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Reading the blog I referenced it strikes me that an awful lot of the recent language complexity of C++ is put in there not so much for performance but to pretty-up the code in an attempt to make the code more readable and hence easier to maintain.
Imo there is also a trade off between language complexity and application maintenance. Its all very well having a well documented system but not very helpful if only one of your programmers has all the necessary skills to understand it, and he/she has just gone on vacation!
I suspect that the 2.5Gps refers to the ROG GameFirst networking system and cooperative games play.
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1043150
It is wasted on me, but it may impress the grandchildren when they are finally allowed to visit!
As it is no skin off my nose, I’ll get two half-size M-2s and set up initially without RAID but I’ll specify them both as one storage space. I’ll keep my VMs on another drive and not let Windows have them as storage space. If I find that I’m still getting i/o bottlenecks then I’ll RAID the M-2s.
Btw I decided to ‘Spend Kids Inheritance’ so this is the Mobo I’m looking at:
https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-x570-e-gaming-model/
If you managed to move past Lambda expressions, you may be interested in using coroutines (and why you would even bother!)
https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/c++-coroutines.html
I sympathise with you, it took me about six months to get over most of the ill-effects. Taste mostly came back after 3-4 months but was only fully back after six. During that time I could only taste the fatty or bitter components, it ruined eating chocolate!
To get into town from where I live I have 100 metres of a 1 in 8 gradient both ways. I found it impossible to walk up the gradient without coughing fit to bust at the top during that six months. Even now, 12 months later I find these slopes hard to walk with a pM25 face mask on, and a quick cough nearly always happens, causing understandable alarm from passers-by.
However, I do think that daily walking is probably my best therapy for lung exercise.
Pharmacy almost certainly means Oxford AstroZeneca with its ‘maybe’ 10% effectiveness against the newer variants floating around in Bristol. The vaccine centre, if linked with the local hospital, gives you a fighting chance that it could be the Pfizer vaccine with a good 60% effectiveness. I know where I would choose!
If you say you have allergies then its almost certainly the Oxford jab you get.
February 21, 2021 at 7:39 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #67455Good clip of a nadgered Boeing en-route to Honolulu. Almost simultaneously another US Boeing shed an engine over Germany.
You are probably right for games, except two small M-2s are often cheaper than one big one.
With respect to VMs, it depends what the VM is doing and how many are being run simultaneously (assuming that the host is on the OS drive). Something like a compile has a lot of i/o going on, as does training an AI or rendering . Although the VM i/o should be separate, the host seems to participate in the overall i/o process.
I know I’ll get push-back on RAID-0 security, but I only keep ‘disposable’ stuff on the OS, the VM drives are a different matter and are subject to regular backup. In fact as the whole environment of a VM is in one ‘container’, backup is essentially just a single file per VM backup.
I wondered that as well!
Old age has nadgered my dexterity with respect to small screws etc. I have found that a dab of bluetak on the tool (screwdriver etc) works wonders and enables me to get the screws into place without losing the darned things.
My practice has also introduced a ‘sort-of’ on-line video/image/messaging system.
I’m not certain if it is a national thing or if it was a beta. I had a slightly worrying misshapen itching mole. (as I’ve spent a lot of time in high UV countries I’m perhaps over cautious on skin cancers). However, in these Covid times it meant the GP could review an image without getting exposed to me, and I did not have to wait outside for an appointment. The GP was able to check it out at his leisure and then later reassure me that it was just a skin tag/hives problem and told me how to monitor it.
I can see this being a growing trend even in non-Covid days, albeit they need to sort out its current very cumbersome and over-zealous security system and adopt something closer to a verified payments system.
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My practice uses a system called PatientAccess which seems to be a third party version of the NHS site and offers a few more additional options such as on-line appointments, messaging, links to self referral services, and on-line physio. I’ve not had call to use it but you can call up test results and also check your medical record
It also links in with the pharmacies so you can book an appointment there as well.
If you can get your GP to sign up to it, it is a useful service.
In the past (I cannot speak for today’s C++) Delphi had the huge advantage of an efficient RAD+widget support for the HID coupled with an easy to use inline assembler. Pity they had crap marketers who kept their sights on competing with the big iron world of database interfaces. Instead of being a huge fish in a growing pond they became also ran minnows against the likes of C++, Oracle etc. Delphi is still going strong and is pretty strong in cross-platform apps for pc,iOS and Android, but they still do not push the one area where they still have an advantage.
Never bothered using C++ for embedded systems as it used to have too much baggage with all its run-time aspects. The other aspect of C++ that would cause me concern is garbage collection as this can be a vital requirement in small embedded systems. I’d probably just drop straight down to assembler for speed.
Many such systems use Delphi (or its FOSS Lazarus) as it makes it very easy to use embedded assembler.
If I had to use C++ then I would just use the good old C library function ‘sizeof’ which still seems to exist in C++.
Ditto here as well. It could be that they need to monitor your medication, and have a monthly review date on your record. Of course it could just be that they haven’t seen you for so long that they need to give themselves a reminder to check you over at some time!
From the various posts on the forum I have come to the conclusion that the treatment you receive from your GP is very much a post code lottery. The practice hub I attend is very much on the ball and fully embraces technology, which means they are happy to use smart watch output,blood pressure readings and 1 or 2 sensor ECG traces via a secure Internet connection in their diagnosis/monitoring. They also use a Livi-like remote diagnosis for odd-ball things. While I find this to be a really good service, I can quite see that it currently disenfranchises a fairly large proportion of the population who are tech Luddites and they have to endure a long wait for the receptionist to answer the phone, and a much longer wait to see anyone.
The only noticeable reactions I had to the Pfizer jab were extremely mild versions of the symptoms I had when I think I had Covid in 2020. However, as with that time, I had itchy hives on my lymph glands for a day or two some five days after the Pfizer jab. I guess that was the reason your jab centre thought that a wasp sting over-reaction might not mix very well with the Pfizer jab.
Also didn’t help that I had go a long way (for me) on my crutches after the jab due to the one way system in place
I guess it depends on the way each jab centre sets things up. They had a few simple hospital-style wheelchairs available to those who needed them at the centre I attended. They just wiped them down after use in the same manner as they did the seating. I would have to say that I’d give the local hospital 10/10 for organization and the attentiveness of the volunteer assistants. It was obvious that Dildo Harding did not play any part in things!
It would be a good test of the AI used in the hand tracking, and how much CPU it gobbles. As a Pi can do face tracking fairly effectively, I would be disappointed if the Oculus hand tracking did not work very well. At least now you have a baseline to act as a comparison.
Hand tracking or controllers?
I normally use foam board + white glue to mock up pi stuff. Some of it is sturdy enough that I do not even bother to transfer to acrylic or wood.
The nice thing is that it can take the pi stuff + cabling and I can see where it goes wrong – normally I do not allow enough room for usb plugs+ cable, or that an hdmi cable just is not bendy enough.
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