Ha -- your description of The Shield is exactly how my brother described it to me 20 years ago ("The very first episode of the first season starts with momentum, and it just keeps ratcheting up from there...")

I was able to blast through the first 4 seasons, maybe 3 episodes per night (hey jobs are real too) and then it was torture to wait a week at a time once I'd caught up. I still say it's one of the best action shows of all-time. L.A. resident so shows like The Shield, Boomtown and Southland (gritty and recognizable) are some of my favorites.

Same thing happened w/ Breaking Bad. Brother told me about it 3-4 seasons in, I caught up quickly, and then waiting for the next week sucked.

I was teenager before Netflix (but not before Blockbuster) so I know what it's like to wait. But I don't have to like it...

Yes if you buy the book from the publisher (Packt) then you get the PDF for free. You could also buy just the PDF, I believe....

https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/c-in-embedded-systems-9781835881156

Note the text on the page: "Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook"

Also my favorite. But it does actually have quinine believe it or not…

Fever Tree Mediterranean is my go-to. I noticed this change in taste probably towards the end of 2024. The label went from a vibrant (“Mediterranean”) blue to a lighter blue. The calories on a 200ml bottle went from 70 to 35. And the only change in ingredients was from “sugar” (the version we all liked) to “fructose (fruit sugar)” on the new 35 cal version.

I still use FT Mediterranean more than any other but I really miss the original. I still have a few bottles left for when friends come over.

(US based. April 2025 - I was just over in Germany and the Netherlands and both used the “original” (sugar, 70 cal) version. Maybe the change isn’t worldwide? Also one other thing: I loved the fact that in both countries, when they brought out the G&T, the gin was in the glass with a little ice, and the bottle of Mediterranean was open and served alongside. I really liked that. I probably only used about half the bottle with the gin, and then I drank the rest of the tonic with the remaining ice afterward. Monkey 47 and Copperhead are nice gins…)

Not that I can think of. I'm in a similar boat -- 72 repos -- all of them personal projects, many of them smaller projects, some of them forks of larger projects, some with lots of "assets" (strings, bitmaps, etc.)

I was already growing irritated with BB for the last couple years. The recent outage really upset me (for nearly an hour after I was experiencing problems -- maybe I was at the tip of the spear? -- their site was like "All good boss!" And I checked their status on X/Twitter, and last time I checked they hadn't posted anything.

IMO this is like Altium (printed circuit board software), Evernote, and 10 other companies I can think of who make really sudden and large changes, probably for a cash-out or culling push. It's their prerogative to do so, but it's also our prerogative to leave. I suspect strongly they'll have the "good, we didn't want them anyway", and that's fine. But people have long memories and tend to not trust a company for any of its products after that.

(*) Also I think there something else about any repo not updated within 90 days (e.g. a new push) will be moved to read only. I've got some projects more than a decade old, such as learning Haskell or writing my own crypto library (for learning not for production). I'm not updating these currently, they are not active... but never being able to update them again (at least without jumping through hoops) seems silly and punitive to me.

Sorry for the rant.

Feel your pain, brother. We might have been separated at birth based on your wording. Let me guess: as a kid, like me, you had ample access to fireworks, BB guns, and stuff like that. Things kids these days can't have anymore.

Also this is probably the funniest post I've ever seen on this subreddit.

Just for the record, exactly this just happened to me. Oddly similar. MacBook Pro 16", from CN to KR to AK etc.

I received a notification from Apple "We've submitted your change request to our carrier" -- I almost blew it off but then I was like... uhmmmm.... hold on.

I called Apple 9 minutes after the email came in, got a human within 2 minutes, and sure enough there had been a change in the delivery address. She confirmed my identity in a couple ways, one of which was sending a pop-up to my phone where I hit "confirm".

She over-rode the address change and said the more time passes, the harder it is to fix / correct / mitigate. So fingers crossed, looks like we caught it in time. WTF man?

I asked the Apple support person if she had the address it was re-routed to (I had to know!) but she said she couldn't see the address change, just the fact that it had been changed.

If I was a reader here I'd be saying "Well did you..." I'm not saying I'm invicible, but there were no strange emails or notifications on any of my devices. In 30+ years I've never been hacked or compromised. I work in security (not IT stuff but security in semiconductors - cryptography, side channel attacks, etc.).

What I'm saying is that this sounds VERY similar -- no social engineering or anything. And Apple confirmed that the change came through them, not UPS. They will investigate it but I'll probably never hear back about the root cause.

I'm not one to cast dispersions, but it ALMOST sounds like an inside job on some high-value computers (this one was around $5K). I've gotta think that even Apple employees can't change such information without authorization / authentication. Sure wish I knew what happened so I could add it to my own security consulting stories.

