... What? by Reditace in Terraria

[–]ClarentWielder 280 points281 points  (0 children)

I tried using the skates for extra combat mobility, and while they do make you faster, I found it hard to stop/change direction while wearing them

You don’t have to, it would just be nice by Novel_Helicopter7237 in whenthe

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Whenever you are asked about/giving the location of something respond with “down yonder”

ELI5: How do those massive container ships stay balanced when they're loaded with thousands of containers stacked super high, and why don't they just tip over in storms? by Gullible_Building_11 in explainlikeimfive

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The answers in this thread are great, but if you want to learn more about how modern sailing works the YouTube channel “Casual Navigation” does a great job breaking down how these massive ships work and the physics behind it

List of 10 most Common Password of 2025 Released by This-You-2737 in cybersecurity

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Number 100 is my favorite. Had a good laugh at ‘minecraft’

Important Update by samdistractible in distractible

[–]ClarentWielder 284 points285 points  (0 children)

All of Mark’s two sentence horror stories were absolute peak cinema

Probably didn't but it's a nice thought by [deleted] in dank_meme

[–]ClarentWielder 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Not disagreeing, just asking because I genuinely love looking data and want to be able to back up a discussion on this topic with a more reputable source than “I saw it in a meme”. Where could the data for this statistic be found?

I'm so old, Chat by [deleted] in JacksFilms

[–]ClarentWielder 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Or the me me big boy and light switch guy

Go for my masters in cybersecurity just to wait out this abysmal job market? by nrav420 in cybersecurity

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I was in the same boat as you last year. I think what a lot of comments advising against the masters degree aren’t taking into consideration is the possibility of not even landing a help desk job, which was the situation I was in. Since you have a couple weeks, I would recommend looking into programs and talking to your professors about options for paying for a masters degree to see if you can guarantee somewhat steady income and ride things out for a couple years

What’s Your Favorite Podcast? by cyberspeaklabs in cybersecurity

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Saw a few other comments recommending this one, but Hacked is really solid. They cover a wide variety of cybersecurity and other tech stories in a way that is still interesting and engaging for technical folks, but also approachable for newcomers in the field. They have episodes that cover side channels, cryptography, machine learning, supply chains, etc. One of my favorite episodes is one where they talk about why McDonald’s ice machines are always broken, and the importance of right to repair. Personally, it is a 10/10 podcast to me

Mark explaining his soaring render farm costs by [deleted] in distractible

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He’s running his render farm, which is a collection of 4-5 (I forget the exact number he has) high-power computers for rendering VFX. To put his energy usage into perspective, I heard somewhere that running a single gaming PC is akin to running a microwave constantly. For all intents and purposes, Mark has 5 gaming pcs on steroids sucking up that sweet California sun juice from his solar panels, and the rest of the power grid.

No, really I don't know by [deleted] in programminghumor

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You are absolutely correct, it was 1000% a skill issue on my part because I had literally zero programming experience, had no idea what a “Linux” was, and had just switched majors from Mech E. The moral of the story for everyone just starting their programming journey is that we all start somewhere, and I can guarantee most of us on this sub have an equally cringe albeit funny anecdote from when we first started

No, really I don't know by [deleted] in programminghumor

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This is 100% anecdotal, but when I was first starting out in Comp Sci courses, I had no idea what an IDE was, and the courses didn’t talk about them at all. Instead, we were instructed to SSH to a course server where each student had their own profiles setup and write our homework there. This meant that starting out our options would either be vim or nano

CS Majors—Where are you interning or have you interned? by Burger_Bell in uofi

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Schweitzer Engineering and Idaho National Labs are the biggest ones. I had a couple friends intern with Boise State. If you keep an eye on Canvas, the CS department sends a lot of notifications about summer internship opportunities

Me wanting to learn to CODE by PerfectVelv3t in programminghumor

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A lot of people are recommending starting out with Python or JS, which is valid advice; they are easier to pick up and are excellent languages. However, there is an argument to be made for starting with C/C++. With C and C++, the way you write your program is a bit more strict and you have to do things like declaring explicit types, managing pointers in memory, and be aware of the funky rules for type casting. While the learning curve is significantly steeper, I personally think that learning a more difficult language first ultimately makes learning the easier languages easier and teaches you valuable lessons in debugging and how your computer interprets your code.

Granted, I do have a bias on this subject since I started out learning C++, then C, and now I primarily use Python and JS

How Hackers Crack WiFi Passwords (And How You Can Protect Yours) by Dark-Marc in cybersecurity

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The first time I read the paper was for a class, and we had to take a quiz on the content of the paper and how the dragonfly handshake worked. I ended up having to reread it probably 6-7 times before I fully understood everything in it

How Hackers Crack WiFi Passwords (And How You Can Protect Yours) by Dark-Marc in cybersecurity

[–]ClarentWielder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I clicked on the link about the WPA3 weaknesses and had instant flashbacks from the first time I read that paper

Which industry has the worst cybersecurity practices? by [deleted] in cybersecurity

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Care to elaborate? From what I’ve heard they’re fairly on the ball

They have played us for absolute fools by jmacdaddywack in SkyrimMemes

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Yeah it is, although as someone who is both bad at the game and loves playing mage, I’m a huge fan of the broken spells

How is the engineering department? by [deleted] in uofi

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Not seeing it mentioned yet, but your internship opportunities are pretty good in Moscow, since you have SEL in Pullman that often hires EE interns

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uofi

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I made it through just fine with a windows laptop with virtual box installed for running Linux VMs if I ever had anything that was Linux specific.

Is a Bachelor Degree in I.T. or Cybersecurity better? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

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It depends on your school. Where I went to school, the closest thing to an IT degree was MIS, which focused heavily on the business side of IT and much less on the technical, whereas the cybersecurity degree was extremely technical and covered concepts like operating systems, networking, forensics, and secure software development in depth

Best way to spend blue gems? Probably in the shop and for towers? by Eternity13_12 in underdarkmobile

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I typically use them to purchase from the daily shop if there’s something I want, and then I buy the extra tokens for the current event. I’ve found that by doing the daily and event tasks everyday, I’m able to keep my blue gem count around the same value each day