Lament 2: Cry Harder

[Aaron]

Oh! Saluting while holding a rifle? I don't even remember how we did it. I think I've done it once.

[The Spartan]

That why I gave you a picture.

[Bounty]

I may have been thinking about ships.

[Aaron]

Oh man, what the fuck?

A friends 17 year old daughter is pregnant, three months. She used to babysit for us and always wanted to go to Veterinary school.

That's pretty much gone now. I hope she doesn't end up in poverty for years.

Fuck.

[timmy]

What she needs to do is make the father work night shift so that he can bring in family income while being available during the day to care for the child, freeing her up to go to ventinary school.

He will not mind this sacrifice of sleep and sanity provided she actually goes on to become a vet afterward and doesn't just get locked into a perpetual cycle of tertiary study.

[Aaron]

I sense bitterness.

[Oxymoron]

Or... what about calling for external help ? How's government help for "baby-sitters" and nurseries ?

Does she live far from her family ?

[Aaron]

Poor. Though subsidized care does exist, I have no idea if universities have child care.

Family wise her mom is here, though we are an hour from Ottawa and 6 hours from the only uni in ontario that offers the course.

[Oxymoron]

The price of living in such a huge country, I suppose.

A shame. For once family could have had a use, however minimal it could have been.


There could be community solutions - families organizing things betweens themselves to do shifts guarding each other's kids.

[timmy]

I sense bitterness.

You sense well.

[Darksi4190]

Ugh. I'm starting to wonder if getting off this Effexor shit is actually going to kill me. Over the past week i've experienced nausea, a little vomiting, disorientation, night sweats, inability to sleep, and an occasional sharp pain in my head like someone is jamming a needle into my brain.

[Darksi4190]

Christ. Now i've started getting chills too. And my entire body is getting the "pins and needles" feeling like i'm not getting enough blood to my extremities. I hope this doesn't get any worst.

[Gands]

I've been there dude.

Just hang in there. It will improve, and so shall you.

[Aaron]

Just stick with it, it took a couple weeks after weaning off totally for the withdrawal to end.

[Oxymoron]

Fuck C's pointers and fuck anyone who shipped us an application that coredump when it receive an expected and conform input.

I am not a C programmer I shouldn't have to debug such a trainwreck...

[Oxymoron]

Also, fuck people for still using ipv4 and considering it standard.

It makes working on ipv6-dependent code more painful than it should.

[Oxymoron]

Fuck everything.

[RyanThunder]

needs a like button

[Oxymoron]

You know what I like ?

functions which return the wrong type of data (Int instead of Char)

even when the source code of said function, once examined, show it shouldn't be happening. Ever.



Also, god damn is printf a finicky little bitch.

[adr]

hahaha now you C why D rox

[Oxymoron]

At least now I know the code's algorithm isn't at fault, it's just some black magic at work somewhere in the spaghetti mess of GCC's libraries.

I won't have to ask myself existential questions when translating said algorithm into Python

[Dooey Jo]

in c, if the return type of a function isn't specified it will default to int

and if it doesn't have a return statement, whatever's in eax when the function ends may pretend to be the return value on x86 architectures

[adr]

iirc int and char are implicitly convertable both ways in C too. and arithmetic may cause the char to be promoted to an int. C's rules can be fairly surprising even when you know them.

[Oxymoron]

what I know is that printf REALLY didn't like to be presented a %d when it was expecting a %s

by the way, the function at fault was/is inet_ntop

[Dooey Jo]

if you turn the warning level on gcc to -Wall (or use -Wformat) it will warn about such type errors in printf-like functions