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I watch these with some interest. I am not up nearly early enough (USA) to participate, nor am I usually smart enough to come up with a solution. Yet, I often try to figure them out before going and looking at the real solution.
Today's in my opinion (Which isn't worth anything) is an exceptionally well thought out one.
Well done.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Thank you - I do try and avoid going down the usual anagram path when I can ( if I'm feeling creative ) with the plethora of online anagram solvers around the clues are normally solved in minutes. It's difficult coming up with global cryptic clues as different countries have various methods of constructing the clue. Thanks again.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I watch them with interest just like you.
I enjoy them.
How the elephant they know the answer to most of them bewilders me.
Some clever people around here...
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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How to download and use Microsoft Word for free | TechRadar[^]
The "trackless" link to the Office suite is here: Microsoft Office is part of Microsoft 365[^]
Sign in: Sign in to your Microsoft account[^]
and if you use OneDrive (and I do for non-confidential files I what to share between my three PC's - desktop, Surface Go 2, and the Surface 3 Pro in the kitchen for recipes) then your files will be listed, you can edit them in an online version of the "right software" and it'll update on your other devices as you'd expect.
I just tried it on Chrome via Android and it works, though the online Excel support via OneDrive doesn't work too well - there isn't an obvious "sheet view", they just all become "pages" within a "flat view" and I'd be reluctant to save any changes I made there just in case.
But ... if you need a document while on someone else's PC and they don't have Office then it could be really useful.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm not sure whether you're inferring this is some sort of (not-so) well-guarded secret. For years now, as long as you've had a MS account, you've been able to go www.office.com, login, and there's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, etc, all running in a browser.
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It came up on Google News this morning, and I'd never heard of it (despite having several licences for Office 2019).
And I figured it could be useful, particularly if you - like me - hate the Office 365 "subscription model".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I've used it a couple times. I believe even Word was very watered down as far as formatting goes, so it isn't really comparable to the full program. But it was a useful tool for working on stuff between devices without the subscription, then importing it into the desktop app and doing final formatting. I also believe the watered down online app did honor the final formatting, which was another plus.
That was years ago, so maybe it is more comparable to the full suite now. Useful tool.
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Sixty odd years ago, the then Postmaster-General's Department started using cable buried directly in the ground for telephony, in place of open-wire lines on poles, much less expensive than laying large conduit. It worked very well at the test sites in Victoria, so they started rolling it out (literally) in tropical Queensland.
Oops! The tropical termites just LOVED to gnaw on the PVC/polythene insulation. They had to tear it all up and replace it with similar cable enclosed in a hard nylon sheath that the termites couldn't chew.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: The tropical termites just LOVED to gnaw on the PVC/polythene insulatio
Termites that evolved to eat plastics? Halogenated ones at that?
I guess things like a Duck-billed platypus and Cassowary are rather mundane after all
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Many plastics seep an odor that attracts animals.
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I did it. My 2D graphics engine is done. And after some hair pulling I got it to compile with C++14 rather than requiring C++17
This was. a. slog. 
What a mess. But now, I have a neat little graphics library I can potentially use with an SSD1306, ILI9341 or maybe an RA8875, or others - perhaps even those little 8x8 LED matrices, why not?
The device drivers should prove easy to make work, but difficult to make work fast.
I wish I drank, because this calls for a beer.
Heckin A'.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well done - I'll have a beer for you. 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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honey the codewitch wrote: I wish I drank, because this calls for a beer.
There has to be some type of equivalent celebration, it would be quite boring otherwise.
So what's next? Another dimension?
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Now I have to write some display drivers so it can be used for something other than ASCII art rendering 
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Ooh I'd like to see the code for those
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh you will. Right now I'm poring over the datasheet for an ILI9341 but I may stop and do the SSD1306 first if it's simpler.
The problem with the ILI9341 is to get any performance out of it everything has to be asynchronous, including the SPI transactions and that makes it just ... complicated as hell.
I know the rule - make it work, then make it fast, but here's the problem: The asynchronous stuff is so necessary I don't need to profile to know it's going to be too slow without it - i already have a driver I wrote halfway a long time ago for a different codebase and that's why I know it's needs to be async.
And designing that is just ... I can't wrap my head around it yet. If I had more RAM it would be easy. But I don't.
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Sounds fun though - getting anything to run well on this little boxes is a challenge.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I wrote three methods in C# for a code project tip i made recently. It was so trivial I didn't even put a download link - copypasta only. It was very well received.
Meanwhile I am slaving over GFX - a replacement for Adafruit's graphics library that isn't tied to Arduino or even IoT, and can potentially support more devices and platforms.
So far, I've got like maybe one person following it. Meanwhile, coding it has kept me up, made me pace, even fret. I feel a bit like Poe, but the raven is my project, and not quite so dark as Poe's rendition.
At the same time it may drive me madd(er) through sheer attrition. Each day I feel like I'm a day away from the next article/phase of the project.
And for all this, by the time I'm done with it the article won't even be that long.
I don't strictly *need* this project. I could use Adafruit's offering with the arduino framework whenever i need graphics, but I want to move away from Arduino and I want this to work on ARM offerings as well - although so far I *despise* every arm toolchain I've found. The compile times are unreal
** as a side note, has anyone ever managed to make GCC compile object files in parallel and then link them at the end? That would massively speed up my compile times, and make building with ARM not make me want to burn my computer to the ground.  NVM I found out how. You have to use make -j
Update! I'm loading fonts from old .FON files, rendering them to a bitmap and then rendering that bitmap to the console:
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honey the codewitch wrote: I feel a bit like Poe, but the raven is my project, and not quite so dark as Poe's rendition.
That was when he realized he was dead, done for, joined the choirs invisible, and became an ex-parrot.
honey the codewitch wrote: At the same time it may drive me madd(er) through sheer attrition
There's these moments where you scare me. This is one of them.
honey the codewitch wrote: I don't strictly *need* this project.
You did see my posts of me hitting my head?
If you no need it, normal people won't accept you as normal. Because, you're not, for example.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you no need it, normal people won't accept you as normal. Because, you're not, for example.
That's par for the course. I'm a weirdo even among the weirdos. And yeah, I can be scary, but I am a mostly harmless muffin.
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With chocolate sprinkles?
Now I wants one, with warm chocolate milk. Dutch chocolate milk, anything else isn't worth a comparison.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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sure. why not?
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It's building a bunch of .o files as part of the build process after it cleans. Sometimes it cleans stupidly. Anyway, there's a zillion .o files that get compiled and linked whenever this happens. It can take at least a minute and my machine is no slouch.
Anyway, I really hate that, and I want to speed it up. I've figured out how to do it within Platform I/O at least with pio run -j N where N is the number of jobs
Thanks for the link. It may come in handy. 
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