Related story: A couple of weeks ago, I ordered an item from a major online merchant. When the delivery day came, two identical packages were left at my door. I checked just to make sure I hadn't accidentally doubled my order... nope, only one. The support link took me to the cheerful AI chatbot which got the numbers correct but interpreted my issue as having ordered two items and only receiving one. It was getting ready to send me yet another. :| Thankfully, there was eventually an option to speak with a genuinely intelligent being who understood the issue and assured me that I would not be charged for the second item. We have nothing to worry about - just don't put an AI in charge of anything!

I feel your pain. Just located and fixed two buffer overruns yesterday where my code was writing I422 video to buffers sized for I420. :doh: It would run for hours, but just don't try to allocate/free anything! (... or try to make sense of the data that follows!)

When I want to debug things related to header inclusion, I typically run the compiler in preprocessor-only mode and scan the output. vc /P ... or ... gcc -E You've tried this? The preprocessed output sometimes shows some interesting things and might be good input for a tool chain. -- Matt

Kitten alert and wary? People have "adopted" a bobcat kitten before! :)

Software to open and close the windows is a thing. See the latest Tesla recall: Tesla to recall more than a million vehicles over pinchy windows | Engadget[^]

On MS Word, to get "Paste unformatted" you have to use Ctrl+Alt+V or right-click+T. Maybe some historical reason to do it differently? I frequently use Ctrl+Shift+V in LibreOffice Writer on Ubuntu. Works a treat!

I use it for cross compilation without cluttering the file system or accidentally referencing a native element of the tool chain ... almost like a temporary chroot jail. And I can easily share the environment with other members of the team. Other teams at my company use it for deploying services across a server farm.

I'm with you on the Visual Assist thing. Since I've been using it, I do so much less typing than I used to in order to get more coding done. ... And it works with C++ (my primary language) and not just C# and VB.