↑I second this motion.

I never heard of it. Granted, this was at a time when I was still squarely in blue-pill land, and never paid attention much to these things. I always knew what Spectre and Meltdown was, in a broad-view sense, but never read up the specs on how exactly it worked.

I didn't realize it could access shared memory/cache simply by virtue of even running on the same processor, bypassing all software checks and existing on a lower level than even the kernel. Also, we were told it was fixed/patched, and the scare went away. Now Google's telling people it might actually be inherent to the architecture of modern processors, and may very well be unpatchable. That's nuts and news to me.

This is, of course, particularly worrying for cloud computing where it is common for virtual machines belonging to different companies to run on the same hardware.

Now that's a crazy implication I hadn't thought about. Lots of people are probably rightfully shitting their pants, right now.

Scary awesome. Embrace it, man. I honestly think that a lot of shit that people perceive as "mental illness," is just the brain rejecting artificial programming. I'm not talking about trannies; but more like, "being anti-semitic and knowing there are only two genders is not a mental illness." Davies most-certainly had mental problems, but he was an extreme. Being passionate about things that people think are weird is nothing to be ashamed of. Neither is calling stupid people "niggers."

I will forever-and-only refer to any alphabet-soup agents as CIA Niggers. Or "glow-in-the-dark spooks," if I happen to be in polite company.

I never bothered to try and figure out what the guy on the other line was saying. Someone in the comments posted a transcript, and it makes the clip that much better,

"You wrote a port of GCC?"
"You wrote a frontend for GCC, right?" x2
"No no no no no. Your compiler, you know? The frontend GCC port."
"OK so you ported GCC, congratulations."
"It's GCC."

Memory is such a fickle thing. It honestly terrifies me that something as simple as a slip can make you forget entire portions of your life, or have you forget a skill that you spent decades perfecting. Have you tried all the standard stuff people do to improve brain function: lifting heavy weights, supplementing with fish oil, micro-dosing mushrooms/LSD, or CBD extracts?

Real talk: certificate login? Toss that shit on a usb stick, and there's your key to unlock the server. If that doesn't work, you can immediately rule-out shitty typography and move on to the next troubleshooting step. None of my ssh ports accept typed passwords.

That reminds me of the time I put coffee on my eggs, got pissed off, and then put ketchup in my coffee.

Spent three days troubleshooting a postfix server I was setting up; couldn't get SSL working. Turns out, I had an extra period in the directory path to the certificate. <_< Boy, what that an emotional roller-coaster.

I instinctually stayed away from Ruby; something about it just rubbed me the wrong way, even from the start. I like the openness of perl, tbh. It allows for some very creative fuckery. It was the first scripting language I learnt, and it just stuck over the years.

Hell, 90% of my linux box automation is done using perl, even though there are more-likely better ways. :p It's just so easy and fast to piece anything together, especially if you just need a simple script to quickly process/generate some random data in to something useful; what with all the modules, etc.

That's why I never even bothered looking in to Node.js besides standard familiarization, for professional reasons. Everything it does: perl already does, but better. It's definitely easy to write shit code which's still functional; however, that's why you always refactor. ;)

I'm just being a sarcastic bitch about that one woman who replied in this screenshot: https://imgoat.com/uploads/d686fd640b/192498.jpg

This post is making me want to inspect the code on most feminist websites. I bet their javascript has plenty of fun "features" to be discovered.

I like working with HTML; it's fun. I like to think I have as much fun doing it as some faggot has while decorating. Definitely not coding, though. And anyone who only knows how to write markup is certainly not a coder. We should start calling them "website decorators".

thnx I'll have nightmares now knowing airplane software is written by chicks

I miss the good old days, when internet communities were basically different versions of Lord of the Flies, but with people who actually knew what they were doing. I miss it so much. It's, like, 90% of the reason why I continue to log in to voat.

I will begin the upgradation.

