It's late 2016 and I (Jeff Relf) am in Seattle.
I was born here, start of 1960.
＜Here＞ is photo of Me. ＜Here＞ is my location, in Seattle.
＜When I slept ( 111 rows, 232 columns )＞ ( ScreenShot ).
＜My playList for reading/writing/programming＞.
＜My C# macros, to automate Visual Studio 2015＞
＜My Win10 Registry Settings＞ to change font faces/sizes.
＜My posts to Usenet ( since February, 2012 )＞.
The posts I read first, sorted by author:
＜Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy＞, ＜Sci.Physics＞
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My (computer) literacy has done wonders for my (mental) health;
too much money makes you lazy, depressed;
so I crave information, not money.
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Just because something is too complex to _fully_ understand,
like tomorrow's weather, it doesn't mean that it's _truly_ random;
in fact, we _know_ that it isn't.
At ＜The 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, New York＞,
Eintein said: ＜＜
When the number of factors coming into play in
a phenomenological complex is too large,
scientific method, in most cases, fails us.
One need only think of the weather, in which case,
prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
Nevertheless no one doubts that we are confronted with
a causal connection whose causal components are,
in the main, known to us.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of _exact_
prediction because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature. ＞＞
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Often, one has _Zero_ good choices;
i.e. one must must chose the LeastWorst option.
Hillary ENABLING the banks ( and Trumps ) is bad;
yet, at the same time, it's the LeastWorst option.
Likewise, handing out free needles to drug abusers is bad;
yet, at the same time, it's the LeastWorst option.
"Harm Reduction" we call it.
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Quantum "Mechanics" should be called Quantum "Statistics"
because it models mere correlations, not cause and effect.
Sadly, correlations can be wrong and/or misleading.
"Entanglement" works like this:
You buy a pair of shoes.
You ship one shoe to Becky and the other to Sam.
Should Becky find that she got the left one,
she'll _instantly_ know that Sam got the right one.
The pair was "entangled", naturally; no tachyons required.
Quantum Statistics sucks, but it's the best we can do.
Sadly, people _spin_ it; i.e. they lie, lie, lie.
"Virtual Particles" and "Probability Waves" _are_ intrinsically random;
nature, however, is not.
Quoting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_interpretation
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THE ENSEMBLE INTERPRETATION of quantum mechanics
considers the quantum state description to apply only to an
_ENSEMBLE_ of similarly prepared systems [[ die tosssing ]],
rather than supposing that it exhaustively represents
an individual physical system [[ one toss ]]. ＞＞
Quoting Einstein ("Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist", 1949):
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The attempt to conceive the quantum-theoretical description
as THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION of the individual systems
leads to unnatural theoretical interpretations,
which become immediately unnecessary
if one accepts the interpretation that
the description refers to _ENSEMBLES_ of systems [[ die tosssing ]],
and not to individual systems [[ one toss ]]. ＞＞
Now, if you think a cult leader and/or TV personality
is _smarter_ than Einstein... well... you're just tripping.
Reduce your meds.
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You don't have to pay an Asian programmer $5/hour,
plenty of Americans will do it for free.
Are you looking for a hooker or a wife ?
Wives cost a _ton_ more; same for programmers.
Personally, I find that knowledge and skills
are the best assests to hold, not money per se.
Holding money is a _bad_ idea, these days.
Here in Seattle, housing costs are going through the roof;
meanwhile, 5-year CD's yield just 2% APR.
Quoting "Rent trend data in Seattle"
https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-seattle-rent-trends/
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As of July 2016, average apartment rent within the
city of of Seattle, WA is $2,179. One bedroom
apartments in Seattle rent for $1,999 a month on
average and two bedroom apartment rents average $2,796.
The average apartment rent over the prior 6 months in
Seattle has increased by $166 (8.2%). One bedroom
units have increased by $147 (7.9%) and two bedroom
apartments have increased by $247 (9.7%). ＞＞
Quoting "Seattle Home Prices & Values"
http://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
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The median home value in Seattle is $585,400.
Seattle home values have gone up 16.7% over the past year
and Zillow predicts they will rise 8.1% within the next year.
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_Nothing_ can change the future, present or past;
the (4d) TimeScape is static. The more ignorant you are,
the more you (erroneously) believe in "free will".
We were programmed by nature to breathe, drink, etc.
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As the (light) clock ticks, the time axis grows,
relative to the spatial dimensions.
The time axis is bent, curved, warped.
"Time Curvature" ( into space ) models the (Newtonian) "1g"
we know so well, here on earth; i.e. simply moving forward
in time is enough to alter your position ( free falling ).
The spatial axis is bent, curved, warped.
Here on earth, "Space Curvature" ( into time ) is negligible;
but, near the sun, "space itself" ( the path ) morphs, over time;
so Mercury's orbit "spirals" ( precesses ).
An ideal black hole can stop a (light) clock, so it doesn't tick;
objects there are frozen in time, to us humans.
Radio waves, carrying the voice of a MoonWalker,
are BlueShifted as they fall down to "Houston";
so Houston _observes_ the MoonWalker talking/living faster.
Radio waves, carrying the voice of Houston,
are RedShifted as they climb up to the MoonWalker;
so the MoonWalker _observes_ Houston talking/living slower.
The MoonWalker _really_ is talking/living faster than Houston.
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Zoom Player 12.1, the latest beta, was a _huge_ upgrade for me.
Previously, my HighContrast Theme (Win10) broke EVR
( "Enhanced Video Renderer", MicroSoft's latest, post VMR9 ).
