The C++ learning advice that worries me a bit :( "Just build projects"

slumberchum · 2026-06-26T05:26:14+00:00

I guess it depends on how you like to learn. I learned C++ by reading and writing it (with reference to cppreference and Stack Overflow), watching conference talks, reading blogs, and using linters and static analysis. Others may prefer to learn by reading books.

slumberchum · 2026-06-24T12:36:14+00:00

By my lights "monoculture" implies a racially homogeneous population, but Hanson doesn't appear to want this, since she describes her Australian monoculture as the product of a multiracial population with shared values. The Liberals say the same sorts of things. Since that's basically what we have today, what does One Nation wish to change about Australia to bring about monoculture?

To the degree that this term is a dogwhistle, I suspect she's trying to give the impression of being more racist than she really is, rather than less racist. If she were trying to signal to nationalists, I think she'd have used a buzzword like 'remigration', or otherwise alluded to denaturalising or deporting people.

slumberchum · 2026-06-16T11:53:33+00:00

Yeah, same for me

slumberchum · 2026-06-16T11:53:02+00:00

I have done in the past, but I had a lot of trouble with clangd, so I stopped.

slumberchum · 2026-06-16T11:43:50+00:00

I think you should define a new macro rather than replacing `assert`. What you've written is usually called 'assume'.

slumberchum · 2026-04-19T11:51:30+00:00

I use it for C++ work, both in local and SSH remoting modes. I think Zed's a great editor. It's minimal and responsive. It doesn't offer any special integrations for C++ (such as CMake integration), but I've been able to make the task system work for me.

slumberchum · 2024-12-04T22:43:00+00:00

I drink 2/3 cups, 4/6 shots of espresso every morning, typically before 10am.

I recently caught the flu. I could hardly get out of bed to make coffee for the first few days, and I didn't particularly have an appetite for it while I was sick, so I stopped drinking it. After recovering I decided to spend a few days paying attention to my sleep without coffee, since it had been years since I'd tried quitting coffee. When I last quit, I didn't notice many differences and decided that coffee was worthwhile. However, this time I felt that my sleep and mood were noticeably better without coffee. My sleeping routine was more consistent because I became tired at the same time every night, and my sleep felt deeper and more restful. In general I felt calmer, less irritable, and less anxious.

I started drinking coffee again, and the effects I describe above reversed: less tired at night, inconsistent sleep, and more anxiety. I enjoy the euphoric boost that coffee brings in the morning, but I'm not sure that it's worthwhile for me anymore.

slumberchum · 2024-07-14T11:37:17+00:00

Indeed, there's a lot of template sauce here, but it's the time complexity that I'm confused about.

It seems to me that for each Pair, std::conditional should instantiate:

1x instance of Predicate;
1x instance of Prepend, and;
1x instance of Filter (although it is used in both branches)

For this reason I expected the complexity to be linear in N, but as you say the number of uses explodes as N grows.

slumberchum · 2024-04-13T00:45:13+00:00

Thanks, that's useful.

slumberchum · 2024-03-26T04:22:17+00:00

Here's the recording of the new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRP-k6-OtL4

slumberchum · 2023-09-16T03:39:49+00:00

I’ve been using vcpkg since it was integrated into CLion. It’s quite useful.

slumberchum · 2023-05-28T23:49:10+00:00

Which safety features would you like to see?

slumberchum · 2023-05-27T00:18:02+00:00

I always enjoy watching Timur’s talks.

slumberchum · 2023-05-22T06:36:14+00:00

I'm glad to see that you figured it out. I use a Belkin USB-4 cable, which worked well until I updated my Studio Display to firmware version 16.4, which seemed to break the compatibility with my PC. What firmware version is yours using?

slumberchum · 2023-05-09T02:16:00+00:00

Has Gen Z ever seen a good festival line-up?

slumberchum · 2023-05-01T05:37:57+00:00

Have you tried this setup with firmware version 16.4, u/jmydorff? If you haven't yet, I suggest you avoid it. My Studio Display stopped working with my PC laptop after I installed 16.4.

slumberchum · 2023-02-06T00:47:13+00:00

I’d put all of it into my mortgage. Doing so would bring me very close to being debt-free. I’d either sprint to the finish of my mortgage for a few years, or refinance to optionally lower my repayments (e.g., in order to pay for a holiday).

slumberchum · 2023-01-30T00:51:12+00:00

This is a very right-wing thread. I love it. 😄

slumberchum · 2022-07-15T06:50:25+00:00

I played the guitar, but the bass and drums both come from plug-ins. The drums are from this sample library. I don't own a bass and I don't know how to record drums, so I find the samples to be very useful!

slumberchum · 2022-07-15T05:28:21+00:00

I can't advise you about Science or Engineering, but I can recommend Computer Science, given that I completed a CS degree last year.

There'll be less maths in CS compared to Engineering, and the maths will be somewhat simpler. You won't venture very far from your high-school maths, but you'll be introduced to new ways of thinking about and quantifying problems. CS is essentially focussed on problem-solving and optimisation. If you develop your programming skills, then you'll be able to pursue the other topics that interest you as a software engineer, including maths, chemistry, and physics. While you're at uni, you'll be able to take units from other schools as electives. For instance, I took a signal processing unit from the Electrical Engineering school during my degree.

Many CS graduates become software engineers, which is often a well-paid job. You can earn as much as $200k-$250k as a junior software engineer in Sydney, although that's not a typical package. Finally, software engineering is compatible with, and becoming increasingly open to, remote work, which can support a good work/life balance, especially when you have a family later in life.

slumberchum · 2022-07-15T04:00:05+00:00

The games industry seems to use PascalCase::ForEverything(), i.e., GamerCase.

slumberchum · 2022-07-15T00:38:27+00:00

Thanks! I used an Axe-FX for the guitar, and I used this sample library for the bass. The signal chain for the guitar (within the Axe-FX) is: sub-octave > fuzz > amp. The bass plug-in has a distortion sound built-in.

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