fuzztester

thanks.

After going through HTDP I was able to breeze through complex problems that were unsolvable before.

examples?

token cost, for one.

bobby tables, for another.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png

Niiice ...

I'll byte the bullet.

Hang on a bit while I register that in my memory.

generate x86 and ARM

So that hardly anyone can review the machine language output, I guess.

HN users' minds be like:

87.654321 %: JS? yeah. mainhipsterstream. gotta be a part. heart.

smaller %: Rust? wannabe. donno how, u c.

much smaller %: C? oh no ... numeric underflow.

Congrats on moving over to the light side.

>Humans have been thinking long before writing was invented.

And look how poorly they did it until they invented writing.

Yeah, look how poorly they did it until they invented writing.

[peers into the dim ancient past]

Sorry, my time-machine spectacles are on leave or on strike today.

And congrats on being a multi-millen(ium)arian, and a mind reader, who could both 1) exist so far back in the past, and 2) be able to know the thoughts of people who didn't write them down, because they didn't know writing.

/s

dump out assembly?

aargh! haalp!

Which rock are you living under these days.

Nowadays everything is IR or MLIR ... or AIR ...

whoops, i may have skipped a few generations. hard to keep up with the dynamic pace these days. got a job to save. sorry suh.

mumble javascript mumble framework of the half-week ...

walks off muttering

I consider Ghostty the best video terminal emulator that I have used. For now, I have not encountered any noticeable bug yet, even if I spend a lot of time using it.

Is there a way to encounter an unnoticeable bug?

I do not doubt that there may exist some bugs or missing features, but it seems unlikely that they can be seen during typical workflows.

Boyoboyoboy. It seems that you have never heard of the concept of combinatorial explosion, which in software testing, means that due to the zillions of different execution paths, plenty of bugs, which are undetected, can still exist, and can very easily not be found by just one lone ranger using some software package, no matter how long they use it, at least within a few years.

For decades, I have used a great number of video terminal emulators.

Were you using that great number of emulators serially, or parallely, in those decades?

If parallely, you must have spend less time on each, than "for decades" implies.

If serially, you must have spent a great number of decades to use a great number of emulators.

This seems like a hastily put together comment.

Thanks, will check out those links.

yep. it's their loss. sad sacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Sack

I read many of those sad sack comic strips, and many others, like dennis the menace, richie rich, archie (archie, betty, veronica, reggie, moose, midge and jughead), casper the friendly ghost, phantom, etc., in paper comic books, as a kid.

somewhat or quite entertaining, depending on which strip, i gotta say.

the image of sad sack sitting on a stool n peeling potatoes is imprinted in my memory, ha ha. hey sarge.

good times ...

It was Kamala, bro. biden was replaced by a humanoid robot for his 12 last months in office. trump was one of the founders and the CEO (Chief Executed Officer) of that robot company. he's also gonna be the next Pope. just you wait ...

ah, downvoter fuckster hners who cant handle anyone who thinks differently from their shitty hive mind ...

I've read some part of this thread, but I didn't see anyone mentioning D as a better C.

I saw that video just a few days ago and agree that it is quite a good one.

I liked the way Andy talked throughout the video, and also thought the interviewer's questions were very good.

thanks

In what ways have they gone back to Pascal style?

What is Thunderbird written in. #lazyweb #nollm ;)

How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot:

https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~comp03a/misc/humour/shootfoot....

For what types of work do you Janet in production?

There are many open source compiler and interpreter projects on github.

also:

https://github.com/BaseMax/AwesomeInterpreter

and probably there is one for compilers too.

iow, it's the equivalent of your common or garden variety of teenager proclaiming that this new thing they just found is gr8, all else is shite, only to jump on the next bandwagon next week, month, or more rarely, year.

It’s the new “…on the blockchain”.

yes, except it's more ... on the same lines, just to hammer the point home:

it's web 2, it's SaaS, it's the latest weekly, er, sorry, daily, hottest JS framework, its the latest rap / punk / hippie / dreadlock / crewcut / swami / grunge/ guru hairstyle, it's agile, it's functional programming, it's OOP, it's OOAD, it's UML, its the Unix philosophy, its Booch notation, it's CASE tools, ... going back even further, it's structured programming, it's high-level languages, it's assemblers, its veganism, it's the keto diet, it's the Atkins diet, it's the paleo diet, it's cholesterol is bad, no, it's good, etc etc etc.

Lincoln?

tl;dr ;)

pascal long letter quote

https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/blaise-pascal...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856361

Been there, seen that, got the t-shirt (and the scars), for many of the above points.

The kill fee idea, I got from this video:

"fuck you, pay me" by mike monteiro

https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U

You need to stay on top of things and communicate regularly, even if your client doesn't.

you have to tell them that they have to communicate regularly too. otherwise, how can business be done. how can issues be sorted out. they will blame you for the issues later, although they did not discuss them with you. aka cya syndrome.

if they continue not to do it, you should fire them. or use reverse signoff protocol.

"we mutually agreed at the start of this engagement, that if you don't sign off on acceptance of a given deliverable within x days, it is understood that you have accepted it and will pay for it".

If it happens more than once, leave them. it indicates they don't take you seriously.

all such terms should be put in the contract, initially.

if they don't agree to such mutually protective terms, don't sign the contract at all.

Negotiate a kill fee for the contract too.

I would absolutely not offer freebies. That telegraphs desperation. Instead, offer a free initial consultation for a 1 hour meeting,

that is still a freebie, though, by definition. if you offer anything for free, it is a freebie.

and, offering a freebie does not necessarily signal desperation. i am not saying that one should not offer freebies, or even that one should. it all depends. and many variations are possible.

For example, escrow, via a services marketplace.

And I bet emacs has a mode for that too.

I've heard it's called falling, er, failing upwards.

got it, thanks.