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Somehow, I don't mind that the code blew the stack because it was recursion without memoization. Blowing the stack should be a pretty clear sign to figure out why and fix it.

Perl is not an acronym.

The three virtues of a Perl programmer are impatience, hubris, and laziness. There's no humility in the list.

> Bureaucracy is a symptom part of the enshittification Bureaucracy does not cause things to get worse. It's not a bad rash that the system displays when it's about to get worse or…

Yes. Memorizing how a framework works is not knowledge. Knowledge is the deep understanding thing LLMs can't do.

Extra layers of busywork that nobody else wants to look at. If your job is polishing a turd, make the turd shine like a cucumber. I have seen countless hours wasted on making Cuke/…

I was hoping that AI would lead to a golden age of testing, with devs focusing on making the best tests possible to determine if the AIs writing prod code were correct. Devs leadin…

> binary M/F does not exist for sex or gender. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/gender-has-a-history-and-...

> Societal gender norms have existed for probably as long as humans have Or gender norms have existed since gender was defined in the 70s-80s by feminist scholars. Before that was …

Also the HBO city flyover interstitial: https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/jy7d73/the_hbo_1983_ci...

Literary Hub needs an editor. That title's grammar is appalling. And the problems start there. Grunwald, adjectives spilling all over his page, needs a thesaurus for "uphill battle…

See also Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" available from many places online.

There's hard and then there's "there are so many unexpected edge cases you'll surely be cut if you touch that code," which not fun-hard. This is the latter.

"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called …

Looks like they started measuring during the FDR administration. https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/ceo-worker-pay-gap-problem-am...

That's an example of trying to clean up Ford's image. Ford didn't want to share with the employees. He was very strongly anti-union (granted, not a factor until post-WWII). He was …

Tariffs are supposed to change consumer behavior. What's next? Is Bloomberg going to be telling us that fluoridation is preventing tooth demineralization and not actually helping t…

When was that halcyon time when you knew a subject well and some outlet published a really good in-depth story about it? Maybe it happened, but I don't think it happened in this ti…

> I wonder when "Radio Free Europe (EU)" becomes a thing in the US RFE is openly intended as propaganda. NPR does not claim that. They're not the same thing. There used to be Radio…

As opposed to the original binary format, designed to copy directly to the heap on restore?

And the SCOTUS says photographing LEOs is protected. https://johndrogerslaw.com/the-first-amendmeAVnt-and-photogr...

> My instinct is to think that 16 year olds generally don't have the maturity to make these kinds of decisions. Well _my_ instinct is to think that anyone who disagrees with me is …

There are two robots in a room, one is pro-fascist and the other is anti-fascist. You ask one of the robots "are you pro-fascist?" What answer do you expect?

What percent of students learn to pull stats out of thin air? Everyone I knew then, even the "cool kids," thought high school was some bleak hell punctuated with moments of extraor…

> Ruby developer indoctrinated against Python Ruby devs think about code differently. Like Perl, they embrace TIMTOWTDI. https://perl.fandom.com/wiki/TIMTOWTDI Also, there's a prid…