The candy? Yay!

It sounds like there’s a complete breakdown in law and order and nobody’s in charge.

So, France on a Tuesday.

Honestly, they haven’t even tried to break Belgium’s longest-streak-without-government.

The things you mentioned are very good, but what I’m missing is feedback and a good foundation.

Feedback should come from other developers - ideally experienced, but a good dialogue between beginners can also teach both sides a lot. For me this came only after I started working, through code reviews. But you could also try contributing to open source, or putting your own code online. Although I fear you won’t get much feedback.

A good foundation is about software and hardware designs. Without this you will inevitably come to a point where you made a fundamental mistake in design.

For hardware design I recommend YouTube. Many channels talk about low level hardware. You don’t need to become an expert, just get a high level understanding.

For software design, check out the gang of four’s Design Patterns. It is a seminal work. You don’t need to read it all but be aware of the patterns, and study a few like factories and facade in detail.

Get aired? What does that mean?

I once deleted /dev/null Do not recommend. You’d be surprised how much of the system needs it.

So I killed the parent and the children became zombies.

Computers should just know when I want a space to be part of a file name, and when I want them to be argument separators. No more escaping or quoting.

Actually yes, I do cross platform development on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac is by far the most work and breaks constantly.

Screaming into the void is fun until the void screams back.

Really? Then why is Apple so popular among a subset of developers?

Don’t blame this on gcc or the library/function author - it is 100% user (i.e. programmer) error. Uninitialised memory of any type is undefined behaviour in the C and C++ abstract machine. That means optimising compilers can assume it does not exist.

For example, the compiler could see that your ‘b’ is never initialised. Therefore, using it would be undefined behaviour. So, the optimiser can assume it is never used, and it is as if that code simply does not exist: the behaviour you saw.

I’m not saying that is what happened, nor that it will always happen, but it is a possibility.

The risk for both general and corporate business users far outweighs any minor inconveniences of moving to a new OS version.

Minor inconveniences like HAVING TO BUY A WHOLE NEW FUCKING COMPUTER.

These people live in a fantasy world.

They did the same to me. I think they’ve got cameras set up all through my house. So I started walking around naked so they’ll have something nice to look at. I haven’t gotten a thank you yet though.

They don’t accept verifiable sources. A hundred peer reviewed papers don’t weigh up against a single dissenting voice if that one voice agrees with their views.

I don’t know. I also remember spending summer nights talking under street lanterns, riding my bike around the block, and playing the Snoopy tennis game & watch. But the video I saw did not feel nostalgic. It felt like a TV ad that I didn’t believe even back then. Or worse, it felt like a cult, which was terrifying.

A VPN is not a privacy tool. Any VPN being sold on the claim that it protects your personal data is lying.

Yes a VPN can help, but simply using one does almost nothing, by itself, to protect your privacy.

Rijndael is pronounced AES.

there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin.

Vivaldi without any plugins also works. No ads. And I’m sure there are many more possible configurations. This article reads like the author thinks there’s only two browsers and two ad blockers.

You know how some languages write left-to-right, and some rught-to-left? Endianness is that, for numbers.

Or another analogy is dates: 2025/12/31 is big endian, 31/12/2025 is little endian. And 12/31/2025 is middle endian. Which makes no sense at all because the middle is, by definition, not an end.

Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Never change.

rule34.xxx is a website where users can post naughty drawings, renders, etc. of mostly anime or computer game characters. Think of your favourite character of your favourite anime, game, comic, etc. Chances are there’ll be images of them on there.