[Ed P]

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Ah thats the thing, the last element pointed to by begin will indeed be one off the end but because begin will be equal to end we do not attempt to assign a value to it.

Fair point.

[Ed P]

I think in your specific example, that a post increment is more predictable as then everything within the ‘while group’ is processed. Imo to omit the last element is a potential cause of error as the last element pointed at by *begin has no value. As you said it all depends on context, but ‘while’ loops always need extra care especially if you are iterating through pointers or an array.

[Ed P]

Is that counter-intuitive behaviour due to the use of a pre-iterator rather than a post iterator e,g begin++ rather than ++begin.

Give me good old C any day!

[Ed P]

Just for info, you can find Jakemy tools on Amazon for (roughly) the same price. I’m a sucker for tools, but often find that Chinese tool steel is badly tempered and tends to be on the brittle side.

Nice car, it looks like it could make a good framework to add a Pi Zero and a few sensors and turn it into a fully autonomous vehicle!

[Ed P]

That explains EVERYTHING!

[Ed P]

As a young Chemical Engineer I had to deal with hydrogen and it issues on almost a daily basis. Imo hydrogen as a fuel will never be a world-saving energy resource. Putting aside the energy intensity of splitting hydrogen away from any compound, once you have it, it is a pig to handle. It leaks through solid steel due to the small size of its molecule, it causes hydrogen embrittlement of metals and even a minor leak is a potentially major issue. Not only is it potentially explosive, if a small leak catches fire there is a real danger that the very hot nearly invisible  hydrogen flame will act almost like a thermic lance and quickly turn a small fire into a big one.

[Ed P]

Tip, if you do play Valheim in single player do not attempt to build shelter before crafting a hoe and using it to level the site of your shelter. If you don’t the hut will almost certainly collapse wasting time and energy, and probably result in yet another early death. (rinse and repeat)

[Ed P]

The reason for all this bloat is pure eye-candy plus DRM.

[Ed P]

Nor me, but it does at least rationalise my irrational viewpoint, which was I think brought about by a view that C++ had become far too bloated. I think I would have been very happy if they had frozen it at the Object C stage as I felt that the owners of C++ were guilty of changing things just to stay in their jobs.

[Ed P]

I knew I had a good reason for disliking C++; apparently Python is faster!

Pdf link

[Ed P]

The BT Hub1 is utter carp with respect to wifi. I changed to BT Hub2 which comes with a mesh wifi and things are much better, but still subject to the occasional slow downs that Tippon mentions. As wired suffers no such slowdowns it is obviously a malign contention algorithm that BT use for their wifi.

[Ed P]

On the other end of size ~1 Gb . . .

If you want to try a (relatively) cheap but challenging game try the Indie-hit Valheim on Steam. Single player is possible but hard, you spend most of your time just trying to build a shelter and grubbing for food!

Some carp at its use of voxels, but I rather like the way they allow a procedural random open world to be generated with a small file size. The graphics may be a little blocky as a result but the textures are nice.

Valheim review

[Ed P]

I cannot add to all the comments made by others. Have a great Birthday and many happy returns!

[Ed P]

You do not need an app, just navigate to  https://radio.garden/ to try it out. Note that the site drives Firefox nuts, so you may need to unwind all the standard Firefox privacy settings.

[Ed P]

Sounds a bit like a DHCP problem, try the old CLI mantra of:

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

ipconfig /flushdns

See: https://geeksadvice.com/release-and-renew-ip-address/

As to WHY you have problems I can’t really guess, except I would tend to point my finger at your IPS supplier particularly if BT, or that your local cache is corrupt. Maybe someone else has a better idea.

[Ed P]

I guess if you are in the ‘pro’ gaming world or a Quant trader then millisecs in lag are worth $$$s. For normal mortals like me it is not really relevant.

 

[Ed P]

Oh dear, the ‘Waving flag and a fake Moon landing’ all over again!

I suspect that someone has mixed up the pre-flight promo pics with the real NASA pics as there seems to be no way that the equipment on Mars can take that view.

[Ed P]

No justice either! Unless you are at death’s door SWMBO thinks you only have a cold and are just a wimp.

[Ed P]

The wife had Covid at the same time – going off chocolate was almost the only impact it had on her.  Man flu all over again!

[Ed P]

As AMD are into a huge backorder on series 9 CPUs, I suspect that it will be sorted out long before I actually manage to get any hardware, but I’ll check if the usb2 channel is separate from the usb3 channel and use that if required!

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