Pretty much. I used Stack Overflow to actually learn how to do things; most shovel-ware pajeets just straight-up c+p without knowing wtf is going on. That's the difference which cheaping out on labour makes, when hiring a workforce. Hire a team of pajeets to build something that will break whenever the wind changes direction, and then have a small team of actually competent (read: non-Indian) coders, who come along afterwards, to barely hold everything together.

And then they wonder why everything is bastardized, bloated and broken. No, it's not JavaScript's fault most websites clock-in at over 100MBs, per hit. Why spend time coding something small and efficient, which is functionally the same but has 1/10th the size and 10x the performance— that you will fully understand and be able to work with. Why do that, when you can import every single library off Google's CDN, and stitch shit together like a retard making a quilt— and then go post a question on Stack Overflow when everything inevitably breaks, and you can't figure out how to fix it.

Not when you're a delusional beta.

Also, there's a totally useless and redundant function up top. It's a function that combines two strings; pretty useless, too, since it doesn't return a value and her call to it isn't using it, in any context. It just combines the strings and stops. No output.

A retardedly convoluted way of typing, print "your" + " mom";

The filenames themselves are also weird. What fucking directory tree is she backing out of?! WHY DOES A SPEAKING GRANDMA LAB NEED PRE-COLLEGE?!

Yes, but 90% pussy-pass hire. Those guys weren't inviting her to their startup for anything other than the eye candy and potential lay.

The one comment,

I'm starting to think he hit a jogger covered in reflective shit.

Oh, man. I shouldn't be laughing this hard. And yet, here we are.

At least we still have NetBSD and OpenBSD.

They should change the command to "people".
https://imgoat.com/uploads/7e1249ffc0/86197.jpg

Didn't say they were all fake; just that a huge portion of them are, for the sake of padding their numbers— and obfuscate the fact that there's actually a lot less fish in the sea than you would think.

First thing I thought of, when looking at it. How do you hardcode arithmetic, like that, and not realize you're being retarded? :/

I never got the point of it, tbqh. It just seems like random IRL boilerplate/"corporate structure"/"managers justifying their salaries" BS, to me.

You know, never gave it much thought. But C was my first programming language (by virtue of getting in to Linux at a young age), and I can understand code in other languages, that I've never used, with minimal effort.

Wonder if there's some correlation there. I know people who first learned to code in VB and are either stuck in the Microsoft ecosphere now, or had a hard time adapting.

After a while it's just syntax. If you need to script/alter code on something, in a language you've never used, it's easy to do as long as you have a browser tab open with some references. You learn from there.

I liken it to learning how to play the guitar by learning pre-existing songs. For example, I learnt PHP/MySQL by starting my own PhpBB forum fucking years ago.

Hey, goy. Programming is hard! Why bother wasting your mind doing this hard stuff that isn't fun?! What are you, a nerd or something? Leave it to professionals! You can trust us! Just go drink, have fun, watch TV. Don't worry about the code in your computer; we'll take care of it for you.

Everyone needs a good foundation of how technology works, at least; even if it isn't programming (though I'd argue they should at least understand the logic behind code).

The way everything works, today, not knowing how to at least configure security settings on one's hardware/software is inexcusable. Especially if your job depends on it (*cough*Hillary Clinton*cough *).

It goes both ways. I don't mind frequent OS updates (within reason), for example. Especially in the way of bug patches; or games adding new content, stuff like that.

But yeah, if something's updating every other day, it does tend to get annoying. It's why I disabled automatic updates on Firefox, and just do it manually once a month.

Or even contributing to popular OSS projects, if possible. That shit is like a gold star on your resume.

In its raw form, TrumpScript is not compatible with Windows, because Trump isn't the type of guy to believe in PC.

↑The point at which my sides fell off.

I can't wait for github to die in a fire. We need to send a message. This sjw bullshit will not stand.

The phrase you're looking for is "No True Scotsman".

I was referring to github, because he was talking about GUIs, so just assumed that's what he meant. But yeah, the protocol.

My point is, why wouldn't you use the cli?

> tells people to use a gui
> makes fun of people using shells
> is talking about a website for managing code

kek