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The next question is about Neighbor's children?
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Technically, no. However, I have eaten chicken, pork, and beef that came from animals that I knew, most notably a Yorkshire pig that I raised for a school project...his name was Wilbur...yes, I cried like a baby when we shipped him to the slaughterhouse...and yes, I did enjoy the bacon! 
The others were animals (all but the chickens had names) that came and went on my grandparents 100-acre farm where I used to spend my summers. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Damn this KSS rule. I had a few hot neighbors... complete the sentence.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Yeah, I have... Wait, you said "pet", nevermind 
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I was 10 years old and lived next to a farmer.
At 10 I never wondered where the food we ate came from.
One day the farmer said he was going to butcher some chickens for dinner.
Did I want to help SURE When the Ax dropped one of the candidates got loose.
I was horrified but now I knew where the food we ate came from
And How It Got To The Grocery Store
One of my stepchildren at 10 wanted to be vegetarian.
I totally got it.
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Linux From Scratch!
So, I'm making an app (huge shock), and this app will be the only thing hosted on a dedicated VPS when all is said and done. It doesn't need much umph right now during development, so I'm putting it on a cheapo VPS with one VCPU for now. Ok cool, but that's essentially one core with no guarantee it'll be hyper-threaded. I mean, lscpu reports more than one, but it's a cheapo VPS I've had lying around for years that I never used. So, there's gotta be throttling.
These days, every dependency is built with multithreaded support by default, say if you use system packages from Debian or Ubuntu. And that makes sense, BUT... If your machine is only rocking one core, multithreading is actually slower. So, it would behoove me to rebuild the dependencies like libcurl to only use a single thread. Or, just get a beefier VPS for this app, but I got this VPS for another year, so may as well use it for testing.
Dunno if anyone has ever built libcurl from scratch but it's a long, painful process if you want proper support with protocols and whatnot. However, dun dun dun...
The folks at LFS (Linux From Scratch) pretty much give you step-by-step instructions on building curl... which in turn means building libcurl. And it's kept up to date every six months. These folks are awesome and this and Gentoo are the only distros of their kind.
Note: Ok, realistically I'll just pay more for a better VPS when this thing is ready to go live and the performance delta during testing is acceptable. Which means its back to multithreading any way I slice it. But... but but but... there's still the cool factor of building your own deps for static linking. Never forget the cool factor.
Jeremy Falcon
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Gave up on Linux awhile back.
This has renewed my interest.
Thanks.
BYW, somewhere in my pile of distros over the years,
I have one the first Linux mass distros.
Now I am inspired to find it.
On CD, floppy?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yeah man Linux is great. I mean it’s also a huge time sink. But it’s the thinker’s OS. I sure can’t make a custom build of anything Windows to suit my purpose. And you shouldn’t always do that on Linux, but you can… if you need to.
On my phone so can’t quote. But, I dunno if the first distribution was a floppy. Kinda curious. I got into Linux back into the CD days. Me and a buddy used to collect them like candy.
Jeremy Falcon
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 Know what you mean! Time sink, but one can roll your own. Windows no way.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I'm just starting to learn, still on Twinkle...
I'll never reach their level.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I'm just starting to learn, still on Twinkle...
Whenever I triedtolearn music, I always got interrupted to go tinkle.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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If you wish to be dazzled you may wish to view the various videos of Yuja Wang if you had not already.
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... discussing what will happen to Russia once the war with Ukraine is finally over and the soldiers get to go home.
The best response so far is simple: "Let's just say Amazon will never get approval for air drone parcel delivery." 
Wish I'd thought of that ... excellent comment.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I wish it were another joke, but it isn't.
Broke an eye socket, a few ribs, collarbone and his shoulder bone.
Must hurt like hell and he doesn't remember what happened.
He was on vacation in Germany so he's in a German hospital.
He just had long covid and prostate cancer (which may or may not come back, they're monitoring).
Guy has been sick at home for three or four years and I guess he just got himself an extra year...
I don't know if there's such a thing as "luck", but my uncle certainly isn't having any of it (although he could be dead three times over, is another way of looking at it).
A former coworker got tripped by his cat and all he had were some bruised arms.
Reminds me of our local bicycle repairman about fifteen years ago, just after his retirement he lost an eye, got cancer and broke his pelvis (and got an iron plate) all in three years time.
And after all that he still fixed my bike!
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That's nasty. I hope he has a swift and complete recovery.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Best regards to him.
In March I was walking my dog and she caught me off balance. I fell awkwardly (on the kerb) and was taken to hospital with what I thought was really bad bruising. Turns out I'd broken the neck of my femur and needed screws in it.
Still a bit tender where the screw heads are, but at least I didn't need a hip replacement, which was one option being considered.
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So I guess you could say you're... screwed  (you must've heard this one a gazillion times by now  )
I had a customer who fell off his bike, shoulder to kerb.
He was out of it for months.
One bad fall...
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Ha!
TBH this is the worst break I've had, including (relatively) minor 'bike accidents (broken ribs, broken wrist, chipped elbow) and a skateboarding accident (broken wrist).
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My uncle fell off his bike, no more uncle  .
WEAR YOUR HELMETS!!!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 13-Sep-24 13:39pm.
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Sorry to hear.
Also, we'll die before we'll wear helmets over in the Netherlands.
On the other hand, we have some of the best roads for cycling in the world (dedicated bike lanes, etc.).
I've cycled tens of thousands of km's in my life (probably even in the hundreds), never ever have I even thought about wearing a helmet.
Over here, you can spot tourists because they wear helmets.
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My uncle lived in Sweden, I'm guessing helmets are not used there either.  In the states it ought to be mandatory given some of the idiotic moves both drivers AND bicyclists make.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sander Rossel wrote: I had a customer who fell off his bike, shoulder to kerb.
He was out of it for months.
One bad fall...
A friend of mine back at home / high school time fell from bike hit the border of the walkway with the back of the head... never got up again.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ouch, that's tough. I hope he has a speedy recovery, and better luck.
Your uncle's story reminded me of a Country music-based TV show back in the 70's called Hee Haw, with mixed comedy and music. One of the standard and repeated joke songs was a few fellows down on their luck singing, "If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all, gloom, despair, and agony on me."
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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