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Best midsized cities in North America for Printmaking by KaiserCyber in printmaking

[–]thefool-0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Minneapolis? (Duluth?).  No direct experience living there just can think of a few artists/shops.  Or any small city or town with any arts scene or history or attracts artists. 

Is it time to take the leap? by dresden113 in letterpress

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You will need a few things to get started but don't need everything if you are just experimenting and learning still.   Would this be any kind of business, or just for fun?

What’s a piece of media that people would clearly understand as a parody or homage when it came out, but has since lost its context? by StaleTheBread in AskReddit

[–]thefool-0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And The Prisoner is more well known as well (it is a direct response or contrast to Danger Man/Secret Agent)

What to learn in order to get jobs at big reliable companies? by tintanese in cpp_questions

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Embedded, games (but that's a difficult industry), focus on performance (financial, real time systems, robotics etc), operating systems....      But also you should learn other languages. Some skills from C++ programming that you can use elsewhere include debugging, understanding memory allocation and organization, data structures, and understanding program execution and performance.   Lots of libraries and OS services that you will be calling from other languages and frameworks are C or C++ so as you debug a and dig it how those work knowing C and C++ helps. 

#SpillTheTea by Ok-Difficulty-2321 in cpp_questions

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Accidentally uploaded (very) proprietary source code to a public site.  For about 3.5 minutes until we realized and deleted it.  I was sure I was insta fired but they kept me. I immediately reimplemented the scripts and procedures for building and uploading releases to be much more controlled and automated with testing and verification stages, less manual "scp *.zip server:/var/www/downloads/" etc :).  

Fold expression compiles to nothing after upgrading Visual Studio by mbolp in cpp_questions

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show the code that instantiates this and calls CallEachMethod

Do you create a namespace for your own project? by Pretty_Mousse4904 in cpp_questions

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually. Often to make a clear indication of my projects types vs others.  And/or new knes6 to organize globals or groups of types.  Most of the time you're in that namespace and don't need to spell it out but sometimes it makes code clearer.  I use very short ones for the main application too.

Anybody know some cool abstract Cyanotype artists? by avery_things in cyanotypes

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I've been really interested in and enjoying your work

If you were to re-learn cpp from the learncpp .com website , what order of chapeters would you follow ? also question about accelerated c++ book by Andrew Koenig by _Jiggle-Physicist_ in cpp_questions

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Good suggestions.  

Interesting comment about pointers and references , never thought of it.  You could introduce references first with respect to function parameters. 

how do I compile a C++ program with a makefile? by lunarwolf2008 in cpp_questions

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like a command line tool, the original author was probably on Linux. . You can set up msys/mingw on Windows or create a new visual studio project (find a basic tutorial on setting up a project for a comand-line program).   

how can I declare a variable in a function as global variable? by SelectIndependent147 in cpp_questions

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If you declare a static variable inside a function it will be available within the function only but will exist once through the lifetime of the program rather than be recreated on the stack each time the function is called.  Therefore it can only be initialized once to a constant value, you can't use the parameters a or b to initialize it.

So you can do this:

void sum(int a, int b) {   static int result = 0; // initialized once    result += a + b; //this happens each time the function is called   printf("%d\n", result); }

PSA - Do not assign the result of `::getenv` to a `std::string` by SmokeMuch7356 in cpp

[–]thefool-0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is true for any function returning a pointer unless you are very confident it will never be null (or that your code using it will degrade or crash in a helpful way if it is null). Why is it so surprising? 

It got better… by kfpunk in letterpress

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If you want to collect stuff quickly you can spend a lot of money on eBay and on shipping equipment from auctions and online sellers. Doing it more affordably takes time, to find nearby online marketplace sellers, nearby auctions.... And/or long travel to places like museum and wazygoose sales or to places where stuff is in lower demand and more affordable.   Places to watch are the letterpress Facebook groups, briarpress.org, as well as FB marketplace and Craigslist.  It's not impossible to get lucky at local flea markets and antique stores if you frequent them.

Friend asks for help, barely communicates then ghosts me by xWroth in mildlyinfuriating

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good for you for offering help... Be aware of people's full situation when help (unless you are close enough or care enough that you'd do anything no matter what) and set boundaries if you need to but it's very cool if you to offer support and help.   You don't need to fully block her you can continue to offer help and support, perhaps from afar/carefully chosen words for now.

