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> Imagine a software engineer who has been asked to place a backdoor in some software. I imagine such an engineer just gets a development plan and doesn't get to see the bigger pic…

Took me a second to realize what that was. Also thought the main street nearby went to a sag. Glad it was just optics.

Great Scott! Love his KSP content, where he discusses space trivia to no end...

I wonder why anyone would think inverting semantics like this was anything but asking for disaster. With all the metaprogramming that is possible, will the matching Cat(age=age) ev…

Personally, I always thought my Alice in Chains Markov chains were pretty funny. https://git.mar77i.info/alice-in-markov-chains For anyone trying to run it, the URL in the collect_…

There was this long Ars Technica article from the same year: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/insid... I'm not going to assume that the complexity of what's g…

Personal experience. I put more into a job when I see a point in it, because I start to like it. When I don't find my work worthwhile or find interesting in any other way, it's not…

Looming destitution never made good work. The way one engages with a good employer is a sense of co-ownership in some way. I can't tell how my way of taking ownership to an arbitra…

I found this article about Ensiferum's "Finnish Medley", which among other things, compiles the tunes they cover in it: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medle…

The argument that BitTorrent had no legal applications is invalid. If people kill each other with guns, why would you put the blame on the gun company?

Unless you're with the Mongols.

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I wanted to argue imps, dwarfs and other types of programs when I noticed that I was applying core wars terminology to a completely non core wars problem...

Even though I'm baffled by this obvious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, on the upside, the explanation is only kind of backwards. Protecting families from the cy…

Recently did that code as presented using pygame, but I haven't uploaded it anywhere yet, that might be a good idea, though.

I came here for this, too. You're not mistaken.

Oh wow, sorry for not looking into this properly. Thanks for the fixed link.

I like your approach. And the blogpost's author does not even hint that the story told could mask an underlying issue at all. Which I find mind boggling somehow, but can we call th…

To me it's really both. Do one first, notice it works sometimes and you're not sure whether you should publish it (at that point, don't :) -- ) and then look at your own product th…

It's arguably the perfect time for them to... go viral.

https://wyag.thb.lt/ If you want to hop the same train, I saw this long ago...

The blockchain idea is well-intended, I believe. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...

Heidi, the classic tale of the Swiss girl living in the mountains. The story is very popular in Asia and there was a kids' cartoon adaptation in 1974 by a Japanese animation studio…

Damn it, you beat me to bringing up laminar flow!