timschmidt

You're right and I misremembered slightly. Still ABI magic in my book!

One minor correction: the Haiku developers worked some magic with GCC binary compatibility and modern Haiku builds are done with a modern GCC yet still preserve the ability to run and interoperate with software built using the old release which is important for preserving the use of commercial software built for BeOS without released source code.

Hey I found the person who's the reason there's a fully equipped contingent of the National Guard in every major city.

I'm not the OP, but it seemed to me that major teaching institutions settled on Python as a pedagogic language after previously having rallied around Java for same, and various other languages before that.

Yup. I just find it funny that the one place it's unacceptable to show ads is over other people's ads.

Better your threat model depend on that assumption than mine.

The chosen phrasing is literally one step short of accusing the author of intent. "It could not have been designed better to [avoid detection] and cause harm" leaves open the possibility of accident, in the way that saying "this guillotine could not have been designed better to chop heads" leaves open the possibility of one spontaneously assembling from raw materials.

Op did immediately above you i.e.: "nothing to do with malice or exploitability"

and when asked to explain you responded with: "Didn't they say it already?"

Which any reader can verify they have not at the time of 1:42pm EST Oct 23 2026.

Unnecessarily complicated APIs are a security code smell precisely because they help hide bugs, leaky abstractions, insecure state, and other exploitable issues.

> The iPhone in your pocket should've felt more like a polished stone than the palm.

And yet, due to the shape Apple chose, it did not.

"You're feeling it wrong" from the same folks as "you're holding it wrong". Yeesh.

He's referring to this technique's effect of obscuring interpretibility. Making it much more difficult to verify chains of thought and alignment.

> Considering practically every smartphone to this day is derivative of the 2007 glass slab hardware design (and software UX), I'd say they were on to something

Lowest cost of production is what that formfactor provides.

Palm's devices, by contrast, felt like a polished river stone in the pocket. I know which I prefer.