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I tend to agree ... until I don't. That is to say, I appreciate not having to deal with them until I'm given occasion to miss them. Sometimes - and I find quite often in C and C++, there's a much more elegant and/or efficient solution to be had using pointers than working without them.
I tend to like the STL because it takes away the need for pointers, but doesn't prevent you from using them.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm in two minds on that: it is certainly nice when coding to have options and 'power' to operate at a lower level when it seems like a good idea, but historically the misuse of pointers by programmers caused absolute havoc.
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24 hours ahead of schedule (and a year behind at the same time): The Grand Tour: A Massive Hunt[^] is finally out on Prime.
Yay!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I would watch it nob, but I'm at work. I suppose I'll spend some time this weekend catchin' up with those three.
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Rats! I thought you were referring to The Expanse, but then I remembered I already watched episode 1 of season 5!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You do realize they dropped S05E01...S05E03 incl. yesterday?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes, but Herself rationed my time to watch one episode a day. We are taking care of the grandkids during the day, then I am not allowed to watch TE due to the violence and bad language.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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There is no violence and bad language in The Expanse.
There is a lot of violence and appropriate language!
I was watching a dashcam video on Youtube a week or so ago, and a car on the other carriageway just dived up a bank, fell over, and rolled across the road in front of the camera car.
The drivers voice just went "F*******ck!"
And a little voice chimed in from the back: "What does that mean Mommy?"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My kid and I watched it last night. Started out good, then became disappointing.
I did like that the boys were getting along better.
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std::brexit(0); // does this really terminate the process?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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No, it enters an infinite loop.
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Maybe if you change the parameter to €5,000,000,000.
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Process exit status 0 means success. Looks too much optimistic.
Definitions of optimistic
hopeful and confident about the future.
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11917640 Member wrote: the future Surely it could not be worse than than the present?
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Well, we could have flagellants walking the streets...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It will kick your dog, steal your girlfriend and finally, give you a BSOD
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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I collect BSODs like trophies. My computer is a wasteland of core dumps, broken updates and failure.
It's probably time I just buy a new one.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Apparently it's not a standard function - with different compilers having different ways of trying to execute it.
In most systems, it has been shown to just hang the program.
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The great adventure is only just about to begin!
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It just makes your program hang.
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update to yesterday's snow thread...
not 8-14 inches, but 22+ inches.
been snowing since 9pm last night and will stop around 1pm today.
Light fluffy snow. should make for easier removal.
I guess it is winter time now. Tis the season to be jolly...or something like that.
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Way down here, a barrier island south of Long Island (NY), we seem to have about 3" (7-8 cm). Wind, however, was pretty fierce all night and still is.
I haven't opened the door yet - the price for the lucky showing (neither the 8" nor 12" previously predicted until it was almost upon us) is that it is likely to be very wet - the snow broke for rain for a while, then resumed. It may even have a frozen layer (hopefully only on top).
The wind still sounds nice.
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I haven't even seen 22in of snow since the blizzard of '93 (southeastern US.) Part of me wants just one good snow; enough to build a snowman with the kids. After that, the novelty is gone and it can go away.
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Funny thing about getting older:
You begin to prefer sand castles on the beach to snowmen on the lawn.
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