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> Imagine a software engineer who has been asked to place a backdoor in some software.

I imagine such an engineer just gets a development plan and doesn't get to see the bigger picture, implying the backdoor. It might only get enabled on integration into a larger codebase, and nobody out of the loop will be able to extrapolate its existence from what they get to know for sure.

Hence I completely agree with the argument of shifting responsibility to the developers. Seems like MS is selling more of that eyewash again.

Took me a second to realize what that was.

Also thought the main street nearby went to a sag. Glad it was just optics.

Great Scott! Love his KSP content, where he discusses space trivia to no end...

I wonder why anyone would think inverting semantics like this was anything but asking for disaster.

With all the metaprogramming that is possible, will the matching Cat(age=age) even produce a coherent object that has an age argument passed to __init__? Do keyword arguments in those patterns work on properties? How will it compare to another cat, is that using "is" or __eq__?

Does Cat have to derive from the same type object?

    def Cat(**kwargs):
        return type("Cat", (), {"__init__": lambda self, **kw: ([setattr(self, k, v) for k, v in kw.items()], None)[-1]})(**kwargs)

Personal experience. I put more into a job when I see a point in it, because I start to like it. When I don't find my work worthwhile or find interesting in any other way, it's not going to turn out good. What does it take for this? I don't know, maybe I'm screwing up the wording for it somehow.

Looming destitution never made good work. The way one engages with a good employer is a sense of co-ownership in some way. I can't tell how my way of taking ownership to an arbitrary project is influenced by a relief of financial stress. It might, but I don't believe it's going to up it any, ever.

Which means that with UBI, I might be less inclined to take risks. I'm not an economist enough to tell what that means, but a rough estimate say it won't increase my income. And at this point of the discussion, we haven't even touched the topic of taxes...

The argument that BitTorrent had no legal applications is invalid. If people kill each other with guns, why would you put the blame on the gun company?

Unless you're with the Mongols.

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I wanted to argue imps, dwarfs and other types of programs when I noticed that I was applying core wars terminology to a completely non core wars problem...

Even though I'm baffled by this obvious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, on the upside, the explanation is only kind of backwards. Protecting families from the cyber war torn online spaces with their fraudulence, leaks and other goings on is not entirely unreasonable outside of this context.