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

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

From what little recent data is available, the COVID19 variants circulating now are at least in the same ballpark of mortality rate as all those that have been circulating since early 2022, although data from India suggests that variants circulating this year may have mortality closer to the early-pandemic peaks:

https://ourworldindata.org/mor...

https://ourworldindata.org/cov...

Also it's significantly higher than the mortality rate of the flu, so if your vaccination choices are based on the danger of contracting the disease, that would make you a dumbass without a logical brain:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/i...

There's no way you've had covid. It's not "the sniffles," it's the worst goddamn flu you can imagine. I've also had dengue fever and it felt pretty similar to that. And as someone who's lost some friends and family to it, including an uncle who didn't get vaccinated, fuck you. I hope you get long covid.

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

Factually incorrect, the maximum sentence for blackmail in England is 14 years in prison.

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.

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.

Trademark means that they can't use Mickey Mouse in a way that would confuse people into thinking they are Disney.

You are legally allowed to use someone's trademark. For example, the word "Boston" is trademarked, but we can use it. We can use the word Pentium, and even say "Pentium sux", but you can't fill a box with AMD chips and use the Pentium logo to convince people it's from Intel.

"Payable on delivery."

It makes sense. Rockets are heavy, that's why they are expensive. Having helium 3 will make the rockets lighter (since helium is lighter than air) allowing the rockets to float to the moon at a much cheaper price point than with solid fuel.

If NASA had thought of this, they could have gone to the moon much more cheaply. Typical government waste.