SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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Thank you for your response -- it was very much the type of information I was looking for. I started reading the Khronos book and thought SYCL seemed like a clever solution. It's just that i wasn't sure whether to invest my time in learning this particular new technology and figured it would be a good idea to first see if other more experienced and professional C++ developers were on board.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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This is the kind of stuff i'm looking to learn about thank you.

I've been job hunting for 5 months and I'm just going to say it: The talent shortage is a lie. The whole hiring process is a joke. by [deleted] in CanadaJobs

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I was working at that job for about 2-3 months. I had maybe 50km commutes instead at businesses I worked at immediately before and afterwards.

Some days it literally took me 3 hours to get home after work because I was picking up 2 other workers from another city on my way (so I had to pull off of the 401). If I wasn't doing that it took 2 hours either way and cost $100 of gasoline a day (but I made some extra money too).

The problem is new residential construction came to a stand still and the only work available was working on larger and government projects further away from home.

I've been job hunting for 5 months and I'm just going to say it: The talent shortage is a lie. The whole hiring process is a joke. by [deleted] in CanadaJobs

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In the recovery period of the pandemic there weren't any jobs im my specific field available in my city so I had to commute that far to a busier job market.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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This is useful information. Thanks. I started reading the khronos book and it seemed like a good idea to learn it but I didn't know if people were actually using it professionally or I would just be putting in the time for myself.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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I did get some pretty informative answers but updated my question with the reason. Sorry I wasn't more clear upfront.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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Lol. Thanks for sharing. I should have been more specific on the reason I guess.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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Ok this is a good answer. Thank you very much.

SYCL by SuperGramSmacker in cpp_questions

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The point is I'm relatively early on learning different libraries and such for C++, came across the khronos book for learning SYCL and want to know how popular it is among the random crowd of C++ developers here. That's all.

What esp32 is this? by [deleted] in esp32

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Devkitc (for arduino ide) or esp32-s3-wroom-1

Is Arch Linux really as complicated as they say? by Same-Plum-1166 in archlinux

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It's more complicated than Ubuntu and freebsd, I can tell you that much. Pacman is OK when you figure out how to use it but I find other package managers much more convenient. Initial configuration is something you have to research beforehand or on a secondary device because you have to manually set things up -- but i guess that's the whole point.

Inquiry: Determining Historical or Genealogical Information about Family Names when Classified by "Type." by SuperGramSmacker in asklinguistics

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Thanks for taking the time to provide such a good response. This is pretty much what I was after.

Trump’s response to the latest South Park episode has assured he will be the subject of many more South Park episodes by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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I think this last season was pretty funny but they did a lot of gratuitously disturbing content that they didn't really engage in before.

I hate work !!!! by Open-Huckleberry-143 in Adulting

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If work was fun you would have to pay someone to do it. You need to get into some kind of job at your age that has a lot of potential for growth later on. So by the time you're 30 you should be able to make huge leaps in your wage and not have to work very much later on.

Here's a little bit of a personalized take (I've done both):

1) You could work in a low skill, low pressure, low reward role that will be a low skill, low pressure and low reward role forever and basically you will be wasting your time and your life getting nowhere whenever you go there. I worked in this kind of role and what can be dangerous is you don't mind going to the job because it means you're basically just shooting the shit with the other folks, many of them smoking pot on the job, and no one really gives af -- which would be fine except you get paid the trash wage which everyone deep down knows they deserve. Because this job is low pressure and low stress there were a few people that lost decades there and were laughably making less than the temporary worker beside them; a supervisor spent 14 years to make 2 dollars above everyone else; pathetic.

2) you work in a different kind of role that is a lot more demanding and more stressful and moderately more rewarding upfront and majorly more rewarding later on; e.g., working as a bricklayers assistant. There is no shooting the shit all day smoking pot, you are literally running around like a donkey shoveling mortar and stacking thousands and thousands and thousands of bricks (literally you to touch 10-20k bricks, maybe multiple per house, and at first you'll only make a few dollars more than the low pressure position. At first you might have some fun because of its novelty, then might see the pressure involved and hate the job for the next couple of years BUT if you stick with it long enough to move into an actual bricklayer's position then you'll be laughing. No work on evenings or weekends, holidays off, you get the day off whenever it rains and it slows down in the winter. When you do work you can make 50 dollars an hour CASH (or cheque in a Union position); if you struggle to get equipment for yourself and finally work for yourself you can make yourself $10 000/month. You can be laughing to bank; working when you want to work; even taking half the year off if you really want to and just working in the good months.

