carlsson

Should have used vim

Windows regards Emacs as a real Operating System ... 

Not emacs compatible

PS Not sure about Amazon in other countries, though....They had to put a lot of infrastructure in place before this was possible I'm sure.

Well, the package arrived today so it only took four working days to move the parcel 5 miles within the city. Actually I'm working close to the distribution center though I don't believe they handle customer pickups there.

Hmmm...But how is Amazon Sweden?  TBH,  Until 2 minutes ago,  I didn't even know if there was an Amazon.SE but there it is!  Respektingivande! Looks like they've only got 150 Million items, though..HAAa!  JK,  Only!  Could you imagine?  Suddenly I had to know about Amazon US...Looks like a catalog of 12 Million unique items add in Marketplace sellers and Voilà!  350 Million + Items!   Holy Cow!

Haha. 7 days later and the package is somewhere in the vicinity, but no definite delivery date yet. It has been in town for three days now. I suppose the S in UPS stands for slow?

Also all this date comparison originated from a friend comparing the dates for Easter Day and the Eid. I begun looking up if those ever have or will coincide, but since both are moon based (for different parameters of the calculation), it seems those will never end up on the same date, often though Eid happens on the exact same date as Easter Day the year before. For similar reasons, I'd expect that Mardi Gras and Eid also never will happen on the same date as MG is a fixed number of days before Easter Day. It is easier with Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Valentine's Day etc that have a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar.

So Like, dude,..I imagine the Julians and the Gregorians having a war right?  Over who has the best calendar (!) and history will remember this war, well wait back up!  The problem will be History won't really remember this war because they won't know when it happened, ...  Like they'll know when but won't know which method to use to record the war!

Actually the Catholics had already since the 8th century noticed a discrepancy between the March equinox according to the calendar and the observed one. Several attempts were made to fix this, including that both Roger Bacon and Dante observed it. Pope Sixtus IV invited the mathematician and astronomer Regiomontanus in 1475 to do something about it, but the latter died shortly after arriving in Rome. As astronomy observations advanced, some 40 years of calculations and preparations took place until pope Gregory XIII finally issued a papal bull that this was a serious matter as the calendar was 10 days wrong and the new calendar skipped from October 4 to October 15, 1582. Of course it took several centuries before most had adapted, but at least the Catholics knew which date it really was.

Actually I saw a dead badger on the highway today, but I didn't stop to smell it.

@carlssonReassuring to know

Well @carlsson

Get to it!  These dead badgers are not gonna smell themselves ya know!

Also, since when is Windows 10 the same thing as Ubuntu?

I got a Dell sort-of gaming machine about 4 years ago (Specced for emulators but not a super high end video card) and the LED crap was so annoying I had to unplug them.

A software tester walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar.

Dances into a bar. Flies into a bar. Jumps into a bar.

And orders: a beer, 2 beers, 0 beers, 99999999 beers.
a lizard in a beer glass, -1 beer, "qwertyuiop" beers.

Testing complete.

A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.

The bar goes up in flames.

Why did the (Wait what is carlsson again?) web system developer, quit his job?

Because he *ahem*  didn't get arrays.

The name change I think threw a lot of people off. It reminds me of Prince's name change. the man formerly known as Prince. The social media site formerly known as Twitter

Just like his rockets that seems to go nowhere.

Nåväl, jag ska bli en apas farbror!

Grattis till tillökningen!

Tack tack så mycket

At this point, it's cheaper to buy a new pc and avoid building on the shifting sand of an older architecture.

I'm planning to replace everything but the chassis and power supply if possible. Looking at pre-built computers, I would either have to pay twice the money or get a computer with 1/3 of the specs compared to the parts I'm looking at. Sure, I would get a new chassis and matching PSU but I'm not sure those are worth $280 on their own.

Edit: Well, perhaps Windows 11 is worth at least $100 of that.

I have a nice server that I build. Bit of a mini super-computer for running VMs, but I do most of my computing on whatever cheap laptop I have for the year. My current machine is an HP, AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U quad core 2.10 GHz w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 16 GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It cost me $280 refurbished. I expect to use it for about 2 years and then give it away in favor of something better.

As for Super Bowl Parties,  They gotta have BEER!  Past that,  Pizza and Nachos are pretty good choices!

I have one friend who doesn't drink,  and he hates football (also doesn't know the rules),  but he watches the Super Bowl so he can see  the ads!

Personally I wonder if it will be blueberries or spinach that takes Taylor Swift from Tokyo to Las Vegas, or if she skips it to remain in the same time zone.

We had Selmers and Yamahas in the music store I worked at...And probably some odd and ends from other brands but I barely remember.  We used to get really busy for school band instruments,  which we rented, and sometimes sold...

