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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > awful programming: Not the first time faulty software has been blamed on radium
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 ARP timeouts?

* # ¿ Jul 20, 2018 03:33
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2025 14:07
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 that isn't viable for disciplines that use math

* # ¿ Jul 26, 2018 02:15
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Shaggar posted:

incredible. why does anyone use go?

C++ doesn't have a decimal type either

* # ¿ Sep 7, 2018 19:48
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 lol if you didn't learn sort functions by implementing graphical versions of them using BGI in Turbo Pascal in high school

* # ¿ Sep 17, 2018 05:05
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 companies try to shove their apps down your throat because Apple was clever enough to put ad blocker support in Mobile Safari

plus web pages can't demand access to your contacts and sit in the background monitoring your location history and run facial recognition and extract location data from your photo library and listen to your music choices on your microphone and do all the other things that are the hallmarks of the modern app experience

* # ¿ Oct 21, 2018 17:31
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

the weird one

nah, this is bog-standard christianity

* # ¿ Oct 23, 2018 06:18
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 yes

* # ¿ Oct 27, 2018 02:00
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 it’s called JSONx

* # ¿ Oct 27, 2018 02:02
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 that’d just normal Christian eschatology

* # ¿ Nov 5, 2018 23:39
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 there’s a nice scripture in revelation about god destroying those who destroy the earth that no christian knows because they’re all heretics

they’re all too busy having dominion over the land and the creatures and their wives

* # ¿ Nov 6, 2018 00:21
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 converts are always the absolute worst

* # ¿ Nov 6, 2018 00:39
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 web developers who reinvent any kind of browser-supplied UI control should be stabbed in the nuts

* # ¿ Nov 21, 2018 06:49
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

eschaton posted:

if your HTML doesn’t represent hypertext documents where the semantics are straightforward and the styling is purely an aesthetic matter, then what you’re doing should not involve HTML, you should write a native app

you keep saying this, but if it actually happened macOS would be even more useless

* # ¿ Nov 24, 2018 03:34
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 hey tef you’re famous
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1075857848016560130?s=21

* # ¿ Dec 20, 2018 22:15
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

NihilCredo posted:

I didn't even know jvm had its own serialisation format, I was talking exactly about converting an inline class to json / xml / whatever.

Is the runtime representation such that a serialization library can recognize an inline class and automatically convert it to and from either { "personAge": { "age": 15 }} or { "personAge": 15}? And if so, is there a recommended convention or did they leave it to the main library authors to decide?

the runtime representation precisely stores the exact object graph and the reason you don't use Java's native serialization is that precisely representing the object graph is a arbitrary code execution vulnerability waiting to happen

* # ¿ Feb 23, 2019 22:34
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Beamed posted:

who the hell's high school had programming courses

mine

* # ¿ Apr 7, 2019 04:23
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 hello fellow 1998-1999 high schools student

* # ¿ Apr 7, 2019 04:34
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

animist posted:

https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello

why would anyone make this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srme0p3oxFo

* # ¿ Apr 16, 2019 19:09
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 the Infocom source dump claims that the compiler for that source no longer exists

* # ¿ Apr 18, 2019 00:32
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

actually its very good. kqueue is better but whatever.

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-12/ https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-22/ :toot:

also https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/the-method-to-epolls-madness-d9d2d6378642

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 19, 2019

* # ¿ Apr 19, 2019 22:47
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 it doesn’t have a good epoll now

but don’t worry, you can do AIO polls now

the AIO part of AIO is still crap, though

* # ¿ Apr 20, 2019 06:55
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 % In writes to memory, % i just reads the stack.

* # ¿ Apr 22, 2019 14:57
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 what if my build system is completely declarative?

