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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You've given me some insight as to what was happening with dear daughter. She has virtually no memories of before 16y/o, which distresses her, bc if you you looked at her EEG back then it was like she was seizing ALL THE TIME. (A rare epileptic encephalopathic syndrome) It seems that transient memories were just getting wiped out.

One of my reasons for distrusting doctors is bc I was the one who arrived at her dx. And the rx she was being given for seizure control was making her syndrome worse. Even after being given the correct dx, I was the one proposing treatments. It was heartbreaking.


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, wow! That is rough too!
How old were you when that happened?

And was it primarily your mom who looked after you during recovery?
Yanno, it's so hard looking after someone that you love. We're not medical professionals. You wind up asking yourself ... is this a normal part of recovery? Of illness? Of dying? Are things getting worse? Better? Am I doing the right thing?

And by the time you learn from one experience, it's too late for that event. You don't get to apply what you learned bc there's usually no "next time" for that person or illness.

I'm sure you went thru that with your mom, and I'll bet she went thru that with you.

It's a damn good thing your neighbor spoke up. I shudder to think what might have happened otherwise. Shame on the Dr for being so dismissive!


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Best of luck


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, sorry for the short reply, it was late. He is not familiar with MS command line (BAT) instruction set.

Does it have "do loop" capability? "Do while" or "For n=" or similar? Because if it does it should be easy to program something like "while ... get file, line"

The other thing we talked about was creating a third file as an interim step:

File 1, line 1
File 2, line 1
File 1, line 2
File 2, line 2
Etc

Would creating this third file help? If so, it would also most easily be accomplished with a "do loop" subroutine.

Another suggestion hubby had: you can download linux utilities for free... yes, for free! ... that work under MS and expand your programming capabilities.

There are about a zillion workarounds.

Let us know what software you're using, and whether creating a third interim file helps.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm such a baby about pills. I can swallow little ones or slippery ones with water, but the rest I have to take with food.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah... It kind of was fun.

I know basic code theory and I've got a pretty good idea about what I can do myself without assistance from somebody who really knows what I'm doing. Batch processing wasn't looking feasable at first for a bulk search/replace, but then I found a 13 year old batch that had been downloaded tens of thousands of times over the year and that at least made this a possibility.

I was eventually able to Frankenstein monster a code together by pulling stuff from 3 or 4 answers given to similar questions on tech websites and viola.

The final bat I made ran perfect with the search/replace focused batch file I found. It was just a matter of giving it a good batch to run through it where I finally decided after 20 years of doing stuff like this manually I didn't want to do that anymore.

Between the 3 batches, I should be able to carry this functionality over to quite a few other things down the road. Huge time saver.

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When d.d. was very young and had to take pills, I used to make stiff Jello and bury it in that, like its own gelatin capsule. Later, I taught her to chew up a bit of food and bury it in that bc that's how I take mine.


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What would you call the part where you're calling the arrays and you code something like "(1,1,350)"

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What would you call the part where you're calling the arrays and you code something like "(1,1,350)"

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Im totally unfamiliar with ms command line, but looking it up this apparently defines the "do loop":

1 = start with the first element
1= increment by one
350 = do 350 times

Hubby would know a lot more bc I only attempted a few languages many years ago.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Call from boss and she was so surprised that I recognized her voice that it got her all flustered until I got her to slow down, so I could understand her. Anyways long story short I will be seeing her next Monday.

Things like that always stop them short. She would have been in a worse mess if I had told her I had been thinking about her. I did do that one time and it floored her.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Call from boss and she was so surprised that I recognized her voice that it got her all flustered until I got her to slow down, so I could understand her. Anyways long story short I will be seeing her next Monday.

Things like that always stop them short. She would have been in a worse mess if I had told her I had been thinking about her. I did do that one time and it floored her.

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I guess she usually leaves a voicemail? She sounds like a ditz.

*****

Busy day. Dog walk Dr appt, kitchen and housework ... but I finally got a small project completed. I had to derail from the big one bc were on the roller coaster to summer, and my potted plants are suffering. So I cleared out a space on the north side of the house ... and it was backbreaking work that I could not have even contemplated without dear daughter's help ... including digging up/exposing and cutting out some Mexican fan palms (I hate those things. I had them removed a few years ago but seeds keep sprouting here and there and need a sawzall to cut) and an old azalea stump. Removing the palm sawdust mulch that was there bc it was a total pain to pull weeds from, raking smooth an papering over. So now I have a "plant nursery". All I need to do is move the potted plants, water them, and then I can weed whack the backyard without accidentally hitting the plants.

So good deal.


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Hubby says use an "IF" command in whatever form it exists in MS command line.

The logic would be something like “if returned value is null then stop" ("else continuee“ is inferred and not necessary).

The "if" command is the essence of program logic IMHO. You can get a computer to do different things depending. For example, "if the difference between this number and that number is greater than some threshold, then use another calculation, otherwise continue" for example. I loved the logic of programming but I suck at learning languages bc it's pure memorization. Sigh!

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like upgrading to Windows 11 isn't going to be easy for me or my aunt.

Our computers are way too old to have TPM 2.0 in the bios, even if I did a bios upgrade. When I do a "health check" on then the only computer I have with TPM only has version 1.2 which is outdated, and they're telling me the processor is not supported either.


It turns out that for years now Microsoft has had a page up giving directions how to install Windows 11 by bypassing these hurdles by making edits in your Registry key, but recently they took those articles down and now warn that you might not get your updates properly unless you're running a machine with their specs. (Opinions on the truth of that statement vary wildly). The directions are still up elsewhere, along with even easier solutions that have been made available after MS announced this was allowed years ago.

I think, just to be safe, I'm just going to advise my aunt to buy a bare-bones Dell laptop for $300. It will be better than the one she already has and comes preinstalled with 11. All I'd have to do is migrate all of her photos and browser settings and a few other things. She still doesn't use it for a ton and migration should be fairly painless.

I'll probably give her $50 and buy the old one back from her so I can make something cool with it.

I think I'm going to just let it ride myself. I'll upgrade to 11 the way that it was done before and see what happens. If I get really worried about it maybe I'll just buy whatever cheapest option I can find that will run 11 for the computer I'll do any financial stuff on.

There is no future where I see myself learning Linux and using that as my main OS between now and October.

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Feels nice finally getting around to file maintenance and cleaning up a digital hoard I don't need anymore. I always seem to end up with nested "just in case" folders that I keep adding to over the years full of stuff I'll probably never look at again, but drive size has well outpaced that, so as annoying as that stuff is it actually takes up less of the overall space as the years go on. Even looking back on entries there dating back to before 2010 I see stuff I wouldn't want to delete unless I really put some time into it, so it just keeps getting bigger.

Other than the windows 11 issue, it's all going really well. I'm glad even with my old computers the speed is as high as it is, but I'll look forward to the day where all my tech is USB 3.0 and doesn't take so long to move stuff around.


Got some long overdue house cleaning done the last few days, and I'll finish that before the weekend. Just about time to go out and start cleaning up all the various storm debris for that first lawn mowing.

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