What is the symptom of a Linux machine being attacked by this? What can even happen? Doesn’t the operating system need to support whatever is being installed, and also allow it to happen?

Very interesting perspective, thank you for sharing that!

artisans working at their craft – and i think it lays bare their background and how they see the world and themselves in it.

I don’t think it has anything to do with how I see the world and myself in it, in my case specifically. When I say coding is a craft, I base it solely on the fact that problem solving using code can happen in so many different ways, and there will be almost as many code styles and problem solving styles as there are coders.

I’ve seen it when reviewing as many other people’s code as I have. I have reviewed what must be thousands of student coding assignments over the decade or so I was in academia, and for each assignment, there was almost no hand-in that was the same, despite the sometimes extremely narrow problem scope. Were they identical, they were usually suspected of cheating or collaborating too closely, and when confronted, usually admitted as much.

And in my soon-to-be decade in the private sector I’ve seen so many styles as well, even with coding style guides in place. And not just style discrepancies, but just thinking about problems, and different ways of solving them. None necessarily worse than the other (although mine is surely the best out of all the equal ones).

This is what I mean when I say it’s a craft. 🙂 Everyone has they way. It’s much like molding a sculpture, while it simultaneously also can be viewed simply as a tool for solving a problem, by the sole, isolated programmer.

That’s not what happened, lol. I guess you can’t read.

Still ignoring my comment about dying on your hill. I accept your resignation.

I already set a disclaimer in place there, to avoid the bandwagon fallacy, btw. 👍

You ignored what said about a hill to die on. Do you feel this is a hill you want to die on?

I’m gonna tag you so I can keep an eye out for burn ward level comebacks. Expert patience. 😆👌

Rubber stop, tile floor. I imagine it’s the stop that would get scuffed. 😅

Everyone else uses a term in a certain way, maybe it’s time to just update your connotation to the word and accept it. This isn’t always what you should do when everyone else is doing something or other, of course, but I feel like in this case this isn’t a hill worth dying on. Maybe you feel differently.

That’s not the law in every country as far as I understand, so this simply comes down to a matter of definition.

Case closed as far as I’m concerned. I’m quite satisfied with that.

Makes sense 👌

Username relevant 👌

Ah okay, makes sense I suppose. Thanks for explaining.

Not all software engineers are engineers

Wut bud

I recognize their style, I think they did that with me too once. 😆 Very, very weak.

Feels like the right thing to do, IMO. Why do your personal requirements matter anywhere regarding this? 😆

The fact that it’s licenced in one region but not another, and you rely on the licence in order to grant it the title of engineer, makes your base completely fallacious IMO. How can you step over a border and suddenly change your mind? Makes zero sense to me.

God I love how you handled this. Beautiful. 🏆❤️

I have them tagged as “Fact Troll” because they were making wild statements without backing it up. Tag them, don’t take them seriously, and move on.

Lots. It’s the entire craft, what do you even mean? The whole thing is creative thinking.

Why is the list not sorted?