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I have a Norwegian brother-in-law, so am trying to keep up. So far, all I know is what his son taught me: "Du er en prompende ape." Google Translate tells me that "like a flea crawling on a tar brush" is in Norwegian: "Det er som en loppe som kryper på en tjærebørste.". Does that sound right to you?
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We shorten it somewhat: "Som lus på tjærekost".
So I was somewhat imprecise in my translation: We are referring to louse, not to fleas (which would be "loppe" in Norwegian). First, I think "flea" sounds better. Second, we are used to thinking of fleas being great athletics (like in a flea circus), so the contrast to one crawling on a tar brush makes the point even clearer. I cannot change the Norwegian way of speech, but when translating I can allow myself slightly greater freedom 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Thank you for your detailed explanation!
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You need to use the right OS for the hardware. Some computers will forever run Windows Vista better than any OS because the drivers were designed for it. Once you start upgrading Windows you run into driver emulation issues or kernel thread scheduling issues. So either you stay on the older version of Windows or you move to Linux which doesn't have these issues at a driver level.
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Just a few months ago, you could easily go to your boss and say, "Oh, StackOverflow is down so I can't move forward on my project." 
However, that excuse is no longer valid.
Here's the new meme, I just minted[^] to explain it. 
The Dev game has changed to a whole new level.
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So, AI is actually StackOverflow backup device. Good to know.
Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.
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11917640 Member wrote: Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.
Exactly!
I've actually taken 20 minutes (or longer) to write up a question on electronics.stackexchange (one of the most arrogant forums of stackexchange) only to have the entire post deleted where I couldn't even find the post again.
I've found Copilot to be very nice, even when I ask stupid questions. 
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raddevus wrote: I've found Copilot to be very nice, even when I ask stupid questions
...and I've found I stop being nice to Copilot when it starts giving stupid answers.
That generally happens when I reply along the lines of "this won't work, because of A, B, C", and it responds with "try this instead" and then proceeds to repeat the exact same thing that lead me to my initial response. And then it fails to acknowledge even that, and that's as far as it'll go.
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Yeah, very true.
AI seems to get an idea in it's "head" and can't get it out. 
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey “Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”
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11917640 Member wrote: Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.
Which proves it's nowhere near human intelligence yet 
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How junior does one have to be for those sorts of excuses to remain acceptable?
Not aimed at you specifically; I'm familiar enough with your contributions to CP to know you deserve all the kudos you can get. I'm thinking specifically of those who aren't old enough to have ever coded without the ability to google everything.
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I've never worked under those conditions - I was given a task and I completed it - I also never had a boss - I work with people, not for them
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I kinda have to agree here.
If you were hired, and can get fired, you're working for whoever signs your paycheck, not with.
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It may be different in the US
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, have done for the last 40 years
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Shouldn't your parents be retired by now? :-p
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What has this got to do with my parents ( who are both dead ) ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was a bad joke.
The idea was that if you've been working "with" people rather than "for" people for 40 years is that, all along, your employer must've been mom and dad.
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Succinctly put. I switched for working "for" someone to "with" someone when I went freelance. I felt far more in partnership with my clients, and more invested in their businesses, than I ever did as an employee. I got the feeling though that my approach was not what most were used to when working with freelancers...
Also at no point in my career would I ever have even hinted that I'd used SO or any online equivalent. If I didn't know how to do something (which happened quite often) I'd acknowledge it, then use the manuals to find the answer. (And if it was something that my client could reasonably have expected me to know, I wouldn't charge for that time, either. Employers expect to pay for training, clients don't.)
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Pretty much mirrors my approach Derek - I was only ever directly employed by a software house once - I lasted a month and hated it - the rest of my time I was freelance using my limited company as a a payment vehicle.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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