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Companies updating their websites (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No no, we do

time_t t = time(NULL);
struct tm tm = *localtime(&t);
tm.tm_year + 1900;

Everyone writes their web server in plain C, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The cool thing to do now is to write it in Rust, only using the standard library.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And I hate it. Nice concept, but I don't like neither, the language nor compiler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's okay to be wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The C compiler, when I parse a &(float) as (long) (it's actually an evil floating point hack to run Quake III on an X86_64 CPU emulated in Scratch running on Spotifys Car Thing) (This would never be possible in Rust)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

std::mem::transmute

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but

it's unsafe, therefore not really Rust I'd argue
it doesn't look as good

float Q_rsqrt(float number) {
   long i;
   float x2, y;
   const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

   x2 = number * 0.5F;
   y = number;

   i = * ( long * ) &y;
   i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
   y = * ( float * ) &i;

   y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );
   return y;
}

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please don't tell me you, unironically, actually use the Carmack rsqrt function in the year of our Linux Desktop 2024.

Also if you like, you can write unsafe Rust in safe Rust instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No. But somebody may be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It’s a very different vibe. I remember my first seg fault in C - kids days are missing out!