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In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it’s usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you’re offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that’s likely to be what happens in production code.

But the underlying data type is still T***.

Dynamically allocated multidimensional arrays.

Using knowledge gleaned only from watching South Park, the character in green is half-Canadian.

I say half because he has a mouth like the other guy and not a flappy head, but he still has the beady eyes.

I have social anxiety and some kind of high-functioning AuDHD going on. That makes most social events weird and baffling to me to be fair.

But since you want stories here’s a couple that are short and sweet if a bit loosey goosey on the social element:

One time on a bus, late at night, a very drunk individual was encouraging conversation (if only because most of the other passengers weren’t sure what he would do if we didn’t respond). He was drinking something simultaneously black and cloudy out of a plastic bottle and offering people swigs. People didn’t go that far into joining in, hence weird rather than actually scary. I may have said “no thanks I’m not sure what that is”, and thankfully he took it well.

Another time, as a kid with family on holiday somewhere. I forget exactly where. A shop in a high street with windows all covered with special offers and an opening time that was pretty soon. We think: “Why not?”. A crowd had gathered by the opening time. The doors opened. The crowd flooded in with us fairly near the front.

The shop was completely empty save for a few guys in suits in formation at the back, and one by the door who’d opened them. Sleazy sales types, maybe religious types. It was hard to be sure, but clearly some kind of bait and switch. Thus began a wave of people trying to get out as the back of the crowd was still trying to get in.

What I’m gathering here is that writing for the same format repeatedly for decades is liable to make an author go a little crazy in the coconut from time to time.

To be honest, I can totally relate.

Firstly, there’s the incorrect assumption that Linux users don’t use Microsoft’s Windows operating system because they’re afraid of it. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that “phobia” has two meanings in modern parlance, one which means fear and the other that extends to mean hatred.

But you probably know all that.

The other part is that it’s surprisingly common for detractors of the Russian state to “accidentally” fall out of a window. This then appears in the news. We know it wasn’t an accident. The Russian state knows it wasn’t an accident. We know they know and they know we know, but there’s no proof and no investigation, so it was an accident. Got it? Good.

And so detractors of the Russian state are also afraid of windows.

Personally, I think Putin should spend a lot more time near them.

I was thinking “The Poot-Trumpin’ Fart Tube”, but yours might be more suitable for business purposes.

FTP was in its heyday for obtaining files. Usenet was the place to be for grouped content.

Old Gopher information services were mostly dead by '99 but there were still a few holdouts.

E-mail in actual mail clients reigned supreme.

Also, depending of what you think of as “web” these days, most old web stuff was basically just nice-looking text with graphics thrown in and maybe a little JavaScript here and there, not full blown interactive experiences and applications like we have now.

There’s a minimum temperature for indoor work in Britain, but no maximum. The minimum for sedentary work used to be 17°C, but they reduced it to 16°C during the last government. Notably, it hasn’t been increased again under the current one. (For active indoor work, it’s 13°C. Outdoor work has no limits otherwise the country would be even less functional in extreme weather than it already is.)

Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.

Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

Oh. Well that’s much better.

I don’t remember seeing it in my distro’s package manager previously, but I have a feeling I might have rejected it for being a Qt app. By default their look and feel doesn’t match my window manager choices, and my distro hasn’t ever handled that automatically, so I may have decided I didn’t like the look of it.

Now I’m aware of qt5ct (changes some of the look and feel of Qt5 apps) so that’s not as much of a problem any more.

The chaotic evil way to win this argument is to send the “water” person to prove it.

You might lose or badly maim a (soon-to-be-former) friend and burn your house down, but you’ll still win.

Sometimes they deliberately change it up to deny expectations though. Occasionally it’s “Doctor what?!”

Also, at one point, a major antagonist outright lampshades the whole thing and claims The Doctor named themselves that way precisely so that conversation would always happen.

The Doctor’s use of question marks in the(ir) past certainly lend weight to the argument, but on the other hand, the antagonist in question will say or do literally anything if it they think it will help them achieve their goal.

White lies. Outright genocide. Anything in between. So we have to take what they say under advisement.

I would have recommended WinDirStat myself. I never did like the pie chart style views in programs like Filelight and Baobab.

(I use Graphical Disk Map on Linux. Not quite as full featured as WinDirStat but works in a pinch.)

That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.

has the oddest sensation of déjà vu.

Reminds me of one of my favourite nonsense jokes:

Q: What’s white and lives up a tree.

A: A clever fridge.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Totalitarian governments have two aces up their sleeve when it comes to pushing through totalitarian legislation: 1) Child safety and 2) National security.

Any guesses for which they’ll choose to excuse this one?