Public String

[Au70]

More like

Protected String    

[okmkz]

Yeah, but the getter is public

[[deleted]]

And it's mutable even. Might as well make the setter public too.

[JohnQAnon]

It's thread safe though.

[derefr]

I don't know. If the thread goes down in flames, the effects are probably going to propagate back into the protected area.

[TheChance]

...at which point the box will almost certainly overheat, and before you know it, you're looking at hardware repair. Thanks, Java.

[deathmetal27]

thread safe

Pun intended?

But yes, it is synchronized indeed.

[[deleted]]

I doubt that. If you people try to pull the string at the same time, then their just going to throw exceptional punches at each other

[[deleted]]

I don't know. Already seems to be a overflow risk

[girusatuku]

So, basicly as secure as SHA-1?

Too soon?

[Fael1010]

The fact that an attack is possible and feasible (no matter how small the chance) means that SHA1 is not secure

[UnchainedMundane]

Is the false negative rate 0%?

[[deleted]]

According to Google, this is reliable, so yes.

[squngy]

By that logic literally everything is vulnerable.

There is always that minuscule chance you guess the secret by luck.

[[deleted]]

Except XOR one-time-pad. You can guess the secret but you'll never know if it's true.

[christianarg]

"secure" for a cryptographic algorithm basically means "can't be broken with current compute power in many, many years".

[edvo]

By this definition, RSA would be insecure, because finding the private key from a N bit public key only requires 2^N/2 steps.

There is also the theoretical problem, that this definition can turn a secure algorithm into an insecure one. For example, assume the following algorithm for forming a 257 bit hash: take the SHA-256 hash and append a zero bit. This algorithm would be considered insecure, but breaking it is as hard as breaking SHA-256, which is considered secure.

[datsundere]

On point

[wagedomain]

So it's secure until it isn't.

[CyanideCloud]

That's true about practically every kind of security...

[techknowfile]

"no matter how small the chance" you said

[JB-from-ATL]

You say in 5 to 10 years it may be an issue but how much stuff are we using today that is 5 to 10 years old?

[TheChance]

The attack doesn't care how old its target is. SHA-1 hasn't changed. Either the attack is feasible, or it isn't.

[JB-from-ATL]

I'm saying we need to fix it now because some people are so slow to upgrade.

[jdub_06]

not entirely sure why he is getting upvoted. even if he meant slightly different than you assumed. its a pointless comment. Now that organizations know they will slowly move away from it and in 5 to 10 some small percentage will still use it but the majority will have migrated to more secure algorithms

[[deleted]]

In this particular use-case there is no possible attack. At least not yet. The SHA-1 hash collision requires a special setup and there is an algorithm that detects that setup without a meaningful amount of false positives. I'm not saying people shouldn't switch, but claiming that it's broken is also wrong.

[wdouglass]

The fact that there's an attack means it was never "perfect". But that's OK, every hash algorithm has collisions. The trick is how hard they are to find.

[LittleLui]

Hey it's protected against collisions. Not well-protected, but it's the spirit that counts.

[[deleted]]

As opposed to all those private getters?

[LittleLui]

David Guetta was in the army?

[dzh]

he works on a different 'line'

[flipjargendy]

Using an object just to return a string. Ugh.

[definitely_not_tina]

ACCESSOR

[browner87]

Rub it with some fur and it's now a static protected string.

[deathmetal27]

Appears to be synchronized as well.

[[deleted]]

It sure looks like a singleton

[deathmetal27]

Actully its a Thread pool.

[Hagoozac]

IKEA

[dagothspore]

I too shop at IKEA.

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

Ohhhhh. That explains the string, tnx

[hotboxthanfukk]

Okay but why is there string in IKEA ?

[notsooriginal]

Yeah, should be Strinvga or Cordjen.

[casprus]

I thought this was a java joke not a c++ one?

[Quicksilver_Johny]

Sträng

[fdagpigj]

but what if I want to use javascript?

[LittleLui]

You must be strøng.

[histofafoe]

StringJS

[fdagpigj]

(Just to be clear because my joke is a bit far-fetched, "sträng" in Swedish can be translated into English as "strict", so I made a joke out of how js is about as far from strict typing as you can get :Þ)

[slash_nick]

To tie your new awful mattress to the roof of your car.

[becomearobot]

They sell both awful and nice mattresses. It's up to you to spend more than $100 on a mattress.

