50 shades of compression

Bicycle

Did I become an old man that yells at clouds?

https://youtu.be/g_QCYPRu8pY?t=118

(possible thanks to the internet)

Thanks to telephones

I’m fine with talking on the phone instead of video conferences.

You will be surprised how many young people prefer voice-only over video. And how many people hate voice messages.

The main result seems to be increase consolation of wealth and power, and increasing the rate at which the world’s resources are depleted.

Welcome to capitalism.

and I don’t mean, following what the computer science methodology tells you, I mean having an idea of the best way to translate an idea into a logical solution that can be applied in any programming language,

But that IS computer science.

and Big O

It’s asymptotic. Slower O doesn’t mean faster program.

devs who use macs

Do they exist? Are you sure they are devs?

Didn’t even know it

For me “The Critical Flaw” of rust is its compiler. And requirent of 12 GB of disk space to compile just the frontend of compiler. Even GCC will all frontends(C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Modula-2, JIT) requires less space.

But joke is probably about “rewrite in rust” culture.

Before Netflix

Before Netflix there were such obscure things called libraries.

LEARN WHERE IS HIS BUTTON

Did you miss me, Picard? I missed you.

They will dupe the shit out of server

Let us not talk about situations where CHAR_BIT != 8 that’s not POSIX anyway.

Yeah, let’s not talk about 20-bit one’s complement ints.

man strncpy

If n is smaller than the string length (as in: distance to first null byte) then you’re bound to have garbage in your return destination

Wha? N is just maximum length of string to copy. Data after dst+n is unchanged.

In retrospect null-terminated strings were a mistake, but so were many other things, at some point you just have to accept that there’s hysterical raisins everywhere.

All hail length-prefixed strings!

Meanwhile mathematicians working on cryptography: the universe will die before you get even 10% chance of cracking encryption.

Security by obscurity is no security.

Got crowdstruck