@ShotgunSurgeon or 10th of January 🇺🇸

@sladuled forget about just damage.
Signals are electrons .
Electrons are physical particles.
So it's true that electrons travel better in straight or smoother curves
And sharp corners increase resistance because imagine a speeding dodgem car bumping against a sharp turns wall to be able to move forward.
In PCB design it's common practice to avoid sharp 90 degree traces and opt for multiple 45 degree turns.
Don't hurt your electrons,
Straighten your cables 😂

But seriously, with strong transmission protocols like Ethernet and with the modern cables we use I doubt it makes any noticeable difference. Unless yeah you di damage the cable

Can you even have an array with no size in C?
Unless it's a flexible array member in a struct (>= C99)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...
I don't recall the compiler letting you define a variable as an uninitialized 0 length array. As in not when using the square brackets array syntax.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Not to be a party pooper or anything :D

@aBrokenDonut also some CPU architectures don't support unaligned memory accesses, and your app will just crash

Ok that was a long argument...
Anyone ever thought about making fish ice cream?
You have pineapple pizza so why not fish icecream?

@bahua some laptops are just unlucky
A few of my friends suffered similar problems too
I think its more to do with the motherboard and the laptops design than the GPU and linux itself

@Lahsen2016 maybe because then youd have to pass free a pointer to your pointer?
and then maybe youd have people forgetting to pass the adress of their pointers and shit goes haywire
or maybe they dont want that extra instruction or two to dereference the adress of the pointer
maybe sometimes its not needed to set the pointer to null if its in a local function scope
or maybe they were just lazy

lots of maybe

@bittersweet that worries me even more 😂

I don't see what's wrong with that.
I mean for her she a computer is just a tool for emails and accessing the web, maybe some other shit too.
But like many people they're content with a working device and don't really care about getting the fastest and highest spec.
Does it work?
Does it look nice?
Is it your favorite color?
what, you wanna give me a matte red ultrabook sure :D

@JoshBent warn only I guess :P

@devs You make a good point
and I like the Graphical programming idea.

But I disagree with your statement on CS
Computer Science is more theoretical and therefore the abstract ideas are what matters.
C is more for engineers (ie. Computer Engineering), people who need to know the inner workings of a computer.

Computer Science is about the algorithms. You don't need to know pointers to do that. You can just imagine some concepts and use the higher level tools to implement them and test. Unless of course your focus is on the low level stuff. I dunno anymore lol.

Full disclosure C is my all time favorite language, along with Python.
So I have nothing against C or low level things. I'm just trying to speak for what I think will he better for students. Because I'm tired of seeing people's minds fucked from jumping into C and The low level details too fast.

But not everyone will need to work on a low level.

Software has become so diverse that some people never need to touch C++ and can spend their whole lives using just Javascript you know.

Learning C doesnt benefit you on an abstract level.

I think python is better
not mainly because it's easier but because
due to the easiness of its syntax students can focus more on learning the mentality of programming without worrying about the details of what's happening under the hood.
Then once people gain that new perspective of the world. Then teach them whatever you want.

I studied in a university where they taught C first. It's a disaster. After my year they hanged the curriculum from C to Python for the programming introduction.
The performance of the average student improved a lot.

TLDR;
My opinion is simple:
Teach first the logic and perspective of programming.
Then the inner workings.

commit

But for now dear friend.
Let us enjoy these moments.
Albeit they are one in many to come.
They are not forever.
And that is the beauty in itself.

I will miss you my heavenly friend
And although I know you shall return.
I can't promise I'll be there to see it.
Cause one day.
One day it'll just be me and the darkness.

Paving way for the darkness to seep through.
A darkness that hides the evil and the despair.
When the only beacon of hope that remains is a dot in the sky that promises of the return if that bright orange light.

Don't you just love bus rides right at the verge if sunset.
Sitting by the window seat
Staring out the window
with that Saturated honey golden silky light shining onto the world marking the end of the day.

First!

1000 word limit... 🤔

And you're not really lazy I think. You just lack reason. No reason to do anything. Nothing you care about. It's starting to become a common problem nowadays.

So go figure out what you want from your life. And fuck finding the ultimate absolute truth. It's not important. Only your reality matters.

Try this video (optimistic nihilism):
https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14

Also try to lookup Jordan Peterson on youtube.
The guy has dope lectures online for the sole purpose of guiding us towards getting our life together

My own opinion:
In a way you can see everything as pointless. Cause in a way everything is if you think in a large enough perspective. So why do anything at all right? Well figure out your own purpose. When you have something that drives your passion. Something that makes you high on dopamine. Something that excites you to wake up everyday. Whether that's some sociopolitical cause, a really cool project, a startup you want to grow, or someone you truly deeply care about. When you find that thing that gives you meaning again. Then it'll drag your mind back to Earth where things make sense, where life has meaning. It'll make you excited to get up from bed everyday and get back to your goal(s).

@C0D4 Pi? 😂😅

@RAZERZ is this your blog?

So...
What're all of you PI owners gonna make :DDDD

it might be AI you know.
I mean the field of AI is really broad.
even a simple Breadth First Search is considered AI.
many Machine Learning algorithms are just applied statistics and linear regressions. That's still technically AI.

But I get you though.
There's a quote I heard somewhere.
AI is whatever hasn't been done yet. Once we can do it easily we no longer think of it as AI lol.

@Phlisg there's a work day??? :D

@Phlisg it can be commercial if you want to be a consumer sheep

Or...
maybe just maybe you can choose not to be a superficial consumer and choose to just take this opportunity to appreciate the beautiful things in life.
Valentines day we celebrate love.
There's no need for that to involve wasting a shitload of money.
A candle light and burnt dinner is perfect enough.

So yeah "they" might've started this as a consumerism ploy
but we don't have to take it that way.
Let's enjoy it it.
Not hate on it.

PS. I'm as single as a pringle but still enjoying today as singles day woohoo.

TAKE BACK VALENTINES
START THE SINGLES REVOLUTION 💪🤚👊✊🤘

Dude i feel you.
I have to learn tensorflow for my graduation project.
Problem is (and I cant blame them) the tutorials are designed to show you how to use their framework to implement the machine learning algorithms that you should already know pretty well.
They also seem to assume some already a priori familiarity with data analysis as they don't explain how the data is retrieved and processed etc.

So yeah
you gota learn the theory of machine learning and NN first
but I still couldn't find a nice tutorial that closes the gap between theory and practice.
So just pick your topic (let's say OCR so you probably want to use CNN) and just search for every step by step theoretical and practical tutorial of implementing that specific problem with Tensorflow.

I think, from my naive perspective, that the practical world of machine learning, as wide spread as it is becoming is still somewhat esoteric, kinda like embedded systems.

end rant

udacity has some nice tutorials
coursera has more detailed tutoeials though

id reccomend coursera if youre new

yeah! gnome3 is shit. its so laggy and messy and ugly. and no default grid workspaces really!???!
and the animations and the menu it all just ...
disgusting