FullScreen videos, in Windows Mode ( NonExclusive ), showed tearing,
-- and my only alternative, VMR9, couldn't do 4096x2160, 60 fps !
After upgrading to zPlayer 12.1, I had to turn off "Smart Play";
i.e. let MicroSoft decide what filters/decoders to use.
With that, 4096x2160, 60 fps videos play fine ( but seeking is slow ).
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I'd _love_ to buy 100 GigaBytes, on the cheap,
and have it last years -- without additional charges.
I'd stop downloading videos, gladly. Fuck YouTube/FaceBook.
Problem is: Whatever Comcast offers, I have to take.
Their idea of "choice" is a $40/month phone.
My VoIP/SMS service, VoIP.MS, costs 85 cents per month.
VoiceMail and SMS texts are emailed to me.
When Google steps in, Comcast will die.
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Imagine the Earth, the Sun, the Solar system, the Milky Way,
Andromeda, and the hundreds of billions of galaxies we can see today...
Now apply a little pressure to it, so it all fits in the head of a pin.
When you're done, that's what it was like, 13.8 billion years ago.
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SpaceTime, as measured by standard yardSticks/Clocks,
grows as a "black hole" evaporates;
likewise, SpaceTime grows as the cosmos evaporates.
Once a thing is gone, evaporated away, its gravity is gone too;
so "gravity" ( a.k.a. "eXergy", energy that can do work )
evaporates away, never to return.
Randomness is just ignorance, nothing more.
The future is just as immutable as the past.
The TimeScape is static.
For any given location, only its "now" is real.
Google "Heat Death of the Universe" and Google says: ＜＜
The heat death of the universe is a historically
suggested theory of the ultimate fate of the universe
in which the universe has diminished to a state of no
thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer
sustain processes that consume energy (including
computation and life). ＞＞
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington wrote: ＜＜
If someone points out to you that
your pet theory of the universe is
in disagreement with Maxwell's equations --
then, so much the worse for Maxwell's equations.
If it is found to be contradicted by observers --
well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes.
But, if your theory is found to be
against the second law of thermodynamics,
I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but
to collapse in deepest humiliation. ＞＞
-- From "The Nature of the Physical World", 1915, chapter 4.
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The minimum wage is censorship; we route around it.
Trying to stamp out low wages is like pressing on a ballon;
the bulge goes elsewhere ( to China, for example ).
FrenchStyle Socialism harms youth the most;
lower wages leads to more EntryLevel jobs.
Am I poorer if you're richer ?
No, _relative_ wealth doesn't matter.
America's poor are very rich, compared to the third world.
Thou shalt not covet.
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My carbon footprint is ultra light because
I've been mostly lazy my entire life.
Even gays work harder than me (I don't do sex).
When I was married, my wife demanded more.
After she dumped me, I went back to coasting along.
The money game never appealed to me;
"free time and (mental) health" came first.
More and More, kids are following my faithless, sexless path;
I was just ahead of my time, that's all.
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Dear Narcissists,
Fame and Glory was heaped upon Einstein, unprompted.
Speaking of his many fans, Einstein, 1927, told Cornelia Wolf
( in handwritten German ): ＜＜
From the erudite fellow they brook not a quibble
But firmly insist on a piece of his scribble.
Sometimes, surrounded by all this good cheer,
I’m puzzled by some of the things that I hear,
And wonder, my mind for a moment not hazy,
If I, and not they, could really be crazy. ＞＞
http://www.peterdsmith.com/time-space-and-problem-hair/
http://memosfrommimi.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-friday-already-in-looking-around.html
http://www.podelise.ru/docs/25914/index-4416-1.html?page=11
Also, he said:
" I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor,
and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. "
" The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. "
" It is high time that the ideal of success
should be replaced by the ideal of service. "
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I wrote my own "terminal interface", "X.EXE" ( Windows 8 );
250 columns, fixedWidth fonts. Screenshots ( 3840 x 2160 ):
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Diff.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/SleepPat.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Chess.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Super.Fast.Monopoly.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Reversi.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Solitair.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Mario.PNG
"X.EXE" is in ＜X.ZIP＞, along with the files it needs.
"X.HTM" is the "help/settings file".
"Nyms.HTM" is the Usenet Scorefile.
The "xGames" folder has .PNG files for the Monopoly game.
"X.CPP" is the source code, Visual C++, x64, Visual Studio 2015.
"OCR A", "MS Mincho", "Segoe UI Symbol", "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono"
and "nSimSun" are the (required) "Unicode Console" fonts.
"DirectX.CPP" is a small (one-file) example of how to:
_ Make all Fonts/Glyphs the same width (double_width is allowed).
_ Rescale Graphics/Glyphs when a window changes size.
_ Use DirectX 11.1, Direct2D 1.1, DirectWrite, and Direct3D.
_ Draw to a back buffer at a high fps (frames per second).
_ Draw properly scaled/smoothed .JPG files, hardware accelerated.
_ Draw to/from/within bitmaps.
_ Discover if a font exists or not ("FindFamilyName()").
_ Discover if a glyph exists in a font ("HasCharacter()").
_ Discover the width/height of a glyph ("GlyphWH()").
Your startup folder should have, e.g., "Pics/LowRes.JPG" ( 100px wide/tall )
and "Pics/Chess.PNG" ( a 3840 x 2160 screenshot, Jeff-Relf.Me/Chess.PNG ).
