Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd have more cycles.

That was July 7th, 2021 -- joining a high-freq trading firm didn't have
the effect I expected :)

How are yous doing?
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Luis Bruno

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On 27/04/2025 22:57, Luis Bruno wrote:

Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit
from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd
have more cycles.

Halfords, presumably.

(Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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On 2025-04-28, Richard Heathfield wrote:

Halfords, presumably.

(Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

Absolutely do not trust their service departments to do anything more
than the utter basics.

--
The Windows Perl motto: It's just as well there's more than one way to
do it because most of them don't work.
-- Simon Cozens

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:23:38 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 27/04/2025 22:57, Luis Bruno wrote:

Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit
from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd
have more cycles.

Halfords, presumably.

(Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

Lots of vendor lock in too. Or at least they used to, lots of special
bits and consumables that you can only get from them and that any
normal bike shop doesn't have.

But I suspect if you're looking at cf frames, you're a Serious Cyclist
and used to that sort of unobtanium stuff.

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:57:58 +0100, Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

How are yous doing?

Hung it up and retired. Highly recommended.


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In article <c654el-dape3.ln1@rubberchicken.nocrap>,
Michel <abuse@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:

Lots of vendor lock in too. Or at least they used to, lots of special
bits and consumables that you can only get from them and that any
normal bike shop doesn't have.

But I suspect if you're looking at cf frames, you're a Serious Cyclist
and used to that sort of unobtanium stuff.

I have a carbon-fiber bike (BMC Granfondo[1]) and I've never had any
difficulty getting maintenance from either the big chain Recreational
Equipment supplier or the Local Bike Shop. (It's not a bike I would
ever have bought if I had to pay retail, but my mother was North
American director of finance for BMC before she retired, so I was able
to get it at the wholesale price.) The only difficulty so far (ten
years in) is that Conti doesn't make the original tires any more, so
when the current set wear out I'm going to have to figure out what to
replace them with. And I guess maybe at some point the Di2 battery
will need to get replaced.

-GAWollman

[1] I don't think they make this model any more. I could have gotten
anything they sold, but the shop where I was test-riding had a
Granfondo, the previous model year's, and I tried it and loved it.
I'd have looked pretty silly on a TeamMachine or TimeMachine.
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my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 08:02:21 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:

Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

How are yous doing?

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working in >tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the bills.

I left the business when my parents recruited me to take over the
family business - and then reneged when they decided that contrary to
the deal they made with me for 100% of it, that my brother should come
into the business for a 50-50 split which given he and I were
completely at odds on all kinds of things before he joined the
business was guaranteed to alienate me from them. And got my rate of
pay from the first day he joined the business!

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> posted:

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 08:02:21 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:

Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

How are yous doing?

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working in >tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the bills.

...

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

I'm glad to see that this group is not quite pushing up the daisies yet :-/

--
Colin Macleod ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://cmacleod.me.uk

(long-time lurker, now retired and only sysadminning a hobby webserver)

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On 08/10/2025 08:40, Colin Macleod wrote:

<snip>

I'm glad to see that this group is not quite pushing up the daisies yet :-/

That sounds far too much like hard work; those daisies are quite
fiddly. I'd rather write an assembler.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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In article <1mobekt45lc0cb7b3s3afs5934keiacodr@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

I have twelve years to go before I recover, just in time for a
lucrative 32-bit-time_t consulting business to open up for those few
of us who still remember how to write and debug C code[1]. The years
don't seem as long as they used to when I was in my 30s; I'm still
having trouble with the fact that it's October already.

-GAWollman

[1] Assuming *I* still remember any of it by then. And assuming WG 14
hasn't screwed things up beyond all recognition by then.
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my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)

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Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:

In article <1mobekt45lc0cb7b3s3afs5934keiacodr@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

Pimpin' ain't easy, I guess.

I have twelve years to go before I recover, just in time for a
lucrative 32-bit-time_t consulting business to open up for those few
of us who still remember how to write and debug C code[1].

Funnily enough, I have the same plan! It's a running battle between the neurons that store knowledge of C and the alcohol, though.

Assuming we both get there reasonably intact[0], there will be further challenges. We will have to explain that we require a computer with a
keyboard to patch the software, rather than doing it all via Arhenyvax.

We'll also have to get special dispensation to use old versions of tpp,
pynat, or whatever, that *don't* have the mandatory
'scp *c *h vagnxr@afn.tbi' step before compilation.

Matt Roberds

[0] I'm in the US, so there's a better-than-average chance I get shot
before I get to that point.

[1] NMF


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On 2025-10-12 09:12, mroberds@att.net wrote:

We will have to explain that we require a computer with a
keyboard to patch the software, rather than doing it all via Arhenyvax.

that Arheny VAX word looked funny until i reversed it; i don't think i
should be wantonly comparing the VAXes* to anything that sordid guy
does^W claims credit for

man i'm salty about everything that eejit is involved with, good grief :)

oh, and as with all recent postings of mine in these parts, i'm moving
jobs -- i was doing HFT, now i'm on my first ever career break: might
even start enjoying faffing w/ computers again!

*: which i never learnt; i'm from the ZX spectrum crowd

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Luis Bruno

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