@retoor your responses give me a tiny flicker of hope for humanity.

to OP- as an extreme data nerd and security pro with over 2 decades of pro web dev (like starting at real web dev... not like the barnacles\Sids of the world... before not only smartphones... but even camera phones or data plans)... a lot more should be server side than what is.

example with your vaguely described email field... if it ONLY needs to check format(like a regex of essentially string+@+string+.+TLD) then client side ofc. but, if it needs to make sure it's not a duplicate, server side.

@D-4got10-01 i actually have a large poster about Murphy's law. it doesn't really fit the decor of my bedroom (red brick wall panels on the bottom of the walls, graffiti (dynamically changing if someone feels like spray painting), etc)... but it's there until i find a more suited place.

I used to have a smaller, metal, sign.
.... it was well suited to the main in\out door when i lived in apartments.
it just said "never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."... then, after over 4yrs at the same place, without even the slightest negative comment... some new, old man, assuming i reported his dog (it was loud and annoying af... which is why i didn't, the 4 other apartments obviously wouldve\did), said he was "offended" by the sign.

i ofc changed to another sign that wasn't breaking any rules but annoyed him more (You got PWNED, looked like a license plate)

ive always wondered if he thought it out enough to know its only possibly offensive if u believe you're stupid.

@TheBeardedOne
yeah... you're right. unfortunately it also applies to geniuses that absorb and maintain info and skill way quicker than should be possible.
mom= adv practice nurse(crna)...between days ill and minor surgeries\nerve blocks\etc... i spent soooo many days in the surgical lounge... plus since i was little, i taught 1st aid and AED classes
int. legal and business exp... too much to list
etc., etc...

i have a bunch of 'hobbies' that could each be a career. i innately retain way too much info, whether or not I want to. i also am ocd... especially with language. (yesterday i had brief dental work done... had to ask my dentist to stop saying "open big" cuz i impulsively kept wanting to correct him (wide\wider)).

@BordedDev nope
nvr seen it. ill look into it when I get time.

@retoor u meant me not jest... i somehow didn't realise that i sent it to an invalid email address 2 weeks ago :(

I'll be sending it, actually to you, in the next couple hrs... just making sure i don't overlook\fk something up since i finally made the switch to paying for DocuSign... so gonna have assistant double check b4 sending it (again)... hes the one im making upload\make sure things are formatted correctly.

(there was also a week during those 2 weeks when i was really sick, mainly due to some... 'bozo' (< that's me being ridiculously polite) doctor.... then the constant calling drs to attempt to coordinate referrals, trying to make up for bozo's crap\delays.)

@jestdotty technically it says it cant contain a keyboard pattern AND sequential number... so just 1234 should pass... unless that's also a keyboard pattern?

the more crap they insist on, the weaker the results.

also... despite strongly believing that a native English speaker wrote or reviewed that... it's almost like they are trying to get as close to forming a legitimate sentence as possible without actually making one.

@kiki so how many underlings to you want/tolerate

@kiki right... but thats manual so scaling in population you either need automation via protocols or to turn into a caricature of a grumpy high school janitor, trying to catch those bathroom graffiti hoodlums in the act... forever

@D-4got10-01 you won... but idk you so tell me about yourself so you get a valid prize

@kanyewest i apparently shit gold. Yea, totally unfair... last week i wa0s briefly explaining to a friend this pile of odd electrical components they asked about.

I told them its cuz i gotta set up my new, winter, grow tent and cuz im ill/handicapped/lazy I was trying to find a basic moisture sensor system (already have webcams and made a remote system to change flow etc)... closest tging wasnt rly helpful and was over 350$.

I went to my chinese component suppliers, got a couple extra arduio nanos, a dozen basic moisture sensors, ripped apart some old ak mistakenly deluvered several yrs agi, wifi dongles and grabbed the amazon tablet my mom added to my tech graveyard from never using it .. loaded linux on it ancam writingba quick system(will be like 2hrs) for under 10& and an old af fire tablet for a simple control panel.

