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I released a whole version of GFX. Even passing my unit tests in two different build environments.
Then I ran it on a local project and it failed to compile.
This after spending most of the day getting my X11 color table to be constexpr under C++14 - which apparently is very difficult to do in this particular case, if not impossible.
I thought I had it sorted. So much that I *released*. Not only that, I updated about a dozen drivers that rely on it to use the new (broken) version.
In the end I reverted the offending code back, and released *yet another version* with yet more drivers.
*headdesk*
Oh, and I still don't know *why* it fails to compile in some contexts, and yet passes my unit tests, and it's not so easy to just bring the failing code into the tests, because it's the house that jack built.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 15-Apr-22 7:33am.
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sounds like the very old and ancient saying "works on my computer".
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Actually it failed on my computer. But just under a certain circumstance.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Then add a caveat, "Do not use in this configuration"
And then hit them in the head with a rubber chicken.
Shoot, spent 15 minutes and can't find a video if Archie Campbell doing the schtick.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I don't work at nearly the complex level that you do.
I don't mean to be presumptuous, but it occurs to me that your unit Tests are incomplete. In your shoes, I'd look at them.
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They definitely are and due to the nature of it they're likely to remain incomplete. Code coverage of my api would require a team of testers to complete in a timely manner due to the size of the test matrix. I don't know anything about fuzzing but I've heard it might be worth it for me to look into, in terms of teasing out bugs.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I just realized it's going to require 4 instances of Visual Studio to debug what I'm working on. One for the primary application, one for all of the underlying Windows services except the new one I'm debugging, one for my new service, and one for the hardware simulator written by my minion.
Cry havoc, and let slip the debuggers of war!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Approximately a TB of RAM needed.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My development box has 16GB.
Implementing ICorset now...
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Implementing ICurseit now...
ftfy
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That one too  .
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I feel your pain. 
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To work on our project on any routine day, requires 5 instances of Visual Studio. Out project consists of about 10 different solutions each containing from 30 to 138 projects. Our development boxes only have 32 GB and we also have ReSharper installed.
Let me say that switching from one instance of VS to another takes about 30 seconds for it to page memory in and out.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: 30 seconds for it to page memory
Egads. Thankfully I'm not dealing with that. I assume your Pointy-Haired Boss types realize what a PITA the ass this is, and have turned down reasonable amounts of RAM (I'm guessing 128GB or more)?
Not to brag, but my boss asks us fairly often if we need anything. If it was something cheap like RAM or disk he'd pop for it in a second.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not sure about the HW simulator, but why can you not debug all instances in a single VS? Is it a lack of resources on your system that prevents you loading everything into a single VS instance?
The new VS 2022 is 64 bit, and can handle a large app memory footprint. And while I haven't tried it, it can supposedly work across multiple repositories for the same solution at the same time too.
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We're using VS2019. Part of the debugging and testing requires each of the separate processes to exit and restart with the others running. There doesn't appear to be any way to "stop debugging" on an individual process, even using the Debug Processes window. You can detach from a process, kill it with Task Manager, start it again outside Studio, and then attach to it, but that's really cumbersome.
The workflow is just simpler running everything in separate instances.
Software Zen: delete this;
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He has a metric ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ton of metric :elphant:tons of money. Whatever he does, he wins.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As do every other billionaire and their cronies. Most of them want to restrict what you do and expand what they do. In either case you don't have freedom or choice. They fund all these messages to say you shouldn't fly and then own their own jets. They say you should minimize, and they buy multiple houses on beach front property around the world.
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It's about a 20% premium to yesterday's close but is predicated on financing and regulatory approval. I think the latter will be a challenge. The excuse will be that it shouldn't be private, but the true reason will be that they don't want the censorship to end.
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Go to the head of the class! Continued censorship of 'other' speech is the goal.
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Except his wealth isn't a sign of his success or his smarts -- it is a sign of his lack of humanity.
And the ONLY way you can view it as "winning" is from a sociopathic point of view.
What YOU are doing is called "Simping for Capatilists" (look it up).
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Don't forget that most of Musk's wealth is in stock, which while relatively easily converted to cash via sales, will result in taxes and potential stock price drops. I don't think there'll be a Tesla stock price drop from this because Musk has said why he's selling, but at least one investment bank will panic and sell, thereby losing money that they'll attempt to blame Musk for (it's happened before).
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Smart Rich People (Gates) do NOT sell their stock easily.
Instead, they borrow against it, which has ZERO tax implications, and usually gives them an INSANELY good rate, since the loan is guaranteed.
In Gates Case, this is how he built his house. And I believe he waited for the price of MSFT to quadruple from when he took the loan out. Then he sold. Paid half in taxes, and the other half, paid off the loan. he bought the house, effectively for the interest he paid.
Money... When you have a enough of it, is an amazing thing. And generally, Rich people defer and defray taxes far better than the middle class. Who absorbs them. (Would you spend $800k up front and $200k/yr to SHELTER your income taxes? Not if you make what a developer makes! But if you made MILLIONS a year. Heck Yeah!)
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Wealth is not a sign of lack of humanity. Musk is something of a corporate welfare queen, but he's also an innovator. If only we had capitalism, instead of what is primarily corporatism (the symbiotic relationship between government and big business).
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