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trønderen wrote: Small detail: People living in Scandinavia do not consider Finland part of Scandinavia. It is one of the Nordic countries, but not one of the Scandinavian countries.
Geologically it makes perfect sense, but Sweden, Norway and Denmark are a Germanic culture while Finland is Ugric, related to the Baltic states.
So I agree with you from a etymological point of view, but they still live on the Scandinavian peninsula.
trønderen wrote: I am not sure if your post is a pure pun
You must never have played a Mortal Kombat game 
When you win a fight, a voice-over says "Finish him!" after which you can finish with a brutal attack to literally tear your opponent apart (FATALITY!).
So the Finnish hymn is a pun on "Finish him!" 
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Sander Rossel wrote: You must never have played a Mortal Kombat game
Most certainly true. My last computer game playing (for the sake of game playing - learning/testing out programming techniques is a different thing) was with the original "Adventure" on a 25 by 80 char monochrome terminal 
I suspected the pun, so I watched the trailer, and had half of it confirmed. For the other half: Composers (and performers as well) of music for movie effects and atmosphere frequently add their own little musical puns. The great majority of the audience won't get it, but for those who do, it really adds something. You can hear a lot of classical themes in movies, sometimes in an explicit, original form (such as the opening of 2001), sometimes only as quotes mixed into a new tune. Personally, I love such elements, even when I discover the source or quote after many years.
So this time, I really hoped for the composer to have baked some "Finish" hymn into the accompanying music. That would have completed the pun perfectly.
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INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
(not to be confused with LIQUID NITROGEN, of course)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Excellent - well worth a read!
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I've stayed away from web development for so long I had no idea the kind of tech we had.
I needed to take my GFX doc tree[^] from GitHub and make a little website from it for use by https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx/[^] which currently just points "Docs" to my codeproject article.
Boom, apparently there is Gatsby, and it can slice, dice, and frappe your markdown into something usable by regular people. It can basically pull straight from my github tree.
We're having a tiny issue rebasing the URLs but we started this late last night and didn't spend much time on it. I say "we" because I've got someone else driving the bus right now. I'm just orchestrating the mess.
Still, what a wonderful little tool. The web has a remarkable ecosystem these days. Pretty much if you can think of it, someone has done it already. It's kinda nice that way, despite how much I hate web development.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Also, if you can think of it, someone has done it already and they're using an npm package called isArray, which consist of a single line, but has a dependency on padLeft, which has 11 lines, and which was written by biggus_dickus_69 and is unknowingly to them used by huge enterprises, but which was pulled from npm because mr. biggus wanted to make a statement or someone pissed him off, causing millions of projects world wide to fail their build...
Also, some library everyone uses makes your users download some high res picture of some celebrity.
An entire dictionary is downloaded just to display the word "welcome".
Your packages send some data to an unknown source every time it is used.
That wasn't the exact story, but it's not far from the truth either 
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The first thing that caught my eye when I when to your posted webpage link was : Donate
I guess if a witch is not cursing, hexing and Bit banging an 8-bit parallel bus, they have to make a living somehow. 
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It's to offset the cost of buying hardware to write drivers for it. Some of those displays are $150 or more.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I was only teasing you.
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I like web development for many reasons, but mostly because it eliminates all the hassles that come with installations and upgrades on an endless variety of individual devices.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Pretty much if you can think of it, someone has done it already.
My version:
Pretty much if you can think of it, numerous people have done it wrong already.
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So when you do it which pile does it end up in?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: So when you do it which pile does it end up in?
It ends up in the "right for me, wrong for everyone else" pile.
And I'm totally serious. I recognize that the way I architect and write code is what works for me after 30+ years in this business, and the feedback I now get from my coworkers regarding my front-end work is "you're not using any frameworks!" implying that I'm doing things wrong. Back-end, well, there's some solid stuff out there so I usually don't need to roll my own, lol.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Pretty much if you can think of it, numerous people have done it wrong already.
And remember: 'Experience' is the ability to recognize a mistake when you repeat it.
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So true, at so many levels.
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trønderen wrote: Experience' is the ability to recognize a mistake when you repeat it.
And wisdom is the ability to not repeat the mistake that experience tells you that you are about to repeat?
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Why not both?
You have to solve the Wordle to get the clue for the CCC.
Just thought I'd mix CP's two biggest hobbies and since I can't solve them I'll just write one.
Hope I'm doing this right 
CCC _ _ _ _ _ and mixed with Wordle (8).
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Isn't it should be 2 letters?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I don't follow your grammar, but I think the answer is "no" 
Or if this was your guess at the Wordle: no no no no no 
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The answer to you puzzle is "hopeless"
Wordle: I hope I can solve it
CCC:: I am less likely to solve it
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As for the Wordle (you're one letter short): ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
As for the CCC: nope 
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Forever inert, yet exploding! (8)
"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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Eternity?
"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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