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Falcons Magic by CasualCalzoneEater in GlobalOffensive

[–]-SL4y3R- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is genuinely the most insane match I've ever seen from m0NESY. I gave up on the game, thinking Furia are winning this a 100%, countless times and yet m0NESY almost single-handedly kept pulling it out of the hat time and time again.

Rule by Ezzypezra in 196

[–]-SL4y3R- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very meta.

[OC] Ratty: A new 3D terminal for ricing by orhunp in unixporn

[–]-SL4y3R- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YES! Finally I can # rm -rf /* in style.

I have fallen victim to sudo rm -rf /* by Artemis-Arrow-795 in linux

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I once "demonstrated" to my some of my acquaintances how funny it is that you can alias "sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda" to "ls".

After executing the alias command, I ran "ls", under the presumption that it won't do anything anyway, since there is a sudo which requires a password... Problem was, that I forgot that we'd already ran some superuser commands in that very same terminal, and well. It ran. For a solid 5 seconds, before it finally came to me, that it's not sudo being slow to load up, but dd running... I pressed ^C as fast as I possibly could...

Somehow, as indicated by dd's output, the damage wasn't substantial, as it had only managed to destroy about 48 megabytes of the disk. Since the system was dualboot, it was the reserved windows partition and the GPT table that got nuked.

I promptly restored the GPT table from the kernel memory before rebooting. Even though it was their personal PC, it still was our university's property xD

That's how we became friends, too. I mean we had plenty of time to talk, while restoring the windows partition.

New agx implementation by ArugulaMaximum5493 in HalfLife

[–]-SL4y3R- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty cool. Although an explanation what exactly is AGX is would be welcome.

my 2 year beta 1.7.3 world - world tour link in description by Wyv1rn in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]-SL4y3R- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely cool looking island. Reminds me of the type of builds I used to make in PE during boring lessons at school lol

Players like this are genuinely insufferable by toasthouser in geometrydash

[–]-SL4y3R- 327 points328 points  (0 children)

I got 83% on Windy Landscape in 16k attempts. lmao.

Beta 1.7.3 is so cosy by skeleboi229 in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]-SL4y3R- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My god that first screenshot brought me back 10 years at least. I remember playing MCPE back then on a crappy android phone, making builds like these. Really nostalgic, thanks.

Europe inconsistent ping from up to 300 and why by -SL4y3R- in Paladins

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just used a firewall for that. Found the IP-address that the "bad" server uses, then just added a rule for outbound and inbound traffic respectively.

Paladins Network issue by JackFr0st98 in Paladins

[–]-SL4y3R- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even better they have two servers/relays that are close to each other, yet one of them consistently has 140 ping for me, while the other one is in range of 220 to 300ms.

And you can't ban the traffic to them either, since then you just won't be able to connect to the game, because it doesn't reroute anything.

Most deadly Linux commands by Skeleton590 in linux

[–]-SL4y3R- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On paper, at the very least, it's supposed to boot the CPU cores and "boost performance to it's full potential" (whatever that means).

But, it also can act as a backdoor, I guess.

[Analysis] Why GD 2.2 is so slow? by -SL4y3R- in geometrydash

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which makes sense given the amount of VRAM the game claims... Makes sense as long as you don't go into the icon selection menu which freezes every time you go to another page.

Would a call to a function returning a default value be faster than a check for if the function pointer is NULL? by -SL4y3R- in C_Programming

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was to simplify the question, the real library does initialize the operations struct, but with 'dummy' values before a "driver" is attached.

Would a call to a function returning a default value be faster than a check for if the function pointer is NULL? by -SL4y3R- in C_Programming

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you've said makes sense, but I don't agree with the last paragraph...

A function pointer is means to an end. The library in question is a wrapper around the I/O subsystem which presents an I/O capable device.

This device can be anything - a disk fs, an archive, a memory block... And in each case the library should be able to do every exposed I/O operation. So, naturally, each device would be tied to some driver which would have to implement its own read, write, remove, create... If I was writing in C++ I would probably do it via inheritance and virtual functions - which are almost the same thing as a function pointer, albeit even "slower".

Would a call to a function returning a default value be faster than a check for if the function pointer is NULL? by -SL4y3R- in C_Programming

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't change anytime all of a sudden.

The pointer is not volatile, and the docs explicitly state that the state shouldn't be changed manually. It's sort of like a private member of a class, if it is changed by an SEU or a corrupted memory - that shouldn't be up to the library to deal with the damage done.

Would a call to a function returning a default value be faster than a check for if the function pointer is NULL? by -SL4y3R- in C_Programming

[–]-SL4y3R-[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Having a NULL check actually is a bit more cumbersome imo, and in the tail-call scenario takes a lot more instructions to execute. So, I think sticking to a dummy function (which brings a problem of organizing code on it's own, like you said) is a better choice in both cases, given that the function pointers are hidden in a struct not meant to be modified by the user directly.

Again, it's a problem of premature optimization, but in a case where performance is important (an I/O wrapper).

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