I remember when I first learned Java, having to just accept "public static void main(String[] args)" before I understood what any of it was. All I knew was that went on top around the block and I did the code inside it.
Should people really understand every syntax there before learning simpler commands like printing, ifs, and loops? I think it would yes, be a nicer learning experience, but I'm not sure it's actually the best idea.
If you need to learn "public static void main(String[] args)" just to print to a screen or use a loop, means you're using the wrong language.
When it's time to learn Java you're supposed to be past the basics. Old-school intros to programming starts with flowcharts for a reason.
You can learn either way, of course, but with one, people get tied up to a particular language-specific model and then have all kinds of discomfort when it's time to switch.
For most programming books, the first chapter where they teach you Hello, World is mostly about learning how to install the tooling. Then it goes back to explain variables, conditional,... They rarely throws you into code if you're a beginner.
I mean, I didn't need to learn those things, they were just in whatever web GUI I originally learned on; all I knew was that I could ignore it for now, a la the topic. Should the UI have masked that from me until I was ready? I suppose so, but even then I was doing things in an IDE not really knowing what those things were for until much later.
I think the problem is that it's also an interesting problem for humans. It's very subjective. Imagine a therapy session, filled with a long pensive pauses. Therapy is one of those things that encourage not interrupting and just letting you talk more, but there's so much subtext and nuance to that. Then make it compared to excited chatter one might have with friends. There's also so much body language that an AI obviously cannot see. At least for now.
I forget what book it was, it might have been the happiness trap, but a big point they made was that building new habits and changing your life has a lot more to do with your inner notion of identity and long-run values. It's much easier to change your habits when they align with who you believe you are, The mental model difference between "I'm trying to eat healthier," and "I am a healthy eater."
Yeah, for me <5MB per pic uploaded (and then compressed) and 5-10 images limit per user should be sufficient to start. That, or some platform specific things like you only get to 1 upload per 10 votes...
In theory I start integrating some safe image api or something, but I'm not seasoned enough to know if scrubbing the data away manually then is going to be easy enough. Right now I use supabase email auth , and I figure that cuts things down somewhat.
And if I am to have a plan, why not just implement from the start?
Risk management is not (always) about prevention as much as it is about reaction and mitigation.
Most nefarious attacks on sites/apps are occasional or one-time things. As an example, I used to work on a site that would get DDOSed a few times a year. I'm not sure why we were targeted, but rather than move our entire weird old legacy infrastructure to a vendor who could mitigate DDOS attacks, we had standard actions to take: Call our server dude, roll traffic to the backup data center, id the IPs at fault, add them to our block list, inform partners and customers to let us know if the new IP blocks affected them.
It was an annoyance, but not a disaster. That is the level of preparation you want - enough to just be annoyed when bad things happen, not demolished.
That should not stop you from prevention, either, of course - if you want to be proactive about such things, go for it.
Should people really understand every syntax there before learning simpler commands like printing, ifs, and loops? I think it would yes, be a nicer learning experience, but I'm not sure it's actually the best idea.