I thought I had submitted a reply to this post but it looks like it somehow got lost in the pipes. Obviously I am not talking about relocating less than a decent-sized and reproductively self-sustaining population offplanet. Having NASA in charge of it may not be a good idea, I'll give you.
Oh, and don't use "pro tip:" in a comment unless you're sure that the person you're flaming is actually making the argument you're attacking him for. Better yet, just don't use "pro tip:" at all.
It will of course be very complicated and expensive, sure. But it's all the more important to get there if the first colony fails. We learn from our mistakes and do it right the second time. Why do you think it took until Apollo 11 to get to the moon? (Okay, so maybe that's not the best example.)
I would consider it a pretty damn compelling reason. I'm not saying we steal from education to fund it...maybe just cut military spending by 25% or so. Without a sense of urgency, it never gets addressed. And I for one am not willing to gamble on "oh, it won't happen in my lifetime" until it finally does.
So *when* (not if) some extinction-level (or mass-destruction-and-suffering-level, anyway) event happens to Earth, humans don't go extinct? How's that a reason for ya?
The UW college I attended is still teaching CICS to the Computer Information Systems emphases as of a couple years ago. I just checked with on of them and he says yeah...true story.
Except for the part where if the person in question knows you use this service and your username, you're basically just leaving your login without a password.
Wouldn't it just be easier to use emacs if you already have it running? I thought the major argument (other than usability and ubiquity) for using vi/m over emacs was startup time...
drop into vim for quick edits without having to save and reopen the file
If you already have it open in emacs, just save it and leave it open...?
It's all sensationalistic nonsense until it actually happens. Which seems to be just a matter of time and judicial incompetence. If you want to be optimistic about it, that's your own business, but I am NOT.
Yes, it makes it more difficult for the end user. But I'm sure somebody has made a quote about convenience and liberty at some point (Ben Franklin?). That's a wholly different argument.
NK is heavily armed (proportionally), possibly nuked up, and has the at-least-nominal support of China. Given the recent U.S. track record of invading other countries, what the heck should we be doing?
Ooh, I know--maybe we can have the U.N. impose another sanction on them! So the average guy can be even more miserable and starving than before.
Thanks for the info. This is a rare application for me to put that one half-course in assembly to use;)
I had to look some of that stuff up earlier as I was unaware that main() was actually implemented differently in the compiler instead of just throwing a compile-time warning for non-int typing or something...you learn something new every day, eh?
What the hell difference does it make, then, if the user can disable it? So somebody could e.g. modify GRUB to default to when booting Windows pass some sort of --secure-boot-on flag, and --secure-boot-off for everything else, right? In which case the only thing we gain from it is Windows patting itself on the back that it's "secure"...until somebody figures out how to hack it in about 6 months...
I was saying that you don't need to be a "brogrammer" (gag) to not know that main() in C returns an int. There are plenty of other languages out there that one can be very conversant in without knowing one random bit of trivia about one first introduced in the early '70s.
One could say all 3 posters were a bit at fault here, really: 1) HeckRuler's code, while syntactically valid, returns the number of characters in the string, not 0 for success, which is rather misleading. 2) dimeglio thought it was a stupid mistake, which I'm sure was an honest mistake on his part because he doesn't know about the C standard. Which I can't blame him much for. 3) The A.C. just flamed him. Well, at least he included a period at the end of the sentence. 4) You and I are arguing about whether it's reasonable to expect J Random Programmer to know a tidbit about C that the compiler will almost certainly warn you about anyway. As someone who knows C++ and x86 assembly (the basics, anyway), I find your choice of where to draw the line that delimits a n00b too arbitrary for my tastes. But I'm splitting hairs again, so go figure...
Do any other C functions have a reserved return type? No? Then it's not exactly an intuitive conclusion to jump to if one has never programmed in C, is it?
It's a convention; if you think about it, it's not exactly necessary. Him not knowing just means he's inexperienced (in that specific area, anyway). Why he's posting to "correct" is another matter...
To be able to share the stuff, yes, they would need to have access to the keys. But as a strictly backup medium, there is no reason they need ever see them. Of course, this kills any chance of a user who lost their keys getting their files back, but...I would be willing to take that risk.
But I assume Mega encrypts the stuff for you? You don't provide your own keys?
2. an omnipotent omniscient benevolent invisible man
I find it kind of interesting that everybody likes to bring up the invisible bit. You wouldn't be very omnipotent if the puny humans could walk in on you by accident...
6. a bunch of immortal beings who aren't omnipotent but like to control things with a few well-placed thunderbolts or monsters or bits of advice
If you were immortal, wouldn't *you* eventually start fucking around with people? Forever is a long time.
You'll have to excuse me if I don't take you seriously as you A) are using an ad hominem argument in the first place, and B) can't even spell it correctly.
After having actually read TFA, I still don't know what they mean by "misconduct." Are we talking academic, i.e. falsifying data or plagiarizing, or sexual misconduct, or what? The article carefully avoids ever joining an adjective to it.
Because come on...in general, does anybody believe males if they report being accosted?
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How about you don't post replies snarkily criticizing people for pedantic and inaccurate assumptions and then it won't be a problem?
I thought I had submitted a reply to this post but it looks like it somehow got lost in the pipes. Obviously I am not talking about relocating less than a decent-sized and reproductively self-sustaining population offplanet. Having NASA in charge of it may not be a good idea, I'll give you.
