![]() Does anyone care any more about the actual executable code? I suspect very few do, but that's why we have so much bloat and so many bugs. However the proliferation of languages is accompanied by ever greater abstraction. Higher level languages certainly do have advantages. That's where I started in the '80s - writing the drivers for a disk stack operating system and patching new functionality into free bytes in application EPROMs. It takes all sorts to make the world (no, not that sort of make world), and I guess it just shows how being "neurodivergent" can nevertheless give people certain skills and abilities that others don't have. With hindsight, it's probably an indication that those particular programmers were probably somewhat further along the autism spectrum than many. I was simultaneously in awe of but also rather disturbed by the idea that some people's minds worked in such a way that they actually could construct programs at such a low-level (I'll freely admit that when I had to do a course in assembler, although I mostly grokked the concepts, I found it hard going, and certainly wouldn't want to (or be able to) write any sort of complex program that way myself). You're giving me horrific flashbacks of some of the more complex type-in programs you used to get in various Sinclair Spectrum mags, which had substantially less BASIC than the typical program, and which mostly consisted of data statements to poke the aforementioned hex values into memory. Sorry, probably not at all relevant to your issue but this thing had been bugging me for a very, very long time and I have been so pleased to find what appears to be a cure. I can only assume that there's some bit of kit en-route for one but not the other which caused the problems. The near exact same model of modem at work didn't seem to display the same problems, with the only real difference between home and work being that one has BT as an ISP while the other is with a small ISP which re-sells TalkTalk. ![]() Resetting the thing to 1492 bytes seems (so far) to have magically cured almost everything. until I did a firmware update on my router where I read in the release notes that the default WAN MTU of 1500 bytes could cause problems with "some websites and services" - see "known issues" on the first page here. ![]() I was putting it down to my peculiar mix of NoScript, Privacy Badger etc. It was fine in the run up to Christmas (thank goodness) but I couldn't get it to work reliably after Christmas, when there were vouchers to be spent. Amazon seemed to go through phases of being perfectly fine and perfectly broken. Suddenly, about 6 months ago, everything returned to normal for ElReg but other websites were still a problem - though not consistently. DDG image search would only load the first screen full of thumbnails, with the rest being blank. ElReg was a notable example until recently where (at home) I could browse without problems, but when I tried to compose a reply to a thread it was pot luck whether the "submit" would complete. The TypeAdapter for class.I know this is wildly off-topic, but for a couple of years now I've been having problems with some websites but not others. The following are the most common type adapters for other date-time classes. According to the rules of operator precedence when division occurs in the same arithmetic statement as the division operation always takes place first. WebWhich java statement produces the following output.
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