Zoom is floundering. Just sent me an email saying "Upgrade to Zoom Workplace Pro and get 1 year of Perplexity Pro free", and... is that like a threat?
I've used Perplexity, and... no, just no.
If I wanted a USB camera with a narrower field of view and longer focus distance for Zooming our KBYG talks, anyone got a suggestion? This garage sale Logitech would be fine if it focused at 20' or so, but it's set up.for a person at a desk.
Also: fuck Boost. I should have just written this code to raw POSIX calls to begin with; changing signatures mean I'm converting last_write_time(f) to just using stat(f.c_str(),&...).
It's times like every time I upgrade and C++ breaks that makes me think I should just port all this shit back to C. Or Perl. Some environment that doesn't think dicking around with my legacy code for its own sake is good.
It really shouldn't be this much of a PITA to keep stable systems running.
Today in "is that *really* necessary?", Ubuntu upgrade renamed libgeographic-dev to libgeographiclib-dev.
And of course it doesn't want to link.
Fuck it. Statically compile everything. Don't actually upgrade anything until you need to. Also, I'm assuming that I'll never find the gtest repo again, because that seems to be giving all sorts of warnings now.
Seeing if I have fixed the upload: Google Labs once again adding AI value, this time telling me about the difference between sauces and dressings... 
Seeing if I