| --- Log opened Mon Dec 03 00:00:14 2018 |
| 00:33 | <&McMartin> | https://i.imgur.com/5DlqfCl.jpg |
| 01:08 | <&McMartin> | Oh hey |
| 01:08 | | * McMartin finds an actually useful old library of his that he never actually properly published on an open-source repository. |
| 01:08 | <&McMartin> | I should probably get this back on the net |
| 01:13 | | * Alek wonders if there's a tool to let a computer figure out dimensions of a simple object using focal information of the camera it's using to view the object. |
| 01:15 | <@Alek> | (a dick pic app that tells you the size as well. :P ) |
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| 02:10 | <@Reiv> | McMartin: Is it likely to be usefully up to date? |
| 02:10 | <@Reiv> | Or is this one of those repositories that isn't changing much |
| 02:10 | <&McMartin> | It is in need of a set of revisions |
| 02:10 | <&McMartin> | I wrote it in 2003 and have used it in a number of projects |
| 02:10 | <&McMartin> | The thing is, that at the moment it is in fact not online |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | So that needs fixing :) |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | It should however be updated so that it operates transparently with SDL2; that will make it actually useful as a bridging librar. |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | y |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | Keyboard input works significantly differently in SDL1 vs SDL2, and if you don't want to care about it this is the library I wrote to not care about it back then |
| 02:12 | <&McMartin> | It can be made more useful so that one may cease caring *even harder* |
| 02:12 | <&McMartin> | (Its most significant use out there right now is powering UQM's 'yeah, sure, use a keyboard or a joystick or whatever, I don't care' modes) |
| 03:13 | <@Reiv> | oh I see |
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| 04:55 | <&McMartin> | Welp |
| 04:55 | | * McMartin finishes evaluating all the work he did on that project, intermittently, between 2003 and 2018 |
| 04:55 | | * McMartin throws it all the fuck out |
| 04:58 | <&McMartin> | In some ways I'm better at this refactoring thing now |
| 04:58 | <&McMartin> | There's stuff that should change here but not the way I was changing it |
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| 05:47 | <&McMartin> | I have been doing the Advent of Code in C this year |
| 05:47 | <&McMartin> | I have this to say about that: |
| 05:47 | <&McMartin> | fscanf is cheaty |
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| 05:59 | <@celmin|sleep> | Cheaty? |
| 06:03 | <&McMartin> | Usually a major fraction of an Advent of Code problem is parsing the input, which is usually pretty regular extremely inconsistent within a record |
| 06:03 | <&McMartin> | scanf basically gives you that for free |
| 06:17 | <&[R]> | I remember when learning C putting scanf on my "never use" list because of how it behaved when given input that didn't match the format it needed |
| 06:17 | | * [R] forgets what the issue was though |
| 06:22 | <&McMartin> | It's an immediate abort |
| 06:22 | <&McMartin> | scanf is almost completely useless |
| 06:22 | <&McMartin> | But for text records of the form advent of code likes to use that only makes it even cheatier |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | Er |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | By abort I mean "it stops reading input and filling in values and returns how many fields it decoded" |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | At which point the file is not really in a usable state |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | There's nothing, formally, wrong with it, but you have no idea exactly where it stopped |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | It's also unwise to read strings with it for reasons similar to why gets is bad |
| 06:24 | <&McMartin> | But there is an extension format code that is 'malloc a string and read that' |
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| 21:58 | <&McMartin> | Oh nice, OK |
| 21:59 | <&McMartin> | C99 Things That Are Good |
| 21:59 | <&McMartin> | scanf will let you use the format code %ms which actually mallocs the string for you |
| 21:59 | <@Tamber> | Oh, nice! |
| 22:00 | <&McMartin> | (That does of course mean that your corresponding argument must be a char ** instead of a char *) |
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| 23:40 | <&McMartin> | OK, the Runner3 soundtrack does not make good coding music |
| 23:40 | <&McMartin> | Though precious little coding has gotten done today anyway, as today has been a "battle the build system" day |
| 23:44 | <@TheWatcher> | I have found myself using the EVE soundtrack as coding music of late |
| 23:45 | <@Reiv> | It's certainly good for dealing with spreadsheets for hours on end~ |
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