Because it allowed access before it verified which made it faster but was bad for security

Okay. Interesting

the actual mechanics of how the exploits worked is fairly complex

if you're talking about meltdown/spectre, thateffected both intel and AMD, and involved a problem with the design of the CPU's branch predictor that allowed access to memory that the CPU had wrongly predicted to be needed

I think I understand it

with spectre it was more like the most secure programs actually became the most dangerous

this isnt stuff you really need to know tbh 😛

which was pretty funny

I find it interesting because the field I am studying to get into is forensic accounting. And I think I.T is just going to become more and more important in that field

IT has already become more important everywhere

It's one of the reasons I want to get into I.T to be honest

probably wouldnt hurt to be familiar with IT and programming

Yep and Uni isn't going to teach me that properly

well

depends on the school and program

a program in forensic accounting? yeah probably not

Not my uni. It has a "reputation"...

spooky

👻

But I think a lot of this kind of learning is better learnt outside of a classroom because the majority of it is problem solving and that works better off you're own bat

I probably won't be able to get properly into it until summer unfortunately cause I am neck deep in a Tax Subject...

oh yeah, i've always believed that if you want to get into programming, you set yourself a goal of a program you want to make, you do some research into different methods to compute a path to reach that goal and then you do it, being told what to make is a bad way to learn, you make what you want to make and then you can continue making whatever you want as you'll have learned (and will continue to learn) the language

yeah, you always learn the most from doing actual projects and building actual systems

at least in terms of becoming a better programmer

if you want to start off making something fun, I guess you could try making a discord bot or something lol

That could be fun 😃 Is Python the best language for that?

never looked into discord bots, idk

To be honest a lot of programming sounds like puzzle solving and pattern recognition

once you get into programming, you'll discover each language has a kind of personality

Like a language dialect?

python has a unique personality in the sense that you use python if you're programming for fun

you're not trying to make something solid and serious, you just want to see if something works and then maybe later you'll do it

not sure i agree with that

a lot of solid and serious systems using python

python is a language for programming out of curiosity to see if a method works, at least in my eyes

oh yeah, I'd agree

i tend to use it for quick and dirty stuff, and scripting, but then most of what i do now is performance focused, and its all c++

but then you have the AI and machine learning people and all they use is python

Is Python more flexible?

yes

there are plenty of solid and serious systems using python, but they were mostly designed by people who just wanted their code to work so that they could do something deep and complex without having to deal with stuff they didn't really care about during the planning of their project