i'll stick with the square-wheel pattern, thanks. «The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

It must depend on how much the money and reputation mean to you - if you suspect your health will be at risk you should walk away. I say this as a retired deadline dodger. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

Unless you have a specific reason to use C/C++, don't. Yes, it's possible to write memory safe programs in these two languages but it is impossible to prove, except in the case where you don't use the dynamic memory features that your code will not have a buffer overrun, use after free, or other memory related errors.

*Randy Rhoads solo* GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

And it often drives me crazy… after 35 years of CUA everywhere, mobile OSes decided to change everything to “happens now”. Most mobile OSes have no OK/Cancel to commit a form at a time. It is a field at a time now.

The top 5 cities in the highest software engineer salaries are in four states that also have the highest state income taxes and cost-of-living. So if you're not working remote from a state with lower or no income tax it's probably all a wash. If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

. "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

trønderen wrote: I do too! Just a coincidence, I bet :laugh: trønderen wrote: So those who want to monitor my spending habits may be able to discover (authorization is required I was a temporary worker for a pharmacist once, and got full access to all records. trønderen wrote: Additionally, they may discover that I am paying for the water, electricity, garbage collecting, ... all the standard expenses that everyone has - they are automatically drawn from my bank account. Your average boring person. Ehr, I'm posting under my real name.. But there's some transactions that are private; so those are made with silver bars to avoid tracking. I'm not gonna use any crypto for that :D Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

No, he's too busy Programming the 12 days of Christmas in Java[^] :-\

Kent Sharkey wrote: the lowest-level language of all. Well, not quite ... In my student days, we did an exercise with an AMD 2901 bit-slice processor development kit (if you associate anything with 'bit slice processor', I guess your grandchildren are ready to make a family by now :-)). It had 4 bits, and we had a single one available, with a microcode store of 64 sixteen-bit micro-instruction words. Programming was done by flipping 16 switches, press "Deposit", flip switches, "Deposit", ... If you made a mistake, you had to clear the entire microcode store and start from the beginning, flipping switches again. I dare say that this was programing at a lower level than assembly coding Intel processors, whether 32 or 64 bits. The technical documentation for one 16-bit mini of those days listed the entire microcode, in binary format, for the four 2901s that was hooked together as its CPU. (It might have been 2903s, it is so long ago that I am no longer sure.) There was a "Microprogramming manual" available. When I asked how many customers actually wrote their own microcode, I was told "So far, we have managed to talk everyone of them out of it" :-) (The manual was used internally, though.) It was claimed that those microcoding the VAX-780 had an average productivity of one microinstruction a day. That was years before URLs, so I do not have any link to document the claim.

YAUT - well done "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

:thumbsup:go with what works. I would have thought that disk IO would occupy the IO thread but as you hint coroutines can be a bit weird. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

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