Plans to literally 'hack the planet' foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated.

The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory.

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A dude has a meticulous 2 year plan to include a backdoor into almost every system in the world

Only to fail because a guy started to notice that his ssh login is 0.5 seconds slow for some reason

Study autistic byte-wizards

As a former #FoxPro developer, it's interesting to read about the roots of #LINQ coming from FoxPro (which was also a Microsoft product). The similarities are indeed very apparent.

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'If I were teaching an econ class on optimal taxation, I would put this tweet in an assignment.'

That would be a fun assignment!

Jim Fan I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of prompt engineers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

mariache_08 Sooo many questions being asked right now on Slido about the AI talk at #DevDay ! If only people would be on X too then the audience could further discuss it deeper themselves... not just the panel itself

app.sli.do/event/641Nv8ni… #DevDay Aotearoa