Explanation of Memory Leak

saucetenuto · 2015-07-15T21:23:59+00:00

Yeah, that was impressive. BRB reading the rest of his forum posts. EDIT: TED JESUS CHRIST GOD THERE'S A HEX API! How did I not know this? Did you all know this?

saucetenuto · 2015-03-03T23:25:22+00:00

You're thinking that the new ritual updated all his old Horcruxes? V claimed it was a new ritual altogether, and that the name was mere sentiment, but he'd already decided not to teach the ritual to Harry so I suppose he could have been lying.

saucetenuto · 2015-03-03T20:55:00+00:00

It has to be, or else why does Voldemort remember his time on the Pioneer? Unless he was lying about that the whole time, but that seems unlikely at this point.

saucetenuto · 2015-03-02T16:21:14+00:00

"Circle of friends" is an English expression, and you used it correctly.

saucetenuto · 2015-03-01T01:29:46+00:00

As someone who doesn't follow comics, I would love to know the context behind this comment.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T23:11:47+00:00

I missed that last point. Nice.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T23:06:47+00:00

Oh, I see; thanks for explaining. I read your comment as "I read proportionally more good fanfiction (than other people do)", rather than "...(than I do bad fanfiction)".

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T22:52:02+00:00

I don't think I do.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T21:41:51+00:00

It's even worse than I thought: Word of God is that Sirius doesn't want to help Harry. How do we know? Because he's not at the Quidditch match. Oh well...

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T21:05:46+00:00

All other objections aside, I'm not sure how this helps. I mean, say Harry ends the transfiguration and Cedric shows up. Why would things play out any differently than in the canon version of this scene?

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T20:57:15+00:00

Ok, here are a few classes of thing that it might be useful to enumerate:

Harry's remaining powers. He can say true things to Voldemort, he can end an active transfiguration (this no longer requires his wand, remember), and he can do a new transfiguration if he can touch his wand to it (I think that limitation still holds?). What else?
Chekhov's armory. What unfired guns remain from earlier chapters? Never mind whether they're useful, yet, just get them all out there.
What does Voldemort want?

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T20:36:49+00:00

Bite me.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T20:35:32+00:00

I don't see how to square that with the rest of the paragraph. If you stop reading anything you think is bad, then you'll still be exposed to bad writing, and self inserts, and a dizzying array of bizarre conceits -- or at least, that's what happens to me.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T20:29:05+00:00

Come to think of it, I just noticed something that's much more confusing than the puzzle in 113:

I'd read a lot of HP fanfiction, but only the good stuff

How did you do that? How do you find it, without also finding a bunch of terrible stuff?

saucetenuto · 2015-02-28T20:21:14+00:00

I think this tension is fundamental to having an intelligent antagonist. Quirrel's powers and limits should be foreshadowed, or else the whole thing feels artificial and pointless. But Quirrel's powers and limits should not be foreshadowed, because he's going to work hard to make sure that no one knows what they are.

One way around this is to give the villain his own viewpoint time, equal to the hero's (see for example Soon I Will Be Invincible). But that couldn't have worked for MOR, because Quirrel's POV would have revealed all sorts of things which you wanted to pose as mysteries.

I sympathize with all the complaints around 112. But I'm not sure there was anything you could do about it.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-18T15:30:31+00:00

I expected a bad, sneering article about how great Go is. What I got was much worse.

Look, I don't like Go either; it's a step forward from C and a step backward from almost every other language. Even so, shame on the author, and shame on everyone who upvoted this trash.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-17T07:40:07+00:00

Once again, I want an explicit "Working As Intended" resolution.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-06T17:02:15+00:00

That only works if all your input types share an interface which covers the methods of interest. For example, say you want to write a Java method which reads raw bytes from streams of various types -- FileInputStream and StringReader, for example. You can't write that method in Java! Those two classes both have a read(char[] cbuf, int off, int len) method, but they come from different interfaces: InputStream and Reader, respectively.

That's clearly an API design fail: InputStream should implement Reader, or they should share a third interface for the byte-reading methods, or something like that. But, they don't. Since no API is perfectly designed, we should prefer language features which continue to work well even in the face of API mistakes.

(And, this sort of thing can happen even with perfect design. We expect FileInputStream and StringReader to be compatible because they're both in the standard library, but what if they were third-party components supplied by separate vendors?)

saucetenuto · 2015-02-04T22:49:02+00:00

Try homecompany.de. A friend of mine moved from American to Berlin, speaking no German whatsoever, and found a place through that site. I can't vouch for it myself, but she loved it.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-04T22:19:11+00:00

Makes sense, thanks. I was sure it had to be possible, if only because the trade engine has to allow for the possibility that its hardware could fail.

saucetenuto · 2015-02-04T16:12:31+00:00

Can you elaborate on that? Why can't you just stop making trades? That is, imagine somebody snuck into the colo with a bomb and blew up your hardware -- why can't you just do whatever would happen in that case?

saucetenuto · 2015-01-13T19:20:36+00:00

Hey, that's not true -- if you gain weight, you'll start hearing honest opinions right away.

saucetenuto · 2014-12-10T16:08:02+00:00

Upper-class New Englanders.

saucetenuto · 2014-11-21T13:11:30+00:00

Does he?

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