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Be careful what you wish for

Good one.

Well, I updated my vblessons website to include a chapter on exceptions.

It's not exceptional.

But I think it'll do for a beginner's course.

There are still people who need to learn that. We just saw an On Error in .NET this very day.

I suppose that was an exception, though.

I just realized that the sun is out. It's been foggy for so long that I didn't notice the sun, at first, but that's what all that light is coming from.

Went to Costco last night @ 6:45 and the fog was already starting to set in. Coming home @ 8:15 it was pea soup. I hadn't driven in thick fog fog quite a while. Some parts were out in the country, those parts you couldn't see ahead much, it was all about keeping the car between the center line and edge of the road. Then hope everyone else was doing the same.

Not a good situation to be driving in.

I got to a point on a road where some fog was so thick that I had to open the driver side door to see the yellow line. I knew the fog, while thick, only extended a very short distance, which was the case. There was no place to pull over, though, so I just had to make my way through it. Fortunately, it was in a place where there was essentially zero traffic.

I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?

I couldn't decide, so I was killed and have been a zombie ever since.

Eew. Cold brains.

Only mildly cold.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?

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This happened to me with my kids in the car. It was scary. It was on freeway 580 just as it goes over the Altamont Pass. I could see but the road was flooding. I slowed way down and tried to stay out of the way of those who were still going fast. They started hydroplaning and wrecking. I must have seen a dozen wrecks happen right in front of me in about a half mile stretch. It was crazy.

I was driving a semi in a hailstorm, once. Within the space of just a few seconds, hail stones knocked both windshield wiper blades off, at which point I couldn't see anything out of the windshield. I pretty much drifted over to the shoulder and waited for the storm to pass. I didn't have much choice.

This page is dull. It's also almost finished. Perhaps we can turn the page?

Well, that didn't do it. Off to do something else.

I've lowered my posts per page count and also number of threads to show per forum. It has greatly improved site performance.

On the other hand, my page references are all jacked up.

I haven't changed anything from defaults, I think.

Seems okay.

There's a lot of hype about balloons and ballon rides in Albuquerque, but I think they're just full of hot air.

It's over my head, though.

I've updated my VBLessons to include a chapter on debugging.

It's a bit more comprehensive than the chapter on exceptions, but I don't think it's too overwhelming.

I'm thinking about changing it up to be server-side rendered too instead of having all of my lessons in a single HTML file.

Right now, the lessons page is 5316 lines long. 57 of it is meta-data, the rest is the actual content.

What's your reasoning there? I'm not very familiar with web pages. The ones I've written have been unusual, for the most part.

I wanted to implement a pure HTML/CSS solution where JavaScript could be disabled and basically function the same.

JavaScript today is overused and I wanted to show a practical example of a fully functioning website without JavaScript.

Sure, that makes sense, but if it was just an HTML file, what do you gain from going server side?

I can break the files out into individual lessons.

It does nothing for the end user, but for the developer it turns one huge file into several large files. Plus since they all follow the same format of:

1. Header
2. Content
3. Footer

So from the server's perspective I could create a class to represent the data which would introduce code reuse.

Anybody looked at gold prices since I brought it up... I think back in July? Wow.

I suspect part of it is really USD weakness and "real" inflation. But since other currencies are Dollar-based and they are doing even worse... something is going on. Canuckabucks are down to 72 cents US.

Bank runs next?

In July, gold held steady around $3,300 an ounce. Today it's reached a new all-time high of $4,738.43.

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Originally Posted by dday9

In July, gold held steady around $3,300 an ounce. Today it's reached a new all-time high of $4,738.43.

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Not that surprised.

Here in Europe someone "kicked off" the idea, what would happen, if all european-held US-Bonds would be sold now at the same time....

Food for thought.....

It's not surprising, at least not from an Austrian economics point of view. The money supply has steadily grown for decades (really a century), but in the last decade it has exploded.

Since gold is money and the FED has tacitly admitted this by shifting back to accumulating gold instead of foreign fiat reserves, it is basically reverting to its historical role of being a store of value.

But this is too low level for the post race.

I only enjoy that uber high level content.

Much like when Niya would go off on his "moar" posts.