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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?
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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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No. You're right in that churchmen is the direct clue. There is actually no explicit anagram in there. You're right on laps, but not on lady.
It goes without saying
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Reverends :
First Lady = Eve
Car = RR (Range Rover)
Finish = end
Final laps = s
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Hmmm... seems legit.
"RR" for "car" is a bit of a mean clue though 
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Car was Rolls Royce, but same end result.
It goes without saying
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Yay! 
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Paddington Bear wrote: Churchmen finish final laps after first lady in car (9)
Melania in the Beast at Daytona. So Dalai Lama.
It's obvious she was in a car and he is a churchy bloke with 9 letters.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If this CCC was programming, how would you call programmers who understand it, aliens?
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There's a UK radio show, been going for a looooong time: Desert Island Discs - Wikipedia[^]
And I got to thinking: if a geek was stranded on a desert island, what website would you take with you ("reader only"- you can't contribute or post at all, or it'd always be "search and rescue" or similar)?
WikiHow could be handy?
How about you?
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A bit off-subject, but the Telegraph sites light up my pi-hole domain blocker like a Christmas tree. They seem to want to sell you browsing info to everybody!
Here's one page (out of 30) of the domain lookups resulting from a simple visit to their site and clicking one news link.
More on-subject - the BBC News site would be my choice.
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Look, man - you'd probably never get off that island. Whether there's adequate food or not, you can always rely on something akin to this[^] that will make you glad to be just where you are.
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Fantastic time waster. Thanks for that!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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the way back machine - there's no sites like old sites.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's what's great about CP: at least one person will come up with the optimal solution to any problem.
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The way the weather's been going, I'll have my own personal cloud, big enough to take several copies of the entire Internet.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: big enough to take several copies of the entire Internet
Yes, but...
If you apply Sturgeon's Law[^] to the Internet (hereafter known as Wheeler's Adage), 99.997% of everything on the Internet is crap. You could probably fit the worthwhile bits on a thumb drive or two.
Software Zen: delete this;
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