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Wow, there’s a nice little video on this BBC page that describes the journey, which is unfortunately not a cosy train ride. It’s amazing how they managed to transport all the materials for construction and what have you. To lift the spirits of the visitors they are sure to provide screenings of The Descent along with graphic descriptions of other parts of the mine which have been flooded. 😛
Also came across this one from a few years back – potash from under the sea?

A million donuts a day might explain it – that’s a lot of oil and flour. Fresh donuts are far superior and there’s no sure-fire risk of Listeria which might occur in the icing or packaging. Nevertheless, given the choice, reeking of donuts beats chicken or fish but not pancakes & maple syrup, chocolate fondue or even sherbet dreamsicles! 🙂

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🙂 Grandma got run over by a reindeer … so she could fit in down the chimney.

On Spastic Hamburger said

The last one doesn’t show up here but I think I found an alternate vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7eyPZat6Jk

Sorry about the region checks, that wasn’t it – that one isn’t so good IMOP. Replaced the vid above with this one which also has miniscule technical faults that might have explained why Atlantic pulled the original release.
Linus shares the Christmas message rather well:

Nice animation for Andy William’s song:

And a merry Christmas to you and family!

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Cool! Seems as if the Royal Suite could be a place of sojourn for any unroyal individual provided they are happy to part company with at least a grand per night of stay. Not for sale anymore. Terrific piccies here, and traps, tunnels and secret passages here.
The Antiques Roadshow’s “Basic, Better & Best” is a fun segment. Here’s a fine set of model cars – which one do you think is the most valuable:

Further back in time, Fiona Bruce was surprised by the verdict on the cigarette cases:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pffzx

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Nice catch! 🙂
Another quantity surveying excursion yielded the original Bookshop sketch:

Oh dear, and a bunch more:

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For further future research included another joke from Les:

Want to know how to use passwords? The Marx brothers have the answer:

For the effect of extra spam, added this bunch of Brit randoms from YouTube suggest lists:

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Nice find, anything “Poor-man’s …” is just the lick! 🙂
Another worry is that on the (unlikely) event Fuzzy Canary is hijacked, one actually ends up with undesirable links showing up loud and clear on their blogs – in which unfortunate case your regular Dagwood Bumstead career blogger type would indeed have to face the music the next morning from a rather shocked and peeved Mr Dithers!

Think it is really cool to win a free experience at Lost Wages as a reward for making a Fallout mod. Some of the reactions on that thread are not too receptive to the idea – but hey it’s a prize, right, – no-one (at least to my knowledge – and haven’t gone looking 😛 ) has ever complained of similar trips offered by television game shows for instance.
is it possible Bethesda ever considered opening their own themed palace at Vegas what with game favourites such as blaring radios, Saints and Seducers, Oblivion gates all featuring in manifold money guzzling attractions. Or put it another way – if you were a bank, would you ever provide them the finance for the bricks, mortar and shovel no strings attached? 😛

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I’ll toast anyone who can fit their apparel in the toasting glass! 🙂
Although we have a wonderful selection of Christmas beetles, this year the gov is waxing poetic with the Khapra beetle so included it for our reading pleasure:

Khapra Claus: The Beetle Nobody Invited
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‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the shed,
Not a creature was stirring all were in bed.
The grain was all stored, the bins sealed with care,
In hope that no Khapra beetle could get in there.

But down in the corner, behind the old rake,
A tiny intruder was plotting a festive outbreak.
It munched on some wheat, then burrowed in deep,
While the farmer snored on in a biosecure sleep.

This beetle’s no rookie – it’s tough as old boots,
It survives without water and snacks on dry fruits.
It sheds little skins as conditions adjust,
And turns golden grain to powder and dust.

It’s exotic to Australia, our number 2 threat,
If it gets in your silo, you’ll break out in sweat.
It’s resistant to sprays, it’s hard to detect,
And once it’s established? Your wallet is wrecked.

So Santa flew in with a sack full of traps,
A checklist and biosecurity maps.
He shouted, “Check it! Inspect every load!
Or Khapra will party in your grain like a cane toad!”

The farmer woke up with a start and a yell,
“Not in my shed – send that beetle back to hell!”
He cleaned out his bins, he checked every crate,
He followed the rules – no room for debate.

So remember this Christmas, while roasting your meat,
Khapra’s no joke – it’ll ruin your wheat.
Declare all your goods, keep your storage pristine,
And make sure your silos stay squeaky clean.

Because nothing says “holiday” quite like a rest,
But Khapra beetle? It fails every test.
So laugh if you must but take this to heart:
Biosecurity’s serious – do your part!

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Cool, GDB looks like it could be useful. Just curious, can the build be performed successfully through VSCode?

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Yeah, YouTube have complied already.
😛 What do the Linux folks think of BSD? What “boots it” when one of them has this tagline quoted from Adams:

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

Thats’s an amazing offer for such a recent game – have you played it? Oh, and who owns Avalanche? 😛

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Sounds good. 🙂
Btw have you located a handy IDE/debugger yet? Windows Server allows for both VSCode and Windbg – for the current issue VSCode should be enough.

