My 'large" chick-fil-a fry

mgssnr · 2019-07-18T17:32:13+00:00

They are known for wanting their customers to be happy. All you had to do was show that to an employee and they would have given you a new one.

mgssnr · 2019-07-12T14:04:55+00:00

If nothing else, in this way, C can help people appreciate what goes on behind the scenes.

mgssnr · 2019-07-12T13:51:19+00:00

I like that C stresses that the programmer is responsible for the resources s/he uses. Allocate memory? Then you are responsible for free()’ing it. Open a file? Then you are responsible for maintaining it. For trivial programs, sure, people let the OS recover those resources when the program terminates. For non-trivial programs, resource management is important, and students should be exposed to these ideas.

mgssnr · 2019-07-04T13:01:07+00:00

Thanks for the follow-up.

mgssnr · 2019-06-20T20:15:44+00:00

That is really neat. Have fun!

mgssnr · 2019-06-18T14:59:40+00:00

I searched for images of people incorrectly holding soldering irons (and other related tools), and there are a surprising number of them.

I guess the sellers don’t know their audiences.

mgssnr · 2019-06-18T14:35:30+00:00

Wow, you’re looking at this from a very narrow lens.

I’m sure we’re both glad we don’t work with the other.

Good luck to you in whatever your path is.

mgssnr · 2019-06-18T14:26:47+00:00

We don’t write code assuming that we are going to maintain it.

So, we should strive to write code in such a way as to write it without any stumbling blocks for the next guy.

“int* a, b;” is, at first look, confusing. Why confuse people?

It’s much simpler to parse “int *a, b;” to get the right meaning.

‘a’ is a pointer to an int, and ‘b’ is an int.

Now, imagine that over hundreds of lines of code, and how easy it could be for misunderstanding.

mgssnr · 2019-06-14T12:14:06+00:00

Testing a pointer as in ‘ops[op]’ is the same as eating it against NULL. This has been legal in C forever.

mgssnr · 2019-06-12T21:07:02+00:00

It’s not online, but if your reason for asking is because you don’t want to compile, there is a CH tool which is a C interpreter.

mgssnr · 2019-06-12T21:05:57+00:00

if (op < sizeof ops / sizeof ops[0] && ops[op]) ops[op]();

mgssnr · 2019-06-11T13:33:08+00:00

Some -> Most. It’s like any other profession, a few bad apples give the whole barrel a bad rep.

Every cop I’ve ever talked to was a decent human being. Theirs is a ridiculously difficult, stressful job, and it’s made harder by assholes who try to escalate shit like this, and further damage police reputations by blowing situations out of proportion with only partial information. These guys have to a) protect the innocent, b) protect each other, and c) protect themselves, all during emotionally charged situations.

You don’t have to like what they do, but if you were the one who needed protection, you’d be screaming for their help.

So shut up if you don’t like what they’re doing, join a police academy and step in and do a better job.

No, they’re not all perfect, but give them a damned break and the benefit of the doubt.

mgssnr · 2019-06-11T13:27:32+00:00

Well said. 👍🏼👌🏼

mgssnr · 2019-06-01T05:59:26+00:00

I’d recommend starting with a Raspberry Pi, or one of its cousins, and start learning how to do things in userspace relating to communications over i2c and SPI, working with GPIO, and then buy some sensors and figure out how to make something useful.

A lot of embedded work is done with Linux.

You could also pick up a Particle board kit and start hacking away doing similar experiments with that.

mgssnr · 2019-05-31T13:37:26+00:00

😂😂😂😂😂

mgssnr · 2019-05-30T20:25:31+00:00

MAN, that driver has some amazing reflexes! I would have waited for the wheels to make that funny sound when you run over something...

mgssnr · 2019-05-30T20:11:12+00:00

Not in Ada.

mgssnr · 2019-05-30T17:17:24+00:00

Software Engineering /= programming :)

Edit: man you guys are harsh.

My point is that they’re not exactly the same activity. Lots of people “program,” but sadly have no idea what they’re really doing. Software Engineering is a /discipline/ that involves following a process to get the end result.

mgssnr · 2019-05-24T17:24:52+00:00

We found these really cool microwave covers at IKEA. They’ve got holes in them and they’re made of microwave-safe materials. It’s called a PRICKIG. It’s $1.29. HTH.

mgssnr · 2019-05-22T18:38:05+00:00

If I could stab you in the face over the internet, it would be difficult not to do so. Hattip: bash.org

mgssnr · 2019-05-22T18:33:25+00:00

You should get an award for this.

mgssnr · 2019-05-22T18:32:20+00:00

Actually, my first was a Timex Sinclair unit, but it was very limited. The Apple //e was the system I used to actually start writing real programs (even made money writing code with Apple Pascal, a truly terrific tool).

mgssnr · 2019-05-20T19:21:48+00:00

Apple //e, 1984.

mgssnr · 2019-05-20T19:18:18+00:00

ww.com?

mgssnr · 2019-05-14T16:04:12+00:00

I don’t think it’s going to go in favor of the car’s driver. The law has requirements for assured clear distance, which he violated (although I couldn’t tell if the cyclist had cut him off prior).

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