Post #275818
2026-02-04 17:38 UTC
Replies (21)
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange 2026-02-05 06:52
@mweagle off by one error. https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114067216270215992
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@christopherkunz@chaos.social 2026-02-05 08:05
@mweagle And there's one problem in computer security: 1. How do we save the private keys for this?
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@jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz 2026-02-05 10:33
@mweagle and 3. out-by-one errors
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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-02-05 13:27
@mweagle Sometimes combined : "Our torment nexus is too slow. Let's optimize it to fuck people up much faster"
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@Reinald@nrw.social 2026-02-05 19:36
@mweagle and off by one problems. And how to name things.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com 2026-02-05 20:10
@mweagle “Every program could be made at least slightly shorter, and every program has at least one bug. By induction, we can assume that every program can be reduced to a single instruction that doesn’t work.”
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@bitecode@framapiaf.org 2026-02-05 21:06
@mweagle I'd add: - We actually should do this. - What's this? - Who are you? And what are you doing in my office?
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@raymierussell@mastodon.scot 2026-02-05 21:14
@mweagle The two problems in computer science are: 1) Ones 2) Zeros
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@chris__martin@functional.cafe 2026-02-06 00:49
@mweagle There are only two things a computer can do: Reshape data, and discard data
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@faoluin@chitter.xyz 2026-02-06 02:42
@mweagle 3. Off-by-one errors
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@tg@indieweb.social 2026-02-06 02:58
@mweagle @kfdm and what to name a variable
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@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de 2026-02-06 07:26
@mweagle 3. the problem that (1) and (2) are not mutually exclusive. "if we did this better, we could not _quite_ do this…"
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@d1@autistics.life 2026-02-06 14:16
@mweagle there are 2 problems in Computer Science: 1) dogbert 2) catbert
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@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org 2026-02-06 14:18
@mweagle works for the whole capitalism thing too, I guess (currently "modern computing" being the tip of that iceberg)
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@flohgro@social.lol 2026-02-06 17:06
@mweagle cache invalidation & naming things
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@alexmorse@mastodon.social 2026-02-06 22:57
@mweagle 100%
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@peter_slwk@mastodon.social 2026-02-06 22:58
@mweagle In IT, the sky used to be the limit. Then we invented clouds.
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@mattmay@mstdn.social 2026-02-07 01:48
@mweagle I worked a lot on 1) and was largely tolerated in the workplace for many years. Once I started working on 2), it was decided that I wasn't a good culture fit.
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@Mpwg@hachyderm.io 2026-02-07 11:24
@mweagle 3. Look what I’ve made
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@Korallenherz@korallenherz.masto.host 2026-02-07 13:35
@mweagle in germany we have something called "Mettigel". O.o #scnr
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-07 14:35
@mweagle and off by 1 errors!