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Lackey breaks wind after capture. (9)
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It's the right meaning, but not the right word. 
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I had written 'sycophant' down on a piece of paper as the only synonym that I could think of for lackey; but did not submit it because the nearest I got was pant for 'wind' hidden at the end, but couldn't do anything with the other letters.
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If it was an anagram, sycophant contains both cop and snatch for capture, but I figured it was probably hopeless because then the remaining letters didn't make sense.
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Hint: It isn't an anagram.
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Sure, I was also looking for a synonym for breaks wind that could go after a synonym for capture, but there aren't that many synonyms for lackey!
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It's an old English word, (not in common use - but, maybe, should be!), so doesn't appear in regular synonym lists.
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Sounds like someone doesn't want to be up again tomorrow! 
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Greg Utas wrote: Sounds like someone doesn't want to be up again tomorrow!
Correct. Don't know if I can cope with the stress of doing CCC two days running! 
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5teveH wrote: Don't know if I can cope with the stress of doing CCC two days running!
Well, we all get to find out tomorrow! 
What was it?
"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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CATCHFART - obvious now, isn't it? 
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I thought of fart but didn't think anyone would use it in the CCC
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I tried FART and FARTS a few times, but the best I could come up with was German ... 
Not a word I've heard before - so I learned something new.
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My new word for the day.
Unlike pkfox, I thought fart could be part of the answer but thought it would need to be farts to align with breaks wind.
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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xkcd: Virus Consulting[^]
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's a shame the good ones seem few and far between these days. I feel XKCD has wondered too far into "specialist humour" the past few years.
He clearly learns a new subject area, and then makes one or two comics about what he learned.
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I finally broke down and bought a raspberry pi. I feel like it's cheating since it's a small computer, not an IoT device as such.
However, it runs linux and will run GCC so I can use it to test out my driver code directly without long dev cycles i usually deal with uploading my binaries via serial.
I bought a 512GB microsd card for storage
I'm hooking it into my primary display and I have a keyboard i can use with it. I also have a 5" hdmi touch display i bought for my logic probe/scope, but i can use it for this too.
Any other "must have" gear I should get with it?
Real programmers use butterflies
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I am not sure about "must" but I have a case with fan, breakout expansion board, expansion board 1 to 3 (requires extender with the case I use). Depends on how many/what kind of devices you want to use. I probably wouldn't load up on stuff, easy to do it as you go with one day delivery from Amazon. Newark takes longer.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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A joystick, of course.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I got a couple of Pi and Arduino setups, with mounting points for both a Pi and an Arduino, plus a breadboard. Like this one, although I just got one from Amazon: Arduino/Raspberry-PI Breadboarding Platform mount | MPJA.COM[^] I know that platform works with the Pi 2B and 3B, but I haven't tried it with a 4B yet.
If you're going to be mixing Pi's and Arduinos, I'd suggest adding a level shifter to protect the 3.3v Pi from the 5v Arduino signals; you can use I2C without it, but adding it means you can make wiring errors, etc. without destroying the Pi. I got a level shifter from SparkFun after seeing a classmate wreck 2 Pi's in less than 5 minutes. $3 to protect a $30 Pi seemed like a wise move after that!
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I don't really use Arduinos that much. I use ESP32s. I'm starting to dabble with ARMs though I hate their toolchain so who knows if I'll continue with those.
Still, I'm 3.3v everywhere.
Frankly Arduinos are expensive for what they are, and not very useful for me other than as toys.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I bought a 512GB microsd card for storage
512GB ?? That's more storage than I have on my (work, private, play, one-and-only) laptop... that I use for development, offsite backup of client software during upgrades, hosting multiple non-work databases, running MySql and Sql Server, multiple versions of Visual Studio plus all the code I've ever written (over 460 separate projects), plus all my photographs of the "digital" era (from 2005). ... and I'm still only half-full!
(In 1992 I was made redundant when my employer closed down. I got my pick of PCs (at cost, based on the machine's spec) and managed to nab one with a 40Mb disk. Because of the way Win3.1 was configured it only reported a single 32Mb partition, but once I'd lugged it home I setup a second 8Mb partition too. So I had the last laugh! )
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