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Offtopic...
why did you remove the c# succintly link from your signature?
I found it not that bad, that you should be ashamed of it  
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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To make room for my newer Azure books
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And I thought it was latitude and longtitude (longitude).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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And yet, and yet....
After all these years, STILL date/time handling is an unimaginable kludge, even amongst systems from one house:
Formatted date/time strings that are acceptable to SQL Server are not acceptable to MS Access JET engine (and vice versa). DATETIME objects may or may not contain the time, depending on how they are generated so you cannot reliably check that they even represent the same day without faffing about.
Despite SQL supposedly being a 'standard', just wait until you try to mix T-SQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle etc date handling.
And then there's unix time, MS time, etc...
Back in the early days of C/C++ I used, for many, many years, my own customised version of a Borland Date library because just no-one could handle even the differences between the UK and continental Europe, let alone other countries.
I realise that a lot of these problems are not due to the coding per se - it's the weird way we humans account for and represent time and date across the globe, but you really would think that after all this time, someone, somewhere would have devised a database driven, standardised date/time handling library that could be more or less universally acceptable. We have that for most human languages - just about - after all.
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Totally true 
Date handling in JavaScript is by far the worst I've come across though.
Heck, I wouldn't even call it date handling, more like date-go-![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) -yourself 
But even in MS SQL Server, some date types recognize "2021-05-11" as a valid value, while others do not and require "20210511" 
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Here is real time programming nightmare
Arizona does not deal with daylight savings time
but that is not the issue
The Navajo Nation honors the concept of daylight savings time
AND the Hopi Nation which sits in the middle of the Navajo Nation
does not honor the concept of daylight savings time
I have often wondered how you would code for this ?
In one town if you cross the street you lose or gain an hour
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Wow, I did not know that 
Also, did you know 30 and 45 minute time zones exist?
They're (whoever they are) are not making this easy for us
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The same thing happens in Windows Explorer with DST. A file is changed at 10 AM standard time the Friday before DST changes. If you check the time stamp on Monday it will display an hour difference. File times are UTC-ish, it is the display time zone that changes. This was Win 7 behavior; I have not verified in Win 10.
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Rough-housing, yesterday, with my four year old grandson.
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That's great for two reasons.
1. Spending time with the grandkids is always great.
2. Knowing you can take him if it gets serious.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: 2. Knowing you can take him if it gets serious.
We all need our illusions... 
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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It is called 'Throw you down Paw Paw' at my house. My grandson is also 4 and I doubt I could take him.
Although I have been able to convert some of that energy to golf. He loves that in the back yard and at Putt Putt.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I did something similar recently, and it took me two days to recover. It's amazing how much energy a four-year old has.
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A copper mine is perhaps overdue to cave in? (10)
"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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Capitulate ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice and quick - you are up tomorrow!
Care to explain for the others?
"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 didn't actually work it all out - I thought C or cu for copper, pit for mine, and late for overdue - it had to be capitulate. Cease to resist.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A A
copper CU
mine PIT
is perhaps (anag): CAPITU
overdue LATE
to cave in?
CAPITULATE
"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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If LISP stands for Lost In Silly Parentheses, then really, C++ should be renamed LISTS - lost in silly template specializations.
I've got a caps member of draw sources or targets which dictates the type of features it exposes. Then you implement methods which provide those features, so like, if you claim in your caps that your class supports "async" you are expected to provide XXXX_async() versions of your GFX draw source/destination methods.
GFX then chooses the most appropriate mechanism to complete the drawing operation you gave it based on the capabilities of the draw source and the draw target. So for example, if you have two in memory bitmaps of the same pixel format, you can basically memcpy one to the other, but if the destination is a display adapter, you may be able to transfer it via DMA, or failing that, you might be able to batch it if the destination supports it and if you can't do that you'll just have to do a standard pixel by pixel copy.
Well, this is all had through the magic of template specializations but in some cases its creating templates with more than half a dozen boolean arguments, wherein each **unique combination** of bools is a different specialization. All this because I need the compiler to prune out method calls that won't actually compile to anything and aren't valid on a target. - like XXXX_async() calls on a target that doesn't support it.
And now I'm lost, and it's time to see if I can refactor. I've got a towering combination of specializations that getting to the point where I can't follow which one is getting called, and now the results aren't what I expect (the one I want to be called isn't being called) and I can't trace why because the debuggers on these devices are crap.
This should be fun. Geez.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Can you get 1 munite compilation time, including your template stuff to .cpp file? Still less then minute? Continue to improve your code.
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Right now I have more important optimizations than compile times. My code compiles in well under a minute for most use cases. I haven't found one where it doesn't, but I could contrive some.
I don't believe in optimization for its own sake - i have work to do.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Wouldn't judicious insertions of static_asserts help diagnose problems in the template specializations?
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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Actually it was easier to find than i thought. I just got super lost there for a bit. I still have to refactor but I'm going to wait until i'm finished verifying the design before i break that part in order to fix it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I see from your latest update that you seem to have figured it out.
So though you laid down with dogs, you will apparently escape flea-less. 
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Greg Utas wrote: So though you laid down with dogs, you will apparently escape flea-less.
People hate me for that. 
*hides*
Real programmers use butterflies
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