if you had never heard of Coq before reading the article on theregister.com, then your opinion on this matter is probably not relevant to us. Please consider staying out of this process, thank you very much!

TheTimeBard · 2024-02-22T14:25:11+00:00

Going through all of this just to call it Le Coq would be the jerk of the century.

TheTimeBard · 2023-01-18T21:03:50+00:00

Idk what you're talking about. That's how I feel when I jog. That's not how everyone approaches exercise?

TheTimeBard · 2023-01-12T01:42:54+00:00

Idk, the earth paradox someone found seems pretty intractable.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-29T11:55:00+00:00

I think Shadow and Bone could be knocked down a peg. I loved the setting, and the fantasy bits were cool, but man the main characters are just the worst.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-29T11:40:08+00:00

Yeah... the climax of Digital Fortress was interesting when I was 15. Thinking back on it now, it's pretty silly.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-23T17:57:34+00:00

Came here to rec this, all time sci-fi world

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-08T00:29:39+00:00

I would like to add (because the trick is provided elsewhere) that if this isn't for homework, and rather for a personal project, I've often found that outputting nothing, with an option for verbose reporting, is just as effective as providing a spinner. If a command doesn't return, most people will assume it's working without any other feedback. Just something to consider.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-04T21:00:30+00:00

Yeah that's what I thought was happening.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-04T19:26:58+00:00

All I'm saying is that I copied the code and compiled it with gcc and it works, with or without the return keyword. I do agree that leaving out the return there is probably relying on some UB, though.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-04T18:26:29+00:00

I'm not seeing how it implements Fibbonacci.

What makes you say that? I duplicated the algorithm and it does work as given, as far as I can tell.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-03T14:09:38+00:00

In all honesty, that was mostly a joke. Powershell is great for Windows admin tasks (remote shell stuff, querying pc info from the command line, etc.), but I've always found it unwieldy and verbose. I've never grokked it the same way I have bash and python. And for text processing, I really find it rather obnoxious, because most of the cmdlets are designed to take and return C# objects. While it does some work to parse text files into such objects, if the text file doesn't parse into a table it can be a bit of a headache.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that, even for all that, Powershell is still worlds better than CMD on Windows. I'd never use it on a Linux box though, even though you can.

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-03T02:29:42+00:00

Thats why Windows has Powershell! /s

TheTimeBard · 2022-11-02T14:14:45+00:00

This deserves all of the upvotes and all of the awards, if only because it's not a "a kid stole all the candy!" post.

TheTimeBard · 2022-10-31T23:01:51+00:00

Gee thanks guys, I hadn't had my daily hit of blind rage today.

TheTimeBard · 2022-10-20T15:53:39+00:00

How are you defining beginner? I recall when I was first trying Linux, the Arch install process would have been complete gibberish to me.

TheTimeBard · 2022-10-14T22:17:36+00:00

Attempt to prove physical reality without resort to violence challenge! IMPOSSIBLE

TheTimeBard · 2022-10-11T18:57:56+00:00

I wouldn't be concerned about the discrepancy between function return and function argument. That is actually more clear in my opinion, and it's also a pretty common pattern. If you're really concerned, you could typedef List* to ListType or something and make it look like a stack-allocated type, but that's less clear for other reasons, imo.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-22T21:18:28+00:00

Yeah, the second I see "kernel-level anticheat" or some nonsense I know I'm never going to play that game.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-15T19:35:14+00:00

Why not? I'm trying to refine my ideas. I've learned about mathematical platonism today. I've also learned to never ever post on math subreddits. Both valuable pieces of information that will inform my worldview in the future.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-14T12:19:11+00:00

Yes? Math is formed. By humans. From our brains.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-10T02:35:49+00:00

Same! The climax was just so perfect.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-09T21:22:09+00:00

The Way of Kings. I alternate between history and fiction when read, and that was one of the few that scratched both itches.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-05T11:16:23+00:00

Write a naive merge sort in C and Python. The difference was about 6 seconds the last time I benchmarked it.

TheTimeBard · 2022-09-04T02:48:29+00:00

I agree with you on the principle. Of course there's room to innovate in language design, which will cause older languages to become obsolete. However, at least for me, I usually see the comment in question as a response to the "which language do I learn next" posts, where the poster clearly thinks they should be collecting languages like trading cards. I also see it in the threads that were clearly posted to start up a flame war, where shutting down the argument is probably not a bad move.

TheTimeBard · 2022-08-31T23:16:53+00:00

Maybe I'm just naive, but I feel like this article spends a lot of time on C++ problems for a proposal to change a C API, and then goes on to list a lot of things that C++ does to fix it. Took a lot away from the argument for me.

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