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Companies updating their websites (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

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[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 46 points 5 months ago

At least in Europe the year after the copyright statement has no meaning, and even the copyright statement itself is useless. Since if not stated otherwise, no rights are granted by default.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 5 months ago

Indeed. Yet every webpage ever has an outdated copyright year.

[-] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 22 points 5 months ago

[checks personal website]

Yes, shame on them!

[-] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 5 months ago

I thought everyone does <?php echo date("Y"); ?>

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 21 points 5 months ago

No no, we do

time_t t = time(NULL);
struct tm tm = *localtime(&t);
tm.tm_year + 1900;

Everyone writes their web server in plain C, right?

[-] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 4 points 5 months ago

The cool thing to do now is to write it in Rust, only using the standard library.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

And I hate it. Nice concept, but I don't like neither, the language nor compiler.

[-] SatouKazuma@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

It's okay to be wrong

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago
  • The C compiler, when I parse a &(float) as (long) (it's actually an evil floating point hack to run Quake III on an X86_64 CPU emulated in Scratch running on Spotifys Car Thing) (This would never be possible in Rust)
[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

std::mem::transmute

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, but

  1. it's unsafe, therefore not really Rust I'd argue
  2. it doesn't look as good
float Q_rsqrt(float number) {
   long i;
   float x2, y;
   const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

   x2 = number * 0.5F;
   y = number;

   i = * ( long * ) &y;
   i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
   y = * ( float * ) &i;

   y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );
   return y;
}
[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Please don't tell me you, unironically, actually use the Carmack rsqrt function in the year of our Linux Desktop 2024.

Also if you like, you can write unsafe Rust in safe Rust instead.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

No. But somebody may be.

[-] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 2 points 5 months ago

It’s a very different vibe. I remember my first seg fault in C - kids days are missing out!

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 18 points 5 months ago

Well, everyone who’s coding their websites is, yeah. Seeing how almost 10% of all websites use Elementor now and are built by people without an understanding of coding concepts, there are probably plenty of websites that don’t output their copyright year dynamically.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

Elementor has this feature, though.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 38 points 5 months ago

Also:

they: you can find the solution for your problem here

clicks on the 'here' link

404

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

This happened at my work with internal docs as we switched from an ancient intranet to a new service that had a ton more features but no backwards compatibility so all the pages got updated to PDFs with helpful links that went nowhere and it caused chaos for like 3 months.

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago

Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files' headers.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

it's probably a red flag if your website can't do currentYear() in the footer.

[-] jdeath@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

that's actually an anti-pattern. the purpose if a copyright notice is not to declare the current year to each visitor, fyi.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Yes, it's actually to notify people who aren't part of countries with membership to the WTO of the first available year of public declaration of distribution without restriction, however, putting "1997" on your website makes it look old so people put current year to make it look new.

It's only legally distinct in Aruba, Eritrea, Kiribati, Micronesia, North Korea etc... so it's almost entirely useless.

I meant it's a red flag if someone can't spin up the code and is making an intern change it by hand every year.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Or have a single general footer that they all refer to.

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Well it wasn't a website, for what it's worth.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago

that's where date('Y') comes in

[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 11 points 5 months ago

Year of the tiddies

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

I read this as boobs.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Is that your date?

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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