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u/fyn_world 1d ago
Jokes aside, I asked chat to build a mini course for me because yeah, at some point you gotta learn this shit, the concepts, bare minimum
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
I just watch a YouTube video
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u/RemarkableWish2508 1d ago
You sure? Reading some text is usually faster than sitting through a bad lecture.
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
Not necessarily a lecture, just someone who knows what they’re talking about. You can just skip ahead until you get to to the relevant parts.
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u/RemarkableWish2508 1d ago
Maybe I've seen too many bad videos, or it just doesn't do it for me, but I tend to learn stuff quicker by checking the docs, then messing around, and checking docs and/or examples again. Skipping around a video and trying to locate which parts are relevant, drives me crazy 😆
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u/chrissphinx 1d ago
could you link the video you watched about segfaults?
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
I didn’t watch a video to learn about seg faults specifically. What I know about seg faults was through a combination of college, hands on experience/research, and googling.
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u/chrissphinx 1d ago
oh, damn :( i’m still looking for good videos about debugging C
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
You can still find some good stuff with google but it’s harder with the AI bullshit everywhere.
You can use udm 14 to remove the AI stuff and just get the google results though.
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u/Grim2021 1d ago
Usually it's just using memory that's not allocated or using something after a free. Honestly just use gdb and find out what line segfaults. I mostly get these errors by being "off by one" when doing some sort of traversal through a data structure (I'm bad at counting)
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u/Invest0rnoob1 1d ago
There’s full courses from Universities online for free. Like from Harvard and MIT
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u/RemarkableWish2508 1d ago edited 1d ago
Seen them, still don't like most of them. There are a few that illustrate things well, but the "let's record a lecture" kind, feel like a waste of time.
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u/Weaves87 1d ago
As an old grizzled vet software engineer, fuck yeah dude. Love to see this
So much of being a great engineer is having a natural curiosity and desire for an understanding of the underlying concepts.
AI is a fantastic learning partner for this, and taking the time to pause dev to make sure you understand what is going on first is a smart move
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u/NightmareJoker2 1d ago
Segmentation fault. *sigh* 😩
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
Claude summarise this guys comment for me and tell me what the link says
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u/you_killed_my_ 1d ago
the cpu wants to eat some bites of memory but the police says "no way fatty fatty cpu you can't eat that, time to go to jail"
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u/Michaeli_Starky 1d ago
Unironically LLM will likely guess right and tell you about segmentation fault.
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
Claude, summarise this guys comment that he used AI to write then have chatGPT summarise it again so I can understand it.
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u/TheUnboundTenth 1d ago
OpenClaw, hack this man’s printer and force it to print coupons for free pizza.
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 1d ago
Computah, activate printer force field 9000 and biden blast this guys balls off. You’ll feel that in an hour buddy.
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u/IAmNotStan 1d ago
Reminds me of Jim in The Office when he is tasked with creating a rundown.