All coordinates are in hard⋅pixels (D2D1_UNIT_MODE_PIXELS).
ScreenShot: Jeff-Relf.Me/Glyph.PNG
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"Life Extension" comes at a price; the choice is:
1 - Live FASTER, breathing FASTER. - OR -
2 - Live longer.
Note: Fat people live/breath FASTER, all the time.
Horses live 7 times longer than squirrels because,
per pound, they consume oxygen 7 times SLOWER.
A dormant bee lives many months;
once activated, it dies a few weeks later.
Why ? Because the active bee consumes oxygen FASTER.
People want to know where/when "life" can exist in the Cosmos.
By "life" they mean themselves and their progeny.
But you could program a robot to do the same.
What we want, all our desires,
has been programmed into us (by nature).
We're robots. "Randomness" is ignorance, nothing more.
We consume "fuel" ( eXergy, energy that can do work ),
same as the sun and everything else.
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is real, tachyons are a joke.
Schrödinger doesn't know if his cat is dead or alive.
Ignorance is not a spatial dimension,
as string theory would have you believe.
Hallucinations are just that, hallucinations,
not "alternate realities/universes",
as pop science would have you believe.
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Cosmological Mass dissipates, diminishing its gravitational field;
the clock ticks faster, the yardstick shrinks; spacetime bloats.
Locking backwards, spacetime tightens into a notional singularity.
The start of the Big Bang is a (subjective) horizon, nothing more.
Gravity does work, it has "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ).
"Dark Energy" is lost eXergy.
Energy is neither gained nor lost ( 1st law of thermodynamics );
but, slowly, it loses its ability to do work (2nd law).
"Dark Matter" (unseen mass) is what we don't know about the galaxy.
"Dark Energy" (Entropy) is what we don't know about the cosmos.
Hence: they don't exist locally.
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ISIS mercenaries are promised "wives" (sexual slaves).
You don't have to _kill_ them,
nor soak them in pigs blood (as Trump suggests),
just spay and neuter them, and they're done.
Like Muslims, Christians run from (painful) truths;
science is better (if you can handle it).
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Like heroin addicts, cranks reject reality.
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It's OK to enjoy life more, breathing harder,
even if it means dying sooner.
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Activists (like Ian Murdock[*]) are chronic infants;
they're paranoid schizophrenics, addicted to a cause;
i.e. they lie for it, and pretend that it's working.
[ *: Groups.Google.COM/d/msg/sci.physics/jBUQV0XNSB0/h3RWMr4MEAAJ ]
How could you expect to change others,
when you can't even change yourself ? !
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What's the difference between a rapist and a celebrity ?
FanGirls stalk celebrities; rapists stalk fanGirls.
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Today's 25 year olds are less mature than yesteryear's 15 year olds.
They don't grow up because, frankly, they don't have to.
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You can't unify Gravity with "other forces"
unless-and-until you understand the human mind.
We think in terms of probability, not certainty;
intrinsically, gravity is _not_ statistical.
Virtually, in "the video game we call consciousness",
Mass, Energy, Space and Time are variously semiRandom.
Intrinsically, SpaceTimeMassEnergy is static (in 4D);
SpaceTime and MassEnergy can't be separated.
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＜SleepPat＞ tells me when I fell asleep,
for how long ( where: 4 < SleepHrs < 16 hours ),
each and every day, last 6 months.
Text version (55 rows, 241 cols).
SleepPat would display 8 months of data, if I had it.
Few have this data, _very_ few.
My "waking hours" are semi-random, more random than most;
so, unLike most, I truly _need_ this info,
to predict how many hours are left in my "day".
My monitor is mounted on an arm, swung over my bed.
I don't want my monitor on when sleeping,
-- turning it off is effortless, and necessary.
These on/off events are _automatically_ recorded and displayed.
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"Rightscorp" ( Warner Bros, Miramax, etc. ) is the biggest
"CopyRight Troll"; first three quarters of 2014, they lost
$2.2 million; since 2011, they lost $6.5 million, net.
To reduce their losses, they occasionally sue an IP address,
or even an "ISP" (e.g. Cox), hoping to settle _out_ of court;
they can't win _in_ court because an IP address is not a person,
-- who used the IP address ?!
No ISP would willingly hand such a "dubious troll"
customer info, not without a court order.
Every university is also an ISP;
they, too, wouldn't release names to a dubious troll.
What would happen if Cox had to prove, in court,
that they took action against persistent violators ?
How would a Cox customer, say Starbucks,
even _know_ if a customer was violating the law ?
Every Starbucks customer ( and every university student )
would have to consent to total, 100% surveillance.
Our privacy would drop to nil, zip, zero, nada.
What would Starbucks do with this info ?
or a university ? They'd bust a nut !
Why even go there ? to make Walt Disney
"the happiest (dead) man on earth" ? !
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My $350, 1 TeraByte, SATA_III_Maxed, Samsung 850 EVO SSD
arrived in the U.S. Mail, along with some letters.
U.S. Mail is _Slow_, 7 days without tracking info.
Cloning the "C:boot" drive is easy,
lots of free programs do it, but...
.....making the new SSD the "C:boot" drive,
without reInstalling everything, was _hard_.
I'm not sure what I might've done wrong or right,
but, in the end, this worked:
Shutdown and plug in the new SSD (SATA_III).
Boot and, with no apps running ( no browser, editor, etc. ),
run "DiskMgmt.MSC" (Windows 8) to remove its partitions, then
"CloneDisk" your "C:boot" drive (I used "Todo Backup", Free version).
