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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291111 |
This is a good example of C-style null-terminated strings that are really just arrays of bytes are a bad idea in the first place. (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #290488 |
I don't have any data either, but I've often thought that these "strong" passwords were *less* secure than letting me pick something easy. With a difficult password, I have to write it down. If allowed to make something easy to remember, I can write down a short hint that only I would know the mean... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286726 |
Why not just make DIR the repository instead of MWE? (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285148 |
<i>"as shown in my code below"</i>. What code? There is no code anywhere in your question. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286504 |
I agree that the 8 digits of precision is silly and meaningless, but I'm having a hard time believing that keeps people from using the site. You only see it when hovering over the votes, and it does nobody any harm. Most likely it is the default formatting of the floating point value, and the volun... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286440 |
I don't understand what Personal ID or Physical ID have to do with calculating area, nor which of those terms you mean for "pid". Lower case implies it's a word, not an abbreviation, but you seem to be using it as an abbreviation. I can't even guess at a definition of PID that would allow whatever ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286411 |
2 days and no response, so -1 for the dump and run. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286411 |
It took me a while to understand your "watertight mesh". Do you really just mean a closed polyhedron? That's what it seems, but it's not clear whether that's all. Your definition in the first sentence is way too hand-wavy. For example you refer to properties of "faces", but nothing previously men... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283440 |
Shouldn't the first example result in uninitialized variable warning? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286189 |
My point wasn't about the family part, but the functions themselves. I don't even have clue off the top of my head what atoi, strtol, strtof, etc, do. Anyone else that does C only occasionally probably doesn't either. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286189 |
A short one-line description of the functions you mention would be useful. I'm probably not the only one that doesn't write a lot of C code, and isn't intimately familiar with the standard libraries. For example, I don't know what the "atoi family of functions" is without looking them up, which is ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286041 |
Much better. +1 now. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286041 |
That animated picture is seriously annoying and distracting! (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
@Monica: I would probably write the script to completely re-create .gitignore each time. It wouldn't bloat, but the list of other files you want in .gitignore would have to be know to the script. You could code them into the script, but I'd probably create a file like .myignore. The script would s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285298 |
What are you trying to tell us by showing the question in a quote block? Text copied from elsewhere requires attribution. Also, you should trim off the pointless time-wasting fluff like <I>"Hey I have a questions"</i> and <i>"Thank you"</i>. Just because the other person said that doesn't mean you... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278571 |
Rounding towards 0, whether the input value is positive or negative, is simply a truncation. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281719 |
Thanks. I've tried to look at the standard before, but it's usually written in dense language with lots of references to terms defined elsewhere. It only seems useful if you already know everything except the one small thing you are trying to look up. I'll look more at this MDN thing you and Moshi... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281660 |
Thanks for the answer. The HTML isn't being generated from something else, I'm typing it in directly to write a simple document. Columns in tables holding the same data, and therefore requiring the same formatting seems common, and surprising there is no easy default. I didn't know about nth-child... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281552 |
Sigh. It was so much simpler when all valid input was 7-bit ASCII. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281418 |
You claim to be asking about data compression, but then your examples don't have anything to do with compression, your description of what data compression means makes no sense, and certainly isn't about data compression. Compression is about reducing the size of data by eliminating redundancy. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281255 |
It just happened to me on the EE site after editing an answer I wrote a few hours earlier. This is rather annoying, since I was already logged in. Even worse, it made me do it twice (click on all the pictures containing a boat). Some of the pictures were hard to see, and maybe I missed one on the ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280694 |
You miss the point. The difference is between *demand* and *request*. Pointing out a problem is useful. Requesting a fix is OK. Demanding something from people that would do it for free is just plain rude. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280694 |
It should be clear that demanding anything of volunteers is at least rude. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280529 |
Even more important than auto-complete is to be able to abbreviate the names. On SE, for example, all you needed was the first 3 letters. That was very useful. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279072 |
*"At that point we're already altering history"*. Exactly. That's the real problem you need to fix. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277249 |
@Lundin: Right. Many user-level questions about single-board computers are off topic on Electronics. See https://electrical.codidact.com/help/arduino where we specifically address this regarding Arduinos (historically the worst offender). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277249 |
*" Electrical is purely for hardware questions"*. Firmware questions are on topic. See https://electrical.codidact.com/help/topics. However, they need to not be ordinary software questions. How to write a loop in C isn't on topic just because the code will run in a microcontroller. To be on topi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277215 |
Your example might be better if you referenced arr[10] instead of arr[-1]. That eliminates issues of signed versus unsigned arithmetic of array subscripts, which it sounds like is not what you are trying to ask about. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |