If you have a fever.

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Is there any situation where you’d want to remember the opcodes? Disassemblers should give you user-friendly assembly code, without any need to look at the raw numbers. Maybe it’s useful to remember which instructions are pseudo instructions (so you know stuff like jz (jump if zero) being the same as je (jump if equal) making it easier to understand the disassembly), but I don’t think you need to remember the opcode numbers for that.

Edit: Maybe with malware analysis where the malware in question may be obfuscated in interesting ways to make the job of binary analysis harder?

they break with monospacedness

The IDEs I’ve used had the ligatures be of the same character width as the original operator.

Why are you casting to void*? How is the compiler supposed to know the size of the data you are dereferencing?

That was unexpectedly quick. I thought we’d be waiting years before we could even begin talking about any kind of measures that could be taken in response to the crimes (assuming that it wouldn’t be dismissed on the way).

I wouldn’t trust ChatGPT with teaching me about some tool. It in my experience very convincingly spews out stuff it invented, and if one is still learning I can see it being hard to spot those errors. I use it to fix syntax errors in SQL queries, though, since I can’t be bothered to try understanding the not-so-helpful error messages I get with my queries, and because if chaptgpt tells a lie it will be caught by my syntax checker.

So, I guess you can use it, if you always assume it to be trying to mislead you until proven to the contrary.

Is xml really that unreadable for machines? I enjoy xml as a format, because I can generally just convert it to an s-expression and easily manipulate it as a tree.

I don’t remember the last time I had to worry about the compression. I simply run tar xf myfile.tar.whatever and it works every time.

Some people use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. It kind of gets the pros of tabs (user configurable indent-width) and the pros of spaces (alignment). That doesn’t work in Python where you can’t align stuff and the interpreter doesn’t allow mixing tabs with spaces, but in other languages it is a possible style.

That’s not true though. You can get the backtrace and other useful information from the coredump mentioned by the error message by loading it with gdb. Not as good as attaching it to a living process, since you can’t see step-by-step what happens leading up to the error, but still quite useful.

I don’t think any country would like their head of state be called a dictator.