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How do syntax errors dissuade you from the proposal? Is not design separate from implementation? Is it not true that a well-designed specification, proposal, etc. can be poorly implemented?


If you got a job offer that was riddled with spelling mistakes and had the wrong name, would that inspire confidence in your future place of work? It's not a huge stretch of the imagination that small, obvious issues could mean larger, more complex issues lurking.


I'd say "riddled with spelling mistakes" is a bit strong in our example (I realise you weren't claiming that about the site).

I got it out early to get some feedback. The 404 spec link is a bad one (since fixed) but the typo in the DNS record is forgivable I think – very impressed anyone spotted that.


To be clear, my comment was directly addressing my parent's comment of

> How do syntax errors dissuade you from the proposal? Is not design separate from implementation?

I would not characterize your content as "riddled with spelling mistakes" and apologize if you read if that way.


Your first two words is your answer: "I decided." Make a decision and see it through. Anxiety lives between action and inaction.


This is great news. Save the animals!


Why not set this up yourself in a virtual lab and demonstrate the scenarios you just listed? Put two victim hosts on the network, and then with a third attacker host, perform your MITM attack.


Thanks for suggestion! I did do several fire drills in the past, where I would change keys and wait for people to reach out. At the beginning of the semester, almost nobody would; by the end, over 80 % of the class would reach out prior to connecting to our shared infrastructure. But I thought that having a real-world smoking gun would be even better motivation to think about it. Sort of "don't be this poor guy" kind of thing. I've also been thinking about actually MitM-ing them myself, and probably will, but I am not sure how far I want to go :).


Maybe include one of the identify you by your public key widgets as well.


It helps to remember that even though we have very powerful chess engines, there's still a market for human chess competitions.


Not a good comparison, imo. Being a chess player isn’t a 9-to-5 value-creating profession that e.g. being a 3D animator is. Ai will be to white collar jobs what automation was for blue collar jobs.


I have heard Nagios works well for monitoring.


Wolfram language.


Ah that’s an interesting one. As far as native capabilities you’re probably right, it has a ridiculous amount of built in functions.

I’m curious, if you use it, do you use it for academic purposes or for industry?


How does one host, version control, and deploy in Wolfram?


Yea not sure why the down-votes, this is a handy setup, thanks.


Great write-up. I am interested in learning how this continues to develop.


A reference to the Reddit subforum: https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/


I believe they're asking, "what are you implying?"


No. What does “below <subforum>” mean? Below their standards?


Yes. You can call me smug/elitist, I deserve it for that unnecessary belittling.


Ok, I see now it says “below the level of”, which it apparently didn’t originally say according to my copy-paste.


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