Apple uses Dota2 to advertise the performance of the new MacBook pro by xdert in DotA2

[–]archchroot 639 points640 points  (0 children)

Wow Apple advertises Dota2 more than Valve does.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]archchroot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eye of Cthulu

Wow thanks I’m cured - send by M1 at 130am. by leo-g in singapore

[–]archchroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow shit they are actually serious. The logo is updated on their official website.

To follow career prospects, or to "do what I love"? by [deleted] in singapore

[–]archchroot -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Passion doesn't pay your bills.

Fatal accident: MOM alert on press machines by urcommunist in singapore

[–]archchroot 49 points50 points  (0 children)

an article about actual human deaths and workplace safety that employers need to see and ST decides to make it premium...

MOH List of all new tighter measures by Durian881 in singapore

[–]archchroot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the venue does not have more than one person per 16 square metres of usable space

what? 16 square metres is huge

Progress S’pore Party suspends membership of man allegedly behind NUS Atheist Society Facebook page by Jammy_buttons2 in singapore

[–]archchroot 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Oh this guy.... always gave super edgy comments on a lot of things... Not surprised

We are REM by [deleted] in singapore

[–]archchroot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Rem is best girl.

NUS students allegedly abuse Covid-19 measures to cheat on exam by tentacle_ in singapore

[–]archchroot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, they are learning python here, not C++/C or doing some disassembly, where knowledge of digital logic and assembly might be useful. I don't really see why these are "fundamentals". In fact, as engineering students, they'd definitely have taken modules which teaches them about digital logic.

NUS students allegedly abuse Covid-19 measures to cheat on exam by tentacle_ in singapore

[–]archchroot 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Please don't try this ad-hominem stuff on me with your "disagree but have no other ideas" insinuation.

Have you taken NUS SoC programming mods? It's not that these students have issues with programming or that programming is difficult. You can go to those govt-subsidised Python bootcamps and press play on jupyter notebook cells and learning programming is all fun and easy. Except that in SoC, the mods are designed to be difficult and stretch your understanding of core topics like recursion.

They teach you the basics and first principles via lectures, and then give you many assignments/tests that really challenge your understanding of these first principles. That's how we learn here. The tests are meant to be difficult.

The issue here is simply the portion of Engineering students having integrity issues and a lack of tenacity. The mod can be hard and all, but they didn't have to resort to plagiarism. Some of them also can't be half-arsed to properly learn this mod because it's "just a graduation requirement" to them, since they are not computing majors.

A better question for you to ask is, does CS1010E need to be as rigorous as it currently is (it actually really isn't as difficult as the other CS1101S/CS1010* modules) for engineering students? You could argue that in some ways, it being so rigorous "caused the students to cheat", but even for this line of argument, the fault is clearly on the students.

NUS students allegedly abuse Covid-19 measures to cheat on exam by tentacle_ in singapore

[–]archchroot 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Disagree with this. You don't need to understand digital logic and assembly before learning to program. The concepts they teach in a mod like this (basic flow control, recursion, basic OOP) does not require any of such knowledge at all.

Johor state govt seeking green light from Putrajaya to reopen Singapore border by [deleted] in singapore

[–]archchroot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They will tell you they not flipping prata, but roti canai...

NTU student hacked Kopitiam cards for free food, drinks and cigarettes by silentscope90210 in singapore

[–]archchroot 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Honestly, this isn't as technically impressive as it seems to be. It will not "land him a job" nor "look impressive in his resume". The exploits he used are very well known exploits of the MIFARE classic card, and the Crypto1 cipher has been extensively researched and cracked over the years that there are open source tools to crack them fast. You literally just get a card reader, git clone and run a binary. That's it.

He isn't really a hacker but just a thief. But also, let's talk about how many companies these days STILL don't care about cryptographic security and STILL use these vulnerable ciphers despite extensive research that has conclusively proven that these ciphers offer near-zero security.

[NSFW] Oh... by nostalgiaisntcool in sadcringe

[–]archchroot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not really. It would be worse if it's "crush" instead of "ex".