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"Life is too short not to take chances."
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raddevus wrote: I've accidentally bought dozens of products I don't even want because they were on sale.
True story.
An aunt of mine has always been a big spender. It's a disease. My uncle is always looking at the budget and trying to rein her in.
I'll always remember one story he told. She'd buy these big watermelons from the grocery store, but she was the only one eating them, so literally half of them would go to waste because they'd be sitting in the refrigerator for so long.
So he suggested she instead buy half of a watermelon at a time (you can buy them in halves).
So the next time she want grocery shopping, she came back home with two halves. Because they were on sale.
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You know where you go to weigh a pie?
Somewhere over the rainbow!
...♪ Weigh a pie ♪
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There are certain things that are not appropriate in 192KB of SRAM.
Garbage collection is one of them.
There are certain things that are not appropriate on an 80MHz CPU.
Running an interpreter is one of them.
So why in the world is MicroPython so popular?
It's ridiculously slow, and just recently I've been trying diagnose what looks like (but can't be?) a heap frag issue in some MP firmware.
You can also write poor C and C++ code, of course. But the difference is you can also write *good* C and C++ code.
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Worse - non thread safe memory allocation that c++ does at a whim. That drove us crazy for months until we figured out what was going on.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't even use the STL on embedded, mostly because I've run into incomplete and/or non-compliant implementations and I don't want to keep track of which platforms I need to fork for. Secondarily, the way it uses the heap is shameful out of the box. Utterly irresponsible unless you have gobs of RAM to where heap frag is never an issue, so you're usually stuck creating your own custom allocators and your own management scheme, but aside from that, many devices have multiple heaps with different sizes and performance characteristics, and getting The STL to handle that gracefully is just more trouble than it's worth, IMO.
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The shop I'm leaving cannot spell STL. There were hopes, but design went into a different direction. All of the base code is written in pure C, the HMI - when one is needed is all JavaScript gobbly gook. Company just got fed up with MS bullshit.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah. As far as I can tell Microsoft didn't truly straighten out their C++ compiler until VS 2022. That's when my standards compliant code started compiling for it, and it wasn't even using the STL, though it makes heavy use of templates.
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I was on a gig when I wanted to use STL, but was told to roll my own in plain old C.  So much for learning STL!
BTW, if you want to get a good laugh, look at Scott Meyer's Effective STL book. The compiler warnings/errors are truly grotesque.
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I guarantee this is work safe:
(This explains the way I see Codewitch.)
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have no idea why you'd think that.
*hides ACME shipping receipts*
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Windows has been running for ages on computers to slow to run it 
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Do you like it? I despise it, but it's growing on me. Was this supposed to reduce eye strain or something?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I love it. I am extremely sensitive to light, and I find it helps me get through a full work-day without a tension headache around my eyes. Note that I run my "blue-light mode" 100% of the time to also reduce brightness and mellow the colors.
Theory is it reduces eye strain, but I think that depends on how well designed the color scheme is. I've seen some dark modes that aren't customizable that make my eyes hurt worse than light mode due to poor color choices that make it tough to pick up details.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
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I'm awake at odd hours due to a segmented sleep pattern.
Bright light in an otherwise dark room is really hard on my eyes. Dark mode is a lot easier for me to look at.
VS Code slowly grew on me until I finally switched Visual Studio over as well.
Windows I switched separately but mainly because I liked the aesthetic of the theme in general, not because it was dark mode.
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I didn't like it at first, but then I developed cataracts and dark mode helped negate the cloudy vision. Now that I've had cataract surgery I still like dark mode, it just seems like it places less strain on my eyes. I wish every web site and app had a dark mode option. (cough CP cough )
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I also like it, as it reduces strain on my old eyes.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am very light sensitive these days. I really need to stop reading when I go to bed. I'm an exceptionally light sleeper and very sensitive to ambient light changes. I refuse to bring my phone into the bedroom, see note below, but sometimes my MIL will text or accidentally text my wife (she's 65% into full blown dementia) and if that phone lights up, I'm screwed.
I've been up since 3am today, because it's useless to try to go back to sleep.
Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating.
Weirder - the popups from code project are in dark mode. As I type this, not in dark mode.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating.
Does CodeProject have a Dark Mode?
Anyway, it's really disconcerting when, after working an a Dark Mode IDE for some hours, you need to look something up and the the site has a put white (#FFFFFF) background! 
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I use a solarized light as opposed to solarized dark. But then I think I'm part mushroom, I like monitor glow.
A pale yellow or green works well for me. I'm opposed to dark modes for most things probably because I am old and crotchety (to reference a post above).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I'm with you, really terrible.
I feel like there's a lot I don't see in dark mode because not all shapes and colors are converted to some other color equally well.
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Depends on the context. Some web pages I'm just used to a light background. But, for many, many things it's all about dark mode. It's so much easier on the eyes. Stuff like VS Code, Sublime, my phone, Windows, and so on I'll never go back. I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
No! MS implementing something poorly? Inconceivable! 😱
/s
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I despise it, but then I only run into it when I'm using AutoCAD. At least it can be turned off, but it isn't easy finding the place to do so.
Will Rogers never met me.
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