One more upvote and I'll need another byte to store my points

maybe gotos are good after all

Story time! This happened several years ago, back when I didn't have a computer and I was just using the computers at the university. They had 8 iMacs all in a row, and I would sign into one and do my work.

Now these computers have Deep Freeze on them, which is a fancy hard disk driver that treats the entire drive as copy-on-write, so when anything writes to the drive it makes a copy of the block and writes to that instead. That way all your changes are gone when you reboot. It's a real nifty idea, but it's annoying that you have to reset all your settings the way you like them.

So as part of my setup routine I signed into iCloud. This automatically synced my browser history and my email, and various other things I didn't really care about.

One of those things I didn't care about was Find My Mac. I found this out next time I signed into iCloud and saw the university computer on the list. I had never seen these computers on the list before since normally the computer reboots and forgets everything when you log out. What I think happened is the sysadmin forgot to check the "reboot on logout" option in Deep Freeze. So I was like "I wonder what would happen if I passcode locked the computer?" I clicked the passcode lock option and entered 5555, and it seemed to work.

The next day I come in and the particular computer I locked was gone. I thought "oh God what have I done". So I inquired with the sysadmin (who I really hope is not reading this) and he said "oh, someone got into the Find my Mac thing and locked it down. We were trying different codes, since if we couldn't unlock it we'd have to send it to Apple and provide proof of purchase and that could take weeks. We had tried all the obvious ones like 1234 and that wasn't working so I was about to give up, but then I tried 5555 and it rebooted! So yeah, it'll be back soon, and I decided to try installing OS X 10.11 on it because we'll all need to upgrade sooner or later eventually and it's best to have tested a bit first."

So in the end I somehow made it out with my skin still on, and also with El Capitan on one of the computers, which was the only one I used after that. Not so bad! Oh and if you've manged to read all the way through you deserve a cookie 🍪😄

The index to Sedgewick's Algorithms book says:

recursion, 35
see also base case,
see also recursion

The entire codebase

Fuck having to optimize newsletter for fucking outlook which uses Word engine to render html newsletters.. Microsoft, what the fuck bro?

The guy Intel hired to come up with instruction mnemonics must be just letting his cat walk over the keyboard every time he needs a new idea.

cvttps2dq? sounds good!

wtf twitch

guess i'm going to need a new computer to compile the kernel...

Did not expect when I joined this new startup that there would as much technical debt as there is

double RandDouble(double min, double max) {
double rand = (double) RandomGen::GetRand32() / UINT32_MAX;
return (rand * (max - min)) + min;
}

I wrote this function 2 months ago and until now assumed it was working.

Turns out GetRand32 has a range up to INT32_MAX, not UINT32_MAX. So this function would only ever select the first half of the range.

You gotta be fucking kidding me...

Was watching a dev stream on twitch and noticed the following code on screen:

if (blah blah blah) {
int fuck = 0;
mysql_blah_blah(blah, blah, &fuck);
}

Hell is other people's code

tfw

Confluence. Somehow they decided it was a good idea to remove the markup editor, and now your can only use the WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG editors suck. So I have to memorize a crap ton of keyboard shortcuts instead of just writing confluence markup which was apparently very similar to markdown. Argh

PSA: If you want to change your password on devrant.io, log out and click Forgot Password.

How many browser tabs do you have open right now?

uBlock Origin hides the ++ buttons because they have a class of `plusone` and plus one is a tracking company. sigh...

So i'm trying to upload a file to an SSH server using node. First I try the obvious putFile method provided by the obvious node-ssh package. On any other server this would work fine but this server doesn't have sftp installed so that doesn't work.

OK, so next I learn how scp works (it runs the command "scp -t" on the remote server, and sends to stdin a command like "C0666 1234 file.txt" and then sends the contents of the file) and I write some javascript code to do this. It's pretty finicky, the first few tries I forget to close the stream right or detect the program finishing. I add some logging and that helps me figure out what the problem is, and finally I get it to not output any errors.

So I log into the server and check and the file isn't there. I try again several times, file still isn't there. I try running scp -t manually on the server, typing in exactly what my program is sending, and it works. This goes on for a while until I realize that I've been sending a file to one server and logging into a different server to check if the file was sent. grrr

There's no way to subscribe to a user on the desktop app, and I don't have a phone. Anyone know how to do this by manually sending an http request?

!important;

Using bootstrap I want to create a table so that the thead is fixed and no matter how many rows are generated on loop , the thead will align properly with the tbody. I will keep the thead fixed so that only body will scroll vertically.
So the problem is on a responsive table how do I match the cell alignment and spacing of the head to the body cells.

Have wasted a day on this fed up. P.S on smaller screens I have set overflow to scroll vertically. Please help.

Behold, the code submitted by user Hecker:

(Quote) > writing html like a pro:
from typing import List
class MissmatchedRowsAndCols(Exception):
pass

class HtmlTableBuilder:
classes: List[str] = []
identifier: str = ""
rows: List[str] = []
cols: List[list] = []

def add_row(self, name: str):
self.rows.append(name)
return self

def add_col(self, fields: list):
if len(self.rows) != len(fields):
raise MissmatchedRowsAndCols(
"The given fields are not matched 1:1 with the rows.")
self.cols.append(fields)
return self

def build(self, indent: int = 4) -> str:
html = "<table border=\"2px\""
if len(self.identifier) > 0:
html += ' id="' + self.identifier + '"'
if len(self.classes) > 0:
html += ' class"' + (" ".join(self.classes)) + '"'
html += ">\n"

html += (" "*indent) + "<thead>\n"
for row in self.rows:
html += (" "*(indent*2)) + "<th>" + row + "</th>\n"
html += (" "*indent) + "</thead>\n"

html += (" "*indent) + "<tbody>\n"
for col in self.cols:
html += (" "*(indent*2)) + "<tr>\n"

for field in col:
html += (" "*(indent*3)) + "<td>\n"
html += (" "*(indent*4)) + str(field) + "\n"
html += (" "*(indent*3)) + "</td>\n"

html += (" "*(indent*2)) + "</tr>\n"
html += (" "*indent) + "</tbody>\n"
html += "</table>"

return html

builder = HtmlTableBuilder()
builder.add_row("index").add_row("language")
builder.add_col([0, "Python"]).add_col([1, "Kotlin"])

print(builder.build()) 

Why does there have to be both dup(fd) and fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD)? As far as I can tell they do exactly the same thing, one just looks more complicated than the other.

PAGE BREAK AFTER IS FUCKED UP. FML

ok guys, if you have any recommendation or alternative to page-break-after, please let me know. im desperately in need of a goddamn solution.

heres my problem, ive got a table, inside the table is the tbody, now i only want two rows to be displayed in each page (im doing html for pdf docs). so what ive been trying to do is adding <tr class="display:block;page-break-after: always !important"> whenever it meets the condition (rowCount%2!=0).

Ive been trying to figure this out for the last 12 fucking hours. cheesus fucking crust. ik this isnt stackoverflow but stack hasnt really been helpful as well :( FML