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Watch me. In other news, the Royal Mint tells us that to buy one ounce of sterling silver, you need 57.88 pounds sterling. I smell a rat. 😝

By a beautiful coincidence, the liquid range of water at 1 atm spans exactly π radians Fahrenheit.

If Switzerland were teleported to the equator, would we call it die Schweiß?

As I've said, I managed to get the full expansion of the macros in question, and everything looked correct, so I was looking for the actual number that the compiler was evaluating the fully expanded macro to. It turned out that I was misevaluating the order of operations when I looked at the...

I hadn't tried that option, but don't errors in compilation prevent any code from being generated? But whether or not any code is generated, the compiler has to compute the case values to determine that they duplicate each other, so in principle it should be able to tell you what those are...

Does anyone know how to get gcc to output the actual numerical value it's evaluating for a "duplicate case value" error? I've got a whole bunch of #defines establishing compile time constants that are being bitwise logicked around into other compile time constants, and somehow a bit is being...

Just what I was thinking...

Abbot isn't a Senator, he's governor. Sen. Cornyn, however, is involved with the idea.

The nasty bit here is that the Smithsonian is, like the Post Office, a weird amalgam of private corporation and federal department. Its board is selected entirely by the federal government, including VPOTUS and CJOTUS holding positions ex-officio, and the Speaker of the House and President pro...

Two 🦆ing thirds??? DB had more delays than would have been ideal when I did my year abroad in Cottbus back in '09/10, but 2/3 is, as I heard one unhappy traveler scream when a delay was announced back then, "zum kotzen".

I'm not seeing that martins has made any posts to OF since 2023...

Me: "I wonder what characters I need to escape in commands/config files/source files for this program/language, and can I precautionarily escape things, or can I only escape characters that require escapes?" Most programs: A Google search to the effect of "XYZ config file escape characters"...

Is it the language that's arcane, or is it the culture; the assumptions about hardware capability best practices, etc.

"To be or not to be, that is the question!" Calculating... Please wait... 0x2B | !(0x2B) = 0x2B | 0xD4 = 0xFF "255, that is the answer."

Just discovered the C comma operator and took massive psychic damage... 🤮 Even worse, I discovered it used in the most confusing way possible in code written by a huge name in computer science that ought to have known better. 🤮🤮🤮

I suppose there's also the Return of the Jedi option: "ULA! Hahahahahahaha!"

If you're just pronouncing "ULA" letter-by-letter "You-ell-ay", then "a ULA" is correct because the name of the letter U begins with a y sound. Same goes if you're pronouncing the acronym the same as you would "EULA" ("you-luh"). If you're pronouncing it "ulla" or "ooluh", then you'd use "an"...

I'm mulling over the idea of coding up a reader for QR-style pixel-grid barcodes. This would be a retrocomputing project with the idea of printing out barcodes where the pixel arrangement of the central part of the barcode would resemble legacy punch card / punch tape hole layouts, with...

Beat me to the punch, I see.

"Bob's your Uncle" is actually mostly a British expression, but as a username, "UncleBob" just carries an air of classically American informality.