And yet it’s still easy to write spaghetti code in Java. Just abuse inheritance. Where is this function implemented? No one knows but the compiler!

It was definitely DDJ… back in the early 90s, right? I once asked Walter Bright (creator of D) if they were related and he told me it was just a naming coincidence.

♪I went to school and I got OpenD♪

ah man… that’s a part of the internet I really miss. For those that don’t know, the .plan file was a file you put in your home folder, and anyone on the internet could run finger johnc@idsoftware.com (or your own user@server obviously) which would output your status and your .plan and .project files. Which is why people have a copy of John Carmack’s .plan file.

Because the execs suck ass, everyone will lose their job eventually an yway.

I prefer using the command line… but it is nice to be able to use a TUI to select the staging files, so this works out perfectly.

The problem is that if you send a message just blindly, you can be tricked into sending spam to millions of addresses. I do one thing that prevents that, but does violate the standard, I verify there’s only 1 ‘@’ in the address… this technically prevents people with '@'s in their name, but they probably find it impossible to do anything with that address anyway.

State machines always make me think of the Disk II controller on the Apple II. It uses a state machine to implement reading and writing sectors to disk.

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/11/12/the-amazing-disk-ii-controller-card/

Depends on your language.

https://flutter.dev/

https://fyne.io/

https://slint.dev/

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

What are you talking about? Compilers can and do flag undefined behavior as errors. I recommend you read up on the documentation of any compiler.

And I recommend you read Chris Latter’s essay on UB.

https://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_14.html

Where he gives plenty of examples of UB resulting in the compiler optimizing away safety and introducing security vulnerabilities silently. In part 3 he discusses the efforts clang has made to improve on this.

He then went on to make Swift and says this: “Undefined behavior is the enemy of safety, and developer mistakes should be caught before software is in production.”

and

“UB is an inseperable part of C programming, […] this is a depressing and faintly terrifying thing. The tooling built around the C family of languages helps make the situation less bad, but it is still pretty bad. The only solution is to move to new programming languages that dont inherit the problem of C.”

It violates the principle of least surprise. You don’t expect the compiler to delete your bounds checking etc.

The way c and c++ define and use UB is like finding an error at compile time and instead of reporting it, the compiler decides to exploit it.

Back before it was awful, sourceforge required your code to be in CVS and then later svn.

Should focus on getting rid of undefined behavior.

Another benefit from working from home: I will happily spend my own money on a good chair, keyboard, etc. I spent 20 years working in an office and there’s no way I would’ve ever brought in my own chair during that time… I would’ve had to become the chair police to prevent it from getting “reappropriated”

So it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.

Interesting. A year ago I was looking for something exactly like this for distributing data between multiple servers. Everything required a ton of overhead or was too big to use. I ended up just using json. I did discover that Brotli can compress 3 gigs of json down into just 70 megs nearly instantly.

One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.

Interesting. I didn’t realize Wayland was so extendible. I wonder if that means we can do a konfabulator clone.

There was a ton of software sourcecode posted to the comp.sources.unix usenet group that I wanted to check out. The problem is all that software was in shar format, and there was no way to extract those files on msdos. I found Yggdrasil Linux on CD at a local software store and decided to check it out. Been using Linux in one form or another ever since.

Isn’t that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/