Please for the love of god NEVER use strncpy. If your buffer doesn't have enough space, it copies the bytes from source and doesn't write a trailing zero byte, so now you have a trap just waiting to spring on you. It's the worst design possible.
I disagree: What you say is true, it omits the trailing \0, but this is strictly better than strcpy which just goes straight for UB at the point of use. Or the way I've used it is to make sure the string is initialised with 0 at the end and always use size-1 for the n in strncpy.
There's also strlcpy which is not standard but not uncommon.
In addition, calling strncpy() to copy into a buffer of n bytes takes O (n). 5 bytes into a megabyte buffer sets a million bytes to 0.
That's incorrect.
Write two helper functions. One that...
Or don't use C. It's kin of crazy we're even having this discussion.
I think go is the closest to your requested feature list.
The GP, not mine. And yuck, no thanks. Go just seems, well, deeply mediocre in many places. It's like someone pdated C, ignoreing the last 40 years of language developments.
Sure I can program without generics, I'm at a loss to see why I'd want to though.
Is there a programming language out there, that is as fast as C++ or even C, has a proper strict type system (no duck typing, nothing like Python or JS), fast garbage collection
No.
Neither will there be. There's always a penalty for garbage collection.
You're the kind of muppet (see your post above) who claims that rust is magically insecure because it has fanbois. Then you (clearly a C fanboi) writes code like this:
I mean don't get me wrong, if it entertains you to be be ignorant and base your opinions on that, go nuts. Oh! Ans speaking of which:
A measurement that is so awkward that it is now measured by an absurd fraction of the arbitrary length of time based on oscillations of a cesium isotope atom, that fraction measuring the distance light travels in a vacuum over the fraction of a second.
Huh so it turns out you don't know much abut metric, imperial OR metrology. Caesium atom hyperfine transitions and the speed of light are the most accurate ways we can measure time and distance with current technology. Whatever our choice os units, we'd represent them in those terms at our current tech level.
But I guess that ignorance is just trolling, right? Sure thing buddy!
But I answered the question of acres, and it is even yummier than I thought https://www.onthemarket.com/de... It is hectares, followed by acres in paren.
Yummy? You have quite peculiar tastes, I must say. It's kind of cute you think you've found a deep truth. The UK is definitely a split country in this regard. Our transition to metric started more recently than the continent and we have many vestiges remaining, which are unlikely to change soon.
Day to day (and ignoring cases where you're following something old with imperial measurements), people talk about weight of humans in pounds and stone and most other things in metric, except cooking for some older people. Long distances are in miles, height of people in feet and inches and everything else in a bizarre mix. No one uses yards any more. Anything further than about 20 feet is generally metric. Anything below half an inch is in milimeters. No one uses thous which are mils over and anyway milimeters has stolen that name.
People talk about cars in horsepower but no one really has any idea what one is, and power of just about everything else is in Watts. I've seen things with BTU/Hr measurements on them but I've literally never heard anyone use the phrase.
Few younger than my parents generation uses Farenheit. Land area is almost always acres for some reason though few people have any intuitive idea how large an acre is. When it gets really big it's measured in Wales'. No one has any idea how big that is either.
Pressure is all over the place. Blood pressure is still mm/Hg and is unlikely to change. Plenty of doctors still have mercury filled U-tubes. Br is pretty common. I think some people still use lbf/in^2. Weather is usually in mb.
Everything technical is in metric. Construction is in mm. I've not heard even old builders use imperial in years.
Cricket pitches are and always be one chain long. No one seems to care how wide they are but you can be bloody well sure they're a chain long.
We by our beer in pints (568ml, not 473ml). And milk about half the time I gather, though I don't buy milk.
(1) It is dominated by people who moan and moralize about what other people "ought" to be doing,
No, it's dominated by people who assume the only way they know is the only way thats possible.
That statement presupposes that "improving service" could ever have allowed mass transit to keep up.
It has more than done so in other countries.
How do you "compete" with personal transit that takes you from door to door, on your own schedule, day or night,
How do you compete with being able to ride absolutely sozzled or not getting stuck for an hour in a traffic jam at rush hour?
without having to worry about being assaulted or robbed by someone riding with you?
I've never been assulted on public transport. I ride every day for work and I used to commute past Millwall, sometimes at match times. Maybe I dunno you're doing a crap job of pblic transport and assuming that being crap is the only way. It was inevitable that mass transit would lose out when automobiles came on the scene.
And yet many major metropolitan areas in other parts of the world have large, efficient, effective and expanding mass transit schemes.
Mass transit just can't compete with personal transportation, except in the very densest urban environments
Of which there are plenty but the mass transit is still rubbish.
Yeah but you're the kind of lazy un American traitor who rides on roads made by other people like you're some sort of filthy free-loading liberal. Until you make your own roads you can't claim to be free and unreliant on anyone else.
You seem pretty desparate for validation from me. I'm sorry man, it just wasn't a funny enough "joke" and I'm just not gonna laugh no matter how much you beg.
Don''t find it funny? Argue with the moderators.
