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... I feel I, too, should add something to brighten your weekend. I am something of an opera buff, but they take a long time to get through, so we need something shorter. Now Wagner's Ring cycle is the longest of them all, running at about 20 hours, depending on the ferocity of the conductor and the girth of the soloists' chests, so here a is a synopsis taking just over 20 minutes, complete with appropriate musical extracts.
Anna Russell Wagner Ring Cycle - YouTube[^]
If this doesn't raise a smile or two, then please consider carefully whether you may actually be dead or not. 
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tl;dl*
* too long;didn't listen**
** may do later though ...
"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
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Tl;dl indeed! Twenty hours cut down to twenty minutes - you think that's long? I guess you're never going to Bayreuth, then.
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Modern attention spans are like, what? 30 seconds? Maaaan.
"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
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I think you're taking my listening suggestion far too seriously, perhaps because you don't know Anna Russel. 
If ever I feel I am taking grand opera too seriously, I bring myself back down to earth by listening to Anna Russell.
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Masterpiece indeed. The adagio became very popular following its inclusion in the theme music for the film 'Out of Africa'. This also increased the performance of the whole concerto in the concert hall.
However, it is music of a very different tenor (pun quite deliberate) to my suggestion. Anna Russell is to grand opera what Victor Borge is to the grand piano.
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Quote: I know she's a tracker
Any scarlet would back her
And they say she's a chooser
But I just can't refuse her
She was just there
But then she can't be here, no more
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I am working my little MCU on all cylinders. Both CPU cores pumping along, 3 out of 4 SPI ports buzzing, along with 1 out of 2 I2C busses, PSRAM humming away.
It's getting to the point in my code where I have to be very careful adding or changing anything because anything I do can cause frame drops. That's how much I'm pushing the envelope with this device. It's operating at just below redline and I love it, doing everything it can.
I don't know why I like coding in constrained environments so much - maybe for the same reason I appreciate ASCII art. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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And what do you think about unicode art?
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cheating!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Unicode arts by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov @SAKryukov,
Unicode Art[^]
high resultion ascii 
modified 26-Nov-21 16:34pm.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't know why I like coding in constrained environments so much
Was your first an Atari XT, or a Commodore 64?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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16-bit Apple ][gs actually, but since I didn't have access to any of the 16-bit ROM toolbox information at the time, I coded on it in 65c02 (8-bit Apple ][ series) compatibility mode.
Real programmers use butterflies
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When did we get old?
--edit
Yeah, I did. You aren't.
Witch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
modified 26-Nov-21 19:41pm.
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honey the codewitch wrote: don't know why I like coding in constrained environments so much
For the challenge? 
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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For the bondage?
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Maybe. I want to say for the sense of accomplishment, but that seems just a roundabout way of saying the same thing.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Everytime I hear this song I have to think of Modern Family - Wikipedia[^]
I didn't like it (my brother loved it) and sadly this song brings always a bad aftertaste to me
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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0x01AA wrote: Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack
Yeah. That's what she said.
Love that song
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Copycat!
I just sent that song to a friend a few days ago! 
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