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In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it’s usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you’re offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that’s likely to be what happens in production code.

But the underlying data type is still T***.

Dynamically allocated multidimensional arrays.

My concern is that if Firefox disappears entirely, all of its forks will also disappear. None of the current forks’ dev teams are set up to be full maintainers of the whole product. They only take what Mozilla release and modify from there.

My local buses used to have something on the screens that would occasionally get stuck in a reboot loop between something that looked a bit like BIOS text and then MS-DOS. This was over a decade ago though. The screens were designed to switch between different views from the bus’s various cameras. I think the idea was to discourage anti-social behaviour by reminding people they were being watched.

But I guess the contract ended and things proved too expensive or too hard to maintain because the next batch of buses didn’t have screens in them. The cameras didn’t go anywhere though.

The Internet Archive has a 184MB .cbz file that allegedly contains them all here: https://archive.org/download/user-friendly-comic. Likewise, much of the site itself is archived there.

Be aware that they’re not all going to be winners like the A-N-Y strip is.

The late comic strip User Friendly did this best back in the day. To the point that its take on it is currently the example on its Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly

But if you do decide to do this, and I should stress that this does not constitute a suggestion to do so, make sure to go out in clearly identifiable footwear and clothing and with no head or face coverings so that the camera can get a good look at you before it dies, you filthy, filthy vandal.

Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.

Sharded barf.

A phrase from an ancient meme, that is simultaneously unconnected and also weirdly apt. However you interpret those words.

The meme itself in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb58GaJNpsA

If you’re talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.

But don’t be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn’t been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.

haha forking processes and killing children

wait

What’s your opinion of the word “neologologist” and are you proposing that these “most linguists” are in fact described by it? And what do you think their opinion of it would be? ;p

I envy these linguists’ ability to either not be irked by grammar errors at all or to be able to deal with their irritation when errors arise.

I’m about 50/50 on grammar errors. They bother me either way, but sometimes I feel the need to correct them and try to explain why.

Today I seem to have worded it in a way that’s rubbed people the wrong way. It has gone better. You win some, you lose some.

And yes I know I sound like an LLM. I used to not be able to communicate my ideas at all (flashback to not being able to string a 500 word essay together at school) but then I got a job working technical support and I had to figure out a way of getting my ideas and explanations across. And this is now how I communicate, for better or worse.

Unfortunately, LLMs learned how to communicate in a not dissimilar way. And so we sound alike.

*whose

“who’s” is “who is”[1] or “who has”[2], and it can be wrestled into a possessive if you make “who” all or part of a name[3], but it’s the wrong sort of possessive for this context. If you really want the possessive form, it ought to be phrased “which person’s”, which is mostly what “whose” means.

(An actual linguist would speak more about the genitive and how it works in English, but I’m not as capable.)

[1]: e.g. “Who’s there?” [2]: e.g. “Who’s let the cat out again?” [3]: e.g. “This is you-know-who’s box of tricks.”

Pipewire is newer and emulates PulseAudio so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement. There’s literally a command called pipewire-pulse related to this.

It makes me wonder if they really have both installed or are mistaking Pipewire’s emulation for an active PulseAudio installation, and so it’s just Pipewire that’s acting up.

I’d say reboot, but being in space might be one of those times where that’s a non-starter. In which case, they’re going to have to get their hands dirty unpicking system hooks and trying to reattach them all again as and when Pipewire’s working again, assuming it doesn’t do that automatically.

I never had a problem with either Pipewire or real PulseAudio back when that was current. I had motherboard sound physically pop, requiring the purchase of a separate sound card, but never a driver issue, so I can’t even imagine what might be going on.

There’s something about the mouth on this character that reminds me of this ancient GIF: https://tenor.com/view/cereal-funny-laugh-explode-milk-gif-7566949

Might be nothing there. A skeleton held together by hopes and dreams (or ill will and nightmares) is already pretty creepy as it is.

If Death’s got a prosthesis or a baculum in there, it goes from creepy to, frankly, curious.

At a guess, the counter goes up by fractions of a day internally, but it’s reset by subtracting the integer part, rounded.

The original version wouldn’t have had the rounding but they “fixed” that after the first time they did a reset and it went to 1 not 0.

As to why they wouldn’t just set it to zero, well here we have the joke under a microscope and it’s struggling to stay alive. Put the scalpel down.

NPC.

Oh. I have do the quiz?

It gave me “Multiclass”.

There’s a joke about inheritance in there somewhere. And the fact that no-one will want whatever I leave behind.

Can I choose NPC now?