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whats the theme and how or who decides it?
Sorry I was away from CP for a month or so.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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This weeks theme is "fairground equipment", and it's decided by a public vote on MumsNet.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Could you explain the solution?
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The theme follows on from yesterday's answer of "Village". A hamlet is a small settlement (not much smaller than a village) which fits in with the theme.
Hamlet is also the name of a Shakespeare play, which is well know (by all those that know it well) for featuring a ghost.
Remember, these themed clues don't always follow the traditional rules of containing a definition of the answer. It is assumed that we already know the theme in advance.
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Oh, I knew the theme and knew there was a Play named Hamlet by Shakespeare, I just never read it and didn't know it had a ghost in it. Hence the confusion.
Thanks for the clarification. 
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musefan wrote: Remember, these themed clues don't always follow the traditional rules of containing a definition of the answer. It is assumed that we already know the theme in advance.
Not a Big fan of theme. Killing the Original CCC 
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I made a suggestion to OG that maybe we return to the old CCC and maybe do a themed one once in a while
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm not that "pro-themes" either, but ... the majority vote rules here!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They were fun, but the ideas seem to be getting a bit too specific last couple weeks.
But then again, the original method just had me looking for random words that I could turn into a clue. So it's nice having a theme for inspiration.
I guess I am saying they both have pros and cons, and I'm not that fussed if we theme it or otherwise. The fence is well and truly sat on! 
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Yesterday I had to fight Hammerlocked!
(Eden-6 main mission boss fight)
What an epic fight and epic bugger!
First you bring down his humongous armour and health down (takes a while, was running out of rifle ammo)...
And then he was almost down...
And then he turned into raging warden, regenerating his full health!
What the heck?!
And then he was almost down....
And then he did it again, turning into a super raging warden, and regenerating his full health!
And then he was almost down....
And then he did it again! Turning into mega raging warden, regenerating his full health!
And then he was almost down.... please for good...
But nope, he does it again, turned into an ultimate warden! regenerating his full health!
Alright, ultimate, gunning him down...
And then he does it yet again, turning into godly warden, regenerating his full health!
And then, should be good, right?
Yeah! The warden is finally dead! 
Special thanks to my trusty old Torque (rocket) gun, 140 damage a shot! 700 ammos!
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Seems a bit like fighting CodeProject spammers 
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Apparently,
The Atari 2600 is considered archaeological material now. This was an very interesting read. They supposedly found a never before documented algorithm inside the dissassembled ROM. They tracked down the engineering team and this is what was said:
The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked.
I took a look (The algorithm is at the bottom of the paper) and it looks very similar to a simple Moore[^] or von Neumann[^] neighborhood.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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When Randolph Carter's discoveries also came to him in a dream! 
Funny story though!
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Honey Monster Witch something I forgot your name...
To continue the discussion from last month....
Check out the latest .NET Core 3 announcement:
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 | .NET Blog
At the 60% mark of the article you can find that section, that will be of interest to you! 
Assembly Unloadability
modified 24-Sep-19 0:57am.
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thanks! if it really unloads yes, but i'd interested in how they did that, considering the way windows works (in proc anyway)
i'll check it out
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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it seems to be the whole point of this new feature!
and I thought to myself, this is exactly what you were complaining about! They were eavesdropping on us! 
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As someone who (still) works with WinForms, I was interested to read:Quote: The Windows Forms designer is still in preview, and available as a separate download. It will be added to Visual Studio as part of a later release. The designer currently includes support for the most commonly used controls and low-level functionality. We’ll keep improving the designer with monthly updates. We don’t recommend porting your Windows Forms applications to .NET Core just yet, particularly if you rely on the designer. Please do experiment with the designer preview, and give us feedback.
You can also create and build desktop applications from the command line using the .NET CLI.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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See, they haven't forgotten you!
Though I would say, give WPF a try!
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I thought I was the only one still using Winforms
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I use it too.
I haven't found anything easier or more straightforward when I want a quick Windows program that just does something without me having to learn 6 new weirdly-named frameworks and 7 new ways of doing old familiar things.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So, it looks like all the 3 who uses Winforms are on CP. The circle is now complete.
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The caveat is that WinForms, even in .NET Core, is still Windows only.
The "only" benefits you get is a performance improvement and you can run applications without the need of having the .NET Framework installed on the client Windows computer (which is pretty sweet).
If you want to make use of Core packages, like Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore, Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration(.*) or Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection you can just keep your current .NET Framework application as all of those are built on .NET Standard and will run in .NET Framework as well.
I just inherited a WinForms application, but it'll be a while before I port it to .NET Core.
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Thanks, Sandor, I am aware of the Win-only limitation; I was just trying the new flavor out from curiosity.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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My pleasure, Boll
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