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Greetings I read Mr. Stroustrup's C++ text some years ago I have yet to figure out the language it was written in His presentation seems to me convoluted He speaks at length on topics without stating the topic until he is done speaking on the topic On other occasions as best I recall he delves into Quantum Mechanics when all I wish to learn at that point is how to add two and two I would rather eat glass than read it again The model of a language text is in my humble opinion that of Harbison and Steele for C - Cheerio
My sympathies for the SPAM moderator
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on few concepts, I got deep understanding: it's genesis in the Bible...
diligent hands rule....
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Message removed. See below.
EDIT: The publisher in the last day or so corrected the headline to read carbon dioxide. Apparantly the carbon monoxide was a mistake by the publisher!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 21-Sep-21 14:34pm.
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He probably used to go on the interwebs and post questions like, "What do I do for a heart attack? It's URGNTZ"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You post this in jest, but there are actual professional developers out there who post these kind of questions.
Well, you've been in the industry long enough to know there are a lot of developers out there who don't deserve the title.
Don't think doctors, surgeons, lawyers, politicians, book keepers and basically anyone else is any better.
There are bunglers in every profession and I'm afraid the pro/bungler ratio favors the bunglers.
It's a scary thought 
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Well, you typically get carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion (as in an internal combustion engine).
He's obviously a little half-baked... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
He's obviously a little half-baked...
Or half brained... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And I think the site admin for Business Insider should also lose their job, this being another example of the media screwing things up. The case, including the headline, refers consistently to carbon dioxide. However the URL, and some of the meta tags in the HTML, refer to carbon monoxide. This is not a typo; this is whoever decides on the story URL and completes the tag data for the article either not paying attention to what's been reported, or deliberately "correcting" what they feel is a mistake.
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or maybe to differentiate it from a story about another Oregon doctor who lost his license because of carbon dioxide falsehoods... 
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No! Two days ago the headline said monoxide, but apparently the publisher corrected this in the mean time to dioxide.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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That makes it worse! So someone wrote the wrong headline (as well as wrong URL and wrong metadata), then someone spotted the mistake, but only implemented half a "fix"...
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Yup! Seems you're right!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Khatia Buniatishvili - Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor - Sokhiev - YouTube
First, let me say that I am a rock and roller. I prefer "Classic" rock to Heavy Metal
I also appreciate all other kinds of music, except Heavy Metal, and "Rap" (which I think is just poetry with a beat, by people that don't know hot to play an instrument).
I suggest all of you go to this link and watch and listen, and you will find it worth while.
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And what, may I ask, do you have against Metal? Some of the best bands play Metal, like Metallica.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Cranking up the amps to 10, screaming unintelligble lyrics at the top of their voice, no real melody, to name a few.
Bands like the Beatles, Yes, Paul McCartney and Wings, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Joan Jett and the BlackHearts, Lynard Skynard, The Who, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Electric Light Orchestra, the Hollies,Van Morrison and anyone he ever played with, Led Zepplin, Joe Cocker, The James Gang, Joe Walsh, CSNY, Jimi Hendrix, the Police and Fleetwood Mac to name a few, are more my style.
Soul bands include the Temptations, Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Percy Sledge, and Al Green to name a few.
The band I dislike the most is the Moody Blues (don't ask).
I started playing guitar the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan. Played semi-Professionally for several years, did covers and so I listened to a LOT of music. Threw that in to demonstrate my credentials.
Finally check out Yes - Symphonic - And you and I - - YouTube
modified 19-Sep-21 9:59am.
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You're describing bad heavy metal. I like good metal.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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For me, it's not possible to tell the difference. 
But that's what makes horse races. did you check out the YouTube link I posted?
It is what it is. Trite but profound.
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soloist: great.
But the orchestra ... 'soggy' is one word that comes to mind.
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It doesn't need to. I posted it.
It's never as bad as it seems. It's usually a lot worse.
