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[jedidia]

Kind of very specific instead of random, but really not worth its own thread. I just realised that I have a gap in my C++ when it comes to references. Consider this:

void myfunc(int &output)
{
    int i = 0;
    output = i;
}

Is output then pointing to i (which is no longer on the stack when the function exits), or has the value of i been written into the memory output was pointing to? I would assume the later, since there's no dereferenciation of i, but I have to admitt that I'm not 100% sure...

 

[Blake]

Kind of very specific instead of random, but really not worth its own thread. I just realised that I have a gap in my C++ when it comes to references. Consider this:

void myfunc(int &output)
{
    int i = 0;
    output = i;
}

Is output then pointing to i (which is no longer on the stack when the function exits), or has the value of i been written into the memory output was pointing to? I would assume the later, since there's no dereferenciation of i, but I have to admitt that I'm not 100% sure...

When in doubt, the debugger is your friend. :thumbup:

Here's what your variables look like before assigning to output:

+		&output	0x00fcfd98 {20}	int *
+		&i	0x00fcfcb4 {0}	int *

and after:

+		&output	0x00fcfd98 {0}	int *
+		&i	0x00fcfcb4 {0}	int *

output takes the value of i, not its address.

 

[RisingFury]

This:

void myfunc(int &output)
{
    int i = 0;
    output = i;
}

is effectively the same as:

void myfunc(int *output)
{
    int i = 0;
    (*output) = i;
}

Essentially the reference does what a pointer does after you dereference it, but it does it "under the hood". In a function it pretends to be a local variable, but one that actually affects the variable outside of the scope of the function.

 

[steph]

The good part about living in an oceanic climate: there are no storms.... The bad part : the same

 

[Urwumpe]

There you are spending a full weekend in a small hut in the Harz mountains, far away from Internet and when you return, you read something about a coup in a distant country.

 

[steph]

There you are spending a full weekend in a small hut in the Harz mountains, far away from Internet and when you return, you read something about a coup in a distant country.

Well, at least you don't hear about nuclear war between India and Pakistan :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, at least you don't hear about nuclear war between India and Pakistan :lol:

Seriously, I couldn't have been more surprised. We had a great time, with friends from my tabletop club and their families.

Sadly, the water supply was broken, taking a shower was nearly impossible.

 

[jedidia]

It's pretty much official by now:

I'm too dumb for clojure.

 

[Urwumpe]

It's pretty much official by now:

I'm too dumb for clojure.

Welcome to 99% of the population of Earth.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Orbithangar Mods rebuild​

What?
Three days since my last login in the forum. What new project I missed?

 

[Urwumpe]

Some 17 year old from Afghanistan tried to kill people in a German regional train with an axe and a knife, he badly injured 4 tourists from Hong Kong, two of them are still in a life threatening state. Looks like he wanted to be a daesh drone, he had painted an islamistic flag himself in his room, but that is also all that really exists now about his daesh links. He had been living in Germany for two years now, first in a catholic home for young apprentices, later in a foster family.

He was shot by a SWAT unit, which was by plain chance near the place where the train stopped.

 

[jedidia]

I kind of would expect a SWAT team to be able to disable a man armed with a melee weapon without killing him. Then again, in a train there might be a significant chance to hit a bystander if you don't aim center...

 

[Urwumpe]

I kind of would expect a SWAT team to be able to disable a man armed with a melee weapon without killing him. Then again, in a train there might be a significant chance to hit a bystander if you don't aim center...

Well, it was night and he was charging towards the SWAT team. Also the team had only minutes to prepare for the mission. I can understand why the police resorted to play safe there - compared to other incidents in Bavaria, they handled it very professional.

 

[Linguofreak]

Random question: Does anyone have any pointers on getting Qemu (managed with virt-manager, specifically) to waste less guest-physical address space on MMIO on 32-bit guests? As seen by Windows, it's eating a full GiB. On physical hardware the amount of physical address space under 4 GiB you lose is going to be fairly set in stone for a given model, but I figure on a VM like Qemu you might be able to configure a fair bit of the wastage away.

 

[Notebook]

Not humorous maybe, but uplifting in a human sort of way.

