Digital Mark

Went to school before the late '90s: Write everything in paper notebooks & exam books.

Went to school between late '90s-2020s: Tap it all into a computer. Learn nothing.

Went to school late 2020s on: Write in paper notebooks, in between scavenging the ruins for food.

His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.

His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.

A degree in CS is valueless for actual working jobs. You need to write software and show that you know what you’re doing. And if you can do that, you may not even need a job from anyone else. The time when companies would just overstaff and have paid interns is long over.

I first read the bottom right as “The Nanny”, and I was wondering how Fran Drescher’s plastic surgery got that bad.

Gyo.

I’m still creeped out by Furbies and even Teddy Ruxpins. A machine that looks like it’s alive, repeats nonsense or repetitive questions, is a Terminator or Screamer, just doesn’t have the final firmware installed yet.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a fuzzy object that talks.

The locked bootloader is having a lock at all. Without that, anyone can enter at any time.

In reality, home door locks are merely suggestions, they’re trivially picked or broken open, windows can be entered through. But if you DID have a secure building, you wouldn’t want any of the security systems to be replaced.

You get full access to operate in a secure building once you’ve used the key/biometrics/passwords/interrogation. You don’t have access to replace the locks with tinkertoy homebrew shit, because we know that’s not as competent.

The purpose of a locked boot system is privacy. A MacBook is a less secure device, and one that’s been rooted and had linux installed is basically open season for any attacker. An iPad trades off the ability to put some other OS, for fairly close to total security. State-level enemies can torture you or run expensive intrusion software… and Apple improves the defenses against the latter every time. Now it reboots if it hasn’t been used in a while, say sitting in an evidence locker.

Boot loader aside, you can write code on an iPad.

There are plenty of code editors, interpreters, and several of them have compilers. The premiere one is Pythonista, but I’m also fond of LispPad (R7RS Scheme). There are a few “linux in a box” things like ish, which give a full shell in a sandbox where it’s safe.

I wasn’t able to find any pico or nano apps, but there are several Vims and emacsen.

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