CONDUCTOR: we’re stopping the train so we can reboot the engine computer
— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) December 14, 2018
ME: pic.twitter.com/bafD2lZjED
If you told me that setting a sprite’s color in Unity couldn’t happen off the main thread, I would already be angry at you, but nevertheless I was not emotionally prepared to find out the reason why pic.twitter.com/e7iAYfMmPI
— Christine Love (@christinelove) January 22, 2019
Valid C, invalid C++:
— Stephen Checkoway (@stevecheckoway) January 27, 2019
for (int i = 0; ;) {
int i = 1;
return i;
}
Valid C and C++:
for (int i = 0; ;) {{
int i = 1;
return i;
}}
🌶️ HOT JAVASCRIPT TIP: 🌶️
— Lynn (@chordbug) February 5, 2019
to increment some counter on the page,
node.innerText += 1
doesn't work (0 → 01 → 011 → ⋯), but
node.innerText -= -1
works fine (0 → 1 → 2 → ⋯)
"Ⱥ" and "Ⱦ" are Unicode characters, which increase in length (from 2 to 3 bytes) when lowercased. Nasty.
— Mikko Hypponen (@mikko) November 5, 2018
Found them from the "Big List of Naughty Strings" - list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. https://t.co/mBX2CAdnnH
This is hell pic.twitter.com/SBLgsq6BpQ
— BooDoo (@BooDooPerson) November 5, 2018
them: is 10 the highest CVE score you can have?
— Kenn White (@kennwhite) September 25, 2018
me: ?
them: a website has unauthenticated, remote access via a single get request
me: seems like a 10.
them: which returns select * on a quarter million unencrypted credit card #'s.
me: okay, maybe 11.
Stories from Antivirus land: clamav uses libmspack, libmspack had vuln in 2012, libmspack fixed it+adds regression test, clamav detects regression test as malware, libmspack can't be distributed any more because webhost of libmspack uses clamv... pic.twitter.com/gecw8ypnPG
— hanno (@hanno) August 9, 2018
Be careful when reversing #unicode strings. You may be surprised…
— Daily Python Tip (@python_tip) August 6, 2018
>>> s = "Welcome in 🇬🇧”
>>> s[::-1]
'🇧🇬 ni emocleW'
(thanks @piskvor for the inspiration!) pic.twitter.com/JKNb0MotzQ
ask me how my day is going pic.twitter.com/2Vfkg4Km1f
— the computational metaphor (@ztellman) August 11, 2018
I thought this was a joke.
— Hector Martin (@marcan42) June 19, 2018
It wasn't a joke.https://t.co/5CKhMOBTSK https://t.co/M0MJIIlm4Y
how and why would you even build a system that behaved like this pic.twitter.com/SHr9zep1m2
— Jeff Facebook (@vogon) June 19, 2018
You keep using the word 'fsync', I do not think it means what you think it means... If you manage data on Linux, you don't want to miss this popcorn worthy debugging on the #Postgres hackers list: https://t.co/MJGKtoeQgE
— xzilla (@robtreat2) April 2, 2018
Do I even want to know why Debian has a security update for beep(1) today?
— Andreⓐ (@puellavulnerata) April 3, 2018
Load-bearing optimization, n.
— David Smith (@Catfish_Man) May 24, 2016
A performance-related change (for example adding a cache) that accidentally becomes required for correctness
"Hey Alex why are you so hard on American railways?" pic.twitter.com/Tj5eEZW8fp
— Alex Forrest 🚉 (@380kmh) March 21, 2018
*Halved* render time with @appleseedhq on a particular scene using OSL (Windows, VS 2015, exception handling enabled) by replacing `float4() {}` by C++11's `float4() = default` in OIIO. The former disabled __forceinline, among other things. Details: https://t.co/byVZkshKCz
— François Beaune (@franzbeaune) March 16, 2018
