[-] mormegil@programming.dev 77 points 4 months ago

Tells you exactly what and at which line the problem is?

Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from std::nonstd::__map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars>const basic_string<epic_mystery,mongoose_traits<char>, __default_alloc_<casual_Fridays = maybe>>

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sure, strtok is a terrible misfeature, a relic of ancient times, but it's plainly the heritage of C, not C++ (just like e.g. strcpy). The C++ problems are things like braced initialization list having different meaning depending on the set of available constructors, or the significantly non-zero cost of various abstractions, caused by strange backward-compatible limitations of the standard/ABI definitions, or the distinctness of vector<bool> etc.

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

Beware the DWIM!

In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete *$ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported *$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'. It then started to delete all the files on the disk!

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 31 points 6 months ago

It's not as easy as it sounds, sometimes the screens are all wrong!! https://xkcd.com/722/

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

In a bank we work for, there is a mandatory security training for employees, mandated by the parent supranational. The bank tried to correct the mistakes in the training or at least make the training optional, as the bank provides its own, more correct program. Rejected by the mother company, mandatory training is mandatory, even if it is wrong.

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[-] mormegil@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Well... unless you measure the number of [milli]seconds using something like time_t, which lies because of leap seconds. I.e. even such a seemingly simple interface, in fact, includes a calendar.

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's why unlocalize.com exists (or... existed? Dunno, seems down from here!) Or you can have used the official Microsoft Language Portal... until they removed it and replaced it with the worse https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/reference/microsoft-language-resources (but it's still usable, I guess...)

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It will not "overflow". Signed integer overflow is undefined behavior. The compiler could remove the whole loop or do anything else imaginable (or not).

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Access Teams? Do you need anything more than opening the Teams web app in a browser?

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After choosing what I wanted to do in the first step of the developer satisfaction survey, I have to check that I did complete the task successfully (presumably thanks to their great support website), otherwise, I cannot continue, “This question requires an answer”.

[-] mormegil@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from std::nonstd::__map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars>const basic_string< epic_mystery,mongoose_traits<char>, __default_alloc_<casual_Fridays = maybe>>

(from James Mickens' The Night Watch, highly recommended with his other essays: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens)

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