Days later im somehow being offered a quite high paying job, with subordinates to produce this as a consumer version... im just cheap and lazy ffs

@retoor u have no clue how excited i am at the prospect of being able to even ½explain certain mechanics without a certain dev yelling(ok.. more like southern girlish whining) at me to stop hurting his head... awesome dev with tons of highly respectable skill(not something i say often)... but data structures, networking, math and low level configs (os and hardware) are not his strong suits...
Fast as hell, well written, code with proper standards and comments... and knowing whats known/simple to typical ppl vs complex and/or rarely know... he's superb at... everything after "with"... im ridiculously horrid at but fully aware i need to learn shit like wtf should/shouldnt be commented??? I literally have no valid frame of reference as to obvious af or complex next lvl logic.

Its like this ecomm and beyond site I gotta finish putting up within a couple days... theres like 4+ types (several colours) of silicone bongs... wtf do you write other than "another silicone bong" and size?

@ashokramcse
Umm...
Do you believe average humans are above "stupid"?

If yes, youre just aloof to the fact that youre definitely below that bar. I wish you luck.

@Demolishun im a great driver... even though im only legally allowed to use 1 hand.

I only tolerate them in their natural habitats... theres a few solid reasons i bought a house in the middle of a corn field.

Occassionally they are amusing to watch... especially with relatively quite minor interference for research reasons

Have you seen the movie "Teeth"?

@retoor hey... i didnt forget... well i did but that was forgetting the timing on chinese new year this year which fked me up majorly... im nearly caught up. Im on mandatory non-work rest for another 45min. but i should be caught up enough to properly get back to you by evening your time. ^.^

@TheBeardedOne

Nowadays, I have lawyer friends(& tons from business)in many countries. In usa, canada, minor others. ive consulted for cyber crimes and have a huge array of close legal and political friends. Unfortunately, even once against my direct, high paid, advice of checking timestamp manipulation. Tragic ending.

I get your point about layman comprehension/entertainment... but even argued in major cases where at least 1 involved person shouldve been suspected enough to question the validity of logs... nope... the computer says so.

Unfortunately ive even seen cases won (including wrongly) based on the timestamp of an isolated set of photos... non-wireless conn capabilities, kept no log of user clock changes... that judge annoyed me sooo much.

@TheBeardedOne no... im specifically referencing the, imo, EXTREME over-reliance on timestamps and metadata... which unfortunately is beyond real.

Tbh, I have an obscene amount of solid sources... in my teens, i assumed my view was tainted as my main source of 1st person exp was in shitty districts of already shitty Detroit.
at 18 my car was stolen.
Knowing i had no car, was a 40m drive away and an upper class, handicapped, teenage white girl (white *shouldn't* matter & im adept w/concealed edged weapons esp projectiles. i assume the surprise/'wtf?!? bitch b crazy!' hasnt hurt-- me) &due to insurance reasons police must "recover" it... only 2 blocks from the station. literally said they didnt feel like it today, suggested i find a way to get it

But, I easily sway people in person.

@Lensflare @antigermgerm

Listen, size of storing data is totally my wheelhouse.

If something like this ever gets to the point of storage size or a data infrastructure suited for whatever, not existing... let me handle it.

Not only am i confident that id be one of a small pool of engineers that could potentially solve some seemingly impossible issue with data/math/etc X compsci... i literally cannot fathom anything more nirvana-esq, ultimate happy place, most ideal objective to exist for.

It's things like this that make me wish i was one of those overly abundant people that can mentally rewrite reality, typically subconsciously, based on intense desire... or ignore hard facts like 'doing this same thing without actual need/benefit is a severe waste of time and without merit'

But, alas, im too damn logical. *sigh*

@Lensflare personally id prefer if we(society minus the intentional/wilfully ignorant causers of negative impact) could just convert some boring, not impactfully useful, land(s) into monitored colonies...

not like hitler-esq, think more like a protected nature preserve with the good intentions of senior citizen housing, that has the necessary measures to allow those with dementia and alzheimers.

Ofc it'd require hefty funding... but cameras, like wildlife reserves, would allow for security/safety with minimal disruption to their habitat... and the research to gain potentially valuable insights, while also allowing monetisation like a much more humane, realistic/true... and surely fascinating, zoo. Ofc unlike most zoo's it'd be totally remote viewing... possibly even some form of harmless, yet monetised, interaction options... nothing to mess with their budding ecosystems or culture.

@donkulator oh... forgot...