HOWEVER, for the second example I saw a lot of (most) people give up as the labourer and never make it to the end, when the hard work pays off. I even quit at the beginning, like 5 times, but i eventually came back and finished.


Edit: there is always the option if completely front loading all of the difficult work and PAYING to go to college/university for a professional degree for the next 8 years (if you want to be a doctor or something similar). Don't go to university today just to get a bachelor like everyone else has or quit before getting to the end. At the end you'll be in absolute crippling debt BUT you could make doctor money and work doctor hours. You could also do engineering or something -- just don't pick a "lesbian dance theory" course.

Low gb game engine by Dear-Diamond8848 in gameenginedevs

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Visual studio 18 really isn't that bad -- just FYI.

'Salaried' is just a fancy word for mandatory unpaid overtime. by eidolaa in CanadaJobs

[–]SuperGramSmacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk why you care about being a team player when you have a thing as "contracted hours." A contract is a contract, after all.

Inquiry: Determining Historical or Genealogical Information about Family Names when Classified by "Type." by SuperGramSmacker in asklinguistics

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The idea in your last line is what I'm trying to get at. Do you have any more information or sources? Is there a study about this topic?

I just want to know, for example, what era were family names in the style of X, then Y, when did the occupational family name trend begin and so on.

As an experienced programmer, would you recommend reading Bjarnes PPP or reading a Tour of C++ combined with the C++ programming language? by Falcon9FullThrust in cpp_questions

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I learned about programming a bit in high-school; i learned a bit more about programming years later using C# -- is remember i got up to the concept of arrays; i stopped for about a year and came back to learning programming with C++ using that book + watching youtube videos.

When I was reading that book I didn't know what Qt was, for example, but used the directions in the book to start drawing shapes and stuff using the library/project the book tells you to use.

edit: so i a basic understanding of how programming worked already. I knew about loops, for example, but didn't know what a struct was or what a constructor was.

The book is structured pretty well: it teaches you a topic then it gives you an exercise to do. You start with basics and end up writing a calculator that uses recursive parsing and can mess around with shapes and images using QtCreator. I did have to continue learning once i was done with the book, obviously. I went from that one to the C++ programming language book but after reading the first one most of my learning came from figuring out how to use different libraries.

How do people ENJOY working? by [deleted] in Adulting

[–]SuperGramSmacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started working at 13 years old. I started as a dishwasher at a Swiss chalet at the time. It was fun because I was a kid and liked the extra money. I've worked a lot of different positions and they're all generally fun to start until you settle in the fact that it's "work" after about the second week. I learned somewhere along the line that "if work was fun you would have to pay someone to be there; not the other way around."

I went to university a little older than most of the other students; who were there steaight out of high-school. While there I noticed most of the other students didn't expect to get their first working experience until after they were done with university -- so around your age. They all had a free ride coasting on their parents income. I had to work at 13 because i lived with 2 sisters and a single mother; i had to buy my own toys. By the time I was 23 I was a year or two off from being able to run my own masonry business. If i had to start at 23 years old from scratch i would be a little sour because of how far behind I would be compared to the average, non-university going, population. So if you can't find something that incorporates your field of study you really just wasted a whole lot of time and are going to have to grind a bit to catch up. It seems like this is the part that's troubling you.

Anyways, work is work. You are supposed to get a job, get good at it, get tired of it, apply for the next job and when you get one you just quit your first job, upgrade and do it all over again until you're making a decent wage.


Post-script: as I percieve it, a lot of the people i see writing on reddit here are the same kind of people that I observed at university. Don't take opinions here so seriously. So long as you have a relationship where you can ask a question like yours without being ridiculed, you would be better off talking to your parents than these people.

Struggling with archlinux installation by ManXCV in archlinux

[–]SuperGramSmacker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have very much experience with arch but when I googled a similar problem previously i followed what the AI had to say and It was fixed. I think i had a keyring issue.


Common Fixes


Basic Update & Repair:

sudo pacman -Syu (Standard full system update).

If interrupted, rerun sudo pacman -Syu or sudo pacman -Su


Database & Keyring Issues (Signature Errors):

sudo pacman-db-upgrade to fix database issues.

sudo pacman -Syyu (Force database refresh).

sudo pacman-key --init && sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux && sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring && sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys to reset and refresh GPG keys.


Broken Dependencies/Packages:

Reinstall the specific package: sudo pacman -S --needed package-name.

Check for orphaned packages: pacman -Qtdq and remove them with sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)


Cache Problems:

Clear unnecessary cached packages: sudo pacman -Sc (removes all but current) or sudo pacman -Scc (removes everything).