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[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, "Maybe it's a race condition," to which he replied, "There's no such thing."

Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe he meant there's no such thing in the context of that application?

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 3 points 1 day ago

Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I've always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn't elaborate further and I didn't like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.

[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoid race conditions

[–] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 1 points 9 hours ago

SΓ©rieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier lΓ  ahah

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

10/10 joke

n'avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

/jokeI know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh, I didn't get to that part of my French classes, lol

I learned that "ne" and "pas" are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

Thanks for the correction!

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I wasn't taught this in french class, hardly anyone is. idk why. My teacher told me about it after class when I asked about it.