly fixed after finding the line in the batch that failed. :lol:
Was part of the function for processing the output of ipconfig to check if the sensor network was connected. And this code worked usually.
Though it took me days to understand how when I just got the existing script files to maintain after the original developer disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
PhantomCruiser
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Unit 2 refueling outage is well underway. The bosses are expecting "core empty" some time today. Oddly enough there are no pictures of the stargate opened up. Just one of the head being lifted (boring).
On a sad note; if I stay here until full retirement, I have 20 more refueling outages to go. Makes me want to get in my car, fake my own death and start over somewhere else...
On a sad note; if I stay here until full retirement, I have 20 more refueling outages to go. Makes me want to get in my car, fake my own death and start over somewhere else...
jedidia
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Writing a system that can evaluate the state of various interfering aspects of our devices based on their event history. Basically, the most complex state machine I've ever built.
Over 1500 lines of unit tests, and it's still a bug-ridden mess :facepalm:
Over 1500 lines of unit tests, and it's still a bug-ridden mess :facepalm:
