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Well done! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I spent several days making my vector canvas able to "direct bind to a 'draw target'" if it happened to be a bitmap with a supported pixel format.
I did this by extracting the pointer to the bitmap and then doing the standard (y*stride) + x*(stride/width) on it to get my final pointer.
That sucks. For starters it only works with hard bitmaps. I can do better.
Enter gfx_span which is a little structure with a pointer and a length.
You can then do span(location).data and/or span(location).length off a bitmap to get a pointer and a length for the remainder of that row.
This is important, because it opens up the blt capability (direct read/write) to more than just bitmaps. For example, my UIX library the control surface draw target does a translation and clip before writing to the backing bitmap. Without span() I cannot get a raw pointer to the backing bitmap data. I must use methods off the draw target like point() and fill() which is generally much slower - all to do that translation and clip.
Unfortunately the existing code I've worked on for days will not survive this change. I have a lot of work in front of me, all because this span paradigm didn't occur to me on like, Monday.  Curse my brain.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I find it not unusual to do quite a lot of work on something in order to find out why it's a bad idea. It takes some fortitude then to ditch it and take a new approach, but it's almost always the best plan. Also, it never seems to take so long or be such hard work the second time.
Phil
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Phil J Pearson wrote: Also, it never seems to take so long or be such hard work the second time.
You are so right about that! I just finished retooling and testing. It's all using my new span API.
Normally, I am very gifted at designing by the seat of my pants (while coding). For example my graphics library lasted years without a significant breaking change, especially to the design. I added a ton of features in that time. It's a combination of almost 4 decades of coding + some latent ability.
But maybe that's why I get frustrated with myself when I miss the mark.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Looks like this site is now running like an electric fan whose power is turned off. The fan will rotate for some time under its own momentum, before coming to a stop.
Why I get this inference is that usually spam articles used to vanish after being reported by 5 users. However, now we see spam articles not vanishing even after 25 users report as spam. Looks like no daily maintenance of this site.
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That's a one off case for that particular article. I reported in the Bugs&Suggestions forum.
Many articles reported after that were closed after 5 reports.
Edit: I think someone nuked it.
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That was me.
Spam articles aren't fed to the automated system (because they legitimately contain so much stuff that in a message would be spam) so once the user is gone, his articles can be deleted with no effect on the rest of the system.
I think there is a timing bug that leaves spam articles in place if they get the fifth and sixth vote in close proximity - but it's pretty much impossible to track down in dev!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Additionally it is something that has happened from time to time due to other things like missing synchro between servers.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't know who came up with Lidocaine, but I'll have your babies. Spoiler, I don't have a uterus.
If there was ever a perfect example of defensive programming, I lived it today. You youngsters and oldsters pay attention. Your gun won't fire, the bad guy's chainsaw always works fine, and when you try to run, you will trip. 
So, my son and daughter have somehow achieved a wild hair. They want a fire pit in the backyard. Today, I am delivering small slate to the area. Shoveling complete, cleaning truck bed complete, daughter closes the lift gate to the truck. Now, I'm 65, so looking to the right and left of the bed - nah, not for me. So, I go to the back, flip my left leg over and step on the hitch...
sling right leg over toward the ground...
tailgate pops open.... this all compresses to 3 seconds. If you laugh, it's okay, but you owe me:
me: I'm in physics land. Fuc.....
daughter: Ohhhh fuc.......!
my head hitting the fire pit rock: fuc.....
my butt hitting more rock: where did you come from... My butt still hurts, I'll be posting images tomorrow
I'm on the ground, scalp injuries bleed so there is blood runnin down my neck and face. No concussion but first words out of my mouth are "don;t call your mom!" she's on the phone with mom... fml.
3 female rants later, some lidocane and 6 staples to close up the 4cm hole in my head....
So teaching programming moment:
1) assume nothing
2) check your return values
3) see #1.
head is throbbing.
Oh, it gets better. Youngest daughter's wedding rehearsal is tomorrow.
Charlie Gilley
βMicrosoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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bummer, feel for you.
Fast forward 25 years: same damage if you brush against the door jam as you pass through. 
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Are doors - including the ones in the house I've lived in for 35 years - getting narrower? I keep on bumping into them and yes, it hurts. From this week it will also bruise really badly as am now on anti-coagulants...
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theoldfool wrote: brush against the door jam as you pass through
Happened to my old man more than once, his skin did this accordion thing. Looks worse than it is though, but still.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh man, that was unlucky. In so many ways.
Keep taking the tablets. As Moses said.
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I have a new mantra when I am taking 4 by 8 sheets of Baltic Birch out of the truck bed
charlieg got staples be careful
Hope you are healing fast and don't use the blow dryer staples get hot
We had a num nut come back to the ER complaining the staples caused pain when he was
blow drying his hair. Which should not have been washed
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I don't want to talk about it! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Because you don't use social media, but you need to know this update (because you been griping about VStudio for so long (me too) ). 
Also, hopefully, it's not just Marketing, but it probably is... 
Quote:
Mads Kristensen
@mkristensen
It's humbling hearing all the positive feedback from the recent features and fixes we've put into Visual Studio. I know some of them were old feature requests that took a long time for us to act on.
On behalf of the VS team, thank you!
1:27 PM Β· Oct 16, 2024
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But then you read just a few replies....
Quote: Tick
@aleh_tiktack
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Is it possible to modernize UI ? I know that there a feature flag, but it changes maybe 20% of UI. So many white pages, progress bars in dark mode, outdated icons and so on?
Mads Kristensen
@mkristensen
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We're working on it. Huge task, but it's coming.
and...
Quote: Kirk Marple
@KirkMarple
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Please, please fix the βCode search freezes randomlyβ issue on the Dev Community forum.
Makes Code Search unusable on the current preview release.
Here's a good'un
Quote: Andreas U.
@MartyMcFly75
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Wh3n are you going to rework the "new" resource editor which never was production ready and is a total disaster. I wonder how that piece of intern quality code ever got greenlighted.
Wow, maybe I found my new job.
I'll read all the X.com posts & then post them here. 
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