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by andywestken

Expectations

Looking for feedback to sanity check my expectations of junior and not-so-junior C++ developers. Currently wondering how things have changed since I started in ...

[10 replies] Last: I distinctly remember two professors I enjoyed, both were for English ... (by zapshe)

by TheIdeasMan

PDP 11 Dave's Garage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6t2L3SVM8 Trials and tribulations of working with old computer and old OS.

[1 reply] : Ah the good old days! That takes me back. I did a lot of programming w... (by seeplus)

by zapshe

I work for Google... (1,2)

I didn't know if I was training OpenAI's GPT models or not. Turns out I was in fact training Google's Gemini model. I'm not sure what the relationship betwee...

[27 replies] Last: "the data must flow" (by Ganado)

by Duthomhas

Lions and Tigers and Pointers, oh my! (1,2)

I’ve been spending time at SO again lately (dunno why) and I am again impressed by how confused people get by the idea of pointers. It really doesn’t see...

[23 replies] Last: Alignment is (or at least was) relevant for vectorization. While compi... (by keskiverto)

by helios

Specialization vs. Diversification

Suppose that you already have some competency (which if you're here, probably doesn't stress your imagination) and that there's some completely unrelated discip...

[16 replies] Last: I think you guys covered it... it depends on 2 main things, your actu... (by jonnin)

by zapshe

Typing Speed Test

Do we want to partake in competition again? ------ Reference: https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/279014/ I found that the code we used last time wasn't workin...

[13 replies] Last: abcdefghijklnopqstuvwyxz Alphabet was incorrect. It took you 2326 mil... (by zapshe)

by Duthomhas

I wrote a strrstr()

Just because. https://stackoverflow.com/a/78527348/2706707 If I made a major fail I’m sure the nice folks at SO will let me know, so, feel free to roast...

[17 replies] Last: If compiled for 32 bit (as opposed to 64 bit above) then the average t... (by seeplus)

by seeplus

Pipes, pipes and yet more pipes

https://www.cppstories.com/2024/pipe-operator/ Is C++ becoming/is too complicated?

[5 replies] Last: It seems to me that the overall goal for C++ is to be able to write m... (by keskiverto)

by Duthomhas

Finally switched to Linux Mint (1,2,3)

Got a new PC (finally) and since it is really nice, modern hardware I am finally making the move from Windows. I liked Windows 7. Very clean, good OS. Windo...

[51 replies] Last: That's too complicated for me, I use windows in virt-manager for same... (by keskiverto)

by seeplus

Happy (belated) 60th birthday Basic!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/ My first introduction to programming was using HP's version of Dartmouth Bas...

[12 replies] Last: I had a C=128, a souped-up version of C=64, several C=1541 floppy driv... (by George PlusPlus)

by seeplus

functional/monadic extensions of std::expected

https://www.cppstories.com/2024/expected-cpp23-monadic/ It's C++ - but not as we know it!

[2 replies] Last: Great. I can’t stand monads. They contaminate everything they touch. (by Duthomhas)

by George PlusPlus

Daily bit(e) of C++ | Optimizing code to run 87x faster

https://simontoth.substack.com/p/daily-bite-of-c-optimizing-code-to

[11 replies] Last: Ah, I misread. IDK. Good question. (by Duthomhas)

by helios

Bad Apple!!

I made a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5VUOLRues https://github.com/Helios-vmg/spindafy Check out the video I linked in the description or it won'...

[7 replies] Last: I'm thinking a good strategy is to get a histogram of the selected pat... (by helios)

by George PlusPlus

Understand internals of std::expected

https://www.cppstories.com/2024/expected-cpp23-internals/

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by Duthomhas

Made the mistake of trying to help out at SO again.

I guess I’ll never learn. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78396197/is-there-a-cleaner-way-to-write-this-c-code Closed as “opinion-based”. ...

[4 replies] Last: Then we can pull it all together in: main.c #include <iso646.h> #... (by Duthomhas)

by TheIdeasMan

UB in STL

It bugs me that parts of the Ranges library allows UB, or doesn't have bounds checking. Given the recent criticism of C++ being an "unsafe language", I wonder w...

[15 replies] Last: @Peter87 Thanks for your great post :+) I don't think I have ever us... (by TheIdeasMan)

by Duthomhas

I just cannot understand this driving behavior...

People where I live (NJ) are weird, but I’ve had this happen in places like NM too. Today I was coming home in my big ol’ pickup truck, and the neighborhoo...

[9 replies] Last: The other driver then came to a full and complete stop also. And just... (by George PlusPlus)

by SubZeroWins

What windows/gui library? (1,2,3)

What windows/gui library would you fellas recommend for someone starting out as their first entry? I know some SFML, but I am curious what you would have recomm...

[49 replies] Last: I never had a complete lockup, but very sluggish and either it taking ... (by SubZeroWins)

by zapshe

I've been working an odd job

I've been doing this remote job where you train an AI. You give the AI a prompt, it does the code, you evaluate and critique the code if need be. Pays pretty we...

[5 replies] Last: app.dataannotation.tech There is a coding assessment you have to pass... (by zapshe)