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by Ganado

New account creation is still broken (1,2)

I remember somebody mentioned a while back that new account creation is broken, but I can't find the post*. I tried to make an account just as a test, and the ...

[35 replies] Last: **Boot!** (by George PlusPlus)

by Duthomhas

Fox-Star Search Fun

A recent question asked about the A* Search algorithm (https://cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/285875/#msg1243408 ), something I had never messed with, so I decid...

[13 replies] Last: You’re not missing anything. I honestly had more fun messing with t... (by zapshe)

by Ch1156

C++ Concept Visualizations

So I've been thinking of something and i thought it would be helpful to be able to see how things work in C++ instead of trying to visualize them yourself, its ...

[9 replies] Last: I will see if i can figure out how to make these more digestible while... (by Ch1156)

by George PlusPlus

Hmmmmmm.....dynamic polymorphism library

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-the-proxy-3-library-for-dynamic-polymorphism/ I saw this as an item in the VS 2022 news feed, any comments ...

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by George PlusPlus

NVidia GeForce Experience problems

A couple of days ago after installing the latest NVidia drivers for my GeForce GT 1030 video card I started having intermittent slowdown problems on the PC. At...

[15 replies] Last: Alas, I am back on the East Coast. Otherwise I’d drive one over to ... (by zapshe)

by seeplus

Another one bites the dust

https://simontoth.substack.com/p/daily-bite-of-c-end-of-line RIP Daily bit(e). You will be missed but never forgotten. For the archive, see https://github...

[1 reply] : The ephemeral nature of the interwebz rules all, unfortunately. C++, ... (by George PlusPlus)

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 ...

[13 replies] Last: Could count on one hand the number of professors that didn't upset me... (by George PlusPlus)

by seeplus

Crowdstrike BSOD

A flawed security update by Crowdstrike is causing BSOD for windows computers wordwide. It seems to be caused by csagent.sys The workaround Steps are: Boot Wi...

[18 replies] Last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHrayP-Y71Q An update to the previous... (by TheIdeasMan)

by andywestken

Expectations - Expert Beginners

This thread follows on from one of the posts in the thread "Expectations": https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285833/#msg1243092 [quote=George PlusPlus]But t...

[8 replies] Last: It's probably judging the result obtained and the time to complete. ... (by jonnin)

by andywestken

Expectations - Coding Standards

This thread follows on from one of the posts in the thread "Expectations": https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285833/#msg1243093 [quote=Duthomhas]Those ar...

[9 replies] Last: I think programmers should be expected to be able to put their own opi... (by Peter87)

by andywestken

Expectations - Common Knowledge

This thread follows on from one of the posts in the thread "Expectations": https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285833/#msg1243095 [quote=seeplus]Although n...

[2 replies] Last: Another aspect of what else should count as common knowledge is what... (by George PlusPlus)

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)