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Interestingly I would use the use of "the patriarchy" as a term as evidence against the belief of the transformation of the meaning of the phrase "toxic masculinity". The patriarch…

> All that striving for greatness is indivisible from the selfish need to inflict cruelty on your dominated foe. Take away the latter and there is no sports. It’s just exercise. I …

I'm sorry, are you dismissing all psychology papers? > A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis My peers have told me that chemistry and biology also suffer from resu…

> The side project myth is getting out of control. I was rejected in an interview last year within seconds of the interview starting because my answer to "what would you do if you …

grindr's pretty old at this point, and shows you distances to other people _to the metre_.

Do you have an example of a situation in which you'd want to cast the result of arithmetic intptr_t values to a pointer? The situations I can think of off the top of my head would …

> [...] ultimately in this new era there is no path to redemption, no mechanism by which an apology can be accepted. I'm pretty sure the mechanism is: backing down from your positi…

I don't use sudo to improve my security; I use sudo because it's what I've become familiar with. I don't want to come across as pedantic - the point I mean to make is that I think …

I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things. IMO, neither are quite named right: surely M…

> Most puzzle games like this work this way As far as Zachtronics games go, you've been able to save multiple solutions since IIRC Infinifactory, and those games all have two or th…

Maybe it shouldn't be "don't reinvent the wheel", but rather "reinvent the wheel well "

"Fresher's flu" is the name given to the phenomenon of nearly everyone at uni getting a cold when returning for the new academic semester; everyone congregating from across the cou…

There's a short sci-fi story (whose name escapes me, but is mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to be Free) in which the human race is given matter duplicators th…

I just changed my PayPal password today; they restrict the length of a password to between 8-20 characters. Why the upper limit? Once you're at 20, you're likely using a password m…