Shutdown ASAP, unPlug the previous "C:boot" drive.
Boot to BIOS (Hit DEL).
The fan will run hard for awhile, 100% CPU, 4 gigaHz,
as the new drive becomes "C:". BIOS does it !
Find/Change BIOS' (well hidden) BootDrive Setting.
On reBoot, you've got a new "C:boot" drive, without reInstalling.
Shutdown, plug in the previous boot drive.
Boot, remove all partitions from the previous boot drive;
otherwise, the drives would be too similar, confusing you.
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Time and Space are "seen" when you count laser pulses,
and you can "see" how gravity alters the pulse rate.
Quantum mechanics remains statistical, always;
the actual, local causes are unknowable (unseen).
Bell's theorem states:
No physical theory of local hidden variables
could ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.
But this does not mean: The actual, local causes don't exist.
Medical Science is like that too, statistical.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says:
The more you know about the frequency/momentum of photons
(i.e. the more you know about how coherent they are)
the less you can know about their positions.
You "know" more about the frequency/momentum
of a lased photon than its postion --
because, statistically, it behaves like a sign wave.
Conversely,
you "know" more about the position of a nonLased photon
than you do about its frequency/momentum --
because, statistically, it behaves like a wavelet/ripple.
Jeff-Relf.Me/_The_Heisenberg_Uncertainty_Principle_.PNG
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When using FireFox, I change the fonts/colors of websites;
for example, "YouTube.COM/feed/subscriptions?flow=1" looks like:
Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTube.PNG
The CSS:
Jeff-Relf.Me/userContent.CSS.TXT
＜My High Contrast, Light Text on Black, Win10 Skin＞
To see how it normally looks, I use
a (mostly) unmodified copy of the Chrome browser.
After editing/saving "userContent.CSS",
I hit a special toolbar icon that reStarts FireFox;
after which, I see the changes.
Because "Font-Family: OCR A, monospace" makes text larger,
borking web pages, I resize stuff; to wit:
:not(#▲), ::Before, ::After {
Font-Family: OCR A, monospace !important;
Color: RGB( 222, 111, 155 ) !important;
Line-Height: normal !important; Margin: 0 !important;
Padding: 0 !important; Padding-Right: .5em !important; }
:not(#▲):not(#▲), ::Before, ::After {
/* Destroys GoogleMaps and some Fly·Out Menus, Radio Buttons */
Position: unset !important; Float: unset !important;
Width: auto !important; Height: auto !important;
Min-Width: 0 !important; Max-Width: 2538px !important;
Min-Height: 0 !important; Max-Height: none !important; }
Oddly, FireFox won't let you paste text into your YouTube comment
unless-and-until you add this to "Prefs.JS":
user_pref("dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled", false);
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People _cling_ to ignorance because there,
and only there, can their minds run free.
For most, _only_ ignorance brings them
the "freedom" they crave.
Everyone here has access to Wikipedia;
still, 81% of Americans think/hope there's a god,
up there, somewhere, pulling the levers.
Gallup's Values and Beliefs survey, May 2014:
gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx
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Capitalism is freedom to do good _or_ bad.
Socialism is important because society is important.
What are we, if not social beings, part of a group ? !
Most often, money can't buy you health;
not mental health, not physical health.
What else matters ? !
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Primitive, Childish minds believe in the "spooky" stuff.
"Bell's Test" shows what we do NOT know; that's all.
When _all_ facts are known, "The Principle of Locality" applies.
(Pseudo)Randomness is ignorance, not "freedom of choice".
Quantum Mechanics, like Medical "Science",
relies on correlations (i.e. it's statistical)
because the local, immediate causes aren't fully known.
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Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
I'm happy because most "success" doesn't impress me.
To get ahead, respect others more than yourself.
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For a "religion" (i.e. lifestyle) to dominate,
it must breed more and die less.
By this measure, Christianity has done well;
however, it's ruthless and inhumane, like the Pope.
My vasectomy was the best thing I ever did for myself
because it helped me respect woman and kids.
Quoting "PBS.ORG/earth-a-new-wild/episode-plains/reindeer/" ＜＜
The practice of castrating [[reindeers]] has helped.
A castrated male, known as the gentleman of the tundra,
won’t waste his energy on fighting for reproductive rights,
and therefore will use his strength
and enormous size to dig through the snow.
The ancient castration technique of biting
is being studied and brought back because it is
less severe than using tongs or other modern methods.
Using modern methods, some male deer can become listless and lazy.
Scientists believe that with the biting method,
the deer will still produce enough testosterone to remain vigorous.
Reindeer are one of the last species to be domesticated by man —
and are only semi domesticated.
Castration is a key component in domesticating a herding animal. ＞＞
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Re: The BBC documentary: "Quelle Catastrophe! France".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055kqhw
While strong unions are a massive benefit to
rich, well_educated baby boomers who've already "won",
it impoverishes the younger, poorer ones.
In poorer areas, youth unemployment is 50%;
for all youth, the unemployment rate is 25%,
one in four.
Because getting a "real" job is like getting married,
with no chance of divorce, ordinary youth
must settle for short_term contracts... or worse.
As a result, French youth are _much_less_likely_
to get married and/or have kids, compared to U.S. youth.
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When oil is cheap, life is good.
You can't understand anything about the past, or the future,
if you don't understand oil.
Quoting "Planet Oil" ( a BBC Documentary, aired Feb 10, 2015 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwenDNxBVjE
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From the moment we first drilled for oil,
we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever.