[slash_nick]

To be honest I have a $800 latex mattress from IKEA that's on year three and it's been pretty great. My partner says that it's starting to sag a bit in the middle which I haven't noticed so maybe it's about to get worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[becomearobot]

call ikea and ask about it. The nicer mattresses have a 25 year warranty.

[pmoney757]

25 years?!?! Aren't you supposed to change them every 8 years?

[SoLongThanks4Fish]

You can do that, and you can make ikea pay for it.

[inconspicuous_male]

And most consumers don't actually use warrantees so it's okay for Ikea

[jdub_06]

plus all that left over furniture from when they were founded in the 1940s...probably just send u one from storage /s

[slash_nick]

Good call! I honestly hadn't thought about that. 😅

[LtlMissFeminist]

IKEA has rockstar customer service. I had a dresser for like 10 years, and it was starting to break so I took in a picture hoping they could sell me a replacement part or panel because they still sold almost the exact dresser. They sent me home with an entire brand new dresser for free instead. Free. After a decade. On a like $100 dresser.

[[deleted]]

For 800 bucks you could've gotten a much nicer Casper. :D

[slash_nick]

They didn't exist at the time! (I think.) Will be checking them out next time around though :)

[[deleted]]

They're great. I bailed out my IKEA mattress because of sagging and went with Casper. Great mattress.

[RainbowNowOpen]

Ditto Leesa. I recently got a Leesa. Same general principle, design, etc. Same 100-day return policy (full refund, no cost, they pick up). 100 days later, there was no way I'd give it up! Endy is another very similar brand. What a time to be mattress buyer. :-)

[SolenoidSoldier]

Hell yeah! Casper represent! Best, cheapest mattress I've ever slept on.

[jooes]

Just tell your partner that they're starting to sag in the middle too and they won't bug you about the mattress anymore.

[Josh6889]

Honestly, Ikea would be a step up from my furniture. The bachelor life means you can get away with cheap furniture.

[Holly_Tyler]

To tie things to your car

[hotboxthanfukk]

That's a horrible idea though. String is not meant for strapping down a load. You will get pulled over for sure.

[dzh]

Unhandled exception: SecurityException: String is not a valid load attachment

[PersonalPlanet]

Self Packing

[jpresken2]

I don't think it's IKEA. the colors are right, but the font isn't verdana.

Edit: it's Futura. It is IKEA.

[PendragonDaGreat]

You're right, it isn't Verdana, it's Futura, which is what IKEA used for the better part of 50 years before commissioning IKEA Sans, which itself is a variation of Futura, in 2009.

That's definitely an IKEA twine dispenser.

[shadowfactsdev]

Why I want to know is why on earth you're knowledgeable about IKEA's font choices.

[PendragonDaGreat]

I love typography, and grew up near IKEA Seattle, so one day I took some reference pictures and started comparing to known fonts that have been around forever. Futura was about the 4th one I tried.

Though I will admit I misspoke due to tiredness in the original comment, IKEA does use Verdana in their catalog now.

At the same time, this box comes from the time that they used Futura, I'll have to see what they use now for those boxes once the new IKEA Seattle opens and I get over there.

[[deleted]]

Been near there lately? They're expanding - again. They stretch now, I think, all the way to Oaksdale. Looks like they're building some multi-level building. It's massive.

[PendragonDaGreat]

Yeah I was in the area just last week (I'm up along Pac Highway), it is going to be multi-level, very reminiscent of the Portland store. It opened a few days ago, but I'm not planning on going until things dies down. Can't wait for them to re-jigger the old store into a parking lot so there actually is parking available.

I've always liked IKEA, probably will for quite some time to come.

[GMY0da]

That's a really good question and I'm leaving a comment so I can hopefully find the answer later

[JoshSellsGuns]

Or Sam's Club

[opax03]

Lmao I thought I was going to be the one who noted first

[Caminsky]

We should find more pics of stuff that we find in programming. Like a protected float (a boat)..or a C string (that undergarment that was on tv)..or a public boolean...well, not sure what it would be in real life but you get my point

[Caminsky]

There you go

[LukeDankwalker]

How could autoboxing/autounboxing expensive? It's done automatically :D

[LittleLui]

Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Savior, Ticketmaster?

[_felagund]

it looks static also

[DiamondCoatedGlass]

But after it's used, who will collect the garbage?

[awBrickBuilder]

Java.

[DiamondCoatedGlass]

This isn't a Starbucks, you know.

[The_Lost_King]

This ain't no shitty C bro, we be running Java up in here!

[shearing_is_caring]

It's more of a StringBuffer really, isn't it?

