101–110 of 119 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
TCP won’t give you a reliable connection if you tunnel TCP over TCP, paradoxically, but you can tunnel TCP over UDP, UDP over TCP, or UDP over UDP. Leaky!
Not "leaky", the conditions that a TCP connection needs its underlying transport to satisfy are explicitly documented, and TCP doesn't conform to them.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the kind of stuff I expected to study in my CS degree
The problem is that computer science ≠ software engineering, especially in academic contexts.
I was CS, but had a lot of SE friends, and we all agree that the best SE course was the one that was mandatory for all computing majors. It covered version control and branching, testing, design process, abstraction design, etc. That class was probably one of the most daily applicable things I learned, I took it in my third semester. If my university offered more courses of that caliber, that didn't rehash and force memorization of buzzwords, then that program would've been incredible.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
copy + delete one at a time makes a lot of sense if you're working on a filesystem without a way to move without copying (I don't think you can actually move a file in fat32), because copy all could require more space than is available. The same could be true here where you're moving from a zip file to probably the same filesystem the zip files is in; if removing a file from the zip file is actually an in-place move…
> copy + delete [...] I don't think you can actually move a file in fat32 Wait, does that mean that a file which is larger than half of the partition in fat32 cannot be moved? Or not even be renamed?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that computer science ≠ software engineering, especially in academic contexts.
I've seen this a lot on here combined with cs degrees being frequently mentioned and software engineering degrees rarely mentioned. Are people widely choosing computer science over software engineering and then being surprised they aren't studying software engineering or is it rare for institutions to offer software engineering as an option?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another common leaky abstraction: floating-point numbers as an abstraction of the real numbers. It works nearly all the time, until you have to really know about numerical precision, or where a NaN came from. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/06/numbers-are-a-leak...
i wouldn't call floating point numbers an abstraction on real numbers. It's a representation - like char[] is a representation of strings, which is itself an abstraction used to manipulate human readable text!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another common leaky abstraction: floating-point numbers as an abstraction of the real numbers. It works nearly all the time, until you have to really know about numerical precision, or where a NaN came from. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/06/numbers-are-a-leak...
Relevant: the list of integers you can convert to float, invert twice, and don't get the same number back. https://oeis.org/A275419
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not "leaky", the conditions that a TCP connection needs its underlying transport to satisfy are explicitly documented, and TCP doesn't conform to them.
If you're going into the details of what conditions a TCP connection needs, you're no longer talking about an abstraction.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> doing similar operations to a connected android phone MTP is terrible[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol#Perfor...
Oh boy. I was thinking USB 2.0 is main reason for Android Windows copying of photos to suck so much, but the rabbit hole is much deeper. It's sad that with cloud being the solution for everything those days, this will probably never be improved within next decade.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> copy + delete [...] I don't think you can actually move a file in fat32 Wait, does that mean that a file which is larger than half of the partition in fat32 cannot be moved? Or not even be renamed?
Fat32 supports rename in the same directory as a simple operation. Moving a file though, I don't think so (and nobody corrected me, so I might be right).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not aware of anyone with a software engineering degree. Is that really a thing?
The Computer Science college at Oregon State University offered both CS and Software Engineer degrees. The CS degree focused more on theory and technology, SWE more on management strategies (Agile, etc) and project architecture. I was really frustrated hitting the workforce and not knowing much about the "flow" of large team software projects. It was interesting seeing what the EE's and ME's were learning about, stan…