The OFFICIAL programming thread

Jam

Did WWIIOL go down at the same time?

Kilemall

@stu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran / Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

That’s enough to get whole industries that cave into tens of people.

Okay, I just created a variable called toBeOrNotToBe and I’m feeling rather pleased with myself.

// Validate is array / not array
const expectArray = kind === PROPERTY_ARRAY;
const isArray = Array.isArray(property);
if (expectArray !== isArray) {
    const toBeOrNotToBe = expectArray ? 'to be' : 'not to be';
    throw new Error(`Expected '${joined}' property ${toBeOrNotToBe} array.`);
}

I haven’t run the above code yet (it’s part of a bigger module) so it might be buggy.

Pakoon

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Kilemall

@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Woudn’t that be a nunarray?

Whoofe

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@stu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ok who was it??

Rick Moran / Feb 3, 2022

Lone U.S. Hacker Brings Down Entire North Korean Internet – Twice

A lone U.S. hacker who goes by the handle “P4x” is claiming responsibility for shutting

Tens of people were angered!

That’s enough to get whole industries that cave into tens of people.

thats what twitter was created for

oyaji

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Get thee to a nunnery!!!111

Woudn’t that be a nunarray?

i thought it was a whorehouse.

Gators1

This should be useful to you all…

Jim Butterfield Commodore 64 Training Tape - FULL Length C64

Kilemall

@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

This should be useful to you all…

Jim Butterfield Commodore 64 Training Tape - FULL Length C64

I’ve got one buried in a box somewhere.

I feel confident it will power up.

Have no confidence the floppy drive would though.

Tazz

I’ve been playing around with Gtk 3 programming and the api is a hot mess. It’s also a moving target with so much refactoring and deprecation even in between minor version changes. But while searching for answers to problems, I kept coming back to docs and examples in the Vala programming language. I’d never heard of Vala before but apparently it is:

an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system.

So C with Objects? Sound familiar? Yeah well I’ve been learning it since yesterday and whilst I’ve never liked C++, I kind of do like what I’ve seen of Vala so far. It uses reference counting garbage collection and has a lot of syntactic sugar in the language to make programming in it quite pleasant. I don’t think it’s a replacement for C++, well probably not, but as a C#-like language that doesn’t need a run time like mono or .NET it’s kind of attractive to me.

It’s been around since 2006 and hasn’t caught the world by storm so it’s probably not going to now but it might be worth playing with if you have any new Gtk projects in your future.

Kilemall

So in looking this all up, looks like you do user interface work for apps?

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

So in looking this all up, looks like you do user interface work for apps?

Me? Yeah, but for work I do javascript / web front end work. Well, full stack (front end and back end) as often as not.

But this is just a throwaway personal project that I’m using Gtk for. And yeah, Gtk is a Ui widget library. Gommonly used in Gnome (Ubuntu’s standard desktop environment) but also in other stand alone applications.

What I’m actually building is my own task bar and application menu. I forget what the windows terminology is but it’s the bar along the bottom with the start button, the currently running apps and the notifications and clock on theright. Plus the Start menu.

Kilemall

When it’s web, you gotta attach what the website/UI presentation is doing with the underlying app and ultimately database one way or another. You could probably MAKE the website or thick client BE the app, but boy I’m not keen on exposing everything on the user device.

Someday when the product goes EOL and it doesn’t matter, I’ll have to explain how one product I was admin of worked. I think you would find it horrifying and elegant at the same time.

Tazz

Not sure if this belongs here but anyway: Tigger was right! Analog > Digital.

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Gators1

You are dead to me!

Wingmann

You mean that he is <.5 or he would be >.5 and be 93 to 98% alive.

Kilemall

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Not sure if this belongs here but anyway: Tigger was right! Analog > Digital.

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

In Traveller Robots, the brains have mixes of linear, parallel and/or synaptic CPUs. This was pretty good stuff given that the ruleset was written in 1986 and parallel computers were mostly in the lab.

Traveller Book 8: Robots - Wikipedia

One of the big limits of the robots in the ruleset is that synaptic processors at ‘too high’ percentage where the software and error checking occurs makes robots go crazy. You want more of them, but you don’t want the robot driving your vehicle or operating on a human to lose their marbles.

Kind of shows it’s age though, just designing a vehicle mounted robot brain to drive a car and nothing else is something like Cr30000.

Gators1

Isn’t there a Traveller thread so we don’t have to listen to this crap in other threads?