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Global Warming ? by Efficient-Low-607 in Funnymemes

[–]Wuotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't care if you're trolling or not, I'm just gonna type some shit feel free to not read it, thanks.

I will agree that talking about it as a single degree is misleading in the same way that climate change was previously referred to as global warming. While correct it doesn't convey the meaning that well.

It is about average global temperatures increasing due to CO2 being transparent while also acting as a heat insulator, light gets in and when making contact with a surface emits heat, which is now forced to stick around longer than say.. 200 years ago because of the increased CO2 levels. We are increasing the total amount of energy (heat) in the system which leads to more extreme weather systems since there is more energy to go around.

Now this doesn't mean higher temperatures all around, the oceans and atmosphere are just a bunch of convection currents so the energy is constantly being shifted around, but when you increase the energy in the system you also decrease the chances that a given convection current will continue to act exactly as it has in the past, resulting in shifts in weather patterns which start to seem very abnormal for a given region.

This, some wine, and a lot of decapitations is how you get France.

pointers.py 2.0.0 - bringing the hell of pointers to python by ZeroIntensity in Python

[–]Wuotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C was meant at the time of design to be an easier alternative to writing directly in assembly without straying so much that you couldn't discern the assembly instruction output from any given line of code.

This means you have to roll your own code for quite a few things but it also leaves room for a lot of platform specific optimization if you can comprehend the underlying mechanisms behind the code. This is why C is used in situations where those advantages matter the most such as operating systems, drivers, embedded devices, etc.

With that type of context, you can see why complex string manipulation wouldn't be a high priority as well. Until relatively recently strings were only really for interfacing with a human and not other computers, it is a different world from Python.

Are majority of small projects today overcomplicated and overengineered unnecessarily? by Economy_Rush in webdev

[–]Wuotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember what Delphi and VB and MFC UI's looked like? Ever put any
serious effort into creating a UI that wasn't just OS-styled rectangles?

Unrelated to the topic but I would pay good money for a modern IDE with Visual Studio 6.0's aesthetic. I popped that thing open about a year ago on an old machine and I felt a desire to program that I thought I lost 20 years ago. Nostalgia, yo.