Maybe it's improved since, but last time I used IDA free the cloud decompiler was buggy and weird and it was overall a mediocre experience. I don't see why anyone would choose to use it instead of Ghidra unless they were explicitly trying to learn IDA because it's the industry standard, and I don't see it holding that position long-term unless they improve their free/cheap offerings.
That has a lot more to do with personality than career. If you’re an irritating know-it-all weirdo, people aren’t going to like you regardless of your job. I’ve known engineers like that that, but most people I know and work with are normal people and are respected.
That victim blaming just plain doesn't line up with reality. Outright assholes are downright lionized. Perfectly upright people are looked down upon for "weird" fields or ones which make them feel insecure or inadequate.
Sounds like lawyers and doctors (or plenty of people really).
> weirdo
That is a bit of a stereotype. I suspect a large percentage of software jobs are filled by standard people. The weirdos do stand out, but I don’t know anyone who actually fits the Hollywood stereotype.
And weirdo be replaced by equally socially unacceptable traits (arrogant or closed-minded etcetera) that apply to doctors and lawyers.
It seems like with Quora you either get very bad or very good answers. The good ones tend to be significantly older, i.e. before it got big and people started to gamify the system.
That’s the book my mom used to teach me how to read. I don’t remember much about it, but it was apparently effective, so it’s nice that it’s stuck around for the past ~20 years.
I left the church and have a fairly negative view of it, but claiming that there's no difference between devoting your time to a religion and a scammy company is pretty dismissive of the positive impacts being part of a religious community can have for people.
They baptize a living person, who acts as a proxy. If I remember correctly, there's some stipulation that the person in heaven has to actually accept the baptism, they're not just being forced into it. I don't remember the specifics of that though, I left the church a few years ago.
> there's some stipulation that the person in heaven has to actually accept the baptism
Would the unbaptized not be in limbo or hell? I'm a bit confused by the mythology of all this - it seems to be offering a lifeline(deathline? spiritline?) out of eternal torture. If you're in heaven, baptism seems irrelevant, or are there levels of heaven? What good is an act of faith when you're literally experiencing the truth of the claims at that very moment?
The LDS church teaches that all spirits await the resurrection in a 'spirit world,' which is divided into different conditions for the just and the wicked, that heaven is divided into three 'degrees of glory,' and that baptism is a precondition for attaining the highest degree of glory. In this system, nearly all spirits go to heaven after the resurrection. Those who do not accept Christ as their savior receive some punishment / hell in the spirit world, but eventually end up in the lowest kingdom of heaven (so not 'eternal' torture).
> What good is an act of faith when you're literally experiencing the truth of the claims at that very moment?
I don't know what kind of information spirits in the spirit world have, but the LDS church teaches that there's some teaching of the gospel still going on in the spirit world, so presumably spirits don't automatically have complete information. The LDS teaching is that baptism is prerequisite for attaining the highest degree of glory, and all spirits have the opportunity in the spirit world to accept baptism by proxy if they did not have an opportunity during their life to be baptized or chose not to be.
Ok. So we drop the cookies and invent/use something else that works like the cookies(e.g an iframe that pings to Google's server) What's that good for? Are you considering including the CORS, iframes and whatever feature may leak information about the visitor in the law as well?
Browser fingerprinting is a thing. In fact I suspect most of the supposedly GDPR compliant (so no cookies or local storage) still use fingerprinting in the background because you can't prove it's happening from the client (and the law is not being enforced anyway).
The cookie law is the ePrivacy Directive 2002,[1] not GDPR. And as a user, I would much rather control my privacy preferences regarding cookies from my own browser, instead of within hundreds of different implementations across websites.
We already have P3P to allow websites to declare how they want to use your information. European legislation should have focused on leveraging these existing tools and protocols to give control to the user, instead of annoying them with endless pop-ups.
GDPR is all about user data AFAIK. If I understand it correctly it avoided the trap that is to single out specific implementations.
Also it seems either I or someone else misread the context. I'm in the broader GDPR context while someone else seems to be in the older cookie law context.
Having never taken a Mac apart before, it took me less than half an hour to upgrade mine, and I had zero issues. It was definitely more work than upgrading a normal computer, but I think it's definitely worth doing if you're a student or otherwise unable or unwilling to pay Apple's exorbitant RAM prices.
