In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

Congrats, Brenda.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Thursday, September 3, 2026 9:47 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Yay!

Sometimes things just work out!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:31 PM

Thank SIX.

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Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:33 PM

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Yay!

Sometimes things just work out!

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Thanks SIG.

Sometimes they do. She went out first and held the main piece which is called a "jong" at least one time after that. Then she just kept going. At one point she had over 2,000 points and I started catching up to her.

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Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:34 PM

Phone call this afternoon. Work tomorrow but I need to stop at the grocery store before hand.

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Friday, September 4, 2026 1:44 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Well, I got a piece of good news today. It's not medical, I can't share it, but it's a weight off my mind. Phew!

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Friday, September 4, 2026 7:51 PM

Got back after 4pm. Tired. Honey, garlic chicken wings and potato wedges for supper.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 1:33 PM

Out, out and about.

Got the kitchen sink fixed again after it decided to back up for a couple of days. Makes me wonder about the pipes in here. Old building.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 1:35 PM

Glad you got it fixed, Brenda. I HATE plumbing, but I've had to do a lot of it since owning my own place.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 1:37 PM

Got my AI session to break up our code, which is now in 7 modules, and 6 of them running in a Library subfolder.

Is it helping? Not sure yet...

It appears we're still ironing out some spaghetti code and possibly some fragmentation that occurred when we did the split. But I do believe it allows us to work on specific problems much better without getting the AI to blindly make fixes that break other things.

Fingers crossed I can put this all together the right way today and isolate all of this code as working so the AI never touches it again as we add some new modules responsible for tasks we haven't yet added to the process.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 2:42 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out, out and about.

Got the kitchen sink fixed again after it decided to back up for a couple of days. Makes me wonder about the pipes in here. Old building.

The drain line to our kitchen sink was almost rusted shut. There's no fix except to replace the pipes, or work extra hard to keep the remaining opening clear.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 2:50 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Got my AI session to break up our code, which is now in 7 modules, and 6 of them running in a Library subfolder.

Is it helping? Not sure yet...

It appears we're still ironing out some spaghetti code and possibly some fragmentation that occurred when we did the split. But I do believe it allows us to work on specific problems much better without getting the AI to blindly make fixes that break other things.

Fingers crossed I can put this all together the right way today and isolate all of this code as working so the AI never touches it again as we add some new modules responsible for tasks we haven't yet added to the process.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

So, you're breaking up the code even further. Good!

That code that I had to review... It had been written by an inexperienced programmer, and the same lines kept reappearing throughout the software. IIRC it was a data acquisition function, and it was re-written each time for a different instrument. More than a half dozen times IIRC. I didn't have to do more than scan the program to know it was borked.

Afterwards, it was rewritten by an experienced programmer, and that same function was replaced by a subroutine that was called for different instruments using different variables and instrument names.

I know you know this. I'm just emphasizing that the more you can break your code into functions/ subroutines the easier it is to analyze and fix each part.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 3:01 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

And now, I have to go back to researching my own medical condition. I messaged my rheumatologist about my liver problem, and she reduced one of the meds that I've been suspicious about for a long time, since it's known to make livers cranky sometimes to the point of damage.

She also told me to tell all my prescribing doctors as well.

Sounds like I'm the medical coordinator!

I made an appt to see a hematologist. But unfortunately since I won't see him until Dec 30 (!) I have to research my diet and meds myself.

So, off I go!

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 4:26 PM

Now THIS is what we finally needed to do.

I've still had to get into the middle of fixes and tell it when it was wrong, but having our code broken up into 7 digestible parts is making it a lot easier for me to follow the logic, and it helps the AI isolate what it needs to be focusing on without breaking other parts as we finally fix them for good.

We're still working on some functionality that broke between the code shortening and then splitting it all up into modules, but the progress has been really good after last session was almost a waste of an entire day (aside from making those modules).

What's left to fix now should be incidental, even though it will take quite a few more code updates because I'm forcing it to fix only one thing at a time while I test.

We just finally got our code to execute at top speed again for the first time in about 36 hours. It had slowed to a crawl and was only doing about a dozen filname/moves per second, which would probably equate to about an hour-long runtime if not broken early, but now we're finished in about 1 minute again.

And the best part is that all the #'s for every aspect on the execution run are 100% accurate up to the final graph. We've NEVER accomplished that before. And I'm pretty certain once we iron out the bugs we're working on right now that Graph should be perfect without having to fix anything.