Somehow i am a "fine arts artist". I don't think ill ever actually comprehend why... but the products of me playing/experimenting with molten glass and metals is innately of some (imo) ridiculously high value to people at auctions... even when i literally dont know wtf the thing i made is/should be used for.

It's fascinating, gives tens of thousands usd to charities i think r valid (mostly children's) yearly and is one of 3 primary reasons the IRS hates me an continues to audit me/any entity connected to me, at least once a year on avg.

Trade-offs:
I've had to be flawless in rel tax code since 18 and a few times a year i need to dress up like a girl, well beyond my typical lvl of acceptable fancy bs, and hold my tongue for a few hrs at charity events that normal people greatly desire entry to.

These events being restricted to the Internet was a thoroughly enjoyed perk of Covid19

@donkulator
Btw... not bs-ing, grandstanding or some version of facetious know-it-all type crap i cant think of...

I actually don't know all this relatively highly specific stuff about gold due to my tech nerd nature... it actually stems from another very prominent nature of mine... i like melting shit.

Seriously... even have a doctoral grasp of coefficients of expansion(rate of molecular expansion and spacing based on temperature/resulting state), esp relative to metals and glass, since 16.
some odd/possibly creepy prof at wayne state's library got obsessed w/me while returning books and printing papers for a mandated science fair.

He apparently had the habit of pulling face-down paper from the trash to read. I typed a 10pg paper before looking to see it was supposed to be ~2 pages... after explicitly denying several reqs of his i traded him my email address for ending that interaction. 2wks later he sent me a very detailed review, quotes from other profs and a (pointless)grade

@donkulator technically u got me... cuz technically 24k is supposed to be 100% purity... but due to the extremely soft structure of gold and the natural, near inevitability of inclusions (most being unintentional) and molecular structural enhancements(however minor) from essentially waste products of heat-mediated purification and molecules naturally existing in air that get pulled in during cooling... unless in a sterile vacuum...

The standard usage of "24k" has grown futher away from actually pure/100%... especially as consumerism favours terminology and labels far more than lnowledge of scientific standards.

Basically:
The label 24k gold has quite a bit of allowed, lower, variance... whether in jewelry or ethernet.
Industrial gold plating for tech (aside from some specific high precision applications in a vacuum) is facetious because there's thin layers of componuds for binding and resilience.
I was just using an excess of highly purified gold directly, more functional purity.

@kiki yea... but by what protocol(s)? How do u know the users to ban?

@TeachMeCode umm... nearly the whole world of modern compsci anything is run/based in 3rd party code providers at some (tbh most) levels. Its literally the definition of every freelance/contracted dev(or dev team)... and its far from new

@donkulator
Several issues with your response:
- it's not "softcolon" in a situation etc... it's the title of a business (the business has nothing to do with anything even remotely connected to biology/colons)

- colons(the biological kind) are not naturally soft. It's often confused as synonymous with the large intestine, because, in fact, it is the largest part of the large intestine. It's basically strechy layers of smooth muscle and thin, porous, tissue that acts as a filter to pull water and certain micronutrients/electrolytes/etc out of crap before it passes to the rectum.

Medically, if a colon was able to have "soft" as an attribute (of the colon itself, not the density of your shit) it would be extremely concerning... cuz itd be extremely swollen/inflamed or otherwise abnormally, not at all benignly, enlarged tissue

... i guess it's possible that softcolon was a ref of a puctuation type, : colon... but that's a whole different bag of mind-bogglement

@jestdotty oh ofc they didnt escalate then... they did later but probably dont actually realise it or how it may have happened... it's being dealt with, i just couldn't deal with it efficiently using only the abilities and general knowledge/acumen of a typical customer... which is the big issue.

@lorentz yes/no

Even though i keep current with at least a few, mostly changing, online casinos (specifically ones with slots) because it let's my previous experience/skill continue to be a figurative, quick and easy to suddenly tap, gold mine... watching this one for any huge issues (most of a variety i cant specify) is essentially a personal favour.

That said, i do agree, especially in principle. Actually wagering anything significant, or spending significant time on the platform isnt at all necessary for my objectives here

You finally make sense to me! You live (your home) in some commercial medical building not realising that's abnormal.

Now i have adequate context on why you sometimes seem to have normal or valid commentary... but others i didn't even know where to start aside from "wtf?" or more often "wzf?".

Thank you