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 Good ... once I saw a study which said that extreme metalheads have also some weakness for good classical music. Seems to be correct, as I am one of them ... Cheers
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Viva Grieg ! The Peer Gynt Suite is one of my favorite works.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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[^] published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License) terms and conditions. Copyright © CodeProject
A cave in Morocco: while the climate is still temperate, the nascent ice-age is gathering strength in the north, and cold winds sometimes sweep down, reaching inland from the rim of what is now the Mediterranean.
How to keep warm ? Our intrepid team has a night-time meeting to discuss the opportunity, assess the cost/benefits ...
~ dramatis personae
Head of Marketing (HOM)
CEO
CFO
inventor pitching his technology (ELON)
~
HOM: the last quarter's results for shell-beads and ochre for body decoration are ... flat.
CEO: we're never going to grow ... like this !
CFO: well, i've got a guy here with an idea I think we should evaluate
CEO: bring him in ...
[Elon enters the chamber: sounds of gasping for breath]
HOM: what the saber-toothed-tiger is that covering his man-parts ?
[the CEO lights another torch]
CEO: is this a joke ? you bring in someone who's not the way the gods made him ?
ELON: this ... thing ... covering me ... is the skin of what you call a bear.
HOM: wow ! that's a big relief ! [laughter]
ELON: i see a room of cold people: look at yourselves; you're all shivering ! i, on the other hand, am not shivering ... his [points to HOM] teeth are chattering.
CFO: he's got a point ... and ... this surprises me ... his bear thing doesn't ... stink !
HOM: can we trust a man whose man-parts we can't smell ? ...
CFO: that's an old-wives' tale ...
CEO: we don't have a lot of bears ... scaling production up ... how'd that work ?
HOM: how long did it take to make that ... thing ?
ELON: 5 days to remove the skin; a lunar cycle to process it, cut it to shape ...
HOM: ... and he's not going to tell us how he processed it !
ELON: ... right ... but, what if i told you a group of ten people using my methods could make a hundred of these per lunar cycle ?
CEO: where do the bears come from ? those are rare, here !
ELON: you got a lot of jackals, and panthers, rabbits, and other animals, you could use; and, using my methods ... you can make bigger pieces out of small pieces ...
CEO: ... this guy really does think outside the box !
HOM ... intriguing ... go on ...
ELON: you take ten of your best hunters: they bring back the animals to the cave; the processing team does nothing but make the things-go-on-the-body ...
HOM: that could be a big start-up cost !
ELON: ... wait ... here's the thing ... once production gets going, and demand increases, you have the general population paying for the finished goods with furry animals they killed. so ... you can lay-off the hunters. ... maybe start a school-program to teach the younger generation how to be better hunters ...
CEO: the hunter's guild is not going to like that ! ... and, those guys are dangerous !
ELON: so, you make them the professors at the schools, and give them extra wives, and first-pick-of-communal-hunting kills ...
HOM: not bad ! but, we are dancing around the issue of "demand" ... what about not being cold makes somebody want to give up something valuable to get it ?
CEO: doesn't our experience with promoting shell-beads give us some ideas ?
HOM: yeah ... the magic protection angle ... you gotta have one because your neighbor is safer than you are ... the Great Mother will give his wife more babies ...
CFO: we can hire shamans to promote that ... just like we did with ochre face-paint ...
CEO: well, all this is intoxicating, but, we still have nothing but one non-stinky bear-skin over one stranger's man-parts, and a good sales pitch to go on ...
ELON: [takes off a bag hanging across his shoulder, opens it, starts handing out some objects] i'm passing around some of the things i've made that will enable the productivity i mentioned; please be careful not to cut yourself handling them ...
HOM: look at the edge on this ! how did you get it that sharp ?
ELON: with these tools, i guarantee a hundred big cover-things each lunar cycle, given animal supply, and 10 people who are capable of sun-up-to-sun-down work.
CEO: and we get these tools ... ? how ?
