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What's the whale <-> cane connection?
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Apparently there is whale cane - I thought it was arcane purely because it has the the rca from orca in it and ar - but I've done one this week
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think it's "to whale away at someone" = thrash = cane. Rather tenuous IMO.
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Arcane, even. 
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The last two cryptograph clues were not Ximenean at all, I had Dilatory on my list yesterday but removed it early on because Tory doesn't mean politician.
And today we get Whale which is a slang term.
Whale[^]
Cane[^]
modified 16-Aug-22 7:02am.
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In the UK members of the Conservative Party are known as Tories. Hence a Tory is a politician.
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...as is a holder of conservative principles, or a supporter of the British cause during the American revolution. I get the link but not all Tories are politicians by any means. Never come across "whale" in that sense, either. But we live and learn - that's one of the things I enjoy about the daily CCC! 
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DerekT-P wrote: but not all Tories are politicians
Quite true; but I was trying to keep things simple. I just looked up whale in Chambers and it gives: whale (vt) to thrash violently.
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Yes I was pushing it a bit with tory but the other part was Ximenean, I've never heard of whale being synonymous with cane though.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, I seemed to have caused quite a stir! 
It would appear I got a little too cute setting my clue. I will admit to the tenuocity (hey, if I'm going to set an improper clue I might as well use an improper word too) of the whale-cane connection. It seemed OK when I thought it up but upon reading the above I stand corrected. It seems I was assuming some equality property of synonyms (whale can mean beat, cane can mean beat, so obviously whale can mean cane - and vice versa  ) Actually, to me, cane can mean to beat, but it implies a stick is involved, whereas whale has more of a Chuck Norris connotation.
I've read several articles on Ximenean crossword rules. I've read the rules, I understand the words in the rules but not always how to apply them. It's like telling my sister that addition is commutative. She'll accept that statement as true but has no idea what it means or how it's applied.
So, like today whale-cane: not Ximenean. Agreed. Too far apart in meaning making it an unfair clue. Yesterday's clue: politician-tory also not Ximenean. Not sure why. A Tory can be but not necessarily is a politician; a politician can be but not necessarily is a Tory. I started down my arcane clue path using a staff-cane connection. I've seen that used in clues a few times, once even here on CP I think. Is that Ximenean? Based on observation I'd say no. What would be?
Anyway, I'm not going to let fear of Ximenes stop me from trying. I do believe I'm failing better now. As Derek says, live and learn. Also, thanks for all the discussion, it will help me out in the future (maybe you too if and when I next set one  ).
Eleven guys and a barcode standard. (8) Ximenean? 
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No need to whale yourself. I've seen far worse, and some might say that about a few of mine.
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Eleven guys and a barcode standard. (8) Ximenean
Using standard twice - barcode and crossword standard
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I was writing a little bit of code today to replace commas within double quotes enclosed text in a huge string. This string could have multiple segments of double quoted text. I had only written this bit
char[] linechars = line.ToCharArray();
bool isInQuotes = false;
for (int i = 0; i < linechars.Length; i++)
{
if (linechars[i] == '"')
This IDE can read my code and comments and predict the next if statement. This is amazing.
P.S. Before someone points out miserable string handling, I really do not care about code quality. This is a one time use (quick or slow) and dirty utility.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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You must of spoken out loud and it heard you
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It is pretty amazing sometimes - takes a bit of getting used to but it can really speed up your code.
But even for a quick'n'dirty, that's rather long winded - especially if it's a long string as ToCharArray allocates memory and copies string content into it. You can index directly into a string, remember?
"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 is amazing... until it is not...
Wait and see - after enough suggestions you will find that most of them are plain stupid repetition of what you done before (a true no-brain op)...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Wait and see - after enough suggestions you will find that most of them are plain stupid repetition of what you done before (a true no-brain op)...
I had more obviously wrong suggestions than cases where it generated what I wanted, but that's not why I turned it off after a few weeks.
I pulled the plug because about 5-10% of the suggestions were dangerously wrong. Things that looked OK at first glance, but which had subtle logic errors in them. Trying to debug my own wrong think is bad enough, when the code running is ever so slightly off of what I intended was far worse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I've found that most of the suggestions (80%+) are exactly what I wanted to do. I've been pretty wowed by the technology. Maybe it's because it's looking over my shoulder and learning from a truly great programming master 
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80% of my code is "plain stupid repetition of what [I've] done before"
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Quote: This IDE can read my code and comments and predict the next if statement.
I`m not using VS 2022, a feature like that belongs to the realm of SF, really. Very original. Of course old fashion people (me included) might display appreciation towards this advancement in intellisense/autocomplete but will never actually use it in their projects.
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You might be surprised - it's actually pretty good. I'm not young - 63 - but I'm finding it handy to "fill in the blanks" with the drudge stuff: it works out what they heck you are likely to be trying to do and provides a default text that uses sensible variables you used earlier and suchlike. It does appear to use the variable names to help it decide as well, which is a damn good reason for using sensible names at all times instead of "quick to type" ones ... 
Give it a try (the Community edition is free so there's not a lot of excuse) - it might surprise you! (It did me.)
"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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I use it for my hobby projects Paul and find it good - but I've never known a bad release of VS
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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nice, soon you will only need to write the first half of your program, the IDE will figure out the other half on his own
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