go back to wooden cart wheels
go back to wooden cart wheels
because piracy is a service problem
i’m not worried because an android that heavy couldn’t even stand up
you really think ONE android could wipe out life as we know it?
it’s semantic
at the end of the day everything boils down to sequence and branchifs
why are people in this thread acting as if he’s just admitted to ordering hits on whistleblowers
they do that but then nobody cares and it doesn’t make the news
people are aware of it in the sense that it’s a thing that vaguely exists on the horizon
if society doesn’t want to be melted by climate change, that demonstrably isn’t going to be enough to stop it
i think climate change could do more harm to the protected species
yeah i mean if you grok the underlying workings of scanf
then there’s no problem
i’d just argue that the problem is understanding what you need to understand is the problem with straight c, and with any language like c++ where you’re liable to shoot thineself in thy foot
How? They go where they point, or to NULL, and can be moved by arithmetic. If you move them where they shouldn’t go, bad things happen. If you deference NULL, bad things happen. That’s it.
what part of that is explicit to how scanf
works?
All of C++? That’s unreasonable, it’s even in the name that it’s very expansive.
similarly, “all of pointers” is unreasonable
“all of pointers” can have a lot of unexpected results
that’s literally why java exists as a language, and is so popular
Plus all previous operating systems, all supercomputer climate, physics and other science simulations, all the toaster and car and so on chips using bespoke operating systems because Linux won’t fit, every computer solving practical engineering or logistics problems numerically, renderers…
sure, and the quantity of code where true low-level access is actually required is still absolutely minuscule compared to that where it isn’t
Once you understand pointers
once you understand C++ the pitfalls of C++ are reasonably consistent
I’m not sure I’d class much of OS programming and all embedded and high-performance computing as small
there are like what, 3 operating systems these days?
assume those are all written entirely in c and combine them and compare that to all code ever written
a footgun isn’t inherently bad, it just implies a significant amount of risk
yes, if you need the ability to code on a low level, maybe C is necessary, but the times where that is actually necessary is smol
also rust
exposing the machinations of the underlying CPU with no regard for safety is like, the definition of a footgun
people say this but C is significantly more batshit than javascript
oh you used scanf
? one of the basic functions of our language? sorry that’s got a buffer overflow vulnerability so now your application is compromised
actually it says 8h meaning it’s only 8 hours old
i wouldn’t want to program in pure assembly either but asm is definitely powerful
same guy