And that's why they're trying underhanded tactics to inflate earnings and IPO directly into the index funds, so every American's 401K will legally have to rebalance and invest in them. They're racing to fleece retirement funds before the bubble bursts.
Not financial advice, of course :p but people should really consider getting their stuff out and into self-directed funds or whatever it is US people do to not depend on auto-allocated funds.
Don't give up, OP. It can be very rewarding to know how basic things in the C standard library such as printf() work, at a lower level.
The hardest concept when I first learned C, so many many years ago, was pointers. But understanding memory access at the low level opens up insights into computer architecture in a very powerful manner.
Sadly computers these days are very, very complex and modern operating systems and 'frameworks' abstract away the inner workings to such a high level that it can be hard to understand. If you really want to learn the fundamentals it might actually be a good (and fun!) exercise to work on a small microcontroller project (such as the Atmel AVR series) or an 8 or 16-bit retro system. If you don't have real hardware it can be done via emulation.
Just my opinion, but: don't study x86 CPU architecture until you've looked at others like the 6502, z80 or 68000, or I suppose ARM). Though, they'll probably ruin you for x86 since it's the ugliest and most confusing of the bunch, yet ironically won the "CPU wars" years ago.
Reference? I might be interested in such things, having to deal with lost keys more often than I'd like.
What sort of furniture/doors can such keys be obtained for?
I also have a lockpick learning kit that I bought a few years ago and haven't gotten around to practicing with.
I still need 3-4 years probably, minimum :(. I feel really badly for younger people having to deal with this shit. I'm also in a sub-field which doesn't seem yet to have been hit so hard with all this BS. Sooo glad I didn't become a JS/web developer, it sounds like vibe-coding and swarms of agents have taken over.
I'm hoping to exit the industry (eg., retire) as soon as is practical. It's just not fun any more and this was the shit-icing on the cake for me.
Now, LLMs being used to check for vulnerabilities... that I'm not really against, machine-learning is good at pattern recognition and it seems to be legitimately useful at that from what I've heard.
But as 'intelligence' or a trustworthy search mechanism for retrieving and re-synthesizing (note I did not use the words 'authoring' or 'creating') anything more than simple standalone functions? Nope, nope nope. Too many hallucinations and I didn't fall in love with programming and computer science only to end up being a reverse centaur, slaving away at prompts to actively steer a stochastic slot-machine into writing the proper code for a task.
Sadly, I feel there are still too many bigots and sexists in the US who cannot bring themselves to vote for a woman, esp. one who isn't 'white enough'. That, piled on top of the 'establishment' Dem factions that will do everything possible to subvert a campaign... which will let the right-wingers/fascists drive right up the middle again.
Ow. That sounds horrible. I'm glad I'd never heard of it then, I guess. :(
I'm at the age now where I actually feel relieved if I hear news that Hollywood has decided not to go ahead with a prequel, remake, 're-imagining', or whatever... and I purposefully avoid now the ones that sound like they're going to be a disaster.
Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of 'blanks' might hit too close to home nowadays as it's pretty much a literal reality now.
I was saying online in Aug 2024, right after the SCOTUS ruled that sitting Presidents were immune for all 'official acts', that the Democrats should have convinced Biden to immediately remove all sitting SCOTUS judges which the previous GOP admins had installed, all GOP-installed state SC judges, GOP-installed FBI, IRS staff, etc., impose maximum age and term limits for all judges, and explicitly limit the powers of all future Presidents and close as many loopholes everywhere as possible. I mean, what could they really do? They'd just handed all sitting Presidents including Biden that power, he'd be immune! Or they'd have their bluff called and have reversed their decision right there and then.
But of course the two parties are really not opposing, the Dems are just Controlled Opposition so they wouldn't dare actually fix things when they had the chance.
Now, everyone in the US (and the rest of the World, indirectly) is pretty much f*cked. I hope everyone in the GOP, their rich asshole billionaire string-pullers and the Dems who were all complicit, all rot.
Having worked on IPsec many years ago, I became convinced it could never be fully secure due to its sheer complexity, either intentionally (hi, NSA!) or merely due to design-by-committee. Just don't use it, please. SSH tunnels or openVPN are preferable.
Agreed, but hey no need to pile the the hate on Pascal, modern ones like FPC/Lazarus are pretty cool actually :)