I was a sax player in a past life, myself. Baritone was/is my favorite, but I also played a lot of tenor (I still have a black lacquer Jupiter) and soprano. Never got to try a bass or sopranino, sadly.

Incredibly, my high school had some Selmer Mark VI horns (late-production IIRC, but still). All through high school I played a Mark VI baritone (low A), which seems crazy in retrospect. None of my other horns were ever that swanky, although I did also play a beat-up Buescher low Bb that looked like it was fished out of a lake but played like butter and just sounded incredible (C* mouthpiece). 

Maybe you should order a Heckel bassoon NOW,  and by the time you get it, maybe you'll know how to play it!

But was it a Karma Engine^TM ?  Looks like someone is owed some royalties!   Prince?  Royalties?   HAaaaaaaaa!

The technician came to do maintenance on the game twice a year, and some 20 years later he noticed the extra barrier still was in place and removed it. It seems the game still exists (released in 1979 if I understand correctly) so neat that the royal family didn't get rid of it when the kids had grown up and started their own families. Courtesy of Mike Tylak who is writing a book on Danish video game history.

There must have been some kind of switch or lever to move the barrier up when the younger kiddo played.   Very interesting, though Carlsson.

Excel 2007 uses the xlsx file format. When you merge sheets you can retain extraneous data including the ability to undo the merge and column data. Are there any real equations in the table? If not, you can save it as a csv, then save it again as an xlsx and add in any equations. See then how much it's reduced.

I have a pet project working on allocation analytics software in python. There is usually a lot of garbage to remove from excel files, above is similar to how I clean them in python.

Interested to see your results.

The document has nearly 30,000 sum formulas of the type S2:BS2 and S2:S14700 and another 60000 conditional formulas of the type:

=IF((AND(BV2="C";BU2>=1000;(BU2-INDIRECT($BW$1&ROW()))<1000));"YES";"NO")

But then again both documents used to have the same number of formulas. I could try to export the column data as CSV into a brand new document and add all the formulas to the new one to see if I can halve the size.

Give it a shot. Be sure to examine your CSV to make sure there are no formulas in it. They are usually stripped out, but not always.

*cough* One million computers sold.

oh dear

I remember VIC-20s but only knew of 1 person who had one.  It seems like it was there and then in no time flat Commodore 64s were Everywhere and wiped out its baby brethren....

Nice

My office is very casual: a shirt with a collar and neat denim jeans is acceptable.  Anyone other than one of the executives seen wearing a tie is invariably asked, "Do you have a job interview today?"

I hate ties!  but,  Just to "Dress up",  I'd sometimes wear my tie with The Grinch on it.

Good Job Carlsson!  I always knew you were smarter than a robot!   (And you'll probably lead the Swedish Resistant against the Terminators in the Future!!)  Onward to Victory!!

That's the most accurate description of e-sports I've heard. generally speaking though, watching people do something you can do yourself isn't that entertaining

Well, I for one am an excellent singer (especially Black Sabbath era Ozzy).

Haven't heard anything about E-Sports in a long time...Thank God!  ...hehe...Are they even still a thing?

I was gonna put up a Madonna meme or something,  but she's 65 now,  and the internet is so mean!  (I won't partake) 

For those who like to keep count, I have done it 8 times in the past 7 days so it is not even given I make 600 times this year unless I suffer from diarrhea over the holidays.

Final count: 608

LOL. I usually say, "Are you drunk?"

The next day, I'm pretty sure a madman escaped from the asylum and messed with my code... but nope, I'm the same one who wrote it.

Are you sure it wasn't the one you have hold up in the basement in a giant birdcage nanochess? 😛

There are many ways to skin a cat. This is how I solved it in PHP:

for ($i=0; $i<strlen($bufin); $i++) {
	$bufout .= chr(bindec(strrev(str_pad(decbin(ord($bufin[$i])),8,0,STR_PAD_LEFT))));
}

after reading the binary file into $bufin and then writing the output file as binary from $bufout. It could have been solved mathematically as well.

Oh no!  Garfield RUN before you get skinned!

Quote

I just dumped a 2532 EPROM from a VIC-20 cartridge.

My poop joke still makes me laugh.

LOL What?

That's like those people on eBay who used to sell Atari shirts,  calling them a "Japanese game company".

FWIW, the car changed ownership today (not me). It remains to see if it still is for sale but at this point I'm 90% sure it is a scammer in one way or another, in particular if the number plate has got "legs".

That sucks, but if it is a scammer at least you weren't the one scammed.

Yup. I wrote asking him for an address, unless the car already was sold but didn't hear about it so that one (Mazda) is history. There are more cars to fish.