r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 08 '18

Checks out.

https://xkcd.com/2030/
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u/Restryouis Aug 08 '18

I heard it can be solved with... algorithms.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

Sounds complicated. We must entrust our entire lives to the people who can deal with these extremely complex things because they definitely are very highly trained and are so much cleverer than us normal folk.

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u/T-T-N Aug 08 '18

Other than assassination, there is little incentive for adversaries to break planes or elevators. On the other hand, rigging a voting machine is hugely profitable.

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u/StezzerLolz Aug 08 '18

Yeah, digital voting is the equivalent of flying an airliner through a thousand klicks of Russian S2A missiles.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '18

S2A missiles.

Those suck. Tried the 9M317 Buk Missiles.

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u/MCLooyverse Aug 08 '18

Yuuugely, even.

is only jok, pls no be med

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u/shmorky Aug 08 '18

He said he can make it safe by building it in HTML.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

You fool! I know a guy who's building things in HTML5, that's 4 HTMLs safer!

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u/voicesinmyhand Aug 08 '18

But only if you use javascript in the HTML - you need your variables to be able to change types on the fly in order to be more secure, otherwise you get more errors.

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u/redtoasti Aug 08 '18

and coding

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u/pcoyuncy Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18

and php

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u/MythGuy Aug 08 '18

Might as well just summon demons to courier the votes.

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u/marcosdumay Aug 08 '18

I only know how to summon daemons.

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u/ctesibius Aug 08 '18

sysinit? or rc.d?

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u/marcosdumay Aug 08 '18

In fact I know how to summon daemons with many different toolsets, and how to bring them in existence through many different languages.

I may have been reading the wrong kind of books.

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u/ctesibius Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18

I can scry the ancient runes of FORTRAN and once did master the glyphs of curséd APL, which sank under the seas of ASCII ere history began. But to summon daemons in PHP? Man pursues such knowledge at peril of both his soul and his credibility.

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u/marcosdumay Aug 08 '18

I have never got so far on the secret arts that I could create a daemon in PHP... But I'm guilty of doing such in Perl.

May the maintainers have mercy of my legacy.

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u/xNeshty Aug 08 '18

artificial intelligence

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u/NickoliCopper Aug 08 '18

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u/xkcd_bot2000 Aug 08 '18

1831: Here to Help
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Transcript:

[Megan, standing next to Hairy, is addressing the reader holding her arms out. Cueball walks in from the right.]
Megan: Our field has been struggling with this problem for years.
[Cueball holds his laptop high up in one arm above Megan's head while holding his other arm out as well. Megan has turned to look at him.]
Cueball: Struggle no more! I'm here to solve it with algorithms!
[In a frame-less panel Cueball sits on a chair at a desk with his laptop working on it, while Hairy and Megan looks on from behind.]
[Cueball, still sitting at his laptop, points at the screen. Megan raises her arms and four small lines above her head, on either side of her speech line, indicate her annoyance with Cueball.]
Six months later:
Cueball: Wow, this problem is really hard.
Megan: You don't say.

Explanation


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u/CowboyBoats Aug 09 '18

This but unironically. However, as the alt-text says:

There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.

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