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The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky[^]
A friend and I have been sharing music for the last two weeks.
One album within a specific theme each day.
We came up with the themes up front, put them in a jar, and simply grab a random one each day.
We've got 60's, autumn, chill, Dutch, music we know from our parents...
Now I had to think real hard in that last category as my parents rarely listen to music.
For some reason they stopped doing that after I was born (or maybe earlier, but they've got quite a collection from when they were younger).
Nevertheless I came up with an album that they listened to quite a lot, unfortunately my friend had the same album and I had to come up with a new one (really, what are the odds!?) 
Ultimately, I went for Mike Oldfield, but my first choice was The Alan Parsons Project.
My parents had this best of CD that opened with an intro (Sirius) and then moved on to Eye in the Sky.
Needless to say, good memories, great song, SOTW 
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I wasn't even 10 at that time, but I remember this song surprisingly well.
I used to play with my father's turntable and cassette recorder, and build my own compilations, of whatever I could gather from my family's discs and those I could afford whenever I got some allowance. I'm pretty sure I would find that title in one of those boxes I stored and never went back to ever since.
Thanks for that nostalgic window 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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This was released long before I was even born 
I did the same with my parents CD's, but also with the radio, and I used a cassette recorder instead of turntables.
The first album I bought with my own allowance was something completely different though, Toy-Box[^]
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David O'Neil wrote: Personal fave of theirs: Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer.
Love this one too!
Also on my parent's best of album
David O'Neil wrote: PS - Here's a good New Wave collection: THE BEST NEW WAVE COLLECTION
REALLY!? THE ENGLISH VERSION OF NENA!? 
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You might like Apocalyptica: Apocalyptica - One (Plays Metallica By Four Cellos - A Live Performance) - YouTube[^]
Basically a metal band consisting of four cellists.
Started out by covering Metallica, but they've made their own songs since their second album (and since added drums and sometimes even vocals) and grew out to be one of the more popular metal bands of today.
0x01AA wrote: and the old one
I'll take this one 
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Not a fan of either.
TX6430 wrote: anything from AC/DC
A coworker used to sing Thunderstruck, but said "Sander!" instead of "Thunder!".
I thought he was just saying my name for some reason, took me months to figure out he was singing AC/DC 
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Stupid cloud infrastructure, may a thousand elephants do their doo doos at your door. 
We haz a simple set up, SQL Server db, asp.net [5ish] server and a react Dog's Dangles front end.
We use Azure pipelines to build and deploy on Azure, where else, and all is good in the world. Each pr to main kicks off the build. 98.3% of builds are good; the others are mine.
As of Wednesday, builds go boom. All builds.
Even rebuilding previously working build go boom-boom.
Vilmos is sad; see the sad face -> 
We found the problem quickly - the version of npm has ticked over and no longer does the automagic duplicate dependencies to keep it creaking along.
I have now spent two days going through all the packages and (a) deleting the ones that are not referenced and (b) resolving dependency conflicts which required some code changes we weren't planning.
Yesterday's prod push is dead in the water and sure as heck there won't be one today.
That's it, that's the rant. Now get on with the CCC; I think the answer is LIQUID NITROGEN
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Now get on with the CCC; I think the answer is LIQUID NITROGEN
Too many letters!
Go on, push today: 16:59 on a Friday is always a good day to push to production. What could possibly go wrong?*
* Provided your mobile is de-batteryed and the land-line unplugged.
"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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Finally, got the build to build in Azure and create the artifacts.
Three.
Days.
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
veni bibi saltavi
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Paid and grey
veni bibi saltavi
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Complain and take part for artisan (9)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Tick.
Tock.
Tick.
Tock.
"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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We need some fresh competition
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Complain CARP
and
take part ENTER
for artisan
CARPENTER
"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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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've been making an NES emulator for the ESP32.
I got it coded, but it's crashing into a reboot loop, and not easily debuggable on that platform.
So I've made a GFX driver for DirectX under Windows.
But in using it I discovered that my header-only library cannot be header-only. So I had to spend hours going through my rather lengthy library making CPP files. This was especially nasty where the truetype was concerned.
So I fire up the driver. It crashes on start. Turns out just getting the dimensions of the drawing surface (m_psurface->GetSize()) was causing my app to crash. Bizarre.
So I dig and I dig, and I find out that GCC is using a different calling convention to return pointers to structures from static member functions than Microsoft does. They're both STDCALL declared but GCC interprets an ambiguous rule about returning structs differently than MS. MS later seems to have clarified by indicating that static members will NOT return pointers in a register. GCC does.
So now, I had to patch a system header file (d2d1.h) to explicitly return the struct pointer from the offending methods.
Anyway, now that my GFX library is now at another major revision because of adding the CPP files to it, but at least I've got it drawing to a window.
What's cool is I can run the same code on Windows as I can on the ESP32 now.
This took me most of the day, and I have no idea how I'm going to redistribute this given the modified system header file.**
**no I can't modify a second file. The interface definitions i had to modify are used all over directX, and other headers include this one, so I was stuck.
Anyway, this was probably the most hardcore coding session I've had in awhile, even though the driver itself is about 100 lines (mostly empty)
Real programmers use butterflies
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I love the progression from “write a simple game”
Pretty cool.
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*sigh*
The NES is running to a point and then crashing, and my debugger isn't tracing the call. It's rendering much of a frame before it crashes, so even though there's no output yet there are signs of life.
I thought it would have been the PPU (graphics processor) because that chip is nasty to emulate.
Nope. I took the PPU out of the circuit and just ran the CPU and the main bus.
It's still crashing in the same place.
This is both good and bad, as I'm familiar with the 6502 so I should be able to find the problem, but also I can't find it yet. Unfortunately, my defensive coding has left me with a problem. It's not supposed to crash, because I'm checking for out of range addresses. But it *is* crashing. So hmmmm.
I really wish GDB wouldn't be crapping itself right here. I've debugged other points of the program fine, and I can set breakpoints. The app isn't even multithreaded (yet).
The whole point of me making the directx driver was so I could 🐘ing debug this stupid thing. It's infuriating that the debugger still isn't working after I spent the better part of the day working toward getting a debugger essentially.
Real programmers use butterflies
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This sounds familiar 
Sometimes it happens to me too. I write a program thinking I covered all possible breakage points and, when I go debug it, it crashes and takes GDB with him. Side effects can be very nasty and naughty .
From my limited experience, if you are checking for out of range, null and other usual checks, this usually comes down to some uninitialized variable or some math using the wrong variable/operation.
Sometime ago I spent almost one month inserting prints into a somewhat large program because whatever was wrong with it also crashed GDB. The program started fine and after e few iterations (randomly between 100 and 1000 depending on input) bam!
It ended up being both an uninitialized temporary variable and a missing dot (decimal place) in a formula that caused an unsigned int to overflow (to a smaller value than it should), that then caused the result of the next formula to be negative when it shouldn't and cascaded out of control from there. Never found out why that would crash the debugger!
Now I try to have a debug only log that prints/dump non temporary variable state to a binary file on every iteration, just in case.
My advice would be for you to start by double checking variable initializations and formulas for correctness.
Good luck
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