X-Git-Url: https://git.ucc.asn.au/?p=ipdf%2Fdocuments.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=irc%2F%23ipdf.log;h=681db7550754eae2817cd195b9491c90d46babe2;hp=4df7d54f15362686f1e06e8284c9837b2c167166;hb=75912eba0112dd0be66ba828a9c82ef5d1cc7b64;hpb=7405135393cd483690c441d40db21f5172b8a16f diff --git a/irc/#ipdf.log b/irc/#ipdf.log index 4df7d54..681db75 100644 --- a/irc/#ipdf.log +++ b/irc/#ipdf.log @@ -1716,3 +1716,32 @@ 21:40 <@matches> Of course we are restricted by the zoom in the pdf viewer... 21:41 <@matches> This project is too meta 21:41 <@matches> It is doing my head in +--- Day changed Fri May 23 2014 +11:22 < sulix> Welp. Submitting this version: http://davidgow.net/stuff/LitReviewDavid.pdf +11:23 < sulix> (The introduction has only got more over the top, I'm afraid) +11:48 < sulix> Do you know what is happening/isn't happening RE: Revised project proposals? +12:03 < sulix> Well: Literature review is submitted. +12:03 < sulix> (In person to the coordinator, which is a little bit scary) +--- Day changed Sun May 25 2014 +15:42 <@matches> No meeting tomorrow by the way +15:43 < sulix> Ah. Cool. I have like 300 things to do. +15:43 < sulix> Just pushed fixes for all of the compile warnings, btw. +15:43 <@matches> Cool +15:44 <@matches> I want to keep editing my Lit Review :S +15:44 < sulix> I had thought that Float() always returns a "float", but it sometimes returns a double. +15:44 <@matches> Oh +15:44 <@matches> Whoops +15:44 <@matches> Well a double is technically still a float... +15:44 < sulix> (Also, it turns out OpenGL actualy breaks the C++ spec, and is therefore impossible to use without hacks if you have -Werror enabled) +15:45 <@matches> Sigh +15:45 < sulix> It was warning that I was losing precision from float x = Float(blah); +15:45 <@matches> One of the things I want to put in my lit review is a snarky paragraph about how no one actually obeys standards anyway +15:46 < sulix> There are points where you get function pointers as void* pointers, but C++ needs to work on systems where code and data are stored in different bits of memory with different size pointers. +15:46 <@matches> On the other hand no matter how much better I make the lit review no one will read it because I'm being assessed on a conference paper not a dissertation +15:46 <@matches> Ah +15:46 < sulix> So casting any data pointer to a function pointer is apparently illegal. +15:47 <@matches> That's annoying +15:47 < sulix> Fortunately, gcc doesn't complain if you start the line that does it with "__extension__", so that's what we do. +15:47 <@matches> Haha +15:54 <@matches> Ok I am still about 3 days behind on sleep but I guess I should do work +15:54 <@matches> Bye