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Hmm, I think it was a case of 'Oh we can do that, I did a bit of Electronics at Uni' managment by Gant chart. Utter shambles.
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That's funny because that's how I approach everything important, and I didn't go to uni.
Programming, electronics, etc. I tell myself "I can do that" until it becomes true. 
But it works for me. It doesn't work for some people.
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glennPattonInThePub3 wrote: we blew up two programmers
 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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ICE, not flesh! 
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You: *selects wrong bus time and time again and can't find the problem for two months.*
Also you: "I'm a champion!  "
I don't know what you're taking, but I need me some of that
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I wasn't working on it for two months. I just put it down and walked away.
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Wouldn't that be visible on a logic analyzer or a scope? I swap things all the time, so I start measuring right away when a SPI or I2C device isn't working.... or an LED, doesn't take more than one GPIO for me to mess it up.
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Not exactly. HSPI vs VSPI doesn't have to do with which pins are being used, but which internal SPI bus is being used inside the chip to drive those pins.
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Entrance from a mixed (for example) acapella group (7)
Home internet + work VPN flakey at the moment, so Nopes and YAUTs etc may be delayed
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Nice to see I'm not the only one who has no idea on this one!
"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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Or directionless crooners?
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Little clue as time is ticking ...
Crooners could be alternative to acapella group.
But I don't see where 'directionless' comes in.
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Think of another word for a crooner, but I don't want tomorrow's so I'm not saying it ...
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I suspect that the clue is poorly written, the parentheses shouldn't be there. Ignoring the parentheses gives the instructions for an anagram. Hopefully not the anagram for 'singers[^]'
INGRESS
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Randor wrote: Hopefully not the anagram for 'singers[^]'
Hopefully, it is the anagram for singers!
The parentheses were to indicate that the text after was one of any number of possible alternatives that could lead to the word 'singers'. I chose 'acapella group' as they explicitly do not have musical instruments so highlighting the singers rather than the songs. As another respondent has suggested, 'crooners' would have done as well.
INGRESS is the correct answer. (An ingress is an entrance and is an anagram of singers)
Especially in UK Health & Safety legislation, ingress and egress are frequently used instead of entrance and exit. In fact, that is where I first came across the word and thought it was an extremely pompous way of saying 'door'.
So, sorry, YAUT
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And "singers" could be directionless crooners (sWingers)...
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I wasn't aware of that one.
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jsc42 wrote: an extremely pompous way of saying 'door'.
Except it's not; ingress refers to the act of passing through a door, not the door itself. A door facilitates ingress and egress; a locked door hinders it. Entrance and exit may be nouns but can equally be verbs, unlike ingress and egress.
I've come across "for example" being contentious before, with or without parentheses. I've seen "perhaps" used to convey similar meaning with less ambiguity.
Anyway, as Randor demonstrated, clearly solvable! 
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You know that feeling when you buy something nice, and it reminds you how nice it is every time you use it?
Normally I'd have worn the paint off my homerow by now, but my keyboard still looks brand new.
This is my first go round with mechanicals, so my experience is limited but this thing is a joy to use.
I bought it because I wore an actual pit in my C key after a year of use of my last keyboard - a keyboard that was pretty nice, as non-mechanical keyboards go, but still.
Anyway, everything about the way this thing operates is butter. Every time I put my hands on it I feel like "this is what it's like to put my hands on a $200 keyboard"
The only complaints I have are software related - I'm not sure if the area around the knob is supposed to light but I can't get the software to let me assign a color to it. The pictures look like it can light up. Also the software pops a window when I log into windows, which I don't like. I can probably turn that off, but I just haven't gotten to it.
Physically, this thing is lovely. No, it's not wireless, but it's not really meant for a lap anyway. It's heavy. It's deskbound. So if you want something you can relax on your couch with, this isn't the keyboard for you, but it is wonderful if you do a lot of typing.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I bought it because I wore an actual pit in my C key after a year of use of my last keyboard - a keyboard that was pretty nice, as non-mechanical keyboards go, but still.
Good gravy! How do manage that? Do you have steel fingertips?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It was a war of attrition - it simply wore down, although the keys sit high on that keyboard and so I might have been hitting them harder.
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Mine arrived last Sunday, and it's a dream to operate. I've missed that feel and sound for decades. There are a few difficulties - I can't get the software to do anything, and there are no instructions. And there are symbols on the keys that are completely meaningless to me, like the four dots under the DEL key, and the crescent moon (like on an outhouse door) under the ESC key. There's something like a burning stick match on the key between CTRL and ALT, and something that looks like a menu between FN and the right CTRL. I wonder what they map to... Oh well, it's a joy to tap on this thing, even if it's one finger at a time. Thank you for the recommendation!
Will Rogers never met me.
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The software is a bit weird to use. I don't remember how because after I figured it out I haven't used it since and I forgot. I'll play with it, and get back to you. The 4 dots are
1. I don't know
2. Num lock light
3. Caps lock light
4. Scroll lock light
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honey the codewitch wrote: 1. I don't know
LOL! That's my problem child, too.
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