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Thanks, the fog over the idea of #defines functions/macros has cleared somewhat – as the OP mentioned, the y variable wasn’t all that relevant to the MRE. So forked another sample with the updated code. 🙂
It’s just such a weird setup what with the comma and the insertion operator used that in that way as well. 😛
In other news appertaining to those over here of another age:
Reddit sues Australia over social media ban, citing free speech threat
Free Speech hey?

It’s just that the people listening think you are … underage?

😛

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🙂
Posted this at AL, here for future reference. 😛

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See this #define using functions – what’s the difference in using that code in a standard function?
Neither able to make much sense out of Code block in a C++ preprocessor macro does not work without braces either – made a little IDEONE fork as a sandbox, the y value doesn’t seem to go anywhere in the demo either.

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Cool, thanks for the link! 🙂
Less technical is fine this way any way – the Scientific & Technical Amateur Radio is just the thing. And never knew about Github Toasts – the Windows Tray menu is a good enough substitute no?

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Have any YouTube 40’s Looney Tunes links to share?

Plenty of action with twists and turns in Wanted, and its fine direction makes you wonder why the sequel was never released. Recommended.

Reckless runs a very nicely paced plot, script & dialogue, fitting the roles into the provided portrayals came across somewhat like fitting square pegs into round holes – or vice versa. Thus the barebones of the budget could not be concealed, as was the case with the production, and in particular, the sets.
Enjoyable though, so will be here when they come up with series two!

Midsommar starts off in a rather dinky manner, until you get to the location where it slowly evolves into an Ashram garden of muraled weirdness, wailing dirges, crying babies and abrupt scene changes that all end up in some kind of a Jonestown/Wickerman inspired predicament, where the surviving folk coming out of it, well, quite beaming you know. Might have been a while getting into the rhythm of it, once engaged, things seemed to have worked out quite well. Recommended!

On the other hand, there was some difficulty identifying with the slightly less than suave protagonist in Under the Silver Lake gawking round abstruse clues for stuff that really never made a lot of sense. There’s a lot in there that ticks the boxes for a bad movie, particularly the wtf scene transitions and jittery music score. Must have missed something then, so will the pull of the much vaunted mystery ever be enough to encounter the push of the memory retained of it?

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Yeah, there was hope one of the openai-compatible AI providers could provide a cogent answer to questions like “what have the goblins and their durzogs done to our code formatting?” Not all of their chats are working out at present. 😛

Out of luck there, this thread mentions AllocConsole, perhaps try that? Then use CLPs like —console or —headless for output.

Did try these in the PS console for empty output:

& "C:\Program Files\MWEdit 0.6.3\mwedit.exe" | Out-Host
cd \ ; cd "C:\Program Files\MWEdit 0.6.3" ; .\mwedit.exe > ~\Desktop\gui_output.txt 2>&1
cd \ ; cd "C:\Program Files\MWEdit 0.6.3" ; .\mwedit.exe 2>&1 | ForEach-Object { $_ | Out-String }
Start-Process "C:\Program Files\MWEdit 0.6.3\mwedit.exe" -RedirectStandardOutput ~\Desktop\gui_output.txt

Yep, the three DLLs have the same version, “1.8.0.0” with the Product version “1.8.0 Ansi.”

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Sounds good. 🙂
Couldn’t resist posting a link onto yet another helpful tool, Sourcebot – could it be this is the one that can magically cure all the ailments of MWEdit?

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How about revamping the Green Goddess Salad? There wants to be more clarity on it so bemoaned the fact there is no article for it on Salad Dressing page.
Never tried paprika in coffee – probably best without sweetener though. Is that instant or brewed?
Please share some of your newly found pan lore. 🙂
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could visit a restaurant with a feed bag attached – what are the possibilities in enhancing the table talk? A language of muffled humphs and grunts. And forget the pre-dinner drinks or after dinner cocktails, unless the bag has a siphon attached. 😛

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A joke told at the Baftas back in the day still resonates!

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Ian Gunn rewrote the story in poetic form for an edition of ye olde Australian HHG zine Pangalia, as a parody of The Man from Snowy River by A. B. “Banjo” Paterson.

Uh – don’t recall that – to transmute the antics of Veet and Zaphod into the following would be an amazing stretch:

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses – he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far
Had mustered at the homestead overnight,
For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are,
And the stockhorse snuffs the battle with delight.

@One Armed Badger may be the only one in the Universe with that copy of Pangalia! Edwina Harvey is mentioned in the Fancyclopedia which happens to present a rather spicy definition of fan. That article mentions fen as an irregular plural of fan, thus fens in that context isn’t allowed, apparently. Drawing a very thin circle, do permit us to bring in The Fens of England, being just on the edge of the birthplace of the one and only very figure of Douglas Adams himself! Go figure. 😛
Ah, true devotees would have ensured his stone was numbered 42 in the cemetery (itself having an address containing the number), 42 (in/cm) dimension-wise, or his body multiples of 42 (in/cm) below, having 42 flowerpots and ballpoint pens all around … A natural consequence can be imagined as visitors to the gravesite being requested to form groups of 42, limiting their conversations to 42 words or less, having arrived on the 42nd day of the year in flights/trains/buses all possessing that number somewhere, somehow. At the sound of all this madness, Adams is sure to be gyrating his remains 42 times in sheer horror. 😛

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