The Sand Trap

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12:01 AM

lyxal: Good morning. As you begin your day, remember that violence is always an option and often the answer.
radvylf:
lyxal:
radvylf: ...Please, go back to bed.

caird: Swear words are illegal now. If you say one you'll be fined.
radvylf: Heck.
caird: You're on thin fucking ice.
caird: Oh no-

user

@lyxal I would never say too much salt

lyxal: Yo is user sleeping or dead?
steffan: Hopefully dead, I hated their guts.
radvylf: Yeah, so did I.
user: Okay first of all, fuck you-

user: *Screams*
lyxal: * Screams louder to assert dominance*
radvylf: Should we do something?!
steffan, observing: No, I want to see who wins this.

Radvylf Programs

Lyxal has more loud noises experience

My money's on him

@lyxal Speaking of stabbing, I saw something funny today

My history teacher had an article pulled up about medieval art

Not sure what the full title was, but an ad covered part of it

And so it read...

> People Getting Stabbed Don't Give a Damn

Unrelated String

12:17 AM

if it's about medieval art that could easily be the full title

like have you seen people getting stabbed in medieval art

Radvylf Programs

Like, dang, I was hoping my stabbing victims were a little more inconvenienced

Unrelated String

they give ZERO fucks

Radvylf Programs

@UnrelatedString That's what the article was about, yeah :p

Unrelated String

:þ

Radvylf Programs

But we didn't know it was about medieval art until after the ad was out of the way

Unrelated String

12:18 AM

lmaooooo

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emanresu A

1:27 AM

caird: I did it! I memorized everything in the book! I'm gonna ace this test!
lyxal: Ok, caird, I'll give you one more question before you go. What ended in 1918?
caird: 1917.
lyxal: ...You're ready.

Number Basher

1:39 AM

lol

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DLosc

4:36 AM

Is anybody else finding that suddenly YouTube enables autoplay on every. single. video. and there's no way to turn it off in the settings? >_<

Unrelated String

4:50 AM

i haven't but i think i remember hearing about an incident like that a couple months ago

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emanresu A

10:00 AM

Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled "WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!", which came up for basically any year I put in.

As you'd expect, this is almost completely inaccurate

(not to mention internally inconsistent)

The US GDP/debt ones are accurate tho

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user

2:08 PM

My college has C style guidelines that are mostly reasonable, but some of them go against very deeply held personal beliefs and I hate it

Why do they have to take off points over things like having "only" 2 spaces of indentation?

And the specific class I'm taking doesn't allow you to use // (for C), you have to use /* */

Their idea of a "proper editor" is emacs or vi

Literally vi, not even vim

And they want you to use #define instead of const int

And while I agree with their putting opening braces on the same line there's no reason to enforce that

Sorry for the rant

user

CMQ: Strangest comment you've come across in some code?

Ginger

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DLosc

3:22 PM

@user Sounds like a style guide that hasn't changed in a few decades. I suspect a lot of those requirements made more sense in an earlier version of C.

Unrelated String

3:41 PM

the no const int bit is probably from some old compiler that couldn't actually optimize that into something equivalent to a preprocessor macro, as opposed to like just naively putting it on the stack or something

...also ngl i forgot that vanilla c actually has const

and i know historically // comments didn't exist in c

i think they were introduced in c++ then adopted by c later?

DLosc

4:20 PM

@UnrelatedString That's what I thought, although I wasn't sure so I didn't say anything. Since you think it too, it's probably correct (or else a popular myth). ;P

user

4:52 PM

Oh i guess it being old would explain it

DLosc

5:06 PM

@user Related

After a recent bump, I though I would just add - I don't like using C++ // comments in C99, C11, etc. Straight away, I grok what I'm dealing with: "It's a C file". It's never caused me any problems. This is a purely personal preference though. Also, // comments don't work in macros - and I'm not looking for a macro vs, inline argument here. — Brett Hale Nov 30, 2016 at 14:26

Radvylf Programs

6:05 PM

Don't let me forget than I have an NHS meeting after school today

Ginger

You have an NHS meeting after school today

Radvylf Programs

6:43 PM

Honestly, I personally would trust your experience more than any "science" telling everybody botulism would be everywhere. Among all the people who obsess over botulism, I doubt a lot of them even know whether or not the "scientific" results about botulism have been deduced with sound procedures that are logically and methodically sound. "Science" is an overused word people like to blindly hurl around and trust. — polynomial_donut Jul 17, 2017 at 13:18

DLosc

7:30 PM

"Blindly hurl," coincidentally, also describes how you will react if you get botulism.

Ginger

7:42 PM

oh hey I'm nearly at 4k total rep

@UnrelatedString hey I really do not like that emoticon right there

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emanresu A

9:58 PM

@RadvylfPrograms You have an NHS meeting after school today

Radvylf Programs

Thanks!

Although school ended an hour and a half ago :p

(And I did go :p)

emanresu A

Lol

Radvylf Programs

@DLosc Neither blindness nor vomiting are symptoms, right?

DLosc

Wikipedia says vomiting can be a symptom. Blindness is a stretch, but one common symptom is droopy eyelids, so if your eyelids droop all the way down you can't see much. :P

(Did I go read the Wikipedia article on botulism before posting a throwaway joke to make sure it was somewhat accurate? Why yes, yes I did. :P)

@Ginger Why not? :þ

Ginger

it's disturbing