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  • I don't think so. I just made a screenshot of one random convo he's having about this, but there's loads more in a similar fashion.

    And all of his other posts besides this one seem legit on the surface.

    So it would be pretty weird if he randomly has a very bad take, and then just claims "Lol this was a troll post, gotcha!"... That's pretty much the 4chan defense when you get called out - "Haha guys, I'm actually not r-worded, I'm just trolling!"

  • The question is a bit too vague to answer, there's not really any right answer.

    Just - find what you like to do with it, and go for it. Want to make a game? Maybe play around with Godot or unreal engine or something.

    Do you have any repetitive task that you're doing a lot that you could maybe automate? - try doing that.

    You can read some books or watch some tutorials or something, but the best way to actually learn is to actually program.

  • Yea true, if people can vote on something, other people will use those votes as metrics for how good something is

    My perspective was more about what they actually do. Not the meta-effects they might have socially

    Eventually, you will be able to turn a repository with a high star count into money or advancement

    I think you overestimate how much money or advancements you can really get from it though.

    Money wise - I can't find an overview of "Most Sponsored github repos" - but it's pretty bare. I checked to see if I could find any example, for example if you look at FluentAssertions - A project that basically everyone uses, has 292.6 Million total downloads on Nuget. If you check their sponsers - they currently have 17. Assuming their the lowest tier, you're getting $85 a month. Which is cool, I guess, but a neglectable amount for a developer with a normal job

    And advancements wise - any actually good developer doesn't really have a problem getting a good job - And any good company reviewing a candidate might fool the HR by buying stars, but a dev reviewer or something will actually look though the code won't care much about stars

  • Stars don't really do that much, people mostly use it to "favorite" your repo. Or just a general "Upvote" or something

    I have a repo with about 1.4k stars, so what it gives you:

    • The Starstruck badge in your profile with different tiers at 16/128/512/4096 stars
    • Visibility in search: When you search for something in Github, it takes into account the amount of stars something has

    Not sure if that affects other searches, like google

    Even more stars (apparently like 5k+ or more) gives you

    • Github Copilot is free if you're a "maintainer of a popular open source project"
  • --i-am-a-dummy 😂

    I didn’t mean this as IDE thing

    Well, the link you've posted is specifically for MySQL CLI Client - Maybe I should have I said "Client" instead of "IDE" - but if he uses a different IDE/Client besides MySQL-CLI it's probably a different setting

  • Come on, just "stuff" is way too vague...

    It's either "fixed stuff" for a 3k LoC commit where you moved a bunch of stuff around, or "Added stuff" for a 5k+ LoC commit if you actually added anything new

  • for postgres and Ms SQLserver

    It's not really a SQL Language feature, more an IDE feature. So to tell you where the settings are, we'd have to know which IDE you're using.

    For example, in DataGrip (which I think you can use both for postgres and MSSQL), there's "Show warning before running potentially unsafe queries"

    If you forgot to put the WHERE clause in DELETE and UPDATE statements, DataGrip displays a notification to remind you about that. If you omitted the WHERE clause intentionally, you can execute current statements as you planned.

  • My wife crochets and I’ve got to admit to being jealous that she has a physical object when she’s done.

    It sounds like you don't really have an outlet to create artsy or physical stuff, but as a programmer there's plenty of stuff you can do...

    For example, I've turned my entire house into a "Smart Home" - My house has smart lights that can be turned on be wifi, and my doors and rooms have motion censors that I've all programmed to work together, and turn things on an off when I'm walking around. You're programming a bunch of physical IoT things to work together, and the end-result when everything runs smoothly is pretty cool

    Also I recently got a 3d printer (where maintaining that is a hobby in of itself) - as a programmer you can create a lot of cool stuff with that. Like there are scripts to play with to generate a Sierpiński triangle[1][2] - work on that, physically print that, and see the results as a physical object.

    As a programmer you have plenty of skills to start creating random physical stuff. Even if it's not for your work, just pick it up as a hobby. Like I don't think your wife is a professional crochetter - so what's stopping you from crochetter or painting or sculpting or whatever

  • What we have is machine learning, just an algorithm that takes input and gives you output. It can’t act on its own.

    Isn't that basically what "real learning" is as well? Basically you're born as a baby, and you take input, and eventually you can replicate it, and eventually you can "talk" for example?

