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On 7th November, the https://cboard.cprogramming.com/ forum went read-only as a static site. Like most almost all other sites of the same era, the plurality of information sources is once again concentrated into the hands of the few. At least it still exists to be read. Too many forums like it …

TBH, I'd go with all or nothing. If you can't match every char with an appropriate transformation, then don't even try to make some mashup.

Seen on an old classic. "If anything falls off, please HONK"

princess -> castle

ChatGPT "programmer" == Shakespearian monkeys with an inference driven typewriter.

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first CRYPTO SCAM." https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that know binary, and those that don't.

And if you don't want all the M$ telemetry and other spying, there's always https://vscodium.com/

> Indian mathematicians have nothing to be proud of. This particular nothing. https://historycooperative.org/who-invented-zero/

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

https://www.daniweb.com/posts/jump/2301408

> how did you prepare for the exam? You study the curriculum material!

What could go wrong? https://www.pcmag.com/news/vibe-coding-fiasco-replite-ai-agent-goes-rogue-deletes-company-database https://cybernews.com/ai-news/claude-ai-deletes-car-rental-database/ The old saying goes - to err is human, but to really fuck things up, you need a computer.

h,w_ = img.shape ^^^^ Read carefully, @reverend-jim wrote `h,w,_ = img.shape` There's an extra comma in there making the tuple have three parameters.

[Mission Impossible - Lalo Schifrin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGSUjuSBt1A) Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin_discography#Television_scores

You seemed well informed a week ago - https://www.daniweb.com/posts/jump/2309724

Are we talking about mom-and-pop single site operations or global players like Walmart / Costco? I'm sure the latter have it all figured out.

So why not remote into a mac mini that's just in the same office on your local LAN? Like next to the router, or printer, or whatever else you've got going on. It's not "on your desk", but it is still under your physical control. You keep pushing this "remote …

> One topic I’m researching is how people search for information about paying electricity bills online. Said no-one, ever. There is no searching for this. You go to the site your utility provider tells you to go to, and that's the end of it. What is damn sure is no …

So much to get through... int i = 0; #define X 0 #define Y 1 #define I 2 #define J 3 What's with all the meaningless single letter identifiers? A global variable called `i` is awful, especially where you have multiple `for(int i` loops all over the place. The XYIJ …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act Or the equivalent for your jurisdiction. It doesn't matter how glossy your website is, if you f-up the basic security, you won't have any customers to worry about.

Some random thoughts. A sizeable proportion of a population (40%+ for USA, 10%+ for UK) never travels. Then another sizeable proportion will only travel once or twice for short periods of time - otherwise known as vacations. Typically that would be to just one other country. So rather than a …

It's becoming increasingly hard to find programs that don't keep pushing their AI boondoggles at every chance they get. Even more annoying is said AI's are generally still too stupid to be able to answer the question "How do I remove this AI feature".

AI is likely the problem. An average dweeb can flood the entire marketplace with AI generated CVs (which may or may not resemble their actual skill set). In response, recruiters and employers have to deploy ever increasing amounts of AI effort to filter out the garbage to find the diamonds. …

https://www.indigo9digital.com/blog/fooddeliveryappprofitability Unlike Amazon, where a whole van can be filled with parcels and can be delivered by **one** driver in a 12 hour window with a known efficient route plan, food delivery has two problems. 1. People typically order at either 12pm->2pm or 6pm->8pm 2. They want their order NOW!!!!! …

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Consider $ ls -l /var total 52 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 03:02 backups drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 28 2023 cache drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Jun 28 2024 crash drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 24 2024 games drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 4096 Dec 30 …

Make an appointment dialog. Which is more or less what the example shows you. https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/PySide6/QtWidgets/index.html#module-PySide6.QtWidgets

@seyranat You started with a generic question about software development, and two posts later, you're pushing your product. From whois Domain: timekeepingpayrollsoft.com Registered On: 2026-08-11 Expires On: 2027-08-11 The ink is barely dry, and the website is something AI spat out in an afternoon. Real companies have an email address …

I suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff But since your website claims to have been in business for 20+ years, I gotta wonder why you don't know this already.

So what's your question? How to save youtube videos?

https://support.google.com/chat/answer/10126829?hl=en

I see you've taken some of my suggestions, but made some other things worse. https://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?566573-CODE-REVIEW-Code-Review-Sudoku-GUI-in-C-language First off, the way you use git is to NOT delete and re-upload every single time you have something to show. You made the naming worse here. 20,23d17 < int pos1; < int pos2; < …

TBH, the first time the AI pisses me off, you lost a customer.

> Most of them come in with a budget figure that does not account for the compliance layer at all. There's your first problem. Explain that without compliance, their business with either face a haemorrhaging of customers who no longer trust their business, and/or regulatory oversight shutting the business down. …

The whole dismal "industry" that is social media is on par with your local mystic looking at tea leaves.

WordPress - done in hours, zero programming knowledge; works on top of well established code base. custom PHP - done in days/weeks depending on your own skill (or hired skill); rushed jobs will have bugs.

Maybe follow your own advice? https://www.daniweb.com/posts/jump/2307549

What - no link in the text, no link in the signature, no link in your profile? Back to school.

https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/threads/545390/how-should-i-handle-concurrent-bookings-in-an-on-demand-app Same script, different cast. "I'm working on a ...." "The app has some imaginary problem...." "There's a list of meaningless questions". The OP is a drive-by posting bot.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-walmart-ai-detect-made-usa-fraud-do-not-flag-it-study-says-2026-07-30/ Amazon and Walmart chat-bots grass on their masters when pressed about why they do nothing with fake products.

Here you go, contact the other poster with the same question and compare notes. https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/545347/location-based-handyman-app-with-real-time-job-matching

An awful lot of YT content like that is either "edfomertial" (please visit our sponsor and buy stuff), or "edutainment" (please don't take this seriously, we have no idea what we're talking about). The worst is watching people type in real time "inport\b\b\b\b\bmport" and "umm, erm" in the commentary. Gigabytes …

https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/say-hello/threads/545379/how-should-i-handle-real-time-provider-availability-in-an-on-demand-app

> What Makes Users Abandon a Mobile App in 2026? Because they're riddled with ads / popups / nagware / scareware? Because they have invasive permissions which have no consequence on the functionality of the app? "If you're not paying for it, you're not a customer, you're a product being …