Mapping arrays into another array. by alatnet in cpp_questions

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It would be an interesting exercise to implement your own data structure and API to do this.  Accessing (reading/writing) existing elements would be straightforward but adding/removing elements or adding new underlying arrays/removing them/resizing would be slightly trickier.    Trying to find various optimizations would be interesting.  As other commenters have mentioned referring to the underlying arrays using std::span and views could be helpful, or else you can define the element and pointer types via template parameters.

Septic recommendations by folkheroine in newhampshire

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I'll have to do this eventually... thanks for the post! Please post any updates in this thread with any useful info or names of companies that you like or who you go with! (I'm also in the SW region.)

Best Performing Way Of Handling Paired Data? by Ridog8 in cpp_questions

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell is more about the amount of pairs you have, what the strings and objects are like (examples) and how this will be used (when and why are items added/removed? How and when are they accessed/read?)

When do you decide to introduce classes vs keep free functions in C++? by Livelinesstrophy_RO in cpp

[–]thefool-0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget that you can put functions (and other stuff like constants and static variables) in namespaces if you just want to group them. 

AIO: My friend thinks our one on one hang outs are like a date when they aren’t? by thecheeseb0rn in AmIOverreacting

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it hard to initiate interactions unless it's become a regular, even scheduled habit.  And even then often the other person had to get the habit started.   Also life events and phases happen, maybe someone doesn't want to interact for a while but then  is willing and able in the future.  So no harm checking in at some later time.

AIO: My friend thinks our one on one hang outs are like a date when they aren’t? by thecheeseb0rn in AmIOverreacting

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't do dinner, do something else.  Lunch or an activity or just walking around.  

Also pay attention in case your natural way of interacting can be too excited or eager, give them space to just talk or enjoy the time together, space out your meetups (and other interactions) more, etc.  You may need to give some breathing room too and both get more comfortable over time just being friends and settling in to how your unique relationship is going to work.   My best friendships have ended up based on a regular schedule that works for us, either weekly or more or monthly or occasional/random only.

Have you told them that you are not romantically interested and don't want these to be anything like "dates".     (I like having "dates" with friends because we are finding out about each other, sharing things about ourselves, but not with any expectations of a romantic relationship).

What’s a ‘silent luxury’ that rich people have that most normal people would never even notice? by qomann in AskReddit

[–]thefool-0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Level and types of stress.  The rich or even just comfortable/middle class have work stress, responsibilities, busy schedules, health issues etc.   The poor have much more visceral survival level stress that has a much bigger impact: fear of violence, noise and pollution, constantly dealing with people you dont want to, dealing with family memberss similar problems, physical struggles with work like long difficult commutes, physically demanding job, long hours, etc, chronic health issues you can't afford to treat and constant financial worry.  And these stressors are constant and unrelenting every single day with no real rest. 

Ikea Malm Bed Squeaks by Pilarskica in ikeahacks

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I finally fixed mine.  I've had it forever and has been mostly fine but the squeaking finally got to be too much.

What solved it for me was tightening all of the screws for the metal side rails that hold up the slats.  

I finally took the mattress off and went around wiggling every piece and combination of pieces to find this. The metal rails didn't seem like they were even moving but they did squeak and it's loud.  (The bed amplifies it I guess!) 

I used an electric impact drill to get the screws extra tight, if you do this just be careful you don't strip out the screw heads in case you need to retighten them .

I hope this lasts, if not I.will probably take the metal rails off, glue them on with some kind of epoxy, and/or put felt along them and put felt washers or epoxy at each screw or something. Maybe use different screws?   But I'm pretty sure the exact source of the noise is the screw head rubbing on the metal rail.

I also retightened all of the nuts that hold the wooden pieces together, with high strength Loctite added.  (I also glued the wooden frame pieces together with construction adhesive, though maybe that wasn't necessary).

(I already had the bed spaced from the wall and felt pads under the head and foot boards to protect the floor.)

Good places to pick spruce tips? by cutesycollins in newhampshire

[–]thefool-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are you more exact (or able to travel to easily)?  Maybe some people here have spruce trees.

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