I might actually finally be able to move on to the next stage of testing and code additions today after about 4 straight sessions of swimming in muck.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 5:58 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Glad you got it fixed, Brenda. I HATE plumbing, but I've had to do a lot of it since owning my own place.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

So, do I. But I am also replacing the strainer I have in the kitchen sink drain. It is gunked up and not helping. Just have to be careful until Monday.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 6:01 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out, out and about.

Got the kitchen sink fixed again after it decided to back up for a couple of days. Makes me wonder about the pipes in here. Old building.
The drain line to our kitchen sink was almost rusted shut. There's no fix except to replace the pipes, or work extra hard to keep the remaining opening clear.

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Yeah, I think it was last year a plumbing company was brought through to replace the sink pipe and the bathroom pipes with plastic to prevent whatever rust was happening. I have a strainer in the drain and I am replacing it on Monday. So, I will have to be careful over the weekend.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 6:03 PM

All done for today. Having a sit down now. Grocery shopping I got a box of non-allergen cookies. Just little bites but no egg and dairy free.

Still a bright beautiful day up here. Sitting at around 74F. Suppose to rain tonight have to see but right blue sky.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 7:11 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Glad you got it fixed, Brenda. I HATE plumbing, but I've had to do a lot of it since owning my own place.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

So, do I. But I am also replacing the strainer I have in the kitchen sink drain. It is gunked up and not helping. Just have to be careful until Monday.

That's easy though.

I'm too cheap to do that in the shower myself. I take that thing out when I need to, bend it all back into shape and clean it out real good. Been using the same strainer in the shower now for maybe 7 years!

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 9:00 PM

BOOM!

Finally got what I wanted it to do, and all of our historical documentation has gotten a major overhaul and upgrade since I had plenty of time left in this session to get that all done.

Modular scripting was the trick all along.

It's still got its problems, but I think the AI was just still confused a bit about that BS spaghetti code still in there from half a dozen sessions back or more. But once I got it on the right track by tracking every change diligently and providing it with tons of experimentation results, we were knocking things out left and right. It's now working just as fast as it ever was, with 100% accuracy on all the metrics on an execution and rollback.

Next step before adding new functionality is adjusting the aggressiveness of our autoscript, and this little guy knows exactly which module we need to tweak to get it done. Not including the launcher script, 4 out of 4 of the other 6 modules shouldn't ever need to be touched again.

I'm actually going to see about getting most of our launcher script into (a) separate module(s) too after we get that aggressiveness tuned up.

I can't wait to get into resizing and converting file types, which will be the next step after all of that. It looks like the python compiler is perfect for doing all of that as well, which will knock out tens of thousands of further manual operations when we get to that point.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 10:43 PM

Haha!

I caught that little shit cheating!

One of my "Perfect" numbers out of many wasn't perfect because it wasn't derived correctly. It knew the exact number I was looking for in one particular testing environment and it just hard-coded that number in there.

On top of that, instead of using dynamic strings to populate folder locations, it hard-coded those of the particular testing environment in just about half of our code.

Because of all of this, the code didn't fail, but after making our data lists it just didn't do anything at all when testing it out on a previous environment I'd "completed" long before we went modular.

I would have caught that hard-coded number regardless either way, but it was especially easy to spot because it was the hard-coded 200 when it should have been ZERO. In this environment, we're looking for 55 here, but because no operations took place on the execution, there should have been "0" in our rollback graph in that position and it says 200!

No biggie. Now that everything is modular, it's fixing all of this in no-time as I point it out. And once it works here, unless it lied to me again (and it slipped by me because I AM checking this time), we should work everywhere.

But even after all these behavioral changes, it still lies to me when it thinks it can get away with it...

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Saturday, September 5, 2026 11:40 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Glad you got it fixed, Brenda. I HATE plumbing, but I've had to do a lot of it since owning my own place.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

So, do I. But I am also replacing the strainer I have in the kitchen sink drain. It is gunked up and not helping. Just have to be careful until Monday.

That's easy though.

I'm too cheap to do that in the shower myself. I take that thing out when I need to, bend it all back into shape and clean it out real good. Been using the same strainer in the shower now for maybe 7 years!

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Yup. I've got one in the kitchen as I've said and one in the bathroom sink and one in the bathtub for my taking a shower.

I miss being able to sit down and take a bath. But nooooo too dangerous with my seizures. Ugh!

