[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should understand the principles before accessing the short cuts.

I don't really agree with this take. The reason we teach kids mental calculus is to indeed understand basic principles, but only because their further education is based on those principles.

But it doesn't generalise to everything. I don't need to understand assembly or the basic principles that make a computer work to be a good software engineer using high level programming languages.

And this might be an unpopular take, but you don't even need to understand well low level development to be a good software engineer using high level languages.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You are so confidently incorrect and unable to recognize your error. I invite you to re-read the whole article. This is a use that first surfaced in the 18th century and has slowly become more common, with an adoption peak recently. That's how languages evolve.

In any case, definitely not about illiteracy, which, once again, is your original claim.

Gain some maturity.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Your comment was purely about these changes taking generations to happen, this is something that has been in the work since the 18th century. It's a perfectly typical change, not a sudden one based in illiteracy.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

If Linus had only ever made git, he'd have gone down as one of the greats.

As opposed to also having made the most used kernel in the world?

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, you're already saying "we", which implies you share that net worth with someone else! That'd be 450k/head, and no one is a millionaire!

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

Eeeeh, no. PDFs will show differently based on the software as soon as it gets a little complex. The only truly reliable PDFs are PDFs that contain... Images.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

This comment... Confuses me.

Black box testing is MUCH harder than white box testing, especially as, and I hate to say it, AI based security scanners become better and better at identifying flaws in source code. Having more information about your target is always the first step in penetration testing, and more information is ALWAYS better.

This is exactly why security by obscurity is a valid tactic. It hides information and makes a system harder to attack.

Absolute security is achievable, but comes with costs. If I'm willing to airgap everything and never go online, only using my own code, my device will be safe.

No, it's not. Every system has flaws. Using your own code is especially a bad idea, as it is much more likely to be flawed than a 20 yo open source project. Your airgapped device may be secure from remote attacks, since it is not connected to any network, but if it is stolen, that means nothing.

Absolute security is impossible.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago

Again, I never disagreed with the issue: (90%) solo games requiring an internet connection disappearing suddenly is a major issue in the gaming industry

I disagree with the solutions people want for it, which I find shortsighted.

And yes, such a legislation would force to rethink some designs, and force using one over the other not because it fits the final product better, but because it does not have the additional pressure of compliance. And that, I think, makes it a poor solution.

What I'd like to see is something similar to minimal warranty in the EU. So, a game has to provide X years of playability, clearly shown on the product page/box. They can guarantee longer if they wish. They then have a legal obligation to keep it online. Add to it a mandatory warning X years before shutdown.

Then the consumer is no longer deceived, and the studio has less pressure to comply with EoL requirements.

And why not make releasing the source code a viable way to comply with these requirements, and have a special label for "forever playable" games, either fully singleplayer or through code release.

Just don't force every studio to release their codebase.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

https://httpbin.org/ip

Httpbin has a bunch of other useful endpoints as well

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I'll let you have a look at the difference of opinions between LFI and every other left party. All those differences are issues they refuse to compromise on :)

[-] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

No. Each generation was fucked in their own way, regardless of the two edges of the progress that they grew up with.

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