> Another fun part of building WinGPT was designing the icon in Borland's Image Editor, which is really just a clone of Microsoft Paint that happens to make ICO files instead.
Wow! 40yo me forgot how much time I used to spend creating icons for my apps back in 1999. After trying a million times to create C++ programs Visual Studio 6, I would often fall into just drawing icons in the icon editor as it was the only thing left to do once I introduced a compiler error and couldn't resolve it.
I bought a usb-c dock earlier this week. "Selore 8 in 1" (£44) with a separate usb-c power charger and an extension cable (2 meter male to female usb-c cable) it seems to work great. Out of the box on Debian Stable. I installed autorandr and saved my laptop's solo profile and the preferred arrangement when I use the dock with my monitor and it's fantastic.
I slap a single cable into my laptop when I plonk it on my desk and I get my monitor, keyboard, mouse autoconnect and my laptop starts charging too. This is the future I wanted for my home office arrangement. One cable does everything. I wish it were my office too
The device does have some interesting small print like the article says, so it was an interesting read. 1 monitor = 4k @ 60hz, 2 monitors = 4k @ 30hz (It has 2xHDMI outputs) but you can have two monitors at 4k and 60hz IF they mirror each other too. Regardless, I'm happy with 1080p (always at 60hz) so it doesn't seem to affect me.
I would recommend them even if the article does suggest they aren't quite as mature as they should be yet.
I've gotten to the end of the level. Then I remembered that in the top corner of the Maze is another treasure chest. I go back there to the !! marks and type b but cannot enter that area.
The message reads "Remember: these are not words"... so how do I get in there? Can that part of the game not be solved?
I've tried Shift-B, ^ etc. Is anyone else able to get into there?
C is a beautiful language. I agree that with the assertion that it doesn't do abstraction. It only does two things:
* group code into functions
* group primitives into structures.
However, it's simplicity is it's strength. You can write clean, standardised code in it. It's clean and simple. It's obvious. It's far too easy to make mistakes in C++ from bad type conversion or bad inheritance models (e.g. forgetting to virtualise something) to confusing subtly broken operator overloading that's counter-intutative.
C++ does render a C a little bit redundant. The abstractions it provides not only make programs more maintainable, but that additional intent allows compilers to potentially generate faster and more portable multithreaded code. We hit a point where C programs compile to faster/better assembly than a human can write. I expect that soon we'll hit a second wall where the C++ compilers can write faster/better multithreaded code than a C programmer could write or optimise and a C compiler couldn't support that directly "intent" as the language doesn't facilitate describing it.
However that point hasn't come yet. C still benefits from being clean, easy to interpret (from a human perspective) and is a demonstration of how to design a new language.
C++ is a federation of languages but writing pure C with gcc is better than g++ with all warnings enabled IMHO.
In my eyes that IS a really good salary. I earn £36K (€39K) with 6 years of experience in London.
It's certainly enough to have a quality of life in the region better than most. Personally I think you're lucky to get the opportunity to travel and experience another lifestyle.
Can we keep these programmers separated through the use of forks and patches?
For instance, I'll add feature X for $ and provide a patch or new RPM as the result.
The intrinsic developers can avoid demotivation (!) through "lack of awareness" of the money or patch. The patch can later be incorporated if the intrinsic developers want it.
This is the part of the article which bothered me. There are consistent references to creativity being a child putting every object in their mouth or a dog eating everything because of it's natural curiosity whilst simultaneously arguing that abstraction is a form of intelligence not expressed in the old times.
Would a person with the ability to abstract feel the need to generate every pattern? Would Western Europe have really demonstrated its "creativiity or intelligence" by creating every version of a pattern....or just a few?
Wow! 40yo me forgot how much time I used to spend creating icons for my apps back in 1999. After trying a million times to create C++ programs Visual Studio 6, I would often fall into just drawing icons in the icon editor as it was the only thing left to do once I introduced a compiler error and couldn't resolve it.