The Nineteenth Byte

Anonymous

6:00 AM

I would consider "warning" to be "something unusual happened, but we can still continue"

Anonymous

@QPaysTaxes Error

Anonymous

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Q: When to use the different log levels?

There are different ways to log messages, in order of fatality: FATAL ERROR WARN INFO DEBUG TRACE How to decide when to use which? What's a good heuristic to use?

Geobits

Well, some logging libraries use trace level also.

shit ninja

Fatalize

call it GenericError then

Quill

@QPaysTaxes you should make that second one play a sound effect before crashing

Anonymous

6:01 AM

@QPaysTaxes Your teacher sounds shitty

Quill

that's awesome :D

Geobits

How about duckandcover?

zyabin101

@Fatalize what is a s**tstorm?

Anonymous

I would do debug (you only care about this if you're looking at the code), info (generic heads-up messages about starting/stopping operations), warning (something unusual happened but it was handled/it's not a big enough problem for you to worry about it), error (something went wrong and the thing you were trying to do didn't work), and fatal (something went really wrong kthxbai)

Fatalize

@zyabin101 this

Geobits

6:03 AM

@zyabin101 Exactly what it sounds like. Shit's flying everywhere, but mostly coming down from above.

halt and catch fire?

zyabin101

Ah.

Alex A.

Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm

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I think it's this

Sherlock9

Ah, the old HCF error

Halt and Catch Fire XD

Anonymous

@QPaysTaxes But that's the standard nomenclature. Call out your teacher on being ridiculous. Actually, don't do that. That's the remnants of inebriated Mego talking.

Fatalize

@AlexA. fairly good

Alex A.

6:05 AM

@Fatalize I'm not a big fan of that particular song, actually. I prefer Love and Relentless if I'm going to listen to SYL.

Anonymous

"Error" means "something went wrong, it's still running, but the thing you were trying to do didn't work"

Anonymous

If your teacher doesn't like the word "Error" for that, it's clear that they are unreasonable, so you might as well call it a "Mego".

Alex A.

@Geobits ಠ_ಠ

@QPaysTaxes Exception

Fatalize

@QPaysTaxes call it FAULT?

Geobits

@AlexA. I have no idea what that's for >_>

Anonymous

6:06 AM

Just like irl

Quill

@QPaysTaxes sounds a bit like Avian flu

Geobits

I like how ERROR is too generic, but FAULT would work.

Anonymous

"ME GO back to where me was before because me no worky right"

Fatalize

like a fault in sport, it's an error but the game doesn't end

Anonymous

@QPaysTaxes Congratulations on being #1

Fatalize

6:08 AM

stumble? slip-up? screw-up? fumble?

Quill

Gonna declare the synonymisation of "The Nineteenth Byte" to mean "Hilarity Ensues"

Fatalize

strike if he likes baseball?

Geobits

@Quill This is too meta for TNB. You want meta.tnb

Just name it after the teacher. That can't possibly go wrong.

Alex A.

throw(mrJohnson)

Anonymous

I had an idea for a nearly-impossible-to-use programming language. You start with a large array of bits (let's say 100K). The array starts with the first bits equal to the input (so an input of 8 would start with 1000), and the rest of the bits are random. You can't directly manipulate the bits, but you can manipulate the entropy of the array.

Geobits

6:12 AM

Ok, so if I say entropy--, what happens?

Fatalize

entropy lowers, duh

Anonymous

The entropy decreases by a set amount, which causes the array to be less random.

Quill

@AlexA. throw(lemonGrenades)

Geobits

@Fatalize Thanks, capitaine évident.

Fatalize

@Geobits capitaine évident ಠ_ಠ

Geobits

6:13 AM

@Mego But how does it decide what to change to get "less random"?

Kenny Lau

*évidente

Fatalize

no, évident

Alex A.

@Quill throw(baseball)

Quill

@AlexA. throw(aTantrum)

Fatalize

unles the capitaine is a woman, but by default it's not

throw(incomplete)

Kenny Lau

6:14 AM

My fault, I thought capitaine is feminine.

Anonymous

So let's disregard the leading bits from the input. The array would be entirely random - you had no guarantee that a specific bit is a 0 or a 1. By decreasing the entropy by 1 unit, you'd get an array where one bit is guaranteed to be a certain value (we'll say a 1 for simplicity).

Fatalize

@KennyLau it can be both depending on who you are referring to, but by default we assume it's masculine

Maltysen

> One may not dye a duckling blue and offer it for sale unless more than six are for sale at once.

Wonder what the story is behind that one...

Anonymous

So entropy--; would result in one more bit in the array being locked in as a 1 (though you don't know which bit).

Kenny Lau

@Fatalize oui d'accord bien sur

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