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Still working on Common. I’ve got five more files left in Common to go through before I can fix the operator overloads and then I can move to the main code. Going slow now as I don’t seem to have the stamina I did ten years ago but it’s still going!

The trick I use for oregano is to plant it in a baby pool after punching holes in the bottom. It works like a charm! Granted, it still gets too cold in the winter even for herbs here so spring replanting is always a must if they’re outside 🙂

It’s doing well but the neighbors have started messing with the new ground cover, which is why it had to…[Read more]

Over here, some plants won’t show chill shock symptoms ’til spring, and in many cases it’s too late. A great culinary addition to one’s garden is Mother of Herbs, also requiring chill protection in winter, even though it is a fantastic ground cover. So best in a pot. The much rarer Lemon Sherbet Coleus has similar requirements, been on the waiting…[Read more]

Shucks, minor disaster with the VAX, the metal cover securing what was left of the brushes on one of the attachments has metal rot! Heh, one would expect after 40 years the plastic would go first? It’s fine. 🙂
Only problem is, the head is stuck fast on the metal connector. As replacement rods are costly, might be some cutting involved, heating…[Read more]

That’s one of the ones I can’t get, sadly. Part of the franchise is only on HBO Max, part of it is available free, while the rest simply isn’t available. 🙁

Did try Get a Clue yesterday but it focuses too much on slapstick comedy and does away with the entire premise so I stopped watching after a single episode and after a look through the…[Read more]

Tucked into an episode of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. Fun certainly, also comes with extra short music or recap/explanatory interludes that didn’t elevate appreciation. Lot of folks like it, do you?
Sometimes things come of as pure flat, no matter what they pump into them. If you can’t correct visuals sequencing or parts, then the dialog is the last…[Read more]

It would have been fine if they had just ended it before the last chapter. It was already implied that the main story was over and the conflict resolved. At least until a couple pages in to the final chapter.

A lot of my thinking of Walrus was actually inspired by Vault-Tec but without Vault-Tec’s other issues…. 😛

Yeah, Google has been…[Read more]

Yeah, only about half of the franchise seems to be available. All of it used to be shown as reruns on broadcast TV but broadcast TV hasn’t shown them in two decades 🙁

What’s new is also highly self-referential: they make jokes about the cliches all the time. It also confirmed that Pup is canon and takes place in the mainline franchise and even…[Read more]

Ah, humans vs. The Mechan in eternal conflict, quite a few not happy about the ending as well – is there possibly a better one?
That is a massive article indeed, surely a candidate for a Walrus-Tech spinoff. 🙂
As time marches on, Google Community erase content from their forums, case in point, they did however tag it as a !Non-Issue, presumably…[Read more]

Well, to suss out the mysteries of who disposed of the missing Scooby Doo franchise will no doubt require the investigative skills off someone like … Scooby Doo!
Absolutely, they have to be convincing without invoking a lighter comedic edge, San Andreas has problems with varying tsunami height, from 100m to less than 10m in a short time, for…[Read more]

What’s New Scooby Doo does a good job of expanding the characters’ personalities and even does more to establish the Fred and Daphne relationship. Do wish I could get the whole franchise but only bits and pieces are available. 🙁

Never have been a bit fan of disaster films, Gilligan’s Island was always preferred. Granted, I will watch some of…[Read more]

Sorry, this one. The final chapter can be skipped. It felt like it was tacked on as an afterthought but, otherwise, it isn’t bad.

Well, there’s always Vault-Tec 😛

Yep. Generally, macro functions are used sparingly in code as they’re harder to read and find information on than stuff in the standard but Common appears to use macros extensively. Not sure if it’ll be the same in the main code. Should be able to start looking at the main code either next week or the following. I’ve got about ten more files that…[Read more]

Oh okay, don’t think that would work with MS VC++, it makes the code hard to read when they are mixed up like that. 🙂

Oh, that’s no issue at all. C++, unlike other languages, is very flexible when it comes to style. You can even have all of the code on one line if you want or even split things across several lines. The biggest thing is to make sure you use the delimiters appropriately, either in your macros (so they’re properly expanded during the pre-processing…[Read more]

Sorry, my bad on the lingo, the braces look fine, it’s the parenthesis on the very last line – does that seem okay to you?

The end bracket is supposedly inserted by the final function macro.
Here’s the definition in dl_base.h:
#if defined(__MSDOS__)
#define SYS_MSDOS(Cmd) Cmd
#define SYS_WIN32(Cmd)
#define SYS_UNIX(Cmd)
#define SYS_NONE(Cmd)
#elif defined(_WIN32)
#define SYS_MSDOS(Cmd)
#define SYS_WIN32(Cmd) Cmd
#define SYS_UNIX(Cmd)
#define…[Read more]

That snippet of code won’t pass the “pub test”, the bracket on its own has to match the expression in the above statement and SYS_WIN32( has to go straight off. The final closing bracket has to be replaced with a semicolon I think. And yes, what system library has SYS_WIN32?
Yeah, DEFINE_FUNCTION isn’t part of VC++ or gcc, all you want to do is to…[Read more]

Important update: Done nothing yet viz. NFC yet, and nothing all that interesting since then. Wow this is great yay yay yeah! 🙂
An issue evolved with the Tab A vs. Find Me Now, resolved … amazingly. 🙂