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"voluntary" can also be pretty meaningless depending on the context. In the UK, if the police suspects you of shenanigans, they'll politely invite you for an "voluntary interview".…

> Some animals are ready to go as soon as they are born That trade has an extreme genetic advantage when other animals see you as their succulent mains on the a la carte exotic wil…

I can see from voting that this comment is highly controversial. It's actively being downvoted. Make of that what you like.

Yep, let alone life critical systems. You don't fuck with them just because.

> 17x strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.” Yep. You can engage in sexually trafficking people 16 times with a warning. 17th is…

Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.

It's the reverse of the Cloaca Maxima, the Roman empire sewage system. Facebook is where unprocessed sewage is fed back to the people, straight into their hands.

Before JS had promises, JS code was plagued with the callback pyramid of doom. You needed an advanced masters degree in masochism to endure that. I don't think Python devs would ha…

Yep. It's ironic that reddit itself cured my reddit addiction.

No, he's referring to politics. Far-right politics[a] encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, radical anti-commu…

Totally my feeling too. The formula seems to be: dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing cont…

> I really don't think Python was close to dying It absolutely was. What saved it was: 1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3. 2. No…

I learned Perl back in the day. It was fun and powerful. But I think the package management and culture killed it for me. People took pride is writing obnoxiously messy code. Packa…

I use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error. MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: …

I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy. I'm concerned that the new role of "…

Worst thing that happened to programming, eh? Have you tried running a 2 year old javascript/node project that transpiles and gulps it's three billion dependencies into something a…

Webapp doesn't work for me (current version Firefox): Uncaught TypeError: loading.showModal is not a function https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/ latest/:20 latest:20:17 h…

Very useful. Does anything similar exists for Firefox?

Not to mention the cool handbrake turn when you're a teenager.

> when our main or only way of detecting whether communication succeeded is through understanding or lack thereof That's not even a good test, due to miscommunication. Both parties…

> but tonal information can be parsed without lexical understanding Parsed perhaps, but it's so context sensitive that it's not useful, save for extremities. The same tone of voice…

That's very easy and very wrong. Let's say you have a 100 page book. Page 1 contains fundamental knowledge that allows you to understand the rest of it. If you skip page 1 then you…

Very interesting idea. I remember reading that in visual spoken communications, only 20% is the actual words. The rest is tone of voice, body language, context, emphasis, expressio…

Bad landing page.

Back in the day, SSL didn't exists. When it came into existence, it was quite an expensive novelty. It became a generic name that everyone knew for encrypted HTTP connections. It s…