Ideally you can do that, but even the most well designed software ends up needing a larger refactor/reorganization that will touch a large portion of the code base.

My boss likes to say “you aren’t qualified to design something until you have built it once” which I do feel rings true. This inevitably leads to at least one major redesign for a significant codebase.

I think the first I used was Fedora Core 5, but the first I installed myself was Fedora Core 6.

Even in the hands of experts they can be dangerous. One of the most respected programmers at my company wrote an implementation of memory that had an off by one error when bit indexing for alignment checking.

Everything worked fine until you had 16-bit relatively aligned src and dest and happened to be targeting uncached memory.

One time pads aren’t really feasible at scale. Getting the pad (key) to your partner securely will involve moving it in meatspace.

If you tried to send the pad with some other encryption that becomes the weak point and defeats the pad.

You can’t reuse the pad for multiple transmissions or you are vulnerable to analysis attacks.

You can’t compress the pad and send it with remaining space of a previous pad because the pad has to be true random numbers and won’t compress well so you will always come out behind.

They are great in theory, and in practice for a few fixed short form communications in emergency situations but I don’t know of any practical way they could be used generally. Your bank isn’t going to ship you a hard drive of random numbers for you to securely look at your account.

• Windows (various versions on and off like 95, XP, 7,8,10)
• Fedora core 6
• Ubuntu 8.O4-10.04
• Fedora again I think beefy miracle
• Arch

Ahh got to wait for your current system update to finish I see. /s

Where in America is there 20Gbps symmetrical fiber? Everywhere I know tops out at 1gbps if you are lucky that your ISP isn’t shit, and lots of areas are still on slow cable.

In my area my options are 200mbps cable or 100mbps ADSL (which inexplicably costs more than the cable Internet)

I just upgraded from a 1080ti to a 7900xt last month and I just plugged it in and it worked. Then I uninstalled the Nvidia binary drivers and libraries.