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by Duthomhas

More unpopular opinions [Lounge]

Continuing from https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285914/ If you are in a school zone, either early in the morning when students are being dropped off or ...

Apr 24, 2025 at 5:00am

[9 replies] Last: I just tried to watch “ The Dark Knight[/i]” (Batman film with Bale an... (by Duthomhas)

by Duthomhas

Random Story Time (1,2) [Lounge]

I once went to McDonalds, waaay back when $5 was expensive, and bought food that totaled something like $6.85. I gave the cashier a five, two ones, and a dim...

Apr 23, 2025 at 3:17am

[24 replies] Last: > Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Bear Identification Course[/b] The m... (by Ganado)

by zapshe

Complacency (1,2) [Lounge]

We're here at the last chance for him to turn back. We all know defying their decision, especially being 9-0, is the hill he wants to die on. He's installed his...

Apr 22, 2025 at 10:04pm

[24 replies] Last: I am for some smaller moves like his first term with the trade balanc... (by zapshe)

by Jonathan100

make: /usr/bin//-g++: No such file or directory [UNIX/Linux Programming]

Hi I got a vs code environment on my host (ubuntu 22.04), and i want to cross-compile an application for imx8mp board. It worked pretty good intil i insta...

Apr 21, 2025 at 9:59pm

[3 replies] Last: Notice here: [b]/usr/bin//-g++[/b] it interpret somehow that the comp... (by kigar64551)

by Heyyo53

PNG File Reader (1,2) [General C++ Programming]

I have been on a quest to write some kind of PNG file reader, mostly just for myself, and I was wondering if there is any good resources on how to do binary fil...

Apr 18, 2025 at 4:27pm

[27 replies] Last: Alright, I wanna post my solution, so... #include <ciso646> #includ... (by Duthomhas)

by chipp

what happened to this forum????? [Lounge]

it seems like it became veeeery quiet in here[/b] [b]what happened?????[/b] are we have another new forum or something...?

Apr 15, 2025 at 7:19am

[6 replies] Last: apart from these, this forum is on a blacklist at most active c++ site... (by jonnin)

by chipp

insecure connection?? [Lounge]

i've been inactive on this web for soooooooo long[/b] and when i wanna check in to this web before, there's a warning that says this web has insecure connectio...

Apr 13, 2025 at 7:48pm

[6 replies] Last: @salem: ic... actually, the warning my browser displaying before is wh... (by chipp)

by ElusiveTau

Formatted Console Log with Datetime [Windows Programming]

I'm working on a C++11 project that uses console logging (cout) at the moment. I created the following Log method to perform printf-style formatting: // U...

Apr 8, 2025 at 1:38am

[8 replies] Last: Just started reading bits an pieces of "C++ Coding standards" by Sutte... (by ElusiveTau)

by ElusiveTau

Logging Wrong Line Number [Beginners]

I'm working with C++17 or prior. I'm writing a custom logger class (I don't have access to a logging library) and have an issue with the following use case. ...

Apr 6, 2025 at 9:13pm

[5 replies] Last: [quote=kigar64551]#ifdef CUSTOM_LOGGER #ifdef CUSTOM_LOGGER # define ... (by ElusiveTau)

by Duthomhas

I wrote a cron job! (1,2) [Lounge]

This is a continuation of Finally switched to Linux Mint[/b] (https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285724/[b][/b]). Mint, by default, is constantly popping up n...

Apr 4, 2025 at 11:14am

[25 replies] Last: Someone did wrote a news piece for April 1st about "one common package... (by keskiverto)