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Every spring (before the outside really warms) and ever autumn (when the outside starts to chill) we get the little visitor. They're just looking for food.
And that's the key to it all - don't leave anything around for them to eat and they'll eventually stop looking. You really should, however, tolerate an ant our two - it's there world too. If you don't give them reason to return they'll not come by often.
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Yeah, I do, one or two.
I love ants, unless I get home and I find a large convoy of ants from my front door to the cat's food bowl.
Nothing the vacuum cleaner can't fix, but I really hate doing that 
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Use a heavy ammonia solution to clean the floor and move the cat food. Ants leave a chemical trail to follow and ammonia will obliterate it.
Whatever you do, don't use ammonia and then bleach - you'll kill a lot more than ants with this combination.
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Get a caulk gun and some acrylic caulk (unless it's in the bathroom), that you can paint over if necessary, and fix all those little holes
they're entering your house through.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I have no idea where or how to find those holes or what it is what you said.
I'm not "fixing" anything in my house unless I don't mind it collapsing 
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You can't get rid of them, but you can try to control them. Ants send out scouts for food and leave a pheromone trail for the others to follow. Get several small lids or bottle caps and place honey in them. Place them around outside your house. Clean the kitchen with a strong detergent to get rid of the pheromone trails and any food that may be lying around. Keep from having food lying around and that includes pet food if at all possible.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Boric Acid Powder Same story they take it back to the colony and every BODY becomes a non BODY
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Noble event trashed, but he meant well (10)
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Anagrams ... too easy!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anagrams ... too easy!
Everything is too easy for you!
I look forward to your challenging non-anagram clue tomorrow.
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Here is the other one I was thinking of doing, any harder?
Dash on one and could provide topping? (9)
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PEPPERONI?
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Yes. See, all too easy for you 
I am going to have to start learning from Greg's style of clue setting.
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I slept well last night - the cat didn't join me as he was sulking about his food!
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You didn't forget the side of garlic bread for his lasagne again did you?
I have read that certain cats are fond of that classic Italian dish.
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Garlic? That's an allium, like onions are, and they are toxic to cats (and dogs).
No, he's a picky eater, he goes off "brand X" after a couple of weeks, so we switch him to "brand Y", then "brand Z", and so on (all of which he likes to eat) and he sulks because he doesn't like change either ... 
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Greg doesn't set them according to the rules which is why people struggle with them
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Like Andre Preview, he does set them to the rules; just not necessarily the same rules you're using.
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I use the rules I've used for 50+ years - I manage to complete the Telegraph, FT and others on a daily basis - Greg has a strange methodology where even the definition is cryptic so you have to solve it in multiple parts - nothing wrong with that but it is unconventional
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Thanks for that, I didn't know. My favorite cartoonist. I am slowly reading through his Complete Works. Slowly, as I don't want it to end. I hope there will be more new stuff. 3 was just a tease.
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Hi all,
I am thinking of FPGA for an algorithm of mine, but lack of any experience with FPGAs.
The activity is number crunching, no fancy IO or A/D conversion.
I send a very large number, it crunch, and I get answer as a single number. One can think of it as integer factorization.
Crunching is made of large additions, subtractions, shift operations (*2 and /2), increments/decrements and logical operation and bits testing, and storage in local memory.
May be an embedded ARM processor to handle communication and data conversion.
Algorithm can be adapted for treading.
It is for hobby, so no real budget.
What hardware/software would you recommend ?
Already posted in Hardware forum, but no activity 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I was considering something of the sort -- but not related to huge computation.
There's an arduino library that will generate SHA-256 hashes. I had an arduino that was set up with a 16 x 4 LCD.
I then had a bluetooth module connected to the Arduino. I could send any text to the arduino via Android app, that received the text string. The Arduino would pass it through the SHA-256 generator and calculate the hash and pass the hash back.
Yes, you can generate the SHA-256 hash on the android phone itself much easier, but this was a prototype and has some of the pieces you are interested in.
If you later need more computational power you can get one of the Arduinos that have those ARM chips for like $30 or cheaper and then very little of your code would have to change.
Just some ideas.
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Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Hmmm, For shear number crunching I have used Lattice, I am told that Altera are better for number crunching they are an art to use. If you can use an ARM it may be easier to do the number cruching in that and keep it all on one chip.
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