It transformed the way we lived our lives,
spawned foreign wars and turned a simple natural resource into
the most powerful political weapon the world has ever known.
But when exactly did geology turn into such a high-stakes game?
In this series, Professor Iain Stewart visits
the places that gave birth to the earth's oil riches,
discovers the people who fought over its control and supply,
and explores how our insatiable thirst for oil
is changing the very planet on which we depend.
It's a journey that will help us answer a fundamental question
- how did we become so addicted to oil
in little more than one human lifetime ? ＞＞
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The accelerated expansion of space time is just entropy.
Entropy is why our past light cone has a "beginning"
( ＜the cosmological horizon＞ ).
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In FireFox, my "Search-Bar" has 21 Search "Providers" ( i.e. methods ).
＜screen_shot＞
To install one of the following search methods,
hit Ctrl_Shift_K ( to open the JavaScript Console ),
paste the JavaScript into the bottom line, then hit "Enter".
Search for a Torrent ( RarBg.TO ):
RarBg.TO/torrents.php?search={searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Rar.XML");
Google, Google ranked:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/G.XML");
Google, Last 3 Months, Google ranked:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} &num=50&tbs=qdr:m3
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/rG.XML");
Google WikiPedia:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:WikiPedia.ORG &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Wiki.XML");
Google images:
images.google.com/images?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Images.XML");
Google.DEFINE a word or term:
www.google.com/search?q= define:{searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Spell.XML");
Find a word or term in the "Urban" dictionary:
UrbanDictionary.COM/define.php?term= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/U.Dict.XML");
Find a word or term in a normal dictionary:
Dictionary.COM/search?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Dictionary.XML");
Thesaurus:
Thesaurus.COM/search?q= {searchTerms}
Thesaurus.XML
Google a YouTube video:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:youtube.com &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTube.XML");
Google Newspapers:
news.google.com/news/search?q= {searchTerms}&scoring=n
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/nG.XML");
Google.MAPS:
maps.google.com/maps?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/GM.XML");
Google MicroSoft ( for help ):
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:microsoft.com
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MicroSoft.XML");
IP to City/Domain 1:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/{searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://jeff-relf.me/IP.1.XML");
IP to City/Domain 2:
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Sex is overrated.
"Wives" are too expensive and hookers will kill you for a cigarette.
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My Logitech g600 mouse has 39 logical "Buttons".
I control them using This is Lua script, and "Logitech Gaming Software".
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"War and Crime" is about breeding more than the next guy;
and, for that, you need guns. It's (ugly) evolution.
"Arrogant, Breeding Morons" are vicious animals.
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To change the location of the special "Documents"[*] folder...
[ *: a.k.a. "My Documents", a.k.a. "Personal" ]
See, "http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Win10.REG.TXT".
; Use Short, Friendly Paths, all under "C:\__" ( Home ).
;
; First, "Right_Click Properties -> Location -> Move" each special folder.
;
; Make Sure "MyDocumentsLocation", "Shell Folders"/"Personal",
; and "User Shell Folders"/"Personal" ( below ) agree with each other.
; The line, below, is for Visual Studio 2015.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0]
"MyDocumentsLocation"="C:\\__\\Sys"
"VisualStudioLocation"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\VisStudio"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Startup"="C:\\__\\Startup"
"SendTo"="C:\\__\\SendTo"
"AppData"="c:\\__\\Sys\\AppData"
"Local AppData"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData"
"Local Settings"="C:\\__\\Sys"
"Local AppDataLow"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\LocalLow"
"Cache"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\IE-Tmp"
"Desktop"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Desktop"
"PrintHood"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\PrintHood"
"NetHood"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\NetHood"
"Cookies"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Cookies"
"Recent"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Recent"
"Start Menu"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Start Menu"
"Programs"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Programs"
"History"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\History"
"Templates"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Templates"
"Favorites"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Pictures"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Music"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Video"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"Personal"="C:\\__\\Sys"
"{A520A1A4-1780-4FF6-BD18-167343C5AF16}"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\LocalLow"
"{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}"="c:\\__\\Downloads"
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"Startup"="C:\\__\\Startup"
"SendTo"="C:\\__\\SendTo"
"AppData"="c:\\__\\Sys\\AppData"
"Local AppData"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData"
"Local Settings"="C:\\__\\Sys"
"Local AppDataLow"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\LocalLow"
"Cache"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\IE-Tmp"
"Desktop"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Desktop"
"PrintHood"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\PrintHood"
"NetHood"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\NetHood"
"Cookies"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Cookies"
"Recent"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Recent"
"Start Menu"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Start Menu"
"Programs"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Programs"
"History"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\History"
"Templates"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\Templates"
"Favorites"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Pictures"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Music"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"My Video"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\-Crap-"
"Personal"="C:\\__\\Sys"
"{A520A1A4-1780-4FF6-BD18-167343C5AF16}"="C:\\__\\Sys\\AppData\\LocalLow"
"{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}"="c:\\__\\Downloads"
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The best code ( for me, and only me )
is the code I designed and wrote myself.
As a programmer, text comparison is like water;
i.e. it's an essential, -daily- thing.
So I wrote my own diff routines ( X.EXE ).
Diff scans ( comparing "Tokens"[*] ) from four directions
at once ( top, bottom, left and right ), using 8 pointers.
[ *: "Lines" in files, and/or "Words" in lines ]
At it's heart, and right off the bat, it skips past
the unchanged part at the beginning and ends.
