Earlier today, I had to install VMWare on a Linux host that had UEFI. Fortunately, there is a guide to how to do this on the VMWare KB, however at the end,…
Author: rm5248
London vs Washington DC
A few weeks ago, I took a trip to London and saw some very cool things! While I was there, I took the Underground most of the time and figured that I…
C++17 and Fold Expressions
So I’ve just come across this very cool feature in C++17 that I plan on using called ‘fold expressions’. This is basically a way of expanding a bunch of operations. It is…
Don’t Lose the Fight
At least that’s apparently what Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson have in their contracts. It reminds me of the Teal’c vs Ronon fight.
Thoughts on Nuclear Power
A few weeks ago on Slashdot, there was an article on safer nuclear reactors. It sounded interesting, but of course since it was on Slashdot the comments turned into a not quite…
Fun with templates
As you may be aware, I maintain dbus-cxx, and I’ve been working on it lately to get it ready for a new release. Most of that work is not adding new features,…
One large program or many little programs?
Earlier this week, I came across this question on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com. This has some relevance for me, since at work two of our main projects follow the two sides of this design philosophy:…
Counting lines of code
So a few years ago, me and a coworker had to figure out how many lines of code we had. This was either for metrics or for because we were curious, I…
Happy 2019!
Time continues marching on, which is kinda what time does. Anyway, happy new year!
Law Abiding Citizen
A few weeks ago, I came across this comment on Reddit about Law Abiding Citizen, and how some people think that the ending was bad. So I would just like to say…