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You make an extremely compelling point. I was arguing in sound bites and your final paragraph is entirely reasonable.

That’s what every parent hopes to leave their kids with: an obligation

I’m curious if you’re just misremembering or if there’s some particular reason you say that.

For me, building a machine is identical to writing code.

I can’t really see a difference.

These comments are all over the place. I can’t identify a coherent point.

Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.

Why do you say “true customers”?

Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?

People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead of a “Twitter customer”

> You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker

You absolutely can, especially with something as multifaceted as a country.

> nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".

They do and you can.

What’s wrong with 3DES?

Do you mean in size?

Surely you don’t think changing size has much to do with what makes humans intelligent.

It’s not doublethink to say the programs should have been exposed and that Snowden was a traitor for exposing them in a manner that otherwise hurt our country.

He could have done things properly, instead he dumped thousands of files unrelated to illegal surveillance to the media.

The grandparent post is asking about the people who need to know enough to program TLS to

> let it choose

If a competitor had perfect quotes I’d still use google. They’re too reliable at other things.

How do you accurately include those sqrt(n)’s in your analysis?

If I write a song am I not deriving it from the existing works I’ve been exposed to?

You don’t have to be locked into a walled garden! You don’t have to buy an iPhone.

If you’re not joking, where do you suspect they were deployed from?

I don’t know much about OCaml but one reason could be linking unnecessary libraries

I don’t really have an opinion on this but isn’t “seeing if it sticks” just other words for market research?

I’m not sure why you’re being so abrasive.

I’m confused what the alternative is. If it’s valuable and people lose value somewhere in their life, they will exchange their valuable thing to make up for it.

Nitpick to your nitpick:

> InstallCore was also behind a fake installer for a Windows version of Snapchat, a program that's only ever been available on mobile. It would instead install Android emulator BlueStacks

That actually sounds like a _real_ installer for a Windows version of snapchat. Just because they had to use some technical trick to make it work doesn’t mean diddly(if it actually works).

> A culture with good values that also punishes bullshit/imorality seems to be required.

CGP Grey coined an excellent term for these on his podcast, calling them “The Necessary Lies of Civilization.”

I understand your concern, but if it’s something that can be seen/heard from the next property over, I don’t know that you can reasonably expect such things to be private.

Although now I’m imagining this taken to the extreme, like if your neighbors set up a 24/7 HD video feed with a hyperbolic microphone etc aimed directly at your front porch. That sort of behavior is certainly weird.

SRE is software reverse engineer, correct?

> smart folks like us--who are not stuck in the past and want to get on with the future

The future has pointers and memory allocation, even if you want to pretend it’s to there and leave the complexity to other smart folks.

> You don't need low level details to program well--you need a good language like APL, to truly learn how to program

We’re not talking about a programming degree. We’re talking about a computer science degree.

I’ve never heard of one. I refuse to believe a self respecting CS program would let people through without taking some kind of computer organization/low level programming type class where you _at least_ program in some C.

What is thinking if not pattern generating?

Do you have any examples?

What do you mean about GCC shooting itself in the head?

What do you mean about its license?