I call this "the Pinch".
Then it "peels off" ( and logs ) the differences at the ends...
stopping when it finds two matching Tokens...
Pinching and Peeling, from the edges to the middle.
The resulting logs are then sorted and printed...
both the lines in the files and the words in the lines...
green for the new stuff, red for the deleted stuff.
Although the algorithm is simple, the finer deatials are not.
Nothing in the upper half can match anything in the lower half,
for example; "a b" is not equal to "b a" -- it's been shuffled.
＜Here＞ is some example output.
The core of it looks like this:
LnP F, _F ; LnA BBx, EEx, _BBx, _EEx, BB_Sync, EE_Sync, _BB_Sync, _EE_Sync ;
#define Same？ ( F && _F && Eq( F, _F ) )
#define Same⋁Sync ( Data⋁( F, EEx, EE ), Data⋁( _F, _EEx, _EE ), Same？ )
#define Same⋀Sync ( Data⋀( F, BBx, BB ), Data⋀( _F, _BBx, _BB ), Same？ )
#define Same⋁Pinch ( Data⋁( F, BBx, EE ), Data⋁( _F, _BBx, _EE ), Same？ )
#define Same⋀Pinch ( Data⋀( F, EEx, BBx ), Data⋀( _F, _EEx, _BBx ), Same？ )
#define EoFS_Dwn ( S = BB_Slow <= EE_Slow, _S = _BB_Slow <= _EE_Slow, F = BB_Fast <= EE_Fast, _F = _BB_Fast <= _EE_Fast )
#define EoFS_Up ( S = EE_Slow >= BB_Slow, _S = _EE_Slow >= _BB_Slow, F = EE_Fast >= BB_Fast, _F = _EE_Fast >= _BB_Fast )
#define Top_Fast ( BB_Fast = BB_Slow, _BB_Fast = _BB_Slow )
#define Bot_Fast ( EE_Fast = EE_Slow, _EE_Fast = _EE_Slow )
Data⋁( LnP &P, LnA &PP, LnA EE ) { while( ( P = ++PP >= EE ? 0 : *PP ) && !*P ); }
Data⋀( LnP &P, LnA &PP, LnA BB ) { while( ( P = --PP < BB ? 0 : *PP ) && !*P ); }
int SyncDwn( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) {
BB_Sync = EEx = BB, _BB_Sync = _EEx = _BB, EEx--, _EEx-- ; return Same⋁Sync && Same⋁Sync ; }
int SyncUp( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) {
EE_Sync = BBx = EE, _EE_Sync = _BBx = _EE ; return Same⋀Sync && Same⋀Sync ; }
Pinch( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) {
BBx = BB - 1, _BBx = _BB - 1 ; while ( Same⋁Pinch );
EEx = EE, _EEx = _EE ; while ( Same⋀Pinch ); EEx++, _EEx++ ; }
Peel( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) { int rv, Top, Bot, S, _S, F, _F ; LnP t, _t ;
LnA BB_Slow, _BB_Slow, BB_Fast, _BB_Fast, EE_Slow, _EE_Slow, EE_Fast, _EE_Fast ;
Top = Bot = 0, BB_Slow = BB, _BB_Slow = _BB, EE_Slow = EE, _EE_Slow = _EE, Top_Fast, Bot_Fast ;
_Top: if ( Top ) goto _Bot ; EoFS_Dwn ; if ( !S && !_S ) { Top = 1, BB_Sync = 0 ; goto _Bot ; }
if ( F && _S ) if ( SyncDwn( BB_Fast, EE, _BB_Slow, _EE ) ) { Top = 1 ; goto _Bot ; } else BB_Fast++ ;
if ( S && _F ) if ( rv = SyncDwn( BB_Slow, EE, _BB_Fast, _EE ) ) { Top = 1 ; goto _Bot ; } else _BB_Fast++ ;
if ( EoFS_Dwn, !( F && _S || S && _F ) ) BB_Slow += S, _BB_Slow += _S, Top_Fast ;
_Bot: if ( Bot ) goto Skip ; EoFS_Up ; if ( !S && !_S ) { Bot = 1, EE_Sync = 0 ; goto _Top ; }
if ( F && _S ) if ( SyncUp( BB, EE_Fast, _BB, _EE_Slow ) ) { Bot = 1 ; goto _Top ; } else EE_Fast-- ;
if ( S && _F ) if ( rv = SyncUp( BB, EE_Slow, _BB, _EE_Fast ) ) { Bot = 1 ; goto _Top ; } else _EE_Fast-- ;
if ( EoFS_Up, !( F && _S || S && _F ) ) EE_Slow -= S, _EE_Slow -= _S, Bot_Fast ;
Skip:
if ( Top && Bot ) {
if ( !BB_Sync && !EE_Sync ) BB_Sync = EE, _BB_Sync = _EE, EE_Sync = EE, _EE_Sync = _EE ;
else if ( !BB_Sync ) BB_Sync = EE_Sync, _BB_Sync = _EE_Sync ;
else if ( !EE_Sync ) EE_Sync = BB_Sync, _EE_Sync = _BB_Sync ; return ; } goto _Top ; }
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Console2, a better "DOS Console",
runs CMD.EXE in the background, like a daemond.
Console2 works well with Unicode,
provided you tell -both- the default DOS console
and Console2 to use the "DejaVu Sans Mono" font.
Japanese glyphs work too,
despite the fact that DejaVu doesn't have them.
