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"'Brother,' says he, 'greetings. Didn't I see you in Southern Missouri last summer selling colored sand at half-a-dollar a teaspoonful to put into lamps to keep
by oleganza 3y ago
"'Brother,' says he, 'greetings. Didn't I see you in Southern Missouri last summer selling colored sand at half-a-dollar a teaspoonful to put into lamps to keep the oil from exploding?'
"'Oil,' says I, 'never explodes. It's the gas that forms that explodes.' But I shakes hands with him, anyway.
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"'Listen,' says I. 'I instruct her to keep her lamp clean and well filled. If she does that it can't burst. And with the sand in it she knows it can't, and she don't worry.
— O. Henry, The Man Higher Up
- CyberDildonics 3y agoDid you mean to reply somewhere else? This thread is about about bounds checking arrays in the C programming language.
- pjmlp 3y agoYou definitly didn't understood the message.
- Joker_vD 3y agoBut it's absolutely true though: if only the C programmers right their code very carefully and in specific patterns, the buffer overflows and invalid dereferences won't happen and therefore, won't explode their programs! By the way, only today I have a silver bullet to sell with "runtime safety violations" written on it, anyone willing to buy it?
- CyberDildonics 3y agoIf you did understood it, then explain it so I can understood it too.
- pjmlp 3y agoSomehow doesn't seem worth my time.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoSo it was worth your time to reply twice, but not to explain anything?
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, because I don't expect you to understand anyway and ELI5 would take a bit, much longer than these dumb comments. Hint, someone else got it.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoI'm starting to think you didn't understood the message or you wouldn't be avoiding explaining yourself while trying to insult people.
- pjmlp 3y agoJoker_vD got it.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoHow does what they are saying have anything to do with what I replied to ?
- pjmlp 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory
- CyberDildonics 3y agoThat's the definition of an allegory, but how do the two things relate? Why did you say you "don't have time" then go to great lengths to not explain anything or back up what you're saying in any way?