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    Replied To a Post in Time for some humour before Jan 20

    A QA tester walks into a bar, orders -4 beers, "2" whiskeys, and Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1 packets of crisps.
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    Began Watching Time for some humour before Jan 20

    I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it.
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    Replied To a Post in When Speed Replaces Satisfaction in Coding

    > Oops! I tried It's ok, I know I'm a nobody around here. I think I've sussed the spam bot, links are ok but only if they're out in the …
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    Replied To a Post in When Speed Replaces Satisfaction in Coding

    This question sounds familiar.....(https://coderanch.com/t/789618/Speed-Replaces-Satisfaction-Coding) I'll repeat what I said over there. Perhaps fulfillment just looks different with AI "accelerator" tools such as the ones you mentioned. Can you develop code …
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    Began Watching When Speed Replaces Satisfaction in Coding

    Before ChatGPT or DeepSeek existed, successfully completing a coding task was a very fulfilling experience, even if it took a long time. Now that things can be done quickly, the …
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    Replied To a Post in Need a small footprint desktop with decent power

    I'm a developer too and 14 years ago I bought an entry level MacBook Air and honestly it was probably the best laptop I've ever bought and I used it …
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    Began Watching Need a small footprint desktop with decent power

    Hey everyone, My current desktop tower is getting old and frankly, it's huge and noisy. I'm looking to replace it with something much more compact that can still handle my …
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    Replied To a Post in Need a small footprint desktop with decent power

    Sonos kit is pretty decent. I have a bunch of different models and they all sound great.
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    Began Watching Need a small footprint desktop with decent power

    Hi everyone! Looking for a normal smart speaker for the living room - first of all, to sound great music. Most importantly deep bass, clear midrange and unclipped top end. …
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    Replied To a Post in Is linux your daily driver?

    Maybe a wee bit older than you Dani, I was 26 or 27 doing a Masters degree when I met my Linux loving friend. I'm 46 now. I have had …
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    Replied To a Post in Is linux your daily driver?

    While I was at university 20 years ago one of my course friends regularly extolled the virtues of Linux. He was a big fan of Gentoo which I never really …
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    Began Watching Is linux your daily driver?

    Linux has come a long way, but it's still primarily a server OS, correct? How many of you linux fanboys and girls use it as your primary operating system for …
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    Replied To a Post in Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer

    Fair point. I have actually met about half a dozen of the CodeRanch staff in person which is way more social than I ever was on any other social network.
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    Replied To a Post in Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer

    I've pretty much excluded myself from all social media things because their primary reason for being is to push advertising and propaganda to you, and I don't like it. I …
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    Replied To a Post in Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer

    I never really connected with it so just feels like a long time ago. But I share you sentiments in general for things of the past, such as the 8086 …
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    Replied To a Post in Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer

    Mastadon, well there's a blast from the past. I couldn't even tell you which servers I had accounts on.
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    Replied To a Post in Lots of new members but no one posts

    Profile spam for sweet sweet SEO internet points. Create an account, put a link in the profile, but never post anything thus reducing the likelihood of triggering the spam alarms …
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    Began Watching Lots of new members but no one posts

    As [you can see here](https://www.daniweb.com/stats/members?country=&filter=&sort=timestamp), we get lots of new members signing up every day, but nearly no one posts. This has been true for decades and decades now. Anyone …
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    Replied To a Post in how can I build or make new programming language

    This may seem like a flippant response, but I promise you it isn't. Why do you feel the need to write a new programming language? (I assume that's what you …
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    Began Watching how can I build or make new programming language

    I want to build an easy machine language more likely that sport local language and easy for building software applications and much more
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    Began Watching Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer

    I used to be a long-time moderator and administrator on JavaRanch/CodeRanch, where I got to know Tim and Ron who recently introduced themselves here. Over there I was heavily involved …
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    Created Hello, I'm Tim Cooke

    Like Ron McLeod, [who we met yesterday](https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/say-hello/threads/543368/hi-everyone-i-m-ron-mcleod), I'm a moderator and administrator over at the CodeRanch.com forums. I'm a Software Engineer, currently working as a Software Architect for a medical …
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    Began Watching Hello, I'm Tim Cooke

    Like Ron McLeod, [who we met yesterday](https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/say-hello/threads/543368/hi-everyone-i-m-ron-mcleod), I'm a moderator and administrator over at the CodeRanch.com forums. I'm a Software Engineer, currently working as a Software Architect for a medical …

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