As we’ve seen in the news lately, ChatGPT has been making a lot of headlines with people saying things such as “AI” about it. I haven’t used ChatGPT or any of the…
Author: rm5248
What do you tell a soldier who thinks they are a military genius but really isn’t?
“Quit Patton yourself on the back”
Replacing headlights in an Athearn SD40
A few years ago, I got an Athearn SD40 in C&O livery: Unfortunately, the incandescent lights that the Athearn locomotives come with by default are terrible and don’t last very long, so…
Dumb Joke
Have you heard of the new short-form video app for software developers? It’s called Tcl/Tk.
Stupid C++ Threads and Lambdas
For a unit test that I’m writing for some code at the moment, I need to create a thread that doesn’t do anything. Well, the easiest way to do this is to…
Fixing a Gamecube Disk read error
I recently wanted to play my Gamecube again, so I turned it on for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, it would no longer read any of the disks that I…
Programming can be crazy
Presented in no particular order, my list of “crazy program bugs/stories” that I find interesting, and refer to from time to time: The case of the extra 40 ms How I found…
Heh
NUMBERS!
C++ pimpl thoughts
Recently, I’ve been writing some C++ code that I would like to be ABI compliant. Because of that, I’ve been writing the code that uses a private class that holds all of…
SSH Key Length Error
I wanted to SSH into a server of mine earlier today, but I was met with this error when I tried to SSH in using the key: There is some information on…