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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldBe careful.
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    5 days ago

    Honestly, good on you so much for sharing. The fact you’re not ashamed and willing to share could save someone from the same attack, and as others have pointed out, even the most security minded of us can have lapses in judgement.

    I’m really glad you weren’t screwed in the end.









  • Thing is, you usually define all your variables. At least we do in engineering (of physical variety, rather than software).

    Mostly because we can’t expect everyone reading the calculation to know, and that not everyone uses the same symbols.

    Not explaining each variable is bad practice, other than for very simple things. (I do expect everyone and their dog reading a process eng calc to know PV=nRT, at a minimum).

    Just like (in my opinion) not defining industry specific abbreviations is also bad practice.

    Mathematicians don’t do this? Shame on them.