Wowzers, you get validation from the moderators here. That's... a thing.
But they do need to understand that is what is intended. Even the post you are replying to is a metric joke.
Your first attempt of a mean spirited parody of people who prefer metric by someone who doesn't actually understand the system (as you have showed). Thing is you need to understand it to actually send it up. To someone who does understand it, it seemed very cack-handed. As for the second one, yes, I guess? You know sort of downhill with a following wind. Factor of 10 errors happen about as often as people confuse yards and feet I guess.
Chillaxe me hearty
I'm quite relaxed, thanks, but it doesn't make your attempts at jokes any funnier.
tl;dr: if everyone thinks it is funny but you, the problem is you.
A couple of slashtod mods == everyone. Now that is funny.
Ah yes, the last resort of the desperate. If you can't argue on facts and can't win on emotion, try blaming the other person's sense of humor. I guess that means you have conceded that the imperial system is objectively more arbitrary, though in the last gracious way possible..
Unlike yours, my sense of humor actually works properly. Not only do I laugh when things are actually funny, I'm capable of telling when things aren't funny too.
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At the high school I work at, there's at least 3 kids that are like "I want to be an actuary"
That's like saying "I want to be an acconutant when I grow up", except for people who find accountancy too stimulating.
It's par for the course here that calling out obvious bullshit gets you modded down by the "OMG SJW EVERYBODY PANIC" crowd.
. If there is a 10 year lull in hurricanes, will anyone do a study to see if climate change is responsible?
Of course they would. Your entire point is predicated on the assumption that scientists are probably shit.
You should be supporting efforts to bring broadband to rural America. I sure as heck do.
Even without the political angle, having a country functioning everywhere you go seems like a really good idea for a variety of reasons.
However, if you have moved into a rural area in the last 5 or 10 years, then you knew what you were getting.
The compaines were still paid to deliver it. Lots of tax money was flat-out stolen. Nothing absolves that or makes it better.
. I live in Seattle
Says the guy who claimed to live in SV on $50,000 a year.
I think
s/SV/mom's basement/
s/$50,000/50000 cheetos bags/
Am I the only one that thinks, "Someone with an iMac, iPhone, and iPad..." sounds like the beginning of a bartender joke?
Maybe? I was just thinking "wanker".
the fuck did you think Trump hired him to do?
Oh I thought it was Trump draining the swamp you know, draining it from the DC metro area right into the whitehouse.
Check the man page.
I did.
But apparently I didn't read far enough!
Looks like I was wrong.
Please for the love of god NEVER use strncpy. If your buffer doesn't have enough space, it copies the bytes from source and doesn't write a trailing zero byte, so now you have a trap just waiting to spring on you. It's the worst design possible.
I disagree: What you say is true, it omits the trailing \0, but this is strictly better than strcpy which just goes straight for UB at the point of use. Or the way I've used it is to make sure the string is initialised with 0 at the end and always use size-1 for the n in strncpy.
There's also strlcpy which is not standard but not uncommon.
In addition, calling strncpy() to copy into a buffer of n bytes takes O (n). 5 bytes into a megabyte buffer sets a million bytes to 0.
That's incorrect.
Write two helper functions. One that...
Or don't use C. It's kin of crazy we're even having this discussion.
I think go is the closest to your requested feature list.
The GP, not mine. And yuck, no thanks. Go just seems, well, deeply mediocre in many places. It's like someone pdated C, ignoreing the last 40 years of language developments.
Sure I can program without generics, I'm at a loss to see why I'd want to though.
Is there a programming language out there, that is as fast as C++ or even C, has a proper strict type system (no duck typing, nothing like Python or JS), fast garbage collection
No.
Neither will there be. There's always a penalty for garbage collection.
You're the kind of muppet (see your post above) who claims that rust is magically insecure because it has fanbois. Then you (clearly a C fanboi) writes code like this:
while (*dest++ = *src++);
Please for the love of god use strncpy.
Real code warriors don't need static types. If a variable is so badly named that the type is not clear, use type().
pfaaah. Real programmers don't need names. If the type of a variable is not obvious from context, get another job.
It's a Republican dominated legislature.
I wonder if I'm r get down modded for stating an indisputable fact. My guess is yes.
We live in the age of #metoo.
It's dreadful, really. Women and men in weaker positions getting all uppity and refusing to just shut up like good little peons.
Any professor that would house a student is just asking to lose their career.
You've certainly demonstrated we live in the age of wild fearmongering.
adaptive adroit who's major vice is enjoying the trolling of fussy people.
What you want to believe:
You: cunning logical knots
Me: waaaaahhhh
What actually happens:
You: ill-informed opinion
Me: no that's stupid
You: lol i trol u lolololololol
In other words, you're this guy:
http://lol.i.trollyou.com/
I mean don't get me wrong, if it entertains you to be be ignorant and base your opinions on that, go nuts. Oh! Ans speaking of which:
A measurement that is so awkward that it is now measured by an absurd fraction of the arbitrary length of time based on oscillations of a cesium isotope atom, that fraction measuring the distance light travels in a vacuum over the fraction of a second.
