is that endpoint detection and response?

Yes

Hi I don't know if you know it but Wikipedias not that poor or hard pressed... Atleast, the whole "donate or we broke" narrative that they build every few months is complete bullshit https://youtu.be/3t8GUbzVxmQ?si=sa_oHe3DA_QmpGcE

Neither is Google, yet there is still probably multiple ads on that video you linked.

the difference is Google isnt pushing the narrative that its about to stop existing if you don't watch this ad

my problem is with wikipedia lying to us by saying it will shut down if you don't donate: which is false because their situation simply isnt that dire

I'm fully aware of that. The reason they get donations is that it's worth supporting.

well no one said churches should remain tax exempt

ah dammit I didn't think of that you're right it would be more of a disturbed orbit, weird ass days and nights but hey atleast there's a chance the scientists could have close up real life simulation of the three body problem

I'm pretty sure it would be something like even if a star was coming and we saw it what the fuck could we even do it would just create mass panic, hysteria and would make everyone hella religious depending on how early we detect it though we might have some time to make good memories before we die. atleast I would prefer a black hole smashing into us unbeknownst to us instead of a known star. Also no one would want to show up to jobs and stuff

this is all the more important since 60$ in india is enough for a meal for four in an expensive restaurant in one of the better malls ( for e.g. in Mumbai ) ... and 25k to 30k is just ludicrous for a laptop. Even 5-10k will easily hurt his pockets but it depends on what the laptop's specs were and what it was worth

This article was really well written. Usually in such articles i understand about 50%, maybe if I'm lucky 70% but this one I've understood nearly everything. It's not much of a smartness thing but an absolute refusal on my part to learn the jargon of programming as well as my severe lack of knowledge of all the big words that are thrown around lol. But really simply written love it

dude what how do you have so much free time my lazy ass just has ublock origin with some lists enabled that my even more techbro help me set up and it automatically stops me from visiting suspicious websites this feels like way too much work

And Firefox is such a pain to automate

I just want every new machine to have my extension settings, but then it's four hours later and I'm trying to check if some policy file was obsoleted in version 60

Such a time sink

all the rest of the stuff is okay but seriously? 2 finger typing? as a programmer? you're gonna be there for AAAGES and your keyboard probably runs a sidebusiness with how long it takes you to type

I know I'm stirring up shit here but there really are benefits to touch typing (I mean just think about it, using 10 fingers instead of 2 is gonna be so much faster assuming you have 10 dingers)

Touch typing is objectively better, but 2 finger is enough to have a career at programming, it's not what is going to hold you back.

I'd be more concerned about RSI than speed. You _really_ don't need to type fast for programming. If you do, your tools should be helping you do boilerplate more.

> Touch typing is objectively better

Even that depends on what exactly you mean. I agree with the literal meaning of the words, but for too many people "touch typing" means "home-row touch typing". Which I find extremely awkward and difficult. But literally just typing by touch, I'm self-taught due to StarCraft multiplayer back in the 90s and early 2000s, and have a style that confuses home-row typists when they realize what I'm doing.

So it's more like, you need to type smoothly enough that you're not thinking about typing. As long as your hands are pretty much moving automatically to get your thoughts into the computer, you can use any number of fingers at (almost) any speed, and you're good.

The RSI thing is real. Until my late 20s I would type blindly with what I jokingly called 5 and a half fingers. But I did start to notice some strain, which is when I decided to finally teach myself "proper" touch typing. I don't think my typing got meaningfully faster, but it got smoother, and the strain went away.

Getting a split-layout "ergo" keyboard helped me learn to type better back in the day. I could already touch type fast but not with great technique.

When I got a split layout key it became quite apparent that my technique was "weird" - sometimes I'd notice one hand come wandering over to the other side of the keyboard to find a key it was used to pressing. That became easy to correct once it was so visible!

I'm a programmer, not a secretary, I don't need more than 2-4 fingers because I don't need to write code that fast. I don't understand why anyone who writes code that is not semi-trivial would need to write code so fast they needed to touch type.

There are ergonomic issues too. Hunt and peck gives you a lot more flexibility as to how you can use a keyboard.

Most programmers who don't touch type can type pretty fast. There is more than one way to do it, and I'm not convinced touch typing is the right one.

> dingers

I'd suggest practicing your touch typing a bit more.

I've been programming for decades and I like... three finger type. Two index fingers and a thumb. I don't look at the keyboard though (I know where the keys are relative to each other inherently through years of typing this way) and I type at a very high rate of speed for someone using so few fingers.

9 fingers... Not 10, 9.

I use both my thumbs on the spacebar to assert dominance on every word.

But now I'm curious, which thumb do most people use on a keyboard?

My spacebar(s) are very smooth and shiny on the right compared to left.

By the same measure, looks like I use my left thumb by far the most. I'm left-handed.