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They’d probably only do it once. It builds character, similar to == in JS or PHP.
by WiseWeasel 6y ago
They’d probably only do it once. It builds character, similar to == in JS or PHP.
- IgorPartola 6y agostrcpy() has entered the chat.
- froh 6y agomalloc, free and their little pointers snicker from behind a curtain.
- IgorPartola 6y agoI haven’t had as much trouble with those as they mostly do what it says on the tin. strcpy(), sprintf(), etc. all have slightly different semantics and even their “n” versions will do funky things if you don’t very carefully account for null termination. I find it way harder to use those because I have to keep remembering which of them does what regarding \0 at the end. And I guess now we have strlcpy() which is supposed to fix those issues but isn’t available on all platforms I use.
- dwaite 6y agoThey'd probably do it no more than ten times.
- Cerium 6y agoI sure did it more than ten times, but quickly learned to be careful and insert the finger slowly into the moving fan.
- edelans 6y agoI'm afraid you missed the joke here =)
- jodrellblank 6y agoI can't tell if they missed the joke about losing 10 fingers and having to stop there, or if you missed their joke that you can insert the same finger multiple times as long as you only lose a bit of a finger each time.
- adolph 6y agoAll the above forgot toes
- abiogenesis 6y agoThose are not fingers (at least not in English).
- injidup 6y agoIn German we have "hand shoes" for gloves :)
- konart 6y agoYou just broke my mind Russian mind.
- m463 6y agoin spanish aren't fingers and toes interchangeable?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothey're actually interchangeable anywhere as long as you have a talented surgeon.
- jodrellblank 6y agoThis chain has got me wondering how we count in base 10, but we don't have 10 fingers instead 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Maybe we have 10 digits, but digits can be fingers or toes so we really have 20 digits. Is there a word in English which exclusively means hand-digits or fingers+thumbs or digits-toes?
- bayindirh 6y agoIn some extreme cases they can go up to ~20. But after 25, it becomes really a corner case.
- smileysteve 6y agoAssuming now tongues, toes, or ears.
- hnick 6y agoI just feel bad for all the kids who won't feel the joy of talking into a fan and making a funny voice :(
- m463 6y agotoo many things have been lost or gimped. Chemistry sets, m-80s, model rockets, playgrounds, coaster brakes, whatever kids did before "play dates" and anything intricate with small parts.
- danielbarla 6y agoThere were probably too many things lost from "our" (n-1th generation) childhood too. Things like marveling at the first TVs, playing with unspent WW2 ammunition, etc. I'm sure each generation has its own things that they miss and think are detrimental to have lost, however I'm not sure that overall it's worse for the current generation. Hard to say. Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual. I guess some things get better, some worse, change is the only constant.
- metiscus 6y ago>Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual. Would you be as good of a programmer today if that was true? I remember spending an entire week trying to figure out how strings worked in QBASIC, when I was in 5th grade. There was no internet and I only had the Apple IIGS Basic manual to work with. I tried and tried and tried and eventually figured out that it had something to do with those $ symbols. Eventually I got the hang of it. I guess the point is, that challenge and struggle with simple things helped me develop the attitude to overcome truly difficult things later. Maybe this is more just memories of childhood than anything..
- danielbarla 6y ago
- kovac 6y agoIf you are really committed, you should be able to go up to at least 20 :)
- jb1991 6y agoSays no one who has ever raised kids.
- Judgmentality 6y agoPlenty of people raise their kids this way. When I see parents laugh when their kids fall down instead of panic, I smile. And the best part? The kids smile too, because they're actually looking to their parents for how to react. I'd rather raise daredevils than anxious wrecks. My best friend has a kid who's always climbing on stuff, falling down, getting hurt. That kid is going to grow up to be awesome.
- VRay 6y agoYeah, if the kid grows up he'll be awesome for sure
- Judgmentality 6y agoWould you rather take a chance at greatness, or a certainty at mediocrity? No guts no glory.
- catmanjan 6y agoSurely laughing when your child falls over leads to them enjoying others misfortunes
- Judgmentality 6y agoI think you're assuming the laughter is at the child, not with the child. It's laughing about a mistake because that's what makes us human.
- catmanjan 6y agoDo children understand that nuance? I would have thought they would associate people falling with laughing
- sroussey 6y agoWe have parrots, and don’t want them to die the first time. We need a fan, and optional air filter. Not sure what other options there are...