IS THIS Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell??
(it’s a webcomic, I loved the story)
She was a lua girl, he was every other programming language guy. It was not ment to happen.
Hey, don’t forget the Matlab people
And R!
And abap
She liked embeddded apps
And he liked desktop displays
What more can I say?
Nonbinary
Even if the table is correct the instruction needs to be more precise. Is it table header or table body and in which table column?
DROP TABLE 01;
Dangit Bobby!
I love how they’re looking at each other
God yes, you can clearly see from the background scene that while at different tables they can clearly see each other. All this bickering is madness
Why the fuck would you spell it “1st” if it’s not 1?
I feel like the joke would’ve landed better if it said “first”. I know it’s pronounced the same way, but I’m gonna argue anyway that there’s a subtle difference. I’ve heard 0th used in cs to describe what was at the 0-index, so in that context 1st would be"second", but “first” generally means “nothing before it”. English is weird. I wonder if anyone knows whether the word “first” or “1st” came 1st (lol)?
Ordinal vs. cardinal. It’s “first” not “onest”, right? Even the ancient proto-Germanic speakers could tell there’s a difference. (In fact, it’s basically a contraction of “foremost”, and has nothing to do with numbers; their weak numeracy was an advantage on this topic)
If we weren’t implicitly choosing 1-indexing it would be 1nd for “second” (and still not “onend” or something). That breaks down once you get to third and fourth, though.
programmer linguistigs is certainly something to behold.
They said 1st as an abbreviation of first (it’s a normal abbreviation 1st, 2nd, 3rd … 7th abbreviate first, second, third … seventh)
Interestingly, we’ve got the same glitch in the Gregorian calendar, where the year 0 doesn’t exist. So the 21st century started in 2001…
That is why my restaurant will number tables by UUID.
A much better idea than when I tried to organize my restaurant with hashtables.
It was too much for the waitstaff, who had to reindex the floor plan every time they added or removed a plate.
On the plus side, delivering the right food was always O(1).
The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.
In the UK it’s called a ground table.
When you get off an airplane, do you say
“Its great to be back on solid first floor of the earth.”
?
If the walkway goes inside the building, then yes. And the walkway usually leads directly to the second floor, because the airplane door is 3 metres above the ground.
OK but what about going onto the ground?
Like, in your garden, is that the first floor of the planet?
Inside the building it’s the first floor, even if it’s exactly at the sea level altitude. Outside the building it’s the ground. Basement levels start at minus one, there is no zeroth floor.
So it was a spelling mistake? They’re actually The Knights of The Ground Table!
They dance whenever they’re gable?
do you also have minced tables there?
What more can I say
Wouldn’t it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?
Aren’t those two the same thing? At least in C-style arrays, which might not be how they’re handled under the hood, but is at least how most languages present it to the programmer.
in my understanding offset is technically the “relative index”, or how much you have to go further
Yes they are presented in the programmer wrong. The first thing in memory should have offset 0 and index 1
The problem is that they both are contextual and can mean any position in a list/array. The starting index or starting offset is generally zero, but could be one, depending on the language used.
i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day
Maybe this could be a feature in brainfuck or COBOL.
god i hope so
Dreamberd starts array indexing at -1 instead of 0 or 1.
they were never meant to be together, they would confuse the hell out of each other. Imagine they have two kids and she says pick kid[1] from the school, then what?
Child Overflow ErrorHol’ up!
I think children go in dictionaries so you can look them to via name (key).
One kid’s getting garbage collected either way
It clearly says 1
Hey, if she thinks 1 is 1st index then you dogged a bullet and deserve better.
🐕🐕🐕
you dogged a bullet
😳
