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Sometimes I break character.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Captain Obtuse weighing in here. Historically breaks weren't really characters per se. RS-232 and 60 ma current-loop both implemented 'break' by setting the serial signal line to a constant state for several character times to allow downstream hardware to synchronize to a know state.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Who's there? 
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The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.
There was a knock at the door...
Software Zen: delete this;
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One day, a man walks into a dentist's office and asks how much it will cost to extract wisdom teeth.
"Eighty dollars," the dentist says.
"That's a ridiculous amount," the man says. "Isn't there a cheaper way?"
"Well," the dentist says, "if you don't use an anesthetic, I can knock the price down to $60."
"That's still too expensive," replies the man.
"Okay," says the dentist. "If I save on anesthesia and simply rip the teeth out with a pair of pliers, I can knock the price down to $20."
"Nope," moans the man, "it's still too much." "Well," says the dentist, scratching his head, "if I let one of my students do it, I suppose I can knock the price down to $10."
"Marvelous," says the man. "Book my wife in for next Tuesday!"
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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What a shellfish tale!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Instead of using the ones Herself's company provide her with.
Only took over three hours to set up an account ... most of it waiting for a OTP email, and the rest swearing at half-assed "developers" who produce this cr@p. You can tell it was written by some MP's mates company for a huge amount of money using the cheapest developers they could find sleeping in doorways. 
And then they are ordered: one pack allowed only, contains 7 tests. So why are you supposed to do 2 tests a week? Why ship them in packs that last 3.5 weeks for one person, or 1.75 for a family of four? 
Governments: I'll never understand them ...
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: You can tell it was written by some MP's mates company for a huge amount of money using the cheapest developers they could find sleeping in doorways
OriginalGriff wrote: Governments: I'll never understand them
Seems like your off to a good start though.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: Governments: I'll never understand them
They're actually very easy to understand: unregulated, violent monopolies with no skin in the game.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Governments: I'll never understand them ...
The golden rule.
Them with the gold rule!
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Them with the gold rule!
in the head please... and don't forget the rule #1 in Zombieland... double tap.
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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Governments go out of their way to make it confusing. They want to look good to the public and appear to be taking care of them, and providing the services they are being taxed for. Without actually doing so.
That leaves more money for them to line their pockets with.
Maybe you are not giving them enough credit. Perhaps a very good company did the website, with orders to make it ugly and difficult, so that a lot of people won't use it.
The people of Earth are, like the rest of the Cosmos, descending into chaos.
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Managed to order mine without much difficulty, took a couple of minutes mainly due to fact that unusually, I had a mobile signal that was strong enough to receive the OTP that day.
My problem was the postman. I have noticed in the past that reading addresses does not seem to be his strong point judging from what he pushes through our door and, he duly delivered my tests to the right house number in the wrong street.
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My Windows 10 Update and security keeps nagging me about "2021-06 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems (KB5003690)".
I don't do "Previews". What is this one about? Have you tried it? Did you like or hate it? Was it any help?
Curious in NOLA
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I am also a compulsive updater who wondered about that...
But I guess I am becoming less compulsive in my old age and thought screw it, I will just ignore that! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: , I will just ignore that!
Until the settings delay is done and then they don't ask anymore, you just download it without knowing and get only prompted "when do you want to restart" once the silent install got to the point...
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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now ignore.. until it goes from preview to it's good know, install it, and then it does!
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Me too!
What ever happened to XP?
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This is why I run a domain with a WSUS server at home. The nightly cleanup scripts eliminate non en-us language updates, preview updates, and a whole host of other updates that don't apply to myself or my wife.
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I've been working on truetype font support for my GFX library. Anyway, I wanted to incorporate The FreeType Project[^] and use that in my code. Since it's tight and written in C I figured it would be easy to incorporate**. However, they use the CMake build system and their build scripts are complicated.
So I went on their mailing list/newsgroup and engaged with them about possibly producing a build that would work under platform IO.
I've gotten the go ahead, and some people even seemed excited about it, but I can't work my way through their build scripts, and all the headers have to be included in a very particular order, and and and... it's just too much to wrap my head around without intimately understanding the library's machinations and architecture.
So in the end I started writing my own TTF support because it was actually easier than moving their project off of CMake.
I wish I had never said anything on that newsgroup. That's what I get for trying to use other people's work in my stuff. At least I've had some better success with simpler projects.  I just feel bad getting people's hopes up and then ditching it.
** despite my code being C++, it doesn't use the STL because the Arduino framework doesn't make the STL available so it's easier to incorporate 3rd party C code than C++ code.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: I started writing my own TTF support because it was actually easier than moving their project off of CMake.
If this doesn't speak to the mind-numbing complexity of builds, I don't know what does. There has to be huge opportunity here, because the existing tools are pure shite.
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The problem seems to be that people make things more complicated than they need to be.
This was C so there's only so much you can do about it, but why everyone doesn't just make C++ libs as pure HPP files is beyond me. The extra build complexity is not worth the little bit of extra code hiding you can get by using cpp files. With an HPP you just include the heckin thing.
I mean i get it if your code is proprietary and you want to distribute a static lib you need CPP files, but for anything else don't make it more complicated.
Again, freetype is C so I don't know what they could have done, but for CPP if you work your library right it is easy to build.
It's something that seems like it needs to be in the language. C needs an equiv of an HPP file.
Real programmers use butterflies
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When I was programming C (and Objective-C), oh so many years ago now, I used to find the of .c and .h file very tedious to maintain. Glad there is only 1 file C#! 
That might be one I am not that big a fan of C# interface, compared to my colleagues...
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I just use .hpp files and only use .cpp for the main program.
that way it works almost exactly like C# that way, although static initialization can be cumbersome in C++ especially with members of template classes, pre C++20 but still.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Yea.. I had seen some library doing that last time I used C++....
I thought it pretty neat. 
I tried it myself and it was great except for the abysmal compile time anytime I changed something..  
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