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Definitely worth a bookmark in case I need a good template example to look at.
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I'm in the middle of working on an article titled Metaprogramming in C++: A Gentle Introduction
It will cover this, and several other techniques.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I love C++.
I hate C++
Best explanation so far.
Ditto, on Delphi. It is wonderfull, except for those few lines of assembly with the comment "magic".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I figured out my issue though and unlike with other languages, it feels like I accomplished something significant.
I was just talking to a friend about how C++ development is a field unto itself. Creating a program in C++ is like writing a dissertation. You could spend a lifetime studying C++ and never master it. Just when you think you have, someone figures out a novel way to hack the compiler and opens up an entire new subfield like happened with metaprogramming.
I can't say the same of any other language I've used, at least not to that degree. It's in a class by itself. The standard C++ compiler is pure magic. Oh, the things it can do. It boggles the mind.
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Sophia, Rose, Blanche and Dorothy.
Some of you will understand. 
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SRBD ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, it's not an acronym, it's an old American pop culture reference. You'd have had to watch American television in the 1980s and 1990s.
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honey the codewitch wrote: You'd have had to watch American television in the 1980s and 1990s.
I didn't have american TV but I did know them.
My favourite was the granny... 
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that was Sophia. We named the smarter hen after her.
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Nelek wrote: My favourite was the granny...
Weren't they all???
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fair enough...
I meant the oldest (the mother of one of them)
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How old are these chickens? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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They're still small but they already act like little old ladies.
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So did Sophia, when she wanted something. 
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Have you considered printing some of these?
3D Printed T-Rex Arms For Chickens[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Well since they weren't eggs over the weekend, we know they are Spring chickens.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Silence is golden 
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Any of those would be a good name for the goose from Jack and the Beanstalk.
But for chickens??!?!?!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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We did too. Jaba the Hen, Hen Solo, Cluck Vader, Princess Lay-a.
Most of you will understand..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Epic is giving "the Fall" for free. A darky puzzle game where you play as an AI-suit trying to bring your hurt human pilot to a hospital, not tested it yet, but looks entertaining.
and
GoG is giving "Deadlight: Director's cut" for free. A shorty zombie slayer & puzzle game (around 4 or 5 hous gameplay). Old comments say not worth the price back then, but being free...
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Nelek wrote: GoG is giving "Deadlight: Director's cut" for free.
€11.99 for me 
Coincidentally, I'm looking for some Good Old Games at GOG right now, but lots of games just aren't running that well anymore.
They worked nice when they were first released on GOG, but GOG itself is becoming old and a lot of oldies have become just trying out compatibilities and hoping for the best 
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Deadlight: Director's Cut on GOG.com[^]
You still have some hours to get it.
Sander Rossel wrote: They worked nice when they were first released on GOG, but GOG itself is becoming old and a lot of oldies have become just trying out compatibilities and hoping for the best
VM with Win XP x86 and x64 and Win 7 ready to go
You can throttle down CPU, SSD and RAM in the guest SO. As long as you don't have a super fancy monitor that is not downwards functional... it should work.
I even had a VM with Win98 for some really old games (recoil, avalon siege and a couple more), but I lost it thinking I had a security copy in other USB drive... that my brother had wiped out 
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modified 21-Mar-21 16:58pm.
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Yeah, it's still €11.99 for me...
Ain't nobody got time for VMs!
I usually play these games for a few hours and then I'm through with them.
Mostly on slow Sunday afternoons (like today).
Lots of great new games to play too!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Yeah, it's still €11.99 for me...
weird...
Sander Rossel wrote: Ain't nobody got time for VMs!
time is only really needed once, setting it for the first time. Then just work with copies of it.
I have 2 different basic editions of each VM.
a) One with a fresh installation of Windows YYZZ with SPxx and generic drivers.
b) Another one fully updated and with some basic software (i.e. Old Office, pdf reader and printer, packer, free AV...) and this is the one I copy in my drive to work / play with.
Once a year I get the (b) Version, open it, update some things (i.e. the AV), close it, pack it back to the USB
Sander Rossel wrote: I usually play these games for a few hours and then I'm through with them.
So do I.
Copy and unpack VM while I am doing other stuff... install game... play until I am done with it... delete VM
New games in the main OS through their platforms (or fully offline if possible)
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modified 22-Mar-21 3:22am.
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