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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Surely itās better to specify those defaults in the config file and have the system just fail if the necessary flags arenāt present. Having worked in support I can vouch for the amount of suffering that could be avoided if more systems actually failed if some important configuration isnāt in place.
Completely agree. I think this may just be an extension of the āyou gotta know what youāre doing to code correctly in Cā old school bullshit.
This is my biggest gripe with that nonsense. If you make it hard to do something well, you wonāt end up with an elite series of uber-coders because there arenāt enough of those people to do all the programming that people want to be done. Instead youāll see that much more software engineering done really goddamned badly and despite appearances at the time it turns out there is a maximum amount of shitty software the world can endure.
Whatās great is even the very best ājust use valgrind lol, lmaoā folks make these errors all the time. Itās basically impossible to write correct C code generally ā the best we can do is verify subsets of code (c.f. Rustās
unsafekeyword). The memory-safety CVEs in EXT3/4 are proof of this, IMO, as if there were anyone able to write correct C code today, it would be Ted Tsāo.