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Under what circumstances a passenger needs to identity themselves differs significantly from state to state. Also, neither Brendlin v. CA or AR v. Johnson talk about identification…

I loved Connections so much as a kid, but I'm so tired of this clip. There's so many better clips from this show. So he nailed a 13 second countdown. Who cares? Newscasters do this…

It's very common the US as well, but primarily in education circles. I honestly have no idea what percent of the general public would recognize it immediately (hard to know for any…

> My understanding was that it was the tenant rights movement that killed SROs and boarding houses by making it practically impossible to keep them orderly It depends on the time f…

I have Sisyphus as my wallpaper. When people ask about it I say he's the patron saint of software development.

In OP's defense, "becoming suspicious" doesn't mean it's always wrong. I would definitely suggest an explaining comment if someone is using DISTINCT in a multi-column query.

Snopes has this as mixed because Stalin may or may not have expressed this sentiment at some point, but it seems impossibly unlikely to me that this pun works in Russian as it does…

It's hard to talk in the abstract because obviously people can abuse any type of code feature, but I generally find chaining array methods, and equivalents like c# linq, much easie…

> “nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR” I clean my history so that intermediate commits make sense. Nobody reads these messages in a pull request, but when…

JoelOnSoftware had a great piece back in the day where he mentioned that while he consciously knew what a short sale on an option was, in practice he had to stop and think about ho…

One of the aphorisms I repeat a lot is that in this age where everybody programs a little, including analysts, devops, QA, researchers, etc., the thing that separates all of them f…

That's absolutely not what the article is about. Did you even read it? People don't really have that debate anymore outside of twitter casuals, and it's dismissed with a wave almos…

Give me an AI chatbot over someone with poor English skills reading a script any day of the week. My problem probably isn't unique, it's probably something fairly obvious that was …

I think the "sendOnce" question is fine. Software development is just different than other professions, and you get a lot of candidates who talk a good show but can't actually prog…

I've always established the team rule that most PRs must be reviewed within a day. At the very least, devs should be reviewing any open PRs before they leave or when they first get…

In the midst of the perennial "woe the kids today" rant, it's worth considering that this generation is the first generation in the 300,000 year history of homo sapiens sapiens to …

You're greatly overestimating how much an oral tradition leads to fixed wording. This is a pretty well-studied field at this point in time, and non-poetry oral traditions just don'…

No, macOS will just put quotes in the name. I just saved file from vscode as "testfile.sql", including the quotes, and wound up with a file named "testfile.sql".s.

One of my biggest pet peeves about modern development is just how many people don't know jack about git even though they use it every day. It really annoys me when I see a pull req…

I don't think this point is about configuring your editor/environment as much as just knowing it. There's certain features that come up all the time: find file, find class, go to i…

If you follow through to the study, they displayed products on a screen to people in an MRI scanner, and asked them to evaluate the offers they were seeing. Unsurprisingly, after a…

> Commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance AKA the lobbying group for plastic bag manufacturers, a group whose entire purpose is opposing plastic bag bans, quot…

Did anyone notice that the author talks about scams and cons, but when it actually comes to a list of examples the majority are actually about plagiarism? Which... I largely don't …

> I also wasn't aware that "unit" referred to an isolated test It never did. "Unit test" in programming has always had the meaning it does now: it's a test of a unit of code. But "…

> Car crash -> automobile accident --- a softening It's not. Accident is actually the older term. Cars have had accidents since their inception. Using the "crash" sound to refer to…