Oh, and don't use "pro tip:" in a comment unless you're sure that the person you're flaming is actually making the argument you're attacking him for. Better yet, just don't use "pro tip:" at all.
Then the bad parents will just tell the kids *their* code and we'll be right back where we started.
It will of course be very complicated and expensive, sure. But it's all the more important to get there if the first colony fails. We learn from our mistakes and do it right the second time. Why do you think it took until Apollo 11 to get to the moon? (Okay, so maybe that's not the best example.)
I would consider it a pretty damn compelling reason. I'm not saying we steal from education to fund it...maybe just cut military spending by 25% or so. Without a sense of urgency, it never gets addressed. And I for one am not willing to gamble on "oh, it won't happen in my lifetime" until it finally does.
So *when* (not if) some extinction-level (or mass-destruction-and-suffering-level, anyway) event happens to Earth, humans don't go extinct? How's that a reason for ya?
(oh, wait, no, there _are_ cryptosystems that cannot be brute-forced)
...yet. Never say never; e.g. quantum computing whatnot.
The UW college I attended is still teaching CICS to the Computer Information Systems emphases as of a couple years ago. I just checked with on of them and he says yeah...true story.
Except for the part where if the person in question knows you use this service and your username, you're basically just leaving your login without a password.
Wouldn't it just be easier to use emacs if you already have it running? I thought the major argument (other than usability and ubiquity) for using vi/m over emacs was startup time...
drop into vim for quick edits without having to save and reopen the file
If you already have it open in emacs, just save it and leave it open...?
It's all sensationalistic nonsense until it actually happens. Which seems to be just a matter of time and judicial incompetence. If you want to be optimistic about it, that's your own business, but I am NOT.
Yes, it makes it more difficult for the end user. But I'm sure somebody has made a quote about convenience and liberty at some point (Ben Franklin?). That's a wholly different argument.
NK is heavily armed (proportionally), possibly nuked up, and has the at-least-nominal support of China. Given the recent U.S. track record of invading other countries, what the heck should we be doing?
Ooh, I know--maybe we can have the U.N. impose another sanction on them! So the average guy can be even more miserable and starving than before.
Thanks for the info. This is a rare application for me to put that one half-course in assembly to use ;)
I had to look some of that stuff up earlier as I was unaware that main() was actually implemented differently in the compiler instead of just throwing a compile-time warning for non-int typing or something...you learn something new every day, eh?
What the hell difference does it make, then, if the user can disable it? So somebody could e.g. modify GRUB to default to when booting Windows pass some sort of --secure-boot-on flag, and --secure-boot-off for everything else, right? In which case the only thing we gain from it is Windows patting itself on the back that it's "secure"...until somebody figures out how to hack it in about 6 months...
That was basically (part of) what I was saying, yes.
I was saying that you don't need to be a "brogrammer" (gag) to not know that main() in C returns an int. There are plenty of other languages out there that one can be very conversant in without knowing one random bit of trivia about one first introduced in the early '70s.
One could say all 3 posters were a bit at fault here, really:
1) HeckRuler's code, while syntactically valid, returns the number of characters in the string, not 0 for success, which is rather misleading.
2) dimeglio thought it was a stupid mistake, which I'm sure was an honest mistake on his part because he doesn't know about the C standard. Which I can't blame him much for.
3) The A.C. just flamed him. Well, at least he included a period at the end of the sentence.
4) You and I are arguing about whether it's reasonable to expect J Random Programmer to know a tidbit about C that the compiler will almost certainly warn you about anyway. As someone who knows C++ and x86 assembly (the basics, anyway), I find your choice of where to draw the line that delimits a n00b too arbitrary for my tastes. But I'm splitting hairs again, so go figure...
Do any other C functions have a reserved return type? No? Then it's not exactly an intuitive conclusion to jump to if one has never programmed in C, is it?
If by "cargo cult" you mean "modern"... ;)
It's a convention; if you think about it, it's not exactly necessary. Him not knowing just means he's inexperienced (in that specific area, anyway). Why he's posting to "correct" is another matter...
To be able to share the stuff, yes, they would need to have access to the keys. But as a strictly backup medium, there is no reason they need ever see them. Of course, this kills any chance of a user who lost their keys getting their files back, but...I would be willing to take that risk.
But I assume Mega encrypts the stuff for you? You don't provide your own keys?
that we're aware of.
That's exactly what I was saying.
2. an omnipotent omniscient benevolent invisible man
I find it kind of interesting that everybody likes to bring up the invisible bit. You wouldn't be very omnipotent if the puny humans could walk in on you by accident...
6. a bunch of immortal beings who aren't omnipotent but like to control things with a few well-placed thunderbolts or monsters or bits of advice
If you were immortal, wouldn't *you* eventually start fucking around with people? Forever is a long time.
You'll have to excuse me if I don't take you seriously as you A) are using an ad hominem argument in the first place, and B) can't even spell it correctly.
Oh. Then why bother even linking to another article linking to it?
After having actually read TFA, I still don't know what they mean by "misconduct." Are we talking academic, i.e. falsifying data or plagiarizing, or sexual misconduct, or what? The article carefully avoids ever joining an adjective to it.
Because come on...in general, does anybody believe males if they report being accosted?