lolcatnip

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 17 hours ago

*Central American prison.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 17 hours ago

I love how evocative the word tornillo is. In my mind it translates as "little twisty thing".

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reddit bad!

Now where are my upvotes?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

whether the software is memory safe depends on the expertise of the devs

No. Just stop. If a language depends on the expertise of the developer to be free of memory bugs, then by definition, it is not memory safe because memory safety means such bugs are impossible by design. Quit trying to redefine what memory safety means. A program being free of memory bugs does not in any way imply memory safety.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, I love how C++ is has so little boilerplate. Sometimes I can even write several statements in a row without any!

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the standard is "you know what you're doing and never make mistakes", then all languages are memory safe. All you're doing is arguing against memory safety as a concept by redefining the term in such a way that it becomes meaningless.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

It's the only operating system with that much market share to lose.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'm very experienced with C++and I still feel like I'm juggling chainsaws every time I use it. And I've personally run into into things like use after free errors while working in Chromium. It's a massive codebase full of multithreading, callbacks, and nonlocal effects. Managing memory may be easy in a simple codebase but it's a nightmare in Chromium. Tools like AddressSanitizer are a routine part of Chrome development for exactly that reason. And people who think memory management is easy in C++ are precisely the people I expect to introduce a lot of bugs.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

This. Simply removing people of s certain ethnicity from a region without otherwise hurting them is ethnic cleansing but not genocide. It's still a crime against humanity, mostly, IMHO, because the "without otherwise hurting them" part rarely if ever happens.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Non-elected illegal white immigrant.

Checkmate, atheists!

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

He seems quite fond of little Kevlar.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

It's very relevant. Wars are still mostly fought by troops on the ground, and you have to be able to get them to the place you want to invade. About the only other option is to try to physically destroy a hostile country with nuclear weapons, but that's pretty much guaranteed to be disastrous for all parties involved.

 

I've mainly seen this with ^superscript^ notation not being recognized, but I assume there are other differences between Lemmy markdown and what Boost uses.

 

I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that Reddit is down right now, but I've noticed pages have been increasingly slow to load lately, and I get a lot of messages about server errors even just voting on comments. It seems like they're barely even keeping the lights on. Anyone else notice the same thing?

 

I still get tons of political calls, texts, and emails from donations I made around 2016 and 2020. Is there any organization I can use to donate money that won't harass me in the future or sell my data to someone else who will?

(I got a text soliciting a political donation while I was typing this question!)

 

When I swipe "don't" in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean "didn't". I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I'd understand if the strokes were very similar, but "didn't" has a whole extra stroke in it compared to "don't". WTF, Google?

 

When you try to edit a Reddit comment in their mobile web app, it deletes all line breaks from your comment so you have to remember to manually put them back before submitting.

The other big issue I have is that when you type in and edited comment, it will omit spaces between words at random. JFC, there's no reason to use anything but a vanilla HTML input element (because only markdown formatting is supported), but they somehow fucked up basic text input anyway!

My last little gripe is that nothing in the interface tells you that markdown is supported, which is extra dumb because the desktop interface tries so hard to hide the fact that markdown even exists.

(And yes, there are a host of other annoyances, but I'm trying to limit my criticisms to things that can only be explained by incompetence.)

 
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