Posts by Dan 55

"Below-the-line" comments are exempt, but then again have you seen the comments on the Mail, Sun, BBC Speek Yur Brainz, etc...? Perhaps they should be covered after all.

The quote cited above does not appear in transcripts of the Nuremberg trials because although Goering spoke these words during the course of the proceedings, he did not offer them at his trial. His comments were made privately to Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking American intelligence officer and psychologist who was granted free access by the Allies to all the prisoners held in the Nuremberg jail. Gilbert kept a journal of his observations of the proceedings and his conversations with the prisoners, which he later published in the book Nuremberg Diary.

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Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

And if we are believe Moscow then there are no North Korean fighters used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine because they are certainly not running out of their own to throw in the grinder so why would they ever need North Korean soldiers. So it must just be a couple of lost North Korean tourists that Ukraine found wondering the battlefield.

Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

We believe the mainstream media because it's not nonsense posted on X and Facebook by a troll farm in St. Petersburg.

Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

Russia has the GDP of Italy (at least it did before, probably not now) and is running out of weapons:

Russia’s war machine is running on fumes as industry warns of bankruptcies and the Kremlin gets old tanks from movie studio

Luckily for Putler, Trump's going to save his bacon for him before the facades on his Potemkin war fall over and hit the ground, and all the while Trump's thinking that he's gonna to do a huge deal with the bigliest strong man and por ende Trump's also a bigly strong man.

Re: Fire, retrain, redeploy

Odd how you blame socialism and governments when bullshit jobs are a product of the free market economy.

Facts have a well-known liberal bias.

Re: We need more Bluesky thinking

Dorsey was kicked out/left a while back. He has the same ideas about Freeze Peach as the rest of the untouchable billionaire set so it's for the best.

Also, BlueSky is not really decentralised and Dorsey only wanted to aim for decentralisation in the first place for massive bigly Freeze Peech.

Re: There are more and more of shit like this

Copyright is a joke on YouTube, and they just don't give a shit.

This is because there are legal penalties for YouTube if something is not taken down, but no penalties if they fuck up apart from their reputation (which they don't give a shit about now due to where they are in the enshittification timeline). This won't change until the law is changed.

Re: As much use as a chocolate teapot

Who was most affected by the Tories' austerity measures and who was least affected? Maybe reading the first three paragraphs here might give you a hint if you're unsure.

Do forgive the most affected for complaining, they should be doffing their caps I know.

Re: English is one of the easiest human languages

Using a bunch of English infinitives for commands in a programming language is easy, as it would be in for any language. Now if we turn to page 437 of the documentation, with its irregular conjugation and phrasal verbs, that could be more challenging for the non-English speaker.

And not even English people can get the pronunciation right - how do you say sudo? It shouldn't rhyme with Nintendo.

Re: Anyone who has a blanket rule banning GO TOs...

Section 9.6 (goto) of The C++ Programming Language is pretty tame. Are you sure you're not confusing your forrin names?

Re: Anyone who has a blanket rule banning GO TOs...

I'm absolutely in favour of RAII but I find myself using gotos to jump to the "tidy up and return" code at the end of each function/subroutine in those languages which require you to tidy up resources but don't allow RAII as I've yet to find anything better.

Re: pot?

Optane was dropped because there was no real reason for it. All it is is a RAM cache on top of storage, perhaps useful for spinning rust but by the time DDR5 and faster SSDs came along there was no point. It required a special CPU and motherboard, it was expensive, and anyone who really needs to access files on SSD at RAM speeds can write their own solution to stream them in.

I mean, if you wanted to only address data on storage by track, sector, and byte offset like some kind of memory map in RAM you could, but there's a reason why everyone uses a filesystem.

Re: pot? - calling the kettle?

Not many BASICs had a good renumber, either it you couldn't choose a section of program, or it didn't modify the calling GO TOs or GO SUBs, or it didn't check for overlapping, or something got mangled in some other way. It really is a pain in the arse moving the cursor over lines and changing the line numbers to make a copy then deleting the original lines. The antithesis of user friendly.

Re: pot?

There was a short happy time when MS was forced to open up SMB, so then they went all out on SharePoint, and of course businesses marched from SMB into SharePoint like lemmings. Everything safely locked up once again in the next walled garden.

Re: Anyone who has a blanket rule banning GO TOs...

Forgot about that, the better BBC and Sinclair BASICs could use an expression but the MS BASICs needed ON n GO TO a, b, c so there were still few suspects for MS BASICs.

Re: Anyone who has a blanket rule banning GO TOs...

When using GOTO, the destination is unlinked. You look at a line of code (BASIC was a line-oriented language), and you have no idea how you got there.

There are few suspects... either it's the previous line or a GO TO with the line number or label name.

That is also the problem people were addressing when they said "a subroutine must have only one exit point". The confusing practice is not when there are multiple "exit" statements in a subroutine. It's when the exits from a subroutine don't go to a common point on exit

Which is just what good use of a GO TO can do, it can jump to a common exit point for that subroutine which tidies up the heap/closes files/etc... before returning. No need for extra variables to jump out of loops, no need for nested ifs, and no need for elses for each if to clean up in a slightly different way before exiting the subroutine.