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I spent hours implementing a really cool trick that saves a bunch of time in the average case but now it fails test cases because they expect you'll do strictly breadth-first search

ugh they designed their test cases in a way where it'll time out if you use a different search order than they expect

it's not graded on style so they can't even do anything about it

feeling really petty today. for one of our programming assignments we're supposed to make an "arbitrarily large" bit vector but the typedef we can't change is just for a char* with no size/capacity. so I'm just making the char array the size of a pointer and memcpying a pointer into it

rsbatwpl

I am going to redeem myself

dw, this time it's going to be a good programming language

not really, I'm just making this out of boredom lol

yep, pretty much

but yeah it's a cool system

maybe making trailing whitespace affect behavior is a bad idea, I'll rework that slightly

hmm it seems the trailing space gets erased by the code formatting lol

(note the space between the \ and the newline in the second example)

x = "good\
   \; morning"

or

x = "good \
morning"

e.g., to represent the string good morning you could do either of:

oh and I also have \ followed by any amount of whitespace set to erase it during the preprocessing stage (unless a newline follows it, in which case everything after the newline is preserved), and \; set to become the empty string, so you can really easily wrap long strings

pretty much the only weirdness this system causes is that you can write \" on its own to represent the empty string, or \"\" to get the string "

since you could just write { or } if you wanted a literal brace character, and you'd need \\{ or \\} anyway if you wanted the literal text \{ or \}

and again, it doesn't cause any issues since \{ or \} would never be a sensible thing to write in a string literal anyway

I also added a nestable comment syntax with \{ and \}, which can even be used inside of strings

so the code can also contain escape sequences, which behave like they would in strings, which is fine since \ usually does nothing outside of strings anyway

and strings can contain arbitrary unicode/newlines

and I have \" mapped to "", and do CSV-style string parsing where "" is treated as an escaped "

I have them being done as a preprocessor pass before parsing

found a really cursed, but cool, way to do backslash escapes

@Themoonisacheese tbf, you could divide the integer by everything still in the scrollback buffer to make it much faster to find any factors that got lost by it

which is bad when you have a midterm on thursday and are supposed to move some very heavy objects on friday

having the kind of week where I simultaneously thought it was wednesday and friday

the life of a linux user :|

my laptop is in my backpack with its lid shut, supposed to be in sleep mode

My laptpo and my phone are fighting for control of my airpods

@lyxal I think you would like this. There is a club on campus called "Sustainable Earth", which they abbreviate to "SusE", so it's pronounced "sussy"

in the edge detection

you can see the JPEG compression

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer I've gone over my credit limit twice in the last week, that is not a concern :p

most of the other scary labs are in the Mellon Institute, which is pretty far off-campus and access restricted. Although I've heard if you tell them you're there to visit the library they don't question you further if you wander to other places

oh also you can get into the semiconductor postprocessing lab by jamming a credit card in the latch lol

so you can get in with a can of air lol

although with the undergrad analytical chem lab they seem to not realize they're still supposed to lock the primary lock despite the existence of the secondary one

Most of the labs doors do at least have magnetic secondary locks and properly installed kickplates though, which is more than I can say about pretty much anyplace else on campus

@Seggan They're super proud of this lab, so the corridors around is have windows. You can usually see grad students in there working on semiconductor stuff in the clean room suits, we call them "marshmallow people". The windows are ballistic glass and every corner of the lab and the corridor outside it is under supervision by multiple cameras. Maybe CMU's lab security does just suck though, I've accidentally stumbled into three separate BSL-2 facilities

No wonder every hallway bordering it has big roller doors and every room within a hundred meters has a big visible alarm light

(And then others like ammonia, liquid nitrogen, and nitrous)

CMU's nanofabrication lab (the biggest most secure laboratory on campus by far) does not fuck around, I was peering through the window and they have a pipe running along the ceiling just labeled "chlorine"

if it continues I'll take a look at it, may have to be delayed by a week or so because I am very very busy

seems like something may have changed in an API somewhere, it appears to be crashing every time it posts (which prompts it to restart and post all recent posts, which is a bug since it's supposed to check the chat room for dupes first)

it does this sometimes, it's too good at its job(TM)