Thread necromancer should be a Halloween costume

You still can if you come back in 5 years

Me neither, but someone commented here it’s a holdover from the days of forums where a new reply to an old thread would instantly put that thread at the top of the forums because the order was always latest reply. This was found annoying by some people especially if the new reply was short and meaningless or something. Makes more sense to me now.

I feel like it’s always been like that. Did the mods give you a reason for removing your post?

By reddit standards maybe. I’ll tell you though I am always delighted whenever I recognize a user from another thread.

Fair point

There’s only one forum I visit nowadays and it gets older threads revived every now and then. Usually to say “Whatever happened to that? Is it done yet?”

Oh I didn’t know that! I didn’t grow up on forums but I used them a few times here and there. You’re right new replies do push a thread to the top. Kind of a bad design lol.

I do too! I mean notifications of replies are always a shot of dopamine no matter how old.

That reminds me there’s this dude who replied to a pic I posted with “Can use this as an album cover?” I said sure and he said “Cool see me in a year”. I replied a year later “How’s that album coming along?” and was like “give me another year” lol. It’s almost been two years now. Gonna check in again soon.

Oh like dark souls lol.

God knows there aren’t many new threads on lemmy so I’ve been searching random keywords looking for interesting old threads to read and sometimes comment on.

I think people call it deadposting. I’ve heard someone be like “Sorry for deadposting” so I thought if they’re apologizing it must be frowned upon.

Is it a public or private university?

That’s the best kind of pain in the ass :D

Proof?

Sounds made up ngl

I said this before but we need an internet friend finding community like r/makenewfriendshere and r/needafriend

Look forward to the day

The name is Mr. T. First name is Mr, middle name is that period, last name is T.

— Mr. T

Thank you for your wisdom. I hope one day I can be as knowledgeable as you people.

Hmm. Well I tried to learn C++ as my first programming language when I was 12 so that’s probably the reason lol. I was just bad at everything at that time. I moved onto Java next, but maybe I should revisit C++.

But if I had to name specifics these come to mind right now:

• Using code across multiple files or libraries is really annoying. The preprocessor directives, I kinda get them but there’s always something that breaks and I don’t understand why. Also why isn’t there a package manager or something like that? Hmm maybe there is nowadays but I don’t know if there was back then
• Still don’t know what a link error is or why it would randomly show up and then disappear if I restart visual studio
• I know this is a meme but long hard to understand error messages in the case of C++ and no useful error messages at all in C
• In C did you know that the order of items in a struct matters? I didn’t until I spent an hour debugging a segfault.
• Obviously C doesn’t have strings. Accomplishing even the simplest things in C feels really hard. Like you’re on your own.

I’m very sure all of these can be summed up as me being bad at the languages. Skill issue etc. and it’s true. I am bad at both.

But the point is there’s a lot of things I don’t understand and that seem unintuitive to me. So it’s not fun, so I don’t use it. If you gave me a programming problem for fun and told me choose your language I would never choose C++ and certainly not C. I’d use Python, JavaScript or Java because they feel more fun to use and I can see progress faster. Same for my new projects. I’ve never tried to make anything more complicated than a command line program in C++ or C.

At the same time I understand that higher level languages abstract a lot of things away from you and I really do wanna get better at understanding those concepts.

Anyway thanks for attending my therapy session.