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We have a Winner!
Well done.
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Nice little clue 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I get crown and edible, but what is relevance of proper stress?
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"Payt" vs "pa-tay". You have to supply the acute accent that would be there in French.
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Ah... clever. Distracting, but clever.
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Ripe
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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@Clumpco
You won yesterday, so it's your turn to set it today!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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. . . still alive out there? It's been over 4 hours since the last post and that one was terminated by the powers.
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Barely, after a day of writing builder scripts 
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I was wondering the same thing! It's awful quiet here for a Monday...I was looking forward to wasting at least 15 minutes or so this morning before getting started.  As it was, someone posted a link to rocket explosions and somehow I wound up watching stories about reconnaissance planes and an exploding thermonuclear ICBM missile silo in 1980. (which actually happened about 10 miles from where I lived at the time) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Monday morning lasted eleven hours.
If you don't want to be sworn at, best talk to someone else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe that was to partially compensate for the leap year calling off.
One eye doctor at the Ullevål Univerity hospital in Oslo, Norway, was hit by the Corona virus, and there was a fear that it might have spread to the othes. So the newspapers brought a photo of the sign posted on the polyclinic entrance door: "Lørdag 29. februar er avlyst" - "Saturday, February 29th, has been cancelled".
(nrk.no[^] - text in Norwegian. Entrance door is 2nd photo, closeup further below)
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So today's Wednesday?
It's nearly the weekend!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sort of - just got home from Herself's sister's funeral - 7 1/2 hours driving, 1 hour waiting because I didn't trust the satnav arrive time estimate, 1/2 hour service, post service "do" with cr@p coffee and greasy fried food.
Somewhat tired, but I will resume normal service tomorrow ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: cr@p coffee and greasy fried food.
A few years ago we went to a relative's wedding in Swansea: the "wedding meal" was Chinese takeaway. But I have to say it was quite tasty.
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This was a buffet at a Beefeater - some dubious-content sandwiches (as in nobody was sure what was in then, even after they had been tasted), fries, fried prawns, fried chicken lumps, ... and cheesy garlic bread which was quite good, if greasy. And the coffee was presumably there so you buy a beer to take the taste away. 
I'm guessing it was because it was close to the crematorium.
I have to say I was impressed with Here WeGo - with traffic data enabled it picked a much, much better route than I would and it's arrival estimate was superb, ten minutes early after a 3 1/2 hour drive.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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We had a similar drive last year to a funeral in Swansea: can't recall the exact timing (no satnav in my '06 Corolla) but some number of hours down the M4. However, spending the night there, and the following day round the Mumbles (such a beautiful place) made up for everything.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's arrival estimate was superb, ten minutes early after a 3 1/2 hour drive.
I'd call that a fail.Mission Control said: Sorry, Guys, but Mars is still a ways over thataway. Can you park the ship for a while and wait?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mars probes have it easy - it's all Newtonian Physics (with maybe a little Einsteinian Physics thrown in for special cases, - so it knows where it starts, where the destination is, and 99.999% of teh journey is just coasting, with no vector change required.
But roads and traffic don;t work like that: a truck decides to spend ten minutes overtaking another truck up a hill and everything else has to back off to half the speed limit; a variable speed limit kicks you down to 50 (and backs it up with enough cameras to lose you your licence in a couple of miles); and idiot decides to have a nap in lane three and a road is closed for six hours.
It's less than 5% difference, which is pretty damn good when you think about it: Windows can't do that well with file copying ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Windows can't do that well with file copying ...
You already know what this links to[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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On the serious side:
I have never heard any good explanation of this behaviour. The copy function knows how many files it must open for read, how many for write - presumably the same number, but the time required for preparing write operations could be different from read. In any case, the time is roughly the same for every file on a given disk. To open the file, the MFD entry ("inode", for you *nix guys) is inspected. It also tells about the size of each file, so you roughly know how many pages will be read from or written to the disk - at least you know the difference between kB, MB and GB size files. You have a rough idea about the transfer speed, based on the disk technology. If you don't, after opening a couple of files, that will tell you the time overhead per file. After you have copied a few megabytes, you roughly know the transfer speed.
I am certainly not expecting a three decimals correct figure. I just cannot fathom how it can jump up and down by magnitudes, even after the copy operation has been running for a while, with empirical figures right at your fingertips.
If anyone knows why, I'd like to know, too!
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Keep in mind it's Monday 
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Churchmen finish final laps after first lady in car (9)
It goes without saying
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Cardinals?
I am not sure why exactly, the letters for an anagram are mostly there. Maybe taking the end of "laps" (s) and dropping the "y" from "lady" (because of "first") and you get "lads in car" which would be the anagram... I dunno...
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