Stewart Cooney, a 95-year-old war veteran, outlived his wife and son
He was set for a "lonely funeral" attended only by a carer and a social worker
An appeal to give him a good send-off was made on Facebook and in a local paper

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36834507

Well, he certainly got a send-off!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-36859868

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

There is a shooting in a shopping mall in Munich (Olympia-Einkaufszentrum), a single male shooter armed with a pistol has been recorded on smartphone videos and is still on the run. Injuries and casualties are still unknown. The shooting seems to have started in a McDonalds restaurant.

Lots of heavily armed police is on site, police is recommending to stay away from the location.

Earlier reports of other shootings in different places of Munich turned out to be wrong.

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A second shooting at the Stachus plaza and a panic at the nearby Marienplatz is confirmed now by unreliable panicking RTL television, police is also deploying there now.

The citizens are recommended to stay at home and avoid public places.

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And again, Stachus was a false alert, the police confirmed now on their twitter account. The subway system of Munich is shutdown and the stations are evacuated.

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And the police now calls out to the population to stop streaming videos and pictures of the police operations, please don't help the shooters.

(The first time the police is talking about more than one shooter)

There seems to be multiple deaths now.

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Witnesses report three different shooters, all still on the run.

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And multiple witnesses report it to be Neonazi shooters, on the fifth anniversary of the Oslo killings.

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Right now, its six casualties, one person died in hospital from its injuries. There are an unknown number of injuries.

Unconfirmed news by a private news outlet report that one attacker killed himself some minutes ago when surrounded by the police near the shopping mall but that was not confirmed by the police (EDIT: But this is now also reported by multiple local newspapers now, so it seems to be somewhat reliable information).

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Police confirmed that they have found a male corpse in the mall which is a suspected attacker. Death toll increased to nine (eight plus the possible attacker).

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The dead person which was found in a garden in the Olympic Village is found wearing the same red backpack as the shooter which started the spree killing in the McDonalds restaurant. Police is still not approaching the corpse, waiting for a robot to check if the backpack is booby-trapped.

More smartphone videos appear suggesting a nationalist German background of the attackers.

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Funnily, while all evidence starts to suggest some weird nationalist background (You can also hear the words "psychatry" and "hartz 4" (german welfare law) in the shouting of the attacker), CNN seems to have found the only "eye witness" claiming an Islamist background.

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The police operation seems to end now slowly, buses and subways are driving again.

Up to 100 people had been direct eyewitnesses of the attack, 21 are wounded.

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Now it seems to really be a spree killing. The attacker was a 18 year old male by the name of David S., with German and Iranian nationality, who was born and grew up in Munich and used the past days researching other spree killings on his computer. He had been in psychiatric treatment for some time before.

His nine victims are mostly from 13 years to 20 years, two girls and six boys, only one 45 year old woman as exception there.

More precise: Two 13 year old, three 14 year old, one 17 year old, one 19 year old, one 20 year old, and one 45 year old victim. Three victims had been of Turkish descent.




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The 9mm Glock pistol that he used in the killing is clearly illegal, the serial number was removed. He had 300 rounds ammo left in his backpack when his dead corpse was found.

 

[jedidia]

omg, I never thought I'd be writing unit tests for my Orbiter add-ons, but things are getting a tad complex... :blink:

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041fdj2

Inside a former nuclear missile base

The Titan Missile Museum is a decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missile complex in Arizona, USA.

The missile complex was capable of delivering a nine-megaton nuclear warhead to targets more than 10,000km (6,200 miles) away.

Director of the museum and former crew commander in the 1980s, Yvonne Morris, tells the BBC Travel Show's Rajan Datar why it is important that people are allowed visit the site.

Release date:
19 July 2016

Clip from BBC travel show, don't know if it will get out the UK.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

omg, I never thought I'd be writing unit tests for my Orbiter add-ons, but things are getting a tad complex... :blink:

Welcome to the light side of the force. :thumbup:

 

[Andy44]

It's like 100 degF in the DC area this weekend, and as the morning progresses the humidity is getting stupid high as well. I know a lot of people hate winter, but I love it. I'll take wearing a nice wool coat over sweating and mosquitos any day. Right now you can't walk from your front door to your car without feeling gross.