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by habinero 8mo ago
Honestly? Anything that requires a lot of manual dexterity because that takes a long time to master, like a trade or art. People love to lionize it, but honestly I can teach the basics of coding to anyone in a weekend. I love teaching peopl
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by habinero 8mo ago
Nope. Not correct. Companies have the same 1A rights, too. In the US, it really doesn't matter who says it, the only thing that matters is who it's being said about. If you are a "public figure" -- which is a much broade
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by habinero 8mo ago
It does. "Unsafe" is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Nope, not in the US. It is perfectly legal to say, for example, "Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer" despite him being acquitted. You're entirely free to disagree with the result, that is an opinion. Any opinion based on public k
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by habinero 8mo ago
Sure, anyone with the knowledge and experience lol "Knowledge worker" isn't a cutesy phrase, it means I don't get paid for my time, I get paid for what I know. Contrast that to, say, working retail where you are paid t
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by habinero 8mo ago
And if you're in one of those jobs, you don't get paid the big bucks.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Sure; but I'm not humblebragging at how talented at coding I am. I'm good at it because I have a lot of practice and experience, but I'm hardly the best. It's the easiest part because the hard parts of the job are everyt
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by habinero 8mo ago
It might make failure faster, but that doesn't mean it's cheaper. Users will churn quick if you aren't reliable or useful and a security incident can be company-ending for a startup.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Because SWEs don't get paid for code. The code is just one byproduct of making business wants into business reality. We get paid to go figure out how to turn a management wishlist into a reliable money machine.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Honestly, it really is the easy part of the job. Really truly. It's difficult when you're first learning but there are definitely much harder skills to learn.
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by habinero 8mo ago
I actually had a perfect use case for slopcoding - I needed to scrape a search result and turn it into a csv and a bunch of files. Totally possible with a hour or so or coding but annoying and not that fun. Completely trivial, tons of stuff
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by habinero 8mo ago
Not really, it's all samey blandness. It makes good copies of bland samey stock photos
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by habinero 8mo ago
> functional programming, formal methods and specification languages Haha. Tell me you've never done professional software development without, etc. None of those things are solutions to the problem, which is: does the code do the b
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by habinero 8mo ago
It's not time consuming. It seemed slow because of all the other important parts of the job. People vastly overestimate how much time SWEs actually spend writing code lol
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by habinero 8mo ago
I don't know why people think SWEs are aesthetic snobs when we talk about "clean code"--the point of code is not to be pretty, it's to be understandable and predictable. Quality doesn't matter if you're writing
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by habinero 8mo ago
I call it the "how hard could it be" fallacy.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Yeeeeah, that's not how it works lol. Anyone who does offensive security for more than 5 minutes understands how little protection they have. And true anonymity is much, much harder than you think. If you act in certain ways, you will
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by habinero 8mo ago
> and understand the risks I'm very unconvinced this is true. Ignorance causes overconfidence.
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by habinero 8mo ago
As a fellow American, can you not?
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by habinero 8mo ago
That's still not your concern or your problem. You're not internet Batman. Opening up yourself to criminal liability for someone else's site is insane.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Yeah, someone should invent code review.
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by habinero 8mo ago
I know exactly what I'm talking about, I'm a security engineer lol. Who has worked with plenty of lawyers. Yes, this is absolutely illegal. The CFAA is pretty fuzzy when it comes to vuln reporting but accessing other people's
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by habinero 8mo ago
Absolutely not. That's not your concern nor your problem. They're perfectly capable of hiring incident response experts, and companies commonly have cyber insurance that'll pay for it. "Demonstrating" is dumb and me
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by habinero 8mo ago
It's illegal in the US, too. This is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You never, ever test on other people's accounts. Once you know about the vulnerability, you stop and report it. Knowing the front door is unlocked does not m
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by habinero 8mo ago
Is there? It sound like a bunch of uncreative people wishcasting.
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by habinero 8mo ago
It can have anything you like in a training set, you still can't build specific human experiences. I haven't read War & Peace -- I don't have the patience for Russian literature -- but a much more accessible example is th
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by habinero 8mo ago
My dude, there is no artistic elite deciding what art is. I think you just don't understand the critiques around this topic, and so it sounds like snobbery ("real art") to you
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by habinero 8mo ago
> People will do this because it's interesting and because there's potential to capitalize on the result. I don't know why anyone admits to thinking this. For one, there's nothing stopping you from making movies or wr
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by habinero 8mo ago
> Then, I can produce billions of War And Peace You cannot and will never lol. This so fundamentally misunderstands (1) the point of writing a novel and (2) what makes a novel interesting. A novel isn't just a buncha words slapped t
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by habinero 8mo ago
If you're not a good enough speaker to write it, you're not good enough to proofread it, either.

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