But you must change Windows' Registry first:
; ReBoot to effect any change to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE".
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont]
"0"="DejaVu Sans Mono"
Also, "7z.EXE" ( like Zip.EXE ) works well with Unicode.
With every invocation of CMD, "Init-CMD.BAT" runs; to wit:
> @chcp 65001
> @prompt $P$_$g
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"autorun"="C:\\__\\_Source\\Init-CMD.BAT"
Console2's settings are stored in "Console.XML",
which I edit by hand, using Visual Studio 2015,
my text editor; like this:
... rows="115" columns="143" ...
font name="DejaVu Sans Mono" size="14"
bold="0" italic="0" smoothing="2"
color use="1" r="222" g="111" b="111"
Console2 settings for my 185 dpi
( set to 144 dpi ) 4K/UHD monitor:
http://jeff-relf.me/Console.XML.TXT
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Lots of people are on uppers, like Caffeine or Adderall.
Lots of people.
As a result, they blabber on_and_on about themselves,
without the slightest concern about their audience.
Truly, they don't know their audience.
If they were TV's, you'd switch the channel;
but, because they're people, you think up excuses/lies,
-- anything to exit, without offending.
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-- On ＜Usenet＞ --
Please don't help "Eternal-Noobs.Orgy" censor out
"Content-Type: Text/HTML; charset=UTF-8" posts.
Mixing Fonts is -not- a crime.
WikiPedia and CraigsList allow -Simple- HTML.
Consolas is my text font but, beyond that,
I use "MS Mincho"; ScreenShot: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.PNG
Low_Cost, Text_Only servers are
the fastest and most reliable; to wit:
http://usenet.blueworldhosting.com
http://glorb.com/usenet.php
When not overloaded,
$5/life binary servers are good too; to wit:
usNews.BlockNews.NET:119, News.US.Usenet-News.NET:119
If you don't download binaries, it's more than enough gigs.
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My "Jeff-Relf.Me" domain_name costs me $20+ per year, paid to GoDaddy.
＜cPanel hosting＞[*] costs me $30 per year, paid to "PacificHost.COM".
[ *: http://www.pacifichost.com/web-hosting.shtml ]
cPanel allows unlimited, "Catch-All" email addresses ( aliases );
e.g. "Usenet＠＠Jeff-Relf.Me".
[ To set it up, just ask me or PacificHost
http://www.pacifichost.com/contact-us.shtml ]
That's unlimited "transfer" ( gigabytes ), unlimited disk storage,
unlimited sub_domains, password_protected folders,
＜yaml filtering ( to block select email aliases )＞[*], etc.
[ *: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/filter.yaml.TXT ]
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The peer-to-peer nature of the Internet, BitTorrent,
Usenet and email, is what makes them so robust.
Multiple clients accessing a single server
does little to negate that fact.
When you've got 10 servers to chose from,
and when you can run your own server, if you want,
the loss of any one server doesn't matter so much.
Peer-to-Peer is robust;
Usenet is nearly indestructible.
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My ( now ex ) wife wanted more kids ( six, in fact ),
and I did not ( I was done at two ); so she divorced me,
took money ( for child support ) and married her new lover
( because he was a "good Mormon" and I was an atheist ).
I decided I wouldn't be her slave, (Child Support) laws be damned.
[ Note: Child Support laws are good, I just fucked up, badly ]
Lesson learned: If they can take it from you, it isn't really yours.
Money and kids aren't really yours.
Dreams, Skills and Free Time matter more.
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Some of the Usenet threads/topics I've been in:
＜Alt.Free.Newsservers＞, ＜News.Software.Readers＞,
＜Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy＞, ＜Sci.Physics＞
＜Here＞ is my web presence, last 3 Months, Google ranked, not by date.
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Photos of my rooming house ( I'm the manager ):
Front of House, Back, Bath, the Kitchen, a Room.
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Once, I could use Google to see who was talking about me... no longer.
Usenet is like those "Bum Fight" videos, it's a free for all.
As such, it's not worth indexing; in contrast, Wikipedia _is_ worth indexing
-- Google likes it, because it's moderated, filtered.
So Google has been pulling out of the "Usenet search" thing, slowly;
worse, no one wants to take their place... no one.
Effectively, Google now confines your search to a particular newsgroup.
But it only tells you what thread you're in, not where in the thread,
and it's sorted by the age of the thread's most recent post.
You can use Google Groups to point to a Usenet article, like this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/News.Software.Readers/dId7J3Kp3Hk/01ZkN9-Q8vUJ
Which is a link to the source, header and all, unformatted.
But, when you hit the big "Back Arrow" button,
it places you on the proper article, in the thread/topic,
properly formatted, on the proper page of the thread/topic ! !
It's so slow ( the JavaScript ), FireFox asks me if I want to continue.
Search by Message-ID never really worked,
and you can't really seach all of Usenet ( it's VERY poorly indexed ),
but you can still find/link to your articles, in your newsgroups.
Articles that spawn a huge thread/topic, lots of replies,
are more likely to be indexed, so they appear in a normal Google Search.
Few posts meet that criteria, so don't get your hopes up.
Low_Cost, Text_Only servers are the fastest and most reliable; to wit:
＜Blue World Hosting＞
When not overloaded, ＜some binary servers＞[*] are good too; for $5/life,
you get more than enough gigs, assuming you don't download binaries.
[ *: "usNews.BlockNews.NET:119" and "News.US.Usenet-News.NET:119" ]
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Usenet isn't WikiPedia or CraigsList, so Google doesn't fully index it.
