12 points

What the hell.

I would like to think I’m a decent developer. I know what I’m talking about when it comes to code.

I do not know what I’m talking about in other fields. So I don’t speak like I know what I’m talking about there.

Hopefully PG learned this skill in the last 20 or so years.

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Prff typical manager mindset here.

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@i_dont_want_to @dgerard have you bumped your head?

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Hopefully PG learned this skill in the last 20 or so years.

LOL.

LMAO.

I hope this was sarcastic.

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As the old saying goes, hope in one hand, Lisp in the other.

If you try it, I personally hope you’ve got a damned good garbage collector…

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Hopefully PG learned this skill in the last 20 or so years.

it’s pretty clear he hasn’t

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Yea a plane hijacking is totally like a buffer overflow.

Bleeding is also a bit like a buffer overflow, since blood goes in a place it’s not supposed to. Hurricanes are another example of a buffer overflow. Accidentally wearing a shirt inside out? Buffer overflow. Unskippable ads are buffer overflow. War is buffer overflow. I had my buffer overflown by some guy claiming to be a wallet inspector. Aliens are a type of buffer overflow. I sometimes have buffer overflow with my girlfriend. Buffer overflow was an inside job. I put too much shine paste in my polishing machine and you better believe that was a buffer overflow.

When a train crashes into a station building, that’s not a buffer overflow, though. That’s a buffer overrun.

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You can totally hack a plane using a buffer overflow. C airlines don’t check how many tickets they sell on a single flight. Usually if you overbook a flight, they will simply reallocate some of their buffer into business class. However, if you buy a bunch of tickets to one flight at once, you can craft a scenario where you overwrite the pilot.

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Nope, actually this used to work but the genius computer scientists at Boeing put the cockpit in a random place around the cabin, thwarting most pilot overwrite attacks.

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Aeronautic Seating Layout Randomization.

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what came first, lisp programmers or door locks? we may never know

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I think it probably comes down to which one is more likely to be touched by another human.

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can’t decide if it’s soothing or infuriating to learn/realize that, despite insane wealth causing him to get billionairebrain, he’s also always been quite the dim fuckwit

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That’s just being good at programming

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So as a programmer I was a little offended but then I remembered I’m not good so I’ll let it slide.

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That’s probably a mark of an actually good programmer.

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11 points

wut

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That’s just being good at bootlicking

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I have found a way to solve world hunger with a fork bomb

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