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phil.o26-Oct-21 5:23

26-Oct-21 5:23

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"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

OriginalGriff26-Oct-21 4:07

OriginalGriff

26-Oct-21 4:07

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Covid can be a b*st*rd - hope it didn't get you too badly. Rose | [Rose]

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phil.o26-Oct-21 5:22

26-Oct-21 5:22

Thanks

I did get me quite badly, indeed, I had to be on respiratory assistance for a couple of days, and then the recovery was awfully long. It took me nearly 3 months before recovering my sense of smell; nothing had taste, except for very strong coffee.
On the other hand, it allowed me to get the courage to do something I wanted to do for a long time: changing my job; and quit smoking. Everything's fine since then, I did both.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

OriginalGriff26-Oct-21 5:37

OriginalGriff

26-Oct-21 5:37

Ouch.

I wasn't on a respirator, but it was pretty close: I lost 6Kg in two weeks while I had it as I couldn't keep food down, and my stamina levels still aren't where they were before the bug. My sense of taste is still "off" - but it's slowly returning, or seems to be.
Herself came out worse though: permanent lung damage it looks like, so I have her oxygen machine as "background music" right now.

Well done on the smoking though - I wish I'd never started, and I gave up in '04! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

phil.o26-Oct-21 6:39

26-Oct-21 6:39

The 'quit smoking' was the hard part; I've been smoking for more than 30 years, that makes a lot of bad habits to lose. I still am in that place where the proudness of having quit is stronger than the envy of nicotine, but I know I will have to be extra carefull when proudness will drop.

I'm sorry to hear for herself; may these damages not be so permanent.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Gerry Schmitz26-Oct-21 7:44

Gerry Schmitz

26-Oct-21 7:44

The good news is that after 15 years, it's like you never smoked. It's never too late to quit; even if you think so.

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

Richard Andrew x6426-Oct-21 8:42

Richard Andrew x64

26-Oct-21 8:42

Gerry Schmitz wrote:
The good news is that after 15 years, it's like you never smoked

That's only true if there hasn't already been permanent damage, unfortunately. 30 years is definitely long enough to create permanent damage.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

honey the codewitch26-Oct-21 4:13

honey the codewitch

26-Oct-21 4:13

Depending on how familiar you are with C++, there is one book and only one book I recommend for learning it. Burn the rest to keep warm.

The book is Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo

It is mercifully brief, and teaches C++ properly, using the STL, and introducing you more to C++ from a "generic programming" standpoint.

I tell people this - unlike in other languages, in C++ you have a dialogue going with the compiler *and* the CPU. Most languages just let you talk "through them" vicariously to the CPU.

C++ allows you to run computations and such through the compiler, which can then generate the results of said computations in code, which then talks to the CPU. A bit like the house that jack built.

I have a function in one of my projects that's like 3 or 4 pages long of dense code.

It resolves to a few assembly instructions, which vary depending on how you call it.

You can't really do that with other languages.

Learning that is the trick to mastering it.

Real programmers use butterflies

phil.o26-Oct-21 5:10

26-Oct-21 5:10

Thanks for the tip, I will definitely take that into consideration. I'm in the place where I just start to understand the power of c++ templating, coming from a c# brackground that's tricky at first.

Right now I started a c++ version of xkcp (available on github, a C implementation of sponge constructions, relative to sha-3 hash functions; I definitely got a thing for this algorithm family). I'll try and find that book to see whether I can grasp what I don't get yet.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

honey the codewitch26-Oct-21 6:07

honey the codewitch

26-Oct-21 6:07

Looks like you're headed the right direction. Within templates there are worlds. You can make your compiler make the bed with clever use of templates. This is how you initiate dialogue with the compiler in most cases.

Real programmers use butterflies

phil.o30-Oct-21 23:49

30-Oct-21 23:49

I received the book on yesterday. Thanks for the tip Smile | :)

I had a quick look on a couple of your recent articles (lexer + the pre-build thing), as well. You got my 5 for both. Did not have time to dive into the code in detail, yet, but there are definitely informations in there for which i'll be grateful in the near future. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

honey the codewitch31-Oct-21 4:53

honey the codewitch

31-Oct-21 4:53

Thank you. In a little while, I'll have Reggie targeting SQL for matching and stuff. It's already mostly working, it's just some error handling I'm tinkering with at the moment, before I can move on to finishing it out.

Real programmers use butterflies

Mike Hankey26-Oct-21 5:04

Mike Hankey

26-Oct-21 5:04

Welcome back

The less you need, the more you have.

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.

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phil.o26-Oct-21 5:23

26-Oct-21 5:23

Thanks Mike Smile | :)

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Nelek26-Oct-21 8:13

Nelek

26-Oct-21 8:13

Welcome back.

You are not alone about quitting smoke. Almost 5 years here. You are right about the proudness and the envy, but good news... the envy drops too and at the end with a simple "You don't really want to start all that crap all over again, do you, idiot?" is more than enough. Wink | ;)

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phil.o26-Oct-21 9:04

26-Oct-21 9:04

Nelek wrote:
Welcome back.

Thanks

Nelek wrote:
"You don't really want to start all that crap all over again, do you, idiot?"

I like this way of presenting things. Concise, and to the point.
Luckily, when I got my sense of smell back, a strong aversion for cold-smoke smell came with it. And remained, so far...

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Rage28-Oct-21 2:48

Rage

28-Oct-21 2:48

Hi, welcome back ! Nothing changed here.

phil.o28-Oct-21 6:16

28-Oct-21 6:16

Hi Rage, thanks a lot.
I like to see that good traditions have remained on the Lounge; and bad ones on QA Laugh | :laugh:

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

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pkfox26-Oct-21 2:43

pkfox

26-Oct-21 2:43

Limited edition = Mag ( magazine )
Food = pie

Flier = Magpie

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Windows XP

Slow Eddie26-Oct-21 2:38

Slow Eddie

26-Oct-21 2:38

It was twenty years ago today, Microsoft taught XP to play! (With apologies to the Beatles Big Grin | :-D

)

Are you, or any of your customers, clients or friends still using XP?

Entropy will win in the end.

CodeWraith26-Oct-21 2:49

CodeWraith

26-Oct-21 2:49

I have an elderly PC, more or less from scrap, that still is running XP. These days I only use it as terminal for the Elves or to toast ROMs, that kind of stuff.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

dandy7226-Oct-21 3:10

dandy72

26-Oct-21 3:10

I still have it in two VMs (one clean--but updated with the latest--the other with VS2008, I believe), but neither have been powered on in years.

I still maintain that XP, with the Classic Windows theme, was one of the most usable UIs MS has come up with.

Maximilien26-Oct-21 3:11

Maximilien

26-Oct-21 3:11

We probably/maybe have a couple of them in an industrial settings that still use XP (but I might be wrong).

Long product life cycle in aerospace does not agree with software updates when everything is working fine.

CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair

Jörgen Andersson26-Oct-21 4:32

Jörgen Andersson

26-Oct-21 4:32

I can fully relate to that, just hope they're disconnected.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello