Division-by-zero Memes

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Compilers Are Really Smart! Yeah Sure Buddy

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2 days ago 190.8K views 1 shares

Compilers Are Really Smart! Yeah Sure Buddy

The compiler, that supposedly brilliant piece of software, suddenly loses all its swagger when you try to trick it. Top panel: Directly divide by zero? COMPILER flexes with sunglasses and security-guard energy. "Not today, buddy." Bottom panel: Declare a variable called zero and set it to 0, then divide by that? compiler deflates like a sad balloon, completely oblivious to the impending runtime disaster. It's like watching someone check your ID at the club entrance but failing to notice it's clearly made of cardboard and crayon.

Stop Doing NaNs

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4 months ago 160.9K views 0 shares

Stop Doing NaNs

Ah, the eternal JavaScript nightmare: NaN (Not a Number) - which ironically is a number type that doesn't equal itself. Because that makes perfect sense! The IEEE 754 floating-point standard really outdid itself here. "Let's create a special value that represents calculation errors but make it behave in the most counterintuitive ways possible!" My favorite part is JavaScript trying to be helpful: "You want to convert 'hello' to a number? Sure thing! Here's a NaN for your trouble. No errors thrown, just silent mathematical chaos." And then we wonder why our date calculations suddenly think it's the year NaN. The hex(983061) at the bottom is the cherry on top - it's 0xF00D61, or "FOOD A1". Even the hexadecimal is trolling us.