* # ¿ Jun 11, 2019 05:29
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Symbolic Butt posted:

the weirdest thing about han unification is how they didn't even bother to put a language variant tag/modifier (like you can specify skintones with a modifier on emojis nowadays?)

so trying to input and get the correct variants was an awkward task

"ok I'm typing japanese here-- hey wait why did the font reverted to chinese in the middle of the text"

I feel like it got way better with time but at the beginning it was just a confusing mess, for what it's worth I've heard similar experiences from native japanese people.

they introduced the language tags in Unicode 3.1, deprecated them in 5.1, and removed them entirely in 8

emoji flags use the same tagging mechanism, but with 🏴 instead of an invisible language character

edit: to clarify, one of the ways emoji flags are encoded is by partially reusing the language tagging mechanism, there are at least two other methods

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jun 18, 2019

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

eschaton posted:

crash when dereferencing nonexistent vtable

you want

code:
Foo *p = malloc(sizeof(Foo));
new(p) Foo;
p->Initialize();

I think it'll work if Initialize() isn't virtual and does the placement new itself

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 close() can fail with EIO

* # ¿ Jul 27, 2019 23:50
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Ploft-shell crab posted:

ah gently caress


is there a nice writeup somewhere on this?

https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Fsync_Errors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VWIGBQLtxo

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jul 28, 2019

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

brand engager posted:

I was looking at that code some more today, and there are these macros named like PRODUCTNAME_INTERFACE_BEGIN, PRODUCTNAME_INTERFACE_METHOD, and PRODUCTNAME_INTERFACE_END. the fuckin interface end macro is just straight up defined as
code:
#define PRODUCTNAME_INTERFACE_END }
and the other two just expand to a pretty normal struct declaration line. These are used all over the place instead of just typing the declarations and it completely fucks up intellij. I can't highlight the type names and search for usages because it doesnt recogize something like some_type_name in PRODUCTNAME_INTERFACE_BEGIN(some_type_name, name); as a symbol. These macros don't save time or anything what the gently caress was wrong with whoever decided to do the whole codebase this way

it might be cargo culting the COM interface declaration macros or something, and if you used a good IDE it'd see right through the macros

* # ¿ Aug 4, 2019 15:25
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 that was a good thing to copy from Microsoft Access

* # ¿ Sep 7, 2019 21:40
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 remember the intel xml accelerator?

* # ¿ Sep 15, 2019 07:59
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

mystes posted:

This just looks like the output from a decompiler.

a decompiler would synthesize temporary variables to make it easier to understand

edit: acutall, ciaphas please run it through ghidra or something

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Sapozhnik posted:

Msvc compiler is pretty good though isn't it?

the backend is good, the frontend was designed by the marketing department

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 time counts from humanity landing on their local satellite moon

* # ¿ Dec 29, 2019 06:51
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

leper khan posted:

why would anyone want that in the standard?
reading the proposal, a 2D graphics API isn’t enough for modern user interfaces and our glorious C++-to-WebAssembly future has not yet arrived

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 and the actual proposal appears to just wrap the platforms existing web browser control without specifying behavior, which is useless

it does talk about XHTML though, so you know the author is up to date with web technologies

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Soricidus posted:

plain make is like python. it’s fine for small things and then your thing becomes big and you really really wish you’d used something else in the first place

(also significant whitespace I guess)

at this point I build all my small things using meson

* # ¿ Feb 17, 2020 07:39
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

pointsofdata posted:

i think, but am not sure, that the issue is that the web search is slow, so you don't see the results while typing, then when it returns it get prioritised for some reason?

no, slow search results are hidden entirely, that’s why typing in “update” returns no matches at all but if you close the Start menu and then immediately reopen it and type “update” again it’ll match “Check for Updates”

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Soricidus posted:

I also have questions about why, exactly, searching for fundamental system commands like that would be slow

it is a separate search provider because they're synthesized rather than existing as files on disk

why does the search provider load slowly? because gently caress you that's why

* # ¿ Apr 7, 2020 19:33
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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

 hell yeah image maps but worse

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Buck Turgidson posted:

so if the lone maintainer of some project disappears or gets hit by a bus, someone's basically just got to figure it out from the source code?

c.f. https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0003457.html

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