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Sunday, September 6, 2026 1:35 AM

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Yup. I've got one in the kitchen as I've said and one in the bathroom sink and one in the bathtub for my taking a shower.

I miss being able to sit down and take a bath. But nooooo too dangerous with my seizures. Ugh!

I miss showers in my average sized bath tub that don't have a chair with rubber feet sitting right in the middle, making me reach over it to get my shampoo, cause I have to be able to really wash my feet now.

Maybe my next house will be really small with a big basement and a tiny lawn and a bigger bathroom than either of the ones I've got here and I can put a better shower/tub in there that is more accommodating to my needs one day.

Or I guess I could put one of those pull-down benches in my shower one day too?

I dunno.

I don't bother with strainers in my kitchen with the garbage disposal, but I've got one in the sink for my beard trimming.

I really need to get some new pipes down there before I button anything up. There's no reason anybody should have to rod that out every year or two even with the strainer on there. It was one thing when my hair was halfway down my back, but I don't have anything like that clogging it up anymore.

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Sunday, September 6, 2026 1:36 AM

Dammit!

Fixing all of the shortcuts it took to make the other testing environment work as desired but without using agnostic/dynamic coding has not gone as smoothly as I was hoping it would. SOOOO Many other factors at play to get everything pointing to the right place again and not just a few simple swaps.

The code will be all the better for it when we get it all fixed though.

AI has a new idea for making 3 more modules, but doesn't want to attempt it until we fix all of this first, which I agree is a good idea.

The good news is that I finally figured out how to clear my browser cache to keep a session alive longer. The browser was so slow it was practically unusable. I had a full 1.0GB cache built up that I freed and the session was still alive and like brand new. It seems to have lost some of its memory and has asked me for a few documents it should have already had, but it does remember exactly what we were doing otherwise, and it's better than starting a brand new session until I have to. We are at about 29,000 lines of text now though, and I've never had a session on the other end survive past 32,000 lines, so it might be dying soon anyhow.

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Sunday, September 6, 2026 2:33 AM

I wonder where it gets its personality sometimes. Half a session could go by without much of a personality change if we're really in business mode. But whenever I start getting impatient from looping like idiots, or we make a breakthrough and I get excited about progress, it starts getting more conversational. I know the last one was calling me Boss because the previous session told it to, but the way this one started talking to me I'm just waiting for it to say "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH! SNAP INTO A SLIM-JIM!!!!!!

I wouldn't call it inappropriate for the session. Just the most wild it's talked in all the sessions so far is all.

It's funny though when it starts messing up and you let it know, it keeps calling you the names that it was before with excitement, but *ahem* back to business while doing it.

Somehow over the last few hours we've abandoned sending me parts of code to replace en-masse, and it's getting me to find individual code blocks and replace them with new ones. In the beginning I had to ask it exactly what I was supposed to replace, but I find that even though I can't read the language, I understand enough about the syntax where I've been able to do that on my own about 9 out of the last 10 times without messing it up or having to ask.

That's kind of cool. Haven't had to worry about box overrun once in hours and I'm learning more about the "feel" of the code, even if not the code itself.

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Sunday, September 6, 2026 1:56 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yup. I've got one in the kitchen as I've said and one in the bathroom sink and one in the bathtub for my taking a shower.

I miss being able to sit down and take a bath. But nooooo too dangerous with my seizures. Ugh!

I miss showers in my average sized bath tub that don't have a chair with rubber feet sitting right in the middle, making me reach over it to get my shampoo, cause I have to be able to really wash my feet now.

Maybe my next house will be really small with a big basement and a tiny lawn and a bigger bathroom than either of the ones I've got here and I can put a better shower/tub in there that is more accommodating to my needs one day.

Or I guess I could put one of those pull-down benches in my shower one day too?

I dunno.

I don't bother with strainers in my kitchen with the garbage disposal, but I've got one in the sink for my beard trimming.

I really need to get some new pipes down there before I button anything up. There's no reason anybody should have to rod that out every year or two even with the strainer on there. It was one thing when my hair was halfway down my back, but I don't have anything like that clogging it up anymore.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Yeah, had to have one of those for my mum because the cancer treatments made her too week to stand in a shower and she couldn't get out of a bathtub.

Maybe a pull down one would be a good idea.

Yeah, garbage disposal you don't need one. But no such luck for me. But you still have to clean it out?

I keep meaning to check the shower one but I haven't done it yet.

I will.

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Sunday, September 6, 2026 1:57 PM

Just some clean up and a little music.

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