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Byte Commander

00:00

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Zacharee1

paranoid

don't want thumbnails on disk :p

Byte Commander

Meh...

Thanks, btw. That was just in time.

Serg

@Zacharee1 To be exact , my major is "Electrical Engineering Technology" , which involves more practical approaches and labs to circuit analysis, but also raises a thought in some employers " oh, you're not EE major, you're something similar".

Zacharee1

@Serg so it is applied

Serg

It is . . .

Zacharee1

00:01

@ByteCommander I wonder if you can keep your rep at intervals of 200

Byte Commander

Surely not.

Zacharee1

"Apply to the applied student a small application of 1,000,000 amps"

Serg

Also , it was destiny . . .I was shocked with 220 V way back when I was living in Ukraine

Zacharee1

yum

Byte Commander

That streak will end once people stop finding my sudo insults question that interesting.

Zacharee1

00:02

fried Serg

Byte Commander

@Serg been there, done that...

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander you mean "pshh"

or bzzzzzt

Byte Commander

bzzzt.

Serg

Let's just say it was . . .a POWERful experience

But CURRENTly, I probably should get a burger

Zacharee1

@Serg if that'll stop these "jokes"

Serg

00:04

@Zacharee1 POTENTIALLY

#nailedit

Byte Commander

the tweezers I was using had black tips afterwards, but the fuse jumped out fast enough, so I only got psychologically shocked, not electrically...

@Serg You couldn't resist the opporTUNAty, right?

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander what were you doing sticking tweezers in electrical stuff

Serg

^ resistance . . .

Zacharee1

OMG

GUYS

These are terrible

Serg

We've charged up this chatroom pretty well with puns

Zacharee1

00:05

I just don't have the capacity

this is battery of the mind

Serg

@Zacharee1 you've become one of us , yay

Zacharee1

I'm drained

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 Dunno... I was a little kid and little kids do stupid stuff they are not supposed to do.

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander When I was a little kid I took apart an old IBM. No shocks. Over the summer, I was poking at the CRT in an iMac G3 with a screwdriver. You can imagine how that went

Byte Commander

Learned my lesson from that though, so it was useful.

Oy.

Zacharee1

00:07

Suffice to say, boy was I awake after that

Byte Commander

CRT is some magnitudes above 230V though, depending on what spot you hit.

Zacharee1

yep

I'm a regular superhero

Byte Commander

:D

Zacharee1

fun reads quora.com/…

Serg

@Zacharee1 not wearing glasses ATM, so misread that as "rectangular superhero"

hmmm, spongebob and superman crossover ?

Zacharee1

00:11

@Serg already been done

Byte Commander

Spongebob in a Mermaid Man costume.

IanC

@Serg seems like previously declared arrays behave the same as mallocated arrays then, I thought maybe because the size of the former needs to be known at compile time, sizeof() could work, but makes sense that it doesn't

you can use the null character to mark the end of the string and just reverse the characters before the null

Serg

it makes sense because arrays are passed by reference not by value

but string already contains null character by default

IanC

not on C

Serg

a[7] is 0 - 5 is all chars, 6th value is \0

also . . . google results for C strings . . . dammit . . .

IanC

00:15

most string.h functions will add the null byte (though you need to read the man pages, since on some conditions some functions will not include the null byte), but when you declare char word[7] and manipulate the chars manually you need to write the null byte explicitly

and word[7] isn't in the array boundaries

int length = 7;
char word[length];

the indexes goes from 0 to 6

Serg

> For character strings, the standard library uses the convention that strings are null-terminated: a string of n characters is represented as an array of n + 1 elements, the last of which is a "NUL" character. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling#wchar_t)

IanC

the null byte must be at word[6]

Serg

yup, that's exactly what i said here : chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/32980374#32980374

IanC

oh, my bad, thought you were trying to access word[7] because of the comment in the source code, which could coincidentaly be a null byte

Serg

that commented out code was just for testing

gaaaah, not enough time for my hamburger and coffee

Zacharee1

00:20

> Maybe not the most embarrassing thing in the world, but it was certainly funny.

When I was moving out of my apartment in China, I was feeling pretty good about going home and pretty upbeat about my Chinese skills. I’d been working on them really hard for the last year after all, and as far as I was concerned I rocked.

So I went downstairs to the office of the apartment manager, and confidently told her that I’d left my key with my roommate.

She looked really confused, but after some reiteration and pantomiming from me we got there. I was a bit dissapointed that I hadn’t been able to co…

IanC

functions like strncpy for example, will include the terminating null byte in the string, but if you tried to do char word[10]; strncpy( word, "Hello World!", 10); it would not include the null byte, so you would need to explicitly add it later if you wanted to read what you copied

@Zacharee1 I heard ma in chinese can be horse or mother depending on how you pronuntiate it :p

Zacharee1

yep

that's tonal language for you

> Here is something a friend once did when he was studying Russian.

He met a pretty, young Russian girl in San Francisco that he wanted to ask out. So he said, “Vy besplatny?” when he should have said, “Vy svobodny?” Both mean “Are you free,” but “besplatny” means free in the sense of “cost nothing.”

@Serg

Serg

00:35

@Zacharee1 lol. That's Russian for you - the language where two words may be same with different meaning and shizton of grammar rules

Byte Commander

@Serg sounds like German...

Thomas Ward

actually sounds a lot like English heh

Byte Commander

seems to apply to all languages... except Python maybe ;-)

Serg

Ugh, at least English is easier to pick up than Russian. Learned that via helping my Chinese friends who are studying abroad in Russia

IanC

english - 1 article for all genders
portuguese - 2 articles, 1 for each gender
german - 3 articles, I'd imagine 1 for each gender and 1 for objects, but NAH, why make this language easy?

Der (maskulin), Die (Feminin), Das (Neutral)
Then you have Fraulein (lady), and instead of using Die and make it easy to deduce, they decide to use Das

Serg

00:40

ja, sprachen Deutsch, nicht firshtein

IanC

I've learned german a while back, but has been a while I don't practice it, forgot many things

Zacharee1

@Serg I think you just killed @ByteCommander with that "German"

Serg

@ByteCommander I think it's quite possible for two people nto talk exclusively in Python

@Zacharee1 ikr, I'm so pro

insults for the programmers: I'm gonna foobar the char out of you

Zacharee1

fsck /dev/sdyou

Serg

marvelous

10 mins

Zacharee1

00:51

?

Serg

before exam

IanC

I think I'll try to take a nap, see if I can wake up to surf early tomorrow

want to test the gopro :)

good night!

TheXed

01:59

Anyone want a copy of Off World Trading Company?

Zacharee1

wut

TheXed

@Zacharee1 video game, do you want it?

Zacharee1

nah

Philip Kirkbride