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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by Fred Wamsley‭

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Meta Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?

"Subtle errors" understates the problem. For example, I asked it about uses for std::equal_to, and it tragicomically gave me a code sample passing std::equal_to as the comparison predicate to std::...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Meta Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?

I respect Alexei for opening a discussion on this, and Lundin for providing hard-won real world experience. I would like to put in a "pro", on the grounds that "I read this book and I'm a better p...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Q&A Any testimonials for any C++ units of measure library?

The question is about libraries that extend the data type system to ensure physically realistic computations. Think std::chrono but for distance and mass and other things as well as for time. Inste...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Ben‭

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Meta Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?

It is a relevant but not decisive point whether ChatGPT can produce citations to back up its output (and whether the citations exist and are on point). I asked it for a citation today and got a so...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Meta Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?

To be a "better" site with helping people learn and grow and figure things out for themselves (instead of only giving them the answers, ready to copy-paste), it is my wish the site offers more he...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Q&A What should I read if I knew C++ twenty years ago? [closed]

For someone who was familiar with C++ in the past and is coming back to it after a long break, what are some useful books that won't waste time with basics but will cover the new features of the mo...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Where do I get rotatable images of solar system planets? [closed]

What I'm trying to do, because it's to provide a visually exciting set of results for a simulation package, is given a time, show what a planet looks like from a given angle. I've got SPICE and I'...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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