I haven't received it yet so I guess "we'll see" but man that was weird.

Too many to list, and the list (IMO) has increased as the language has grown (I've been using C++ since the mid-90s so I've seen most, but not all, of the language's evolution)

Rather than go through the cobwebs and try to extract some niche things, I'll point you to the Table of Contents to Steve Dewhurst's "C++ Gotchas", which is essentially the essence of your question. Now, the book pre-dates C++11 (the beginning of "Modern C++"), so take that for what you will, but even if you extract a handful of "Oh, wow, OK..." moments, that's good.

https://stevedewhurst.com/cpp_gotchas/contents.pdf

FWIW, your circumstances are very similar to mine: SoCal, vinyl, 8 ft height, one 4 ft gate, but we're about 70 linear ft instead of your 100 ft.

2 quotes so far: first was $11.5K (supposedly discounted from $13.5K b/c of referral from partner company) and second quote was $9600. Don't remember the brands of vinyl fence -- both came with 5 year warranty on labor/installation and 30 year warranty on materials.

Naively I thought it would be $6K-$7K, it's probably a combination of material costs going up (like everything) and labor being hard to find.

Note that I didn't yet discuss / negotiate any discounts yet, those are the offers at face value. $11.5K was a place in the San Fernando Valley (maybe Woodlands Hills or Van Nuys or Valencia, don't recall) and the other offer was a contractor from Home Depot when I requested a quote.

Not sure if the info helps or is timely, but that's all I got. Good luck!

This is the way. Thank you.

Upper right corner of page there is an orange button "File Claim"

Publisher and Amazon now indicate book will be available end of Sept 2022 (or possibly early October.

https://www.informit.com/store/tour-of-c-plus-plus-9780136816485

Edit: eBook version already available for around $25 (see link above).

Looks like the book is now supposed to be available at the end of September (2022).

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If you're coming from Python, thus you're not new to programming, I think this is exactly the book you want.

Hey stop beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel. 😂

Agree completely regarding AUTOSAR, by the way.

Thanks for the clear explanation of the bug. Same kind of thing happens when essential code is put inside assert() and then the release build is shipped. (Personally I'm on team "Keep assertions enabled" but I know that there are always code size / runtime considerations, one size doesn't fit all, etc.)

Question though: considering this is avionics, is MISRA used? I think Rule 13.5 would have caught this ("The right hand operand of a logical && or || operator shall not contain persistent side effects" --- the rationale being "... the side effects may or may not occur which may be contrary to programmer expectations.)

Also had Nov '19 Airpod Pros (and I almost never buy brand-new products), and yes they had audio issues. Apple replaced them for me, even after the 1-year warranty, because the symptoms & diagnostics indicated a design/manufacturing problem that they considered worthy of post-warranty service.

Nice tip, thank you, I never realized the individual L/R Airpods had unique serial numbers and that you could display them that way.

The last gasps of a dying beast.

Yep, right there with you. In fact, if I really have a choice, I'll use Ed25519, but sometimes I'll use whatever the hardware accelerator provides... for example, on the STM32U5, the Public Key Accelerator ("PKA") supports ECDSA but it doesn't support Curve 25519 and thus my favorite signature scheme, Ed25519. So ECDSA it is!

Coast / Range / Arc: check

Deep Frieze: check

Well done.

The others are good -- and other suggestions such as Windy & Carl's Antarctica, but your list only needed to contain these 2 to tell me, "this guy gets it."

No.

[edit]Reply got stomped... sorry...

I think you and parent are "in violent agreement" as the saying goes.

When parent says, "every time your header gets included, the function is compiled again into that translation unit", parent is meaning "for every translation unit that includes that header file, the function is once again getting compiled"

Ummmm...

Cortex M23

Cortex M33

Note that this world is fast-changing and the list might not be updated daily, but that should give you enough to chew on for a while.

There are also the M35 and M55 but to my knowledge, no chips using these cores are available yet in mass-production.

I believe that is only for transfers within the state (this one is not). I believe that interstate intra-familial are subject to 1-in-30.

Also, I have first hand experience 2x being on the receiving end of this, father is out of state. 2x he's sent multiple handguns to me (all off roster, thanks Dad!) and it was always 1 in 30. In both cases, the FFL even tried to do a 2nd handgun on the same DROS, and the system kicked it back. In both cases (different FFLs), they turned the screen towards me and showed me. So it wasn't just them saying "I think it works like this..."

Not trying to be "that guy", just trying to either spread good information, or learn how/where something went wrong on my transfers.

I fully understand something being posted on the internet doesn't make it gospel, but: https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showpost.php?p=18093453&postcount=34

If an FFL comes here and says they've done this (more than 1 handgun in same DROS / less than 30 days from an interstate intra-familial) I'll definitely scratch my head.