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For now, I went with defs.h and defs.cc but can change it later. All files in the old esm/ directory have been overhauled and pushed up. Will update the paths at the end just in case there wind up being additional changes (it’ll also help keep the commit log tidy) 🙂

Here’s the full commit message:
File changes:
- Remove <code>Esm</code> prefix
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I’ll toast anyone who can fit their apparel in the toasting glass! 🙂
Although we have a wonderful selection of Christmas beetles, this year the gov is waxing poetic with the Khapra beetle so included it for our reading pleasure:

Khapra claus: the beetle nobody invited

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the shed,
Not a creature…

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Always wanted to give FreeBSD a try but never got around to it. Unfortunately, I’m not able to on the current system as System 76 doesn’t provide driver packages for BSD. Most of the hardware would work fine with the drivers in the repo but they’ve got a custom fan controller that would require some special drivers. Makes, sense, though as they…[Read more]

Really not sure. Looks like VS Code leverages the system’s compiler via settings so it would depend on whether or not it handles the code generation as well. Based on it being a trimmed down VS, I would assume not but could be worth a try. Not in the repos over here (it was in one of the distros I used but may be worth grabbing the official DEB at…[Read more]

Cool, GDB looks like it could be useful. Just curious, can the build be performed successfully through VSCode?

In that case, I’ll get started on the file names. There are about 300 – 400 code files in the project so this will be a bit….painful without doing it via a script (don’t know enough about Bash scripting and some may need to remain the same) 😛

We do have GDB over here and there’s a MinGW version as well to let me debug Windows binaries but that…[Read more]

Yeah, YouTube have complied already.
😛 What do the Linux folks think of BSD? Who boots it when one of them has this tagline quoted from Adams:

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate…

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Sounds good. 🙂
Btw have you located a handy IDE/debugger yet? Windows Server allows for both VSCode and Windbg – for the current issue VSCode should be enough.

Yeah, using macros like that is generally frowned upon but they’re still used pretty extensively because of their convenience. I’d rather just put the code in an actual function 🙂

The irony is that porn websites have been required to block access to minors for decades and Reddit also has some porn sub-Reddits 😛

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Thanks, the fog over the idea of #defines functions/macros has cleared somewhat – as the OP mentioned, the y variable wasn’t all that relevant to the MRE. So forked another sample with the updated code.
It’s just such a weird setup what with the comma and the insertion operator used that in that way as well. 😛
In other news appertaining to those…[Read more]

Macro functions keep you from needing to use a mess of overloads and automatic function parameters, including void pointers. The problem is that they’re a pain to debug. The preprocessor is a replacement system so the logging function would be replaced by the code itself, leaving you without a function call in the debug log

Not at all familiar…[Read more]

🙂
Posted these at AL, here for future reference. 😛

See this #define using functions – what’s the difference between using that code in a standard function?
Neither able to make much sense out of Code block in a C++ preprocessor macro does not work without braces either – made a little IDEONE fork as a sandbox, the y value doesn’t seem to make much sense in the demo either.

Cool. Been wanting to get into amateur radio myself, just haven’t pulled the trigger yet 🙂 Also want to get a dish antenna for the system once it’s up and running to play with

I think that article is referring to toasts in the web page as opposed to the system but I could be wrong. Chrome forwards the notification API to the system now (used to…[Read more]

Cool, thanks for the link! 🙂
Less technical is fine this way any way – the Scientific & Technical Amateur Radio is just the thing. And nver knew about Github Toasts – the Windows Tray menu is a good enough substitute no?

There’s one. They also did a series of propaganda shorts for WW2. One had a horse doing a striptease and then getting a bit…excited during its brushing, which was a bit suggestive even for Looney Tunes 😛

Yep, seen Wanted. Been a while, though, so it may be time for a re-watch. 🙂

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The skeleton for the new directory structure has been created on my end. I’ll get it pushed up after I move the resource files to the new build directory. That leaves fixing the file names, the paths, and figuring out what belongs in the new mwedit directory, along with updating the CI and build scripts for the new paths

Looks like HN is still around: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Could be a candidate for the software thread (which I still need to reply to…)

Sadly, the posts are a lot less technical than they were a decade ago. Haven’t checked out Slashdot in a while. Think I’ll give give it once over and see how they’re faring

Have any YouTube 40’s Looney Tunes links to share?

Plenty of action with twists and turns in Wanted, and its fine direction makes you wonder why the sequel was never release. Recommended.

Reckless runs a very nicely paced plot, script & dialogue, fitting the roles into the provided portrayals came across somewhat like fitting square pegs into…[Read more]

Yeah, we’ll probably want to improve the error logging. MWEdit has two main forms of error logging: a custom assert function and then the error handler. One is supposed to output to the log file while the other sends it to standard out but neither one is fully implemented. In fact, the error logging was already commented out in several places and…[Read more]