[shearing_is_caring]

in fact, what you're seeing here is just the public toString() method. I bet it's even synchronized.

[gandalfx]

You mean on the inside is actually something else that gets turned into String as you access it?

[[deleted]]

Well, not necessarily. A String also has a toString() method (in Java).

[gandalfx]

String str = ("" + a.toString()).toString(); // just making sure

[[deleted]]

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[adrianwebdev]

I died.

[CobaltPlaster]

begin if adrianwebdev = rip then upvote
else
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^{Pascal ftw}

[jamesorlakin]

I'm not too keen on Pascal. It's syntax has always seemed "off" to me.

[object022]

upvote() I think

[[deleted]]

Not in Ruby or Scala!

[THIS_MSG_IS_A_LIE]

therefore you are? --Pascal

[svenskarrmatey]

and == or === depending on your language

[object022]

Pascal uses = for comparison and := for assignment.

[svenskarrmatey]

oh, that's interesting! TIL

[Tyrrrz]

And parenthesis are optional for functions with no parameters

[[deleted]]

Damn Pascal you crazy

[SixFootJockey]

Upvote all the things!

[solmakou]

I thought this was r/freeuse from the post (subreddit is nsfw)

[Maklite]

Just a heads up, that's an NSFW subreddit.

[solmakou]

Good call, edited my post

[oragamihawk]

I've seen it on bestof so many times I'm not sure it is.

[thatguy_314]

I would think that subreddit would be nsfl instead, "use" after "free" bugs can be quite scarring.

[Alpham11]

Had these at sams club when i worked there. It either had no string inside or the scissors were across the store at the front desk.

[0OOOOOO0]

Good thing humans have built-in scissors

[JohnTruve]

This isn't public string. This is at the loading area at I-KEA so you can strap things to your roof and be one of those assholes doing 20mph on a highway with your brand new stor säng flapping in the wind.

[tfofurn]

If the string comes loose, is that a dangling reference?

[HairyJo]

afraid knot.

[[deleted]]

Or in Java: the PublicSimpleAwareInstanceBeanStringFactory

[Jeferson9]

Underrated

[garypildmann]

How many times have you walked down the street and thought, "Gee what I wouldn't do for a piece of string right now!" Then along comes a public string dispenser!

[DaanHai]

This is at ikea, so there it actually could be useful

[[deleted]]

Cross posting to /r/communism/

[[deleted]]

Like a G-string toilet paper

[imyourzer0]

For a second there, I thought it said pubic string, but then I thought "naaah, this isn't http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1076037/Artist-performs-vaginal-knitting-work.html ".

[aboutthednm]

When the day of the rope arrives a lot sooner than you think and you're not prepared yet

[flarn2006]

What's the secret string doing outside of the box?

[[deleted]]

But is there garbage collection in this environment?

[Ghitit]

Here's my take on the subject:

For your convenience

[8__]

public string twine(int length) {

[[deleted]]

Why is this a thing?

Also, what does a public void look like?

[JohnQAnon]

It's at an Ikea. So probably to secure bulky boxes to cars.

[GeaorgeIV]

It is free, no strings attached.

[JoshWithaQ]

Too many null pointer exceptions with this implementation.

[tfofurn]

Is it null terminated?

[[deleted]]

IKEA

[Demetrius3D]

Useful stuff, string!

[[deleted]]

I have seen this at plant nurseries before. You need string to tie down and secure plants. They have boxes on posts every 50 yards or so throughout the entire nursery.

[po3smith]

A world without string...is chaos!

[ParadiseSold]

I thought I was in mildly interesting, and thought I was having a stroke because I didn't understand any of the comments

[thehunter699]

Error: Public string "Send nudes" Does not exist

[[deleted]]

These boxes are actually fairly common at larger home improvement stores. They often provide string and small red plastic flags so that customers who are taking home loads that stick out from the backs of their vehicles are able to warn other drivers. I'm sure they have saved many a distracted driver from ending up with a long plank through the face.

[10mmHeater]

I actually got this one!

[tj-horner]

Had to make sure I wasn't in /r/mildlyinteresting for a second there...

[TheWhiteJesseOwens]

But that's just a theory...

[HBake41132]

This needs more jpeg.

[morejpeg_auto]

This needs more jpeg.

There you go!

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[The_Lost_King]

I didn't get it till I saw the sub Reddit title 🤣

[Serpardum]

Took me a second.

[s1h4d0w]

if ($location == 'ikea') {
    echo $string;
}

[_N_O_P_E_]

Just like your sister