Not necessarily, that’s also just how these types of people talk.

…or the OP believes the myths, isn’t trying to be funny, and is legitimately confused?

jerkies

Reading the plural form of “jerky” makes me feel oddly uneasy.

Is that just like… several pieces of beef jerky or deer jerky?

Relevant: https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/myths-about-disk-wiping-and-solid-state-drives/

If you don’t even know what encryption is, that passwords need hashing and what not, then you should really question what you’re doing

I agree with your point, but I would phrase it more generally: when we’re assigned a task in a problem space we are unfamiliar with, we should always take some time to research that space before designing our solution.

After all, if we don’t know what encryption or password hashing are, how could we know that we need to learn about them first? But spending just a couple hours one morning reading about password and authentication management would have given the developer a good sense of best practices.

So she either, A) didn’t think to familiarize herself with a new topic prior to working on it, or B) did read about it and ignored general industry guidance. Both of those options are more problematic to me than simply not knowing specific things. Those are process problems that need to be addressed to build her skills as a developer.

But ultimately, in my opinion, this is really all the fault of the cheapass director who didn’t want to pay any experienced professionals to handle the task.

world governments currently waste $13B a year on publication fees -that’s money that should be in labs doing research.

And only a tiny fraction of that $13B can buy a lot of lawyers, lobbyists, and favors to make sure things don’t improve.

But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ramped up to infinity and beyond. I’m expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

Kind of \s, kind of not

The original tweet with context:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191108161005/https://twitter.com/HeatherTDay/status/1192833340543422464

“If it’s not explicitly written out in a way that I can understand, then you must be full of shit.”

Allow me fill in the gaps for you so you don’t hurt your thinky parts:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191108161005/https://twitter.com/HeatherTDay/status/1192833340543422464

https://tiphero.com/laughed-off-offensive-comments

Joke’s on them, SLAP rounds will sail right through normal cars too fast for the message to be read.

I prefer to write my messages on 40mm grenades. They move slower so the target can read it before they poof, and there’s more room to put the message on the projectile instead of the case.

I don’t think most of them will.

1. They will use enterprise editions internally, where their IT team will have much more control over behaviors they don’t like at the group policy level than home users do.

2. The executives at the big software conglomerates have the same AI boners that Microsoft does. They’ll be looking for ways to integrate new Windows features and use them as selling points for their own products.

3. They don’t care about the privacy nightmare Windows has become because they implement and benefit from the same telemetry and data collection practices with their customers.

That’s why I only drink units of whole blood. On average, the under-hydrated and over-hydrated people that contributed to that unit cancel each other out, so I know I’m always working towards optimal cell hydration. Never to much or too little.

…Does… Pendleton have a preexisting artillery range?

Pendleton covers almost 200 square miles and has ranges for just about every ground-based weapon the USMC uses.

the meme is making the more extreme claim that no uses exist

Only if you take it literally instead of as a joke that is exaggerating for comedic effect.

Brilliant reference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

I think people who haven’t been been the target of insults since high school (or maybe ever?) forget how petty and uncreative it often is.

The point insulting someone isn’t to be truthful, it’s to be hurtful or put them down.

can’t properly explain the differences between an OS, a browser and a search engine

Which, of course, was the goal of manufacturers all along. First computer you used a lot was a Chromebook? Google is all of those things. Was it a Windows 8 or later system? They damn near are the same thanks to web search integration with the start menu that only nerds like me care about disabling.

I dunno, that sounds like socialism.

Good thing we were saved from the horrors of broadly accessible and efficient mass transit decades ago.

Sounds like that would make it impossible to maintain a consistent sleep schedule, which is also helpful.