[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

Looks more /usr/bucket/cat

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

But what volume would it be? Is it a small amount of glitter or a lot? What's the g/cm³ of glitter? What about tiny bits of uranium? I feel like all the little bits of air between the glitter particles would lower the density compared with just a solid block of uranium which would increase the volume but....

I feel like someone should put some numbers in this thread.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I like his argument about profiles maybe going to be able "e.g., to eliminate most range errors relatively soon."

Well maybe C++ could be considered safe "relatively soon" then but not right now.

Like he says: "Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines, and peoples’ notions of which aspects of safety are important differ."

That said, I don't really consider C++ to be inherently unsafe, there's a lot that goes into secure programming in any language. Just because you can't write to an array out of bounds in python doesn't mean your code is magically immune to vulnerabilities and just because you can in C, it doesn't mean your code is magically vulnerable to RCE from some buffer overflow.

I also don't really trust myself to write perfectly safe production C++ though. I feel like it's still too easy to feel like you know exactly what you're doing and accidentally miss something small (hence the many thousands of memory safety CVEs in professional software).

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

They ruined Linux!

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I guess eternal life through some profane kind of undead cyborg magic... Bad maybe?

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

What was the original text‽

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Apparently as a result of terrorism according to Data. Brexit 2 Northern Ireland edition coming soon?

Memory Alpha page

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I think the idea is that he thought she was confused by what he had said.

"What are they called?" meaning "what are the words for them?" Not "what are their names?" Like he was quizzing her on her English or something.

He was a about to correct her like "no no, I meant what are their names?"

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

No, that's "Monk"

A manc is a place where you can go to deposit your money and get home loans and stuff.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

By the sounds of it their entire video team left. So not half of the channel gone, but all of it...

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"aborigines" is not a great word to use these days. It's generally seen as pretty offensive to Indigenous Australians as it's a bit dehumanising and comes from colinisers who treated people like animals.

Better to go with "First Nations people", "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people" or "Indigenous Australians."

But yes, they've been treated (and in many cases continue to be treated) pretty horribly.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I remember there being fewer ads but the ones that did exist were worse. Bright colours, flashing, blink tags, 3-frame epilepsy inducing animated gifs... "You are the 10000th visitor!" Some in the mid to late 90s would pop-up new windows or even start autoplaying sound...

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