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modified 31-Jan-23 6:25am.

OriginalGriff31-Jan-23 0:06

OriginalGriff

31-Jan-23 0:06

You are up tomorrow - care to explain?

pkfox31-Jan-23 0:48

31-Jan-23 0:48

You're back early

OriginalGriff31-Jan-23 2:05

OriginalGriff

31-Jan-23 2:05

I just got back - there was a lull while they gave Herself a breathing test, so I picked up on my phone.

pkfox31-Jan-23 4:30

31-Jan-23 4:30

She ok ?

OriginalGriff31-Jan-23 4:45

OriginalGriff

31-Jan-23 4:45

Yes - just a checkup. Increased her O^{2 for "walking around" from 4 to 6 l/min, and doubled the number of O² tanks I need to find space for, but no new problems.

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pkfox31-Jan-23 6:40

worldle374 - you can do it

31-Jan-23 6:40

Glad to hear that

jmaida30-Jan-23 16:38

Re: worldle374 - you can do it

30-Jan-23 16:38

#Worldle #374 1/6 (100%)
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ChandraRam30-Jan-23 21:27

ChandraRam

30-Jan-23 21:27

This one is easy, relatively... I stopped looking everyday when they started with the small islands. Smile | :)

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Re: worldle374 - you can do it

jmaida31-Jan-23 13:02

31-Jan-23 13:02

I agree, but I do them as a learning event. Places I have never heard of.
One has to use a map for those small island ones and even then it requires multiple guesses to narrow it down.

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code review

Super Lloyd30-Jan-23 14:43

30-Jan-23 14:43

I often feel like code review are mostly filled with unneeded comment for the sake of commenting or to take some sort of "ownership" that doesn't do anything special beside burdening the reviewee with a special cosmetic change udpate.

Anyway, someone was updating my code and I was feeling revengeful so I also asserted my opinion on purely cosmetic and totally irrelevant code! Poke tongue | ;-P

Although, come to think of it, the guy was doing unnecessary work in Dispose() because "that's what is done everywhere", even though it's not needed and closing documents take godamn too long (due to all those unnecessary piece of code running in all those Dispose() methods), mmmrrppphhh... I stick to my gun!

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modified 30-Jan-23 22:55pm.

trønderen30-Jan-23 15:54

trønderen

30-Jan-23 15:54

Super Lloyd wrote:
Anyway, someone was updating my code

One of my earlier co-workers discovered that my code contained a '#define ever ;;' so that I could write an infinite loop as 'for (ever) { ...'. A few years earlier, I was working in a CHILL environment; in CHILL 'DO FOR EVER' is a part of the base language.

This construction made my coworker so upset that he not only changed it where he had discovered it; he searched through the entire code base of the company for other uses, and found a good handful; I had been programming with 'for (ever) {' for a couple of years by then (in embedded software, infinite loops are commonplace), changing every one of them to 'while (0) {', adding an angry commit comment that requested everybody to refrain from making such 'jokes' in our program code - we are a serious company!

Then he brought it up at the scrum, to make sure that everybody would know that in our company, we do not code that way.

I asked if we could make it slightly less cryptic by using 'while (true) {', but this fellow would not under any circumstances accept that. According to him, there is one, single way of coding an infinite loop, that is immediately recognized by every programmer in the world, and that is 'while (0)'. So he would not tolerate anything else.

He certainly had no formal authority, completing his degree about three years earlier, having worked in the company for half a year, I was 25 years his senior. I didn't have to accept his dictate. But he had an unbearable arrogance and self confidence that I didn't care to fight against, so I just nodded "OK!".

At least that episode gave me a story to tell - this is certainly not the first time Smile | :)

Super Lloyd30-Jan-23 16:52

30-Jan-23 16:52

Mmmh.... shouldn't it be while (1)?
Now I am worried your colleague might have broken lots of stuff...

Fun story though! I quite like the for (ever) Smile | :)

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jmaida30-Jan-23 17:57

30-Jan-23 17:57

for the spiritualists: Do while( 1 ) { I = Live(); };
for the materialists: Do while( 1 ) { I = Make_Money(); };
P.S. No offense intended just being a silly programmer about forever.

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Super Lloyd30-Jan-23 20:02

30-Jan-23 20:02

Do while (ever) { I = TryToLive() && MakeMoney(); }

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Daniel Pfeffer30-Jan-23 21:28

Daniel Pfeffer

30-Jan-23 21:28

C++

try
{
    Be_Born();
    while (1)
    {
        try
        {
            Live();
            Make_Money();
        }
        catch (FinancialException const& e)
        {
            // handle financial exception
        }
        catch (MedicalException const& e)
        {
            // handle medical exception
        }
    }

}
catch (DeathException const& e)
{
    Die();
}

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jmaida31-Jan-23 12:40

31-Jan-23 12:40

makes sense! Smile | :)

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jmaida31-Jan-23 14:09

31-Jan-23 14:09

excellent. You nailed it.

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trønderen30-Jan-23 20:24

trønderen

30-Jan-23 20:24

Super Lloyd wrote:
Mmmh.... shouldn't it be while (1)?

Of course! Sorry about that typo. I prefer 'for (ever)' Smile | :)

Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-23 21:59

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jan-23 21:59

I faced a similar situation years ago, and met a similar response. Largely because the people "across the pond" could not get their heads around how time zones work, and the 24-hour clock.

GuyThiebaut31-Jan-23 0:12

GuyThiebaut

31-Jan-23 0:12

trønderen wrote:
'while (0)'

What on earth does that do? Sigh | :sigh:

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Super Lloyd31-Jan-23 0:50

31-Jan-23 0:50

while (never)

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trønderen31-Jan-23 0:57

trønderen

31-Jan-23 0:57

Sorry about the typo - if you had read the response from Super Lloyd and my reply to him, you would have known.

I never use 'while (1)' myself - I think of it as a deliberate case of explicit code obfuscation.

Another common practice in the same company was to enclose code under development in 'if (0) {...', to have it syntax checked even though it was not ready for execution yet. I guess that is what caused me to write 'while (0)' rather than 'while (1)'.