chrisnelsonpe.bsky.social
Professional software engineer, husband, father, grandfather, wood worker.
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Gawd, that was painful. I finished it but sometimes wish I hadn't. 🤷🏻♂️
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I've got three of those on my shelf to this day. 😀
One more I couldn't have gotten this far without. Seems I opened it every time I needed to write a client or server.
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Pretty sure I have 3 on my shelf right now!
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For a long time I expressed my Mac aversion by saying I wouldn't trust a computer that didn't trust me with more than one mouse button!
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Alien 😀
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My first semester in college, I was swamped and didn't think I had time for pleasure reading. Then I picked up a novel and my grades went up.
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My daughter used her student/alumni email account until her college shutdown. 😯
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Yeah. I don't think a Linux user would mistake their phone for a Linux system. 😆
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As a toddler, my granddaughter could mash in my keyboard and turn the display upside down. Did it several times. 😯 Using the mouse on an inverted display to navigate to the setting to put it back was a challenge
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Android is based on Linux. Are you saying it is so different that mobile is displacing Linux? Seems more like it is adopting/adapting Linux.
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An early Fortran compiler from IBM didn't protect constants so, INTEGER 1 = 2 compiled with interesting results. 😯
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Not sure where I first heard, "If the code and the comments disagree, they are both wrong." 😉
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I love the saying that a junior developer fixes a bug by adding code, a senior developer fixes a bug by removing code. 😀
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I have definitely had solutions to complex problems come out of my pillow! I often review a hard problem at the end of the day in the hope that a solution will emerge from my sleeping unconscious.
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When redirection first came to DOS, there were no real pipes so the OS created intermediate files and that should have worked just fine. 😀
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How could I not follow an Oxford comma enthusiast?! 😀
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Proof that if do enough random shit you may be right now and then.
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What do you mean by "first computer?" First I owned? A Motorola TV Bug. First I programmed (in school)? Probably an IBM 3033 mainframe. At my first job? An IBM PC/XT. 10 MB of disk!
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Motif was the last good desktop environment. 😀
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Open a support case. Answer stupid questions. While waiting, I have to print. Staples no longer stocks a decent selection of ink so order online and wait. Install new cartridge. Printer thinks a while. Decides it can't recognize the CYAN cyan cartridge!
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Oh, don't get me started.🤬 A week or so ago in the 48 hours between print jobs, my printer decided that the magenta cartridge was no longer recognizable. Repower, reseat, etc.; no joy.
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To be fair, older TVs took a while to warm up.
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Having to power cycle a device should shame the firmware developer. ☹️
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Installed that this morning. "Windows 10 taskbar is not available in this version of Windows." ☹️
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My frustrations are just amplified by the terrible “community” where issues are marked “resolved” though no resolution is provided. Keep the thread open, let others say “me, too.” By closing the threads without resolution, you look foolish and uninterested in helping users. #GalaxyRing #RingRegret
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Sleep tracking is also terrible. The band sometimes missed when I went to bed but I could correct the data. The #GalaxyRing & Samsung app get it wrong by 2-3 hours 2-4 nights a week and I can’t fix it. Then it tells me the next day that I should go to bed earlier to improve my energy! #RingRegret
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When I row, Health reports no HR at all. Perhaps gripping the rower disrupts #GalaxyRing HR measurement but a manual measurement after rowing (while I can still feel my heart racing) is ~1.8x resting HR. The band more reasonably reported 2.5-2.6x resting HR during and after rowing. #RingRegret
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When I ride my stationary bike, Health consistently reports twice the calories burned than the bike does. A web search shows that the bike and the band are in the ballpark of expected numbers. The Samsung Health app is just wrong. (Maybe that’s not the #GalaxyRing’s fault.) #RingRegret
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The problems are legion. In every way I want to use it, the #GalaxyRing is inferior to the $30 Mi band I intended it to replace. My primary use is for fitness tracking. I ride a stationary bike and I use a rowing machine. #RingRegret
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I looked at that but I saw no indication it did anything with taskbar placement.
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Do tell....
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I'd very curious how. To my knowledge, that feature is not in W11.
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I don't understand why as monitors have gotten wider, things like the Office ribbon and a bottom taskbar take up more of height, the scarce resource! I put my taskbar on the left. So much better.
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I may have to try that. Thanks. I found something that mostly lets me have a functional "taskbar" on the left side my screen.
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The Realistic amp and bookshelf speakers I bought for my dorm room in the early 80s are under my desk. I stream to them via a little Bluetooth dongle.
My monitor is 11+ years old.
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I followed Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter. I love that he was a major force in both TP and C#. 😀
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"Smart" devices shouldn't make you feel dumb. ☹️
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Also: noperfectprogram.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/b...
Still true.