Huh so it turns out you don't know much abut metric, imperial OR metrology. Caesium atom hyperfine transitions and the speed of light are the most accurate ways we can measure time and distance with current technology. Whatever our choice os units, we'd represent them in those terms at our current tech level.
But I guess that ignorance is just trolling, right? Sure thing buddy!
But I answered the question of acres, and it is even yummier than I thought https://www.onthemarket.com/de... It is hectares, followed by acres in paren.
Yummy? You have quite peculiar tastes, I must say. It's kind of cute you think you've found a deep truth. The UK is definitely a split country in this regard. Our transition to metric started more recently than the continent and we have many vestiges remaining, which are unlikely to change soon.
Day to day (and ignoring cases where you're following something old with imperial measurements), people talk about weight of humans in pounds and stone and most other things in metric, except cooking for some older people. Long distances are in miles, height of people in feet and inches and everything else in a bizarre mix. No one uses yards any more. Anything further than about 20 feet is generally metric. Anything below half an inch is in milimeters. No one uses thous which are mils over and anyway milimeters has stolen that name.
People talk about cars in horsepower but no one really has any idea what one is, and power of just about everything else is in Watts. I've seen things with BTU/Hr measurements on them but I've literally never heard anyone use the phrase.
Few younger than my parents generation uses Farenheit. Land area is almost always acres for some reason though few people have any intuitive idea how large an acre is. When it gets really big it's measured in Wales'. No one has any idea how big that is either.
Pressure is all over the place. Blood pressure is still mm/Hg and is unlikely to change. Plenty of doctors still have mercury filled U-tubes. Br is pretty common. I think some people still use lbf/in^2. Weather is usually in mb.
Everything technical is in metric. Construction is in mm. I've not heard even old builders use imperial in years.
Cricket pitches are and always be one chain long. No one seems to care how wide they are but you can be bloody well sure they're a chain long.
We by our beer in pints (568ml, not 473ml). And milk about half the time I gather, though I don't buy milk.
I guess it IS time for you to all start sucking each others dicks
You sound jealous and like you want your dick sucked.
Look, I'm not going to pick on you any more, because my mother taught me better. Rant if you like, it might release your demons for a while
Huh your jokes do seem to be improving; fancy that! At least that was pretty funny. Intended, I presume?
(1) It is dominated by people who moan and moralize about what other people "ought" to be doing,
No, it's dominated by people who assume the only way they know is the only way thats possible.
That statement presupposes that "improving service" could ever have allowed mass transit to keep up.
It has more than done so in other countries.
How do you "compete" with personal transit that takes you from door to door, on your own schedule, day or night,
How do you compete with being able to ride absolutely sozzled or not getting stuck for an hour in a traffic jam at rush hour?
without having to worry about being assaulted or robbed by someone riding with you?
I've never been assulted on public transport. I ride every day for work and I used to commute past Millwall, sometimes at match times. Maybe I dunno you're doing a crap job of pblic transport and assuming that being crap is the only way.
It was inevitable that mass transit would lose out when automobiles came on the scene.
And yet many major metropolitan areas in other parts of the world have large, efficient, effective and expanding mass transit schemes.
Mass transit just can't compete with personal transportation, except in the very densest urban environments
Of which there are plenty but the mass transit is still rubbish.
Poe's law, my man, Poe's law.
Truer words were never spoken.
Yeah but you're the kind of lazy un American traitor who rides on roads made by other people like you're some sort of filthy free-loading liberal. Until you make your own roads you can't claim to be free and unreliant on anyone else.
I feel quite sorry for you.
Yay?
You not only have a real problem with humor
We already established that wasn't the case.
you appear to have some deep seated anger issues.
You seem pretty desparate for validation from me. I'm sorry man, it just wasn't a funny enough "joke" and I'm just not gonna laugh no matter how much you beg.
Don''t find it funny? Argue with the moderators.
Wowzers, you get validation from the moderators here. That's... a thing.
But they do need to understand that is what is intended. Even the post you are replying to is a metric joke.
Your first attempt of a mean spirited parody of people who prefer metric by someone who doesn't actually understand the system (as you have showed). Thing is you need to understand it to actually send it up. To someone who does understand it, it seemed very cack-handed. As for the second one, yes, I guess? You know sort of downhill with a following wind. Factor of 10 errors happen about as often as people confuse yards and feet I guess.
Chillaxe me hearty
I'm quite relaxed, thanks, but it doesn't make your attempts at jokes any funnier.
tl;dr: if everyone thinks it is funny but you, the problem is you.
A couple of slashtod mods == everyone. Now that is funny.
Ah yes, the last resort of the desperate. If you can't argue on facts and can't win on emotion, try blaming the other person's sense of humor. I guess that means you have conceded that the imperial system is objectively more arbitrary, though in the last gracious way possible..
Unlike yours, my sense of humor actually works properly. Not only do I laugh when things are actually funny, I'm capable of telling when things aren't funny too.
Seriously, is anything [...] really bad for you in moderation?
Plutonium.