    But in the training data something was off, suddenly your AI is racist and gives every black person a lesser amount.

    Same here, how is that different from "real learning"? You're born into a racist family, in a racist village where everyone is racist. What is the end-result; you're probably somewhat racist due to racist input - until you might unlearn that, if you're exposed to other data that proves your racist ideas were wrong

    If a human brain is basically a big learning computer, why wouldn't AI eventually reach singularity and emulate a brain and beyond? All the examples you mentioned of what it can't do, is just stuff it can't do yet

  • How do you handle the existential crisis of our works being digital and transient versus having an actual, physical product?

    Well this topic is very subjective, but I'll chime in...

    "You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions." -

    Basically: You should be programming because you like programming - Not because you like that people like your program, or that it might immortalize yourself somehow - Or because people might use your program forever and will remember you by it

    You can say the same for every profession: You're the best doctor in the world and you healed millions of people. Great. 100 years later all those people are still dead anyways. What was the point?

    Basically everything is temporary in the end, and everything is going to be forgotten. Seeing your job as a programmer as part of your identity and your applications as proof of your existence or digital legacy is pretty much pointless

  • Don't think the size really matters... an IP is 4 bytes, and the port another byte, plus lets say 4 bytes for the UserId. So with some overhead, you can practically put about 100k addresses in 1 MB.

    With that many addresses, you should probably be more concerned about the lookup than the storage. I'd probably put then in a Dictionary[UserId, SocketData].

    Websockets don't usually stay alive for long periods, so there's not much point of storing them in a database. Unless you're building something serverless, but then I wouldn't build something myself, but just use Firebase Cloud Messaging instead

  • Well since this is a Typescript / Microsoft kinda thread - there are replacements.. You can use C# with Blazor (from Microsoft)

    And you can also compile Go and Rust to WASM (probably some other stuff as well that I'm not aware of)

  • do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone?

    I'm not really sure what you have against Microsoft, or what "Microsoft classic" you'd be referring to...

    In the last 10 years or so they pretty much moved everything C# related to Core, cross platform and open source. Even the decision making for the language is "Open source" - Microsoft is not really behaving the same as the Microsoft from 2000...

    Soo, I don't really know how they could possibly fuck it up. They might add more and more features you might not like, but you could just choose to stick to an older version of the language

  • Take the same approach with tickets: Finish one in 10 minutes? You just get a new one. Finish the same one in 2 days, and claim "Pff, that was a tough one, but I did it!" - Makes the Product Owner think the Developer is working, and appreciates the result way more

  • In your original comment, it seemed like you were suggesting hashing only before transmission

    Ok, that wasn't what I was suggesting, no. That would effectively make your password hash the password itself - and it would kinda be stored in PlainText on the server, if you skip the client auth and send that value to the server directly through the api or something

    how does such a service (like Proton Mail) perform this in a web browser without having access to the data necessary to decrypt all of the data it’s sending? [...] do you send down an encrypted private key that can only be decrypted with the user’s password?

    Yes, pretty much. I can't really find a good, detailed explanation from Proton how it exactly works, but LastPass uses the same zero-knowledge encryption approach - which they explained with some diagram here - with a good overview of the client/server separation of it's hashing.

  • I'm not really sure how it opens up replay attacks, since it doesn't really change anything to the default auth. There are already sites that do this.

    The only difference is that instead of sending an http request of { username = "MyUsername", Password = "MyPassword" } changes to { username = "MyUsername", Password = HashOf("MyPassword") } - and the HashOf("MyPassword") effectively becomes your password. - So I don't know how that opens up a possibility for replay attack. There's not really any difference between replaying a ClearText auth request vs an pre-hashed auth request. - Because everything else server side stays the same

    (Not entirely auth related), but another approach of client side decryption is to handle decryption completely client site - meaning all your data is stored encrypted on the server, and the server sends you an encrypted container with your data that you decrypt client side. That's how Proton(Mail) works in a nutshell

  • No, the client side hashing doesn't substitutes anything server side, it just adds an extra step in the client

  • there is no possible way to handle sensitive data without storing it in memory at some point

    Since we're nitpicking here - technically you can. They could run hashing client side first, and instead of sending the password in plain-text, you'd send a hashed version