This lecture series will get you 70% of the way there.

The point of coding it yourself is to learn how it works.

We are a GLOBAL economy that is based on information. Call it Post Industrial. Information moves at the speed of light.

Pretending we Americans live in a giant castle surrounded by a huge Moat (aka Oceans) isn't going to protect us from what is happening elsewhere. Offshoring is going to kill our economy.

We have a dying generation who still sees the economy as post WWII, because that is the world we grew up in (Last of the boomers here).

We had better get used to it. Build things better, faster, cheaper.

Reddit is just operating from greed, that is true. But Google is operating from greed, too.

Is NASA doing anything useful?

Aren't they just trying to repeat what SpaceX has already done?

I vote to call them the Sardaukar.

It's true, I have no idea who I'm arguing with. Who am I arguing with? Do you know?

He is a liar, because he has the ability and skill necessary to check his assertions, and yet he didn't. He presented himself as knowing something that he didn't.

You, on the other hand, are an idiot, because you have no cure for your ignorance. You have no ability to recognize what kind of training Microsoft and Apple have for their programmers regarding security issues. That is something you never learned how to do.

Oh yeah? How many? You lack the ability to quantify it, but you pretend that you have the ability.

If I were in charge of a Computer Science curriculum at a university, I would address the LLM problem like this:

I would offer a class (third or fourth year class) that starts from the basics of Neural Networks, and by the end of the class the students have built their own LLM. By building their own LLM, they will deepen their understanding, have a solid foundation, and avoid a lot of the nonsense that gets propagated about LLMs. The amount of code involved is not huge, it's actually quite doable.

That depends on how much I'm paid.

For enough money, I can tolerate almost anything.

The truth is an absolute defense against libel in America.

It is a weaker defense in the UK.

Another difference is that in America, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show the statement is false. In the UK, the BOP is on the defendant to show the statement is true.

The arbitrator imposed the non-disparagement clause.

Sarah agreed to the arbitration process (she couldn't afford to do otherwise), but didn't specifically agree to the ND clause.

The difficulty with reproducible builds in Java is the timestamps. It's a solved problem now, but I don't think it was 20 years ago.

OAuth isn't an HTTP extension, it's an OSI application level protocol. Also, of all the protocols you could have picked, OAuth is a really simple one. You could code a custom implementation in an afternoon. HTTP isn't even so bad, even with the HTTP/2 modifications, you could definitely do it yourself, depending on your reading comprehension ability (reading code standards is not a skill every programmer has).

Ever since most of JQuery functionality got added to the Javascript standard library, you mostly don't need third party libraries. Something like React can be useful if you are working on a web app with a large team because it gives you encapsulation, but even then, the number of third party library dependencies is small enough that a security team can review them all, which some companies do.