I hate hate hate this so much. This is precisely the kind of smug, reductionist, dunning-kruger, every-problem-is-a-nail-and-programming-is-my-hammer type of shit that fuels my hatred of not only TESCREAL but pretty much everyone I meet in STEM.
I wonder how much of the coder mindset is behind the anarchist diy chemistry biohacking people (which seems to distress people who have actual experience in chemistry).
these people are full of shit. sofosbuvir contains single fluorine atom in such a place that its introduction requires either hydrogen fluoride (also as NEt3.3HF) or DAST (or other very friendly reagents like Xtalfluor-E) and even then, synthesis sucks balls as in has low-to-medium yield (15-50%) and requires extensive purification. you do not, under any circumstances, fuck around with hydrogen fluoride in your garage
relevant patent https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/051842422/publication/WO2016066283A1?q=pn%3DWO2016066283 first few pages for literature review, around 97-102 for procedures. these sub-50% yields are already heavily optimized
of course it was on hn
hydrogen fluoride
Yes one of the !!fun!! chemicals.
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
That’s just being good at programming
wut
That’s just being good at bootlicking
So as a programmer I was a little offended but then I remembered I’m not good so I’ll let it slide.
That’s probably a mark of an actually good programmer.
I have found a way to solve world hunger with a fork bomb
I also had some extremely cringeworthy and not-even-wrong opinions 23 years ago, but at least I was 3yo then.
I maintain that we should all aspire to be a firetruck when we grow up.
I wanted to be a train.
Freight or passenger?
Passenger! I wanted to drive people to their cool vacations and whatnot. Also passenger trains go vroooom and freights are like super slow and lame, and carry coal or some other boring stuff.
See, I’d be a freight train.
Towing hundreds of cars of things from place to place, and blocking railroad crossings for hours making people wait for me to move past? I’m all for the annoy-other-people-while-doing-a-vital-job life.
We had different childhoods
Both of your dreams were beautiful
what came first, lisp programmers or door locks? we may never know
This was so stupid.
A hijacking happens when passengers overflow into the cockpit from the cabin.
Oh no! A little kid has been invited to have a look! Passenger overflow! Hijacking!
His attempt at solution isn’t as cringe worthy, if one overlooks the reasoning. Separating the cabin from the pilots is a way of preventing hijacking that has been attempted, but it has problems. Notably if the pilots get acute medical emergency or indeed if the pilot steer the plane into the ground.
Some ten years ago a french pilot locked out his second and ran the plane into the ground. For increased safety the after 911 the door to the cabin could only be opened from the inside.
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.
Hopefully PG learned this skill in the last 20 or so years.
it’s pretty clear he hasn’t
Prff typical manager mindset here.
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.
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.
