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> I'd have to consider all the ways a bully eager to use their powers might misunderstand me Damn. Doesn’t that just sum up so many interactions (and sadly, relationships) in life.…

This is the fundamental trust challenge with private/profitability-driven 'science'.

Would this logically extend to also include C-reliant languages like Python and Ruby (the latter being mostly a grammar underpinned by C) as technical debt also?

Disclosure: Didn’t read. But I did always get heckled at gatherings for inverting my controls, and then forgetting to switch them back. I think it came from whatever console you st…

The inimitable https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html , which is a great read for any programmer, not just game devs.

Chesterton's Fence

This is probably the right answer. Similar to "dont fight the police on the street, fight them in court". Can even quiet-quit during the project if you need to.. software can take …

I imagine Finland's would be similarly branded a disaster if the present-day internet/social media megaphones had existed.. History books on 1945 aggressive monetary policy change:…

Link?

I think you are 100% spot-on. Good enough has always been fine for the vast majority of people and the vast majority of use-cases. Couple this with decreasing costs of storage (and…

Go does have the `- race` flag for test + build commands [1], which can help (not 100% iirc, but some) with datarace detection. [1] https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector

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In college, in a music class (History of Jazz maybe?), I had to miss an exam, and the professor assigned me an essay to make up for it: Life and impact of Django Reinhardt, minimum…

Felt it in Hartford, CT!

Haha having recently rewatched MIB with my daughter after ~15 years, I don't think Will Smith correctly selected the target... :'D

Many organizations pay people (or entire teams) to maintain a suite of hardened images, either for device/firmware applications, or because they use many languages in-house, etc. T…

Some defense against the class(es) of availability problems that occur from OS + upwards. No defense against the class(es) that occur below that (metal).

Careful, that was literally the exact same selling point of Electroconvulsive therapy 80 years ago.

I have often wondered the same thing. I think it boils down to the actual factors being “something you have” and “something you know”, where the former is the possession of the pas…

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> The most common sites of melanoma are chest and back in men and legs in women > The most common chemical sunscreen ingredients cause cancer themselves Both of these statements ar…

This almost exactly described my life as well (also 37, lived in a major metro). Not to mention the (surreptitiously unpaid) evening calls we'd have with other TZs after spending t…

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If anyone has NOT noticed these ads running constantly on YouTube, I’d encourage you to spend 10 minutes on the site in an incognito window. I would have thought this thread was ov…