ELON: ... from me, and i retain exclusive rights to make these tools, under the NDA's we'll sign in blood. payment per tool, or for refurbishing tools, with the usual ... wives, slaves, rocks that glitter, food, etc.
CEO: another elephant in the cave here is the fact that people think ... as the old saying goes: "nakedness is next to godliness," and ... huddling together at night with your whole family to keep warm ... is ... well, part of what being family ... is.
HOM: we could work on that: "the family with cover-things sleeps better;" or, even: "nakedness is passé."
ELON: the shamans in the north, beyond the sea, i have been in contact with all say: "winter is coming."
CFO: what about ... a pilot program ? you get five workers, and enough animals to make say 50 cover-things every lunar cycle ?
ELON: look ... i understand your motivation for wanting to start small ... but ... my methods require ten specialized operations using various combinations of my tools: the way to make that work is for each worker to be so trained on one skill they do it fast as a rabbit running from an eagle's shadow ...
HOM: what if we send this year's crop of beauty pageant finalists to make their annual tour wearing these ... things ... every woman is going to demand their spouse prove their manhood by buying them one of these ... and, think of the product niches ... at the uber high-end you get bear; high mid-range leopard ... and so forth !
CFO: well ... that's marketing !
CEO: that's a good place to stop. ELON, thank you for an excellent presentation, which we'll discuss after we sacrifice a slave to the gods, and have the shaman read the entrails. meanwhile, i'll ask HOM to extend his famous hospitality to you for the next few days, including your choice of his wives, and our famous vision-inducing tea.
ELON: i appreciate your hearing me out, and may the Great Mother protect us all.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 18-Sep-21 10:37am.
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I too came up wit a cool story recently.. pasted from my RPG forum.. 
An idea of scenario hit me yesterday... and I thought to share it 🙂
I call it the "End of Days" an extreme scifi mega dungeon.
So the players are on Habitat 47. A basic rotating cylinder of concrete and steel space habitat. There is no longer any star or planet or anything. Only empty unlimited cold darkness. The habitat is one of the first and one of the last, thanks to its simple energy efficient design. Where it comes from has long be forgotten though. Despite that even the space habitat itself is slowly undertaking decay. In some section the auto repair bot run dormant or out of energy. In some other they have grown hostile. But mostly inactive unless someone walks by.
Character would be end of time life form. Perhaps humanoid... But they have a huge internal source of energy (like... 200?) but only replenish if they find food. They can use it to use "power" or regenerate HP. They can cannibalize weapon or power supply to eat.. but then there is that much less resources... Player would be ascended obviously (i.e. they have access to psionic and super power), and they can find scifi weapon and armor, but all them will run out of energy.
Some people have given up physical body and live the matrix entirely. You cant die in the matrix, and its very lively. But it has little impact on the real world Though some part of spaceship (like critical locks) are controlled through it and guarded by powerful AI, the AI doesnt kill, of course, but when you die you either respawn very far, or perhaps get imprisoned, or perhaps got disconnected and access point disabled for you. And most access point to the Matrix are broken, of course.
The plot is that some nihilist group, despaired of the slow decay is committing suicide by diving the habitat towards a black hole (according to ancient map, hard to know whether its true in this empty darkness). And part 1 would be trying to reach control center and going away from the black hole. On the way they will learn of some research for a multiverse drive extension, that would enable the cylinder to go to a whole new universe, full of energy. Which would lead to a part 2 finding the design.. ultimately it is in the matrix. Modifying the drive would require resource and fight crazy auto repair bot. and cut the habitat in 2, and sacrificing many (the multiverse drive cant carry all) or maybe make an escape vessel....
The ending could be dying in a fiery ball of intense energy after crossing the veil between universe...... Or, if extra preparation has been taken, wait in the matrix, for a new universe to cool down enough for life... Or maybe die in a black hole if the nihilist won....
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I think Hollywood will call you soon ! 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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