Apparently, the first post of a long/interesting thread is well indexed.
You can improve a Google search by
limiting yourself to more recently indexed pages.
Take, for example, ＜This Search＞[*].
[* "Jeff Relf" on the web, last 3 months, Google ranked ]
Note the URL:
Google.COM/search?q= "Jeff-Relf.ME" | "Jeff Relf" &num=50&tbs=qdr:m3&filter=0
Links to my website (Jeff-Relf.ME) are boosted above "Jeff Relf".
"|" means "OR".
"filter=0" shows more results; duplicates are NOT filtered out.
"tbs=qdr:m3" gives me the last 3 Months, Google ranked.
Nicely, the "indexed date" is listed for each search result.
Search Usenet, last 2 Weeks, like this:
Google.COM/groups/search?q= "Jeff Relf" &num=50&sitesearch=google.com&scoring=d&as_qdr=w2
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I close apps I'm not using, to free my mind;
don't even want them "pinnned" to the taskbar, as icons.
I never see the "Start Screen" ( Windows 8, Metro ); I boot to
the desktop where only X.EXE greets me, instead of the start button ( Win7 ).
I re_boot once every few months, I suppose. My 30 watt, full-size desktop PC
is diskless and fanless, including a 500 watt fanless power_supply.
My app launcher/toolbar now _TOTALLY_ stops newly launched apps
from stealing the "foreground" ( i.e. the keyboard/mouse focus )
and blinding me with that nasty "Black to White", bright flash.
For a taste (yuck!), see below. "⏉Win" is the Top_Most window.
#define ⏉modeOn ( prev＠⏉ = ⏉mode = 1, ⏉most( HWND_TOPMOST ) )
#define Norm ( ⏉mode = 0, ⏉most( HWND_NOTOPMOST ) ) // No Top Most.
#define ⏉most( TM ) ( \
SetWindowPos( Win, TM, 0,0,0,0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE ), \
LockSetForegroundWindow( TM == HWND_TOPMOST ? LSFW_LOCK : LSFW_UNLOCK ) )
#define ⏉ SetForegroundWindow(Win)
#define ＠⏉ ( _＠⏉ = ( ⏉Win = GetForegroundWindow() ) && Win == ⏉Win )
My launcher must rapidly request the Foreground, 30 times a second;
otherwise, Windows takes it from me without notice, the fucker.
Windows tells me that I've lost the keyboard/mouse AFTER the fact,
not before, so I have to bombard it with SetForegroundWindow() ASAP.
This seems wrong, of course, but I see no alternative.
Moving the cursor to Win10's taskbar stops this "Top_Most, Bombarding",
giving me easy access to my newly launched app, sans White_Flash.
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« Jeff Relf was the programmer for the project and
contributed to the design of administrative processes. »
−− BankExec™ 2013 Decision Manual (PDF)
To this day, and beyond, I'm coding BankExec™. 21 years now.
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FireGestures JavaScript to magnify images 1.667 times
" var node = FireGestures.sourceNode ;
if ( ! ( node instanceof HTMLImageElement ) ) return ;
node.width *= 1.66666667 ; ".
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Who I am ( Personal info )
I was born in Seattle at the start of 1960.
My dad, after being a WWII pilot ( catching the very end of it )
became a tool and die maker, first in partnership with Jeff Fluke,
later on the team that designed and built the 747.
My dad's dad ( Gerald Relf ) was a banker for the Federal Reserve.
Back in the day ( in Seattle, 1940 ),
bankers sat around a table and exchanged each bank's bags.
My mom's dad ( Robert Grass ) was a Washington state senator
and a lawyer, working out of what was, at the time,
the tallest building west of the mississipi, the Smith Tower.
Seattle has always been a boom/bust town
and Boeing had hit hard times in 1971,
people were leaving en masse.
Also, being Mormons, my dad felt the Seattle/University drug scene
had engulfed two of his kids... one of my brothers is/was
a paranoid schizophrenic... so, in 1972, he moved us to Utah.
My first programming was on HP/TI calculators starting around 1973-74.
By 1976, I was programming the HP 67 with it's magnetic strips.
Me ( Jeff Relf ), back in 1976, when I was 16 ( Orem Utah ).
My mom, dad ( Bill ), and a brother ( Pete, age 18 ), in 1976 ( Orem Utah ).
My dad's mom ( age 73 ) holding her GREAT_grand_daughter, in 1976 ( Seattle ).
My sole sister ( Diana, then 22, Seattle ) and her first daughter.
My brother ( Bill Jr. ) born in Seattle, 1956, in Provo Utah.
Here is a photo of Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse ( my friend )
visiting her daughters, Gianna and Ginette.
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Work:
Dr. JianXin Huang < nfo (AT) DrHuang . BIZ > // Seattle
Dr. Charles Haley < ChipH (AT) UW . EDU > // Tucson
Tom Schrank < TSchrank (AT) ABA . COM > // Washington DC
Family:
Diana ( Relf ) Harkcom < dHarkcom (AT) gM Ξ ail.COM > // Kirkland WA
Peter.Relf (AT) EMC . COM // Sandy Utah
Friends:
Melaney Petty < Spam4mel (AT) gM Ξ ail . COM > // Seattle
Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse < ICantForTheLifeOfMe (AT) Ya Ξ hoo . COM > // Tampa
Michael Brickler < MBrick02 (AT) gM Ξ ail . COM > // Eagle-Rock VA 24085
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