Aug. 27, 2017 - Binary search

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Jan

Bringing back programming humor! Jan needs to perform a backtrace. Meanwhile, Andrea is an interrupt request that is not being serviced. The latency is terrible XD (Any programmers who want to explain the comic or what I just wrote, feel free ^^)

Today's cameo features Kyanite Skydiamond and Misha Sergeyevich Dragoslav.

Shockwave07 • 08/27/2017

She's still dragging Tor along...

Though I request a translator for Andrea!

Navarre • 08/27/2017

Did Andrea shop till Tor dropped so now she's dragging him from store to store?

Shockwave07 • 08/27/2017

@Navarre: No Tor just had an Art Attack.

https://www.tigerknight.com/99/2017-08-20

Nighter3D • 08/27/2017

Well that is the problem if you don't put a limit on the number of nodes from the root node your program can go. You may end up stuck who knows where looking at far to specific data.

Also Andrea should have used a hardware Interrupt rather than a software one.

M Russell • 08/27/2017

Stack overflow; this is why recursion is not used in commercial applications for navigating trees. Further, since a shopping mall has a circular topology, the simplest search in terms of reducing travel path may be a simple round-robin consisting of visiting each store in sequence along the topological circuit.

Brighttail • 08/27/2017

How can anyone ignore Andrea dragging a Tor??? I think if she is ignored for much longer, Jan may experience a fatal error. :)

AlyxVixen • 08/27/2017

@Navarre Tor just had to smell the turpentine, leaving Andrea to drag his unconscious butt around the mall, looking for a strong helpful gentlefur to help her shift him...

Jeffepp • 08/27/2017

He isn't ignoring her, he's ignoring Tor.

Is Andrea actually unable to speak? That's never been clear.

Katnik • 08/27/2017

Run, Jan, run ! If you're fleet of foot, you can save yourself !

Jo Li KMC • 08/27/2017

So, I just realized... Andrea doesn't actually talk unless she has something important to say, does she?

Jeffepp • 08/27/2017

Fine, if [no one] else, then... (Yeah, I'm already starting the programming jokes.)

Andrea's input does not conform to what is specified for the interrupt she's using. Therefor, it it's being sanitized out of the buffers before it goes to the main program. Buffer overflow attacks are how most exploits happen, so sanitize those buffers, people!

But, Jan's garbage collection routine failed, or doesn't exist, so we get what we have here. That's the way he want's it, so, he get's it. I don't like it any more than you.

There's an error is his search, anyway. He's making the assumption that there is a difference between under, and outer. The last stop should have told him that distinction does not exist, at least where Jessie is concerned.

Panther • 08/27/2017

@ Joseph Collins :

"- Meep meep , squeak"

^_^"

Panther • 08/27/2017

NO , not algorithms

As soon as someone speaks about it , my brain is out .................... ^_^"

ndrvr • 08/27/2017

So, in programming, is a bathroom break defined as an interrupt or as:

Men: WAIT 300 (seconds)

Women: WAIT 3600 (seconds) ?

Jan • 08/27/2017 • edited

@Shockwave07

5 ANDREA: Oh! Jan! Help?

6 ANDREA: Can you help me with something? Please?

7 ANDREA: Well, there's that.

@Jeffepp @Joseph Collins Her squeaks are very condensed words :D

MiyuHogosha (aka Swift) • 08/27/2017

@Nighter3D Also Andrea should have used a hardware Interrupt rather than a software one.

pull the tail?

soriac • 08/27/2017 • edited

@Swift: the best way would have been a non-maskable interrupt, aka a firm kick in the butt.

@Jan: I think Andrea uses an asynchronous communication with a way too high transfer rate. Not a robust communication if it's primarily cpu-based which is occupied with garbage collection... :-|

2bit Marten • 08/27/2017

Remember to always mount your scratch monkey kiddies.

Ash • 08/27/2017

Someone give that poor girl an air horn or a Universal Translator already.

Navarre • 08/27/2017

Ah yes, thank you folks. I had forgotten the art store incident.

typhoon • 08/28/2017

So Jan basically runs DOS, TOS, CP/M or some other really primitive non preemtive multitasking OS?

Dragon Furry • 08/29/2017

Yeah! Background Dragon :D Also, getting separated in large shopping areas. Never fun.

Sonic Wolfe • 08/29/2017

Quick! Hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete!

Silverwolf • 08/29/2017

@Jan: I have a feeling Wolf could translate her squeaks with a modified modem.

Meanwhile I think I figured out what happened...you're not on a leaf node, you're on a dangling pointer. Meanwhile the girls are looking for an address with the fastest seek time for a memory leak or core dump.

Mascurse • 08/30/2017

Seems like more of a database indexing failure here. Someone really needs to update Jan's algorithm to account for new requirements.

I might recommend a 3-column index to improve cardinality considering he didn't account for sub-regions...that would remove that requirement and replace it with simple data entry.

Vulpis • 08/31/2017

Poor Andrea...those stores are so cramped she can't swing a cat without hitting something. :-) I do like the 'Crate of Barrels', though. Do they have the sister store, 'Boxes of Boxes'?

Ephesus • 08/31/2017

The thing that cracks me up the most is, I understand everything being said even though I major in bio, based on my meager knowledge from a course on databases a few years ago. But if you asked me to talk like that, I would probably either take forever searching the right words or just sit down to cry.

WB101 • 08/31/2017 • edited

I must admit, my old OS (insert picture of rubbing 2 sticks together here) reverts to the KISS methodology at such times:

Did I drive – yes. Do I still have the keys - jingle jingle yes. Then - my passengers will eventually come looking for ME.

Therefore, time to go catch the Taco Thursday special at the Mexican food place (and hope to avoid an infinite loop of Montezuma's revenge).

Matt • 08/31/2017

he forgot the pits stops namely the bathrooms in his search.

Panther • 09/02/2017

@ Matt :

Jan can't do it : it's female bathrooms ^_^"

Stargazer • 09/02/2017

Not wanting to break the programming code comment chain, but is that a SOCK store in panel 3? Who in this comic wears socks? Or is it just a conditional thing, like IF it's cold?

Kangaar Foxfire • 09/02/2017

I love playing around with binary trees. Or at least I did when I had time for programming as a hobby.;(

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