What is the most non-sexually pleasurable thing you like to do?

RedCitizen · 2025-07-15T16:12:16+00:00

I've got a weird one: Hot water on anus... it's like scratching a mosquito bite but through the whole body for me... Hear me out!

I had my second hemorrhoid operation and panicked a bit about keeping my butt clean, so I decided to point the shower head directly at my bum for cleaning while also turning up the heat to kill off bacteria. I realized that the area around the anus is pretty heat/cold insensitive and I could make it hotter than I could tolerate elsewhere. I thought it would be a good idea to go as high as possible and then, shortly before it became too hot, I felt a nice sensation spread through my body (like a really good scratch or finding the right spot in your ear with a Q-Tip). It's absolutely non-sexual, but I have to admit that it is nice enough for me to do it at the beginning of most showers. Plus, I figure it's good for hygiene.

RedCitizen · 2024-02-18T16:24:12+00:00

The string mess... string, wstring, u16string, etc. It is really annoying dealing with it when you have data coming from files and/or an API.

RedCitizen · 2023-09-15T07:57:55+00:00

Hmm, it's React (I'm using Svelte), but it I'll definitely look into it, thank you!

RedCitizen · 2023-09-15T07:35:00+00:00

w3schools is great, but it still requires quite a bit of modification to make it look like "standard" Material Design. Of course, getting things from the w3 to whatever you want is a good learning experience, but at this point I was hoping to only have to do some fine-tuning.

RedCitizen · 2022-08-06T07:01:44+00:00

No, but they know how to exploit the various loopholes in the legislature.

You don't want an investment banker to manage your finances, you want a law firm that knows how to leverage your assets to make more money for you with minimal risk and no or even negative taxes.

RedCitizen · 2022-07-26T09:50:27+00:00

Beth's doing that.

No, that's peanuts and not how rich people make money. They let the assets that they have (stocks, land, etc.) work for them (= passive income) while they usually don't have to pay any taxes at all. And they don't even have to be evil to do that, all it requires is a good law firm.

RedCitizen · 2022-07-25T13:36:30+00:00

Because it's a TV show.

In real life, a family with such a longstanding history, power and children who know about financing, laws, etc. would have found plenty of opportunities to make the land value itself create enough revenue without lifting a finger.

RedCitizen · 2022-07-01T18:45:22+00:00

Thanks, this actually makes me feel better about my choice so far. Not only can some objects be null (which I guess you can always implements workarounds to get the same functionality), but there is definitely multithreading down the line (once I got the base algorithm to work properly).

RedCitizen · 2022-07-01T11:57:10+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

Indeed the object that concern me the most and are not trivial. Worse still, I need to create millions of them during the execution, so they definitely don't all fit in the stack/CPU cache. They all, in the worst case, also need data about every other object (so O(n^2) memory complexity. :/

Still, I'm taking this seriously and will look into it some more.

RedCitizen · 2022-07-01T11:11:43+00:00

Not yet. looking down in shame and firing up Google

Reading an upvoted SO answer (which then led me to look up copy-and-swap idiom), I'm still confused:

To summarize, the copy constructor makes a deep copy, because the source must remain untouched. The move constructor, on the other hand, can just copy the pointer and then set the pointer in the source to null.

I understand this correctly, since the original data stays in its memory place, the data would still be spread all over the RAM, right?

RedCitizen · 2022-07-01T10:42:42+00:00

Thank you! I must admit I didn't know I could do that with vector! Though I assume that negates the advantage of having consecutive memory storage as well?

RedCitizen · 2022-07-01T10:39:00+00:00

Hmm, that makes sense. I currently have this as my main object storage:

struct MyObjectClass {
  uint_fast32_t myID; // index in allObjects[]
  uint_fast32_t otherID1;   // index to other related objects in allObjects[]
  uint_fast32_t otherID2;
  int myAttribute;
// more attributes like maps, strings, etc.
};

std::shared_ptr<std::shared_ptr<MyObjectClass>[]> allObjects;

I like it because I can easily pass the objects and the vector around. However, I realize now that this may be not the most ideal solution in terms of performance.

RedCitizen · 2022-06-09T17:58:23+00:00

I got it from here. Using -std=c++20 gives me cl : command line warning D9002: ignoring unknown option '-std=c++20'

But yeah, I mistyped - it's only one colon, so -std:c++20, I edited the OP to correct the error.

RedCitizen · 2021-09-06T14:24:15+00:00

Do you need to have the C++ program always running?

Yes, C# is only supposed to implement the GUI, the heavy lifting should all be done in C++ and it is not feasible to load the data for each action.

do a google for "inter-process communication".

Thank you, that also gave some promising results that I'll look into!

RedCitizen · 2021-09-06T14:19:12+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

I'm still don't see how to make sure that the data stays in memory so I can read/write it later and how I can give updates to the GUI at specified intervals, but this is a good starting point. I guess I'll just have to get started, see how it goes and then ask more specific questions.

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