mormegil

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[–] mormegil@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Its written vibe.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

That's an aladeen idea!

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] mormegil@programming.dev 77 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Tells you exactly what and at which line the problem is?

Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from std::nonstd::__map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars>const basic_string<epic_mystery,mongoose_traits<char>, __default_alloc_<casual_Fridays = maybe>>

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, strtok is a terrible misfeature, a relic of ancient times, but it's plainly the heritage of C, not C++ (just like e.g. strcpy). The C++ problems are things like braced initialization list having different meaning depending on the set of available constructors, or the significantly non-zero cost of various abstractions, caused by strange backward-compatible limitations of the standard/ABI definitions, or the distinctness of vector<bool> etc.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Int3 is a special single-byte (CC, if I recall correctly) form of the INT instruction (which is CD imm8, I think) to raise an interrupt. Interrupt #3 is the debugging interrupt, so by overwriting any instruction with CC, you place a breakpoint there.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Beware the DWIM!

In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete *$ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported *$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'. It then started to delete all the files on the disk!

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 31 points 1 year ago

It's not as easy as it sounds, sometimes the screens are all wrong!! https://xkcd.com/722/

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

In a bank we work for, there is a mandatory security training for employees, mandated by the parent supranational. The bank tried to correct the mistakes in the training or at least make the training optional, as the bank provides its own, more correct program. Rejected by the mother company, mandatory training is mandatory, even if it is wrong.

 

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