The absolute low-tech solution would be to dedicate a switch for it.
If you have decent infrastructure with a managed switch, you can easily create a VLAN.
Besides the fact that the female RJ45 is usually inside the dwelling. You'd have to unmount the camera, pull out the cables and connect to it, all at typical heights of 6' and above. That's maybe a concern in commercial setups, although then we're circling back to VLAN.
These libraries already exist. God how people underestimate C++ all the time.
Of course you can use a unit type that handles conversions AND mathematical operations. Feet to meter cubed and you get m³, and the library will throw a compile error if you try to assign it to anything it doesn't work with (liters would be fine, for example)
I know of about 7 different libraries, 5 of them private to my company (of which 4 are not in use). Every one takes a fundamentally different approach to the problem.
> Feet to meter cubed and you get m³, and the library will throw a compile error if you try to assign it to anything it doesn't work with (liters would be fine, for example)
Liters would not be fine if you are using standard floating point values since you lose precision moving decimal points in some cases. Maybe for your application the values are such that this doesn't matter, but without understanding your problem in depth you cannot make the generic statement.
I could write books (I won't but I could) on all the compromises and trade offs in building a unit type library.
As a more general rant - people who have maybe used 5% of the feature set of C++ come along and explain why language X is superior because it has feature Y and Z.
News flash, C++ has every conceivable feature, it's the reason why it is so unwieldy. But you can even plug in a fucking GC if you so desire. Let alone stuff like basic meta programming.
GC was removed from the C++ standard in C++23 because all the compilers were like "hell no" and it was an optional feature so they could get away with not adding it. So this optional feature never actually existed and they removed it in later standards.
The C++ standard has never included a garbage collector. It only provided mechanisms intended to facilitate the implementation of a GC, but they were useless.
There are ways to do GC without language support. They are harder, but have been around in various forms for decades. They have never caught on though.
Do they really? Their types really have no custom constructors and you can use designated initializers for your data? I would really much like to have been underestimating C++, could you show an example of such a library?
There's several libraries, including some supporting units and mathematical operations yielding the correct result types.
And as usual, it mostly comes with zero overhead, beyond optional runtime range checking and unit conversions.
But C++ is a meta-programming language. Making up your own types with full operator overloading and implicit and explicit conversions is rather easy.
And the ADA feature of automatically selecting a suitable type under the hood isn't actually that useful, since computers don't really handle that many basic types on a hardware level. (And just to be clear, C++ templates can do the same either way)
But do these libraries allow using values in aggregates (i.e. structs that can be initialized by listing members in {} )? While preventing endianness errors
Are you aware that nowadays you can write SPAs in dozens of languages?
It's an entirely different concept. It's certainly not the right technology for a news site, but days ago in a different place, there was for example the discussion about how an SPA and minimalistic API services fit a lot better with your average embedded device.
Not being connected to the work VPN already slows down my Windows to a near halt since a few unreachable network drives is all it takes to make Explorer go unresponsive.
Seems like engineers forget to test these things nowadays.
Look, it's Apple, Google and Microsoft being at their peak of customer hostility. Each of them constantly push their own browser in their own products.
> managing a barely competent junior developer who's only redeeming skill is the ability to type really, really quickly
Hits the nail on the head. For an actual junior developer, they'd at least learn over time. With LLM, open up a new chat and you start with a new hire.
The absolute low-tech solution would be to dedicate a switch for it.
If you have decent infrastructure with a managed switch, you can easily create a VLAN.
Besides the fact that the female RJ45 is usually inside the dwelling. You'd have to unmount the camera, pull out the cables and connect to it, all at typical heights of 6' and above. That's maybe a concern in commercial setups, although then we're circling back to VLAN.