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> Do you prefer to manage multiple languages in your stack, or cobble together half-baked “DSL”s with method dot-notation, decorators, etc.? Yes to both.

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> you could make a new syntax Thanks, but I'd rather not.

You're making a category error. Human brains aren't computers. They do not "compute" at all.

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Yeah, let's. And as long as you're already uglifying important buildings to rile up people for shits and giggles, put a giant statue of a dildo on the roof as well.

I'm not. My point was that Docker purports to solve the sandboxing and security problems. In reality, this is something that 90% of people who use Docker don't give a shit about. F…

Indeed you're right, but the problem is that your devs' machines and your production systems are running different OS's/distributions. Nix tries to solve this, but it isn't there j…

90% of the time Docker is used to solve the problem of "how do I upload this bucket of Python crud to a production server?" (Replace 'Python' with any other language to taste.) A s…

> The main reason Chrome is so popular is because tech people have been saying "just use chrome" for forever. Utter bullshit. Chrome is dominant due to two factors: a) Distribution…

I fail to grasp what you mean. Reach, penetration and target audiences is like 95% of what modern advertising does. Modern advertising works on simple statistics rules like "people…

Advertising hasn't been about 'persuasion' or psychology for a long, long time. Advertising today is mechanical applications of the central limit theorem / law of large numbers to …

> ML makes predictions; testable predictions. Well, no. ML solves the classification problem, not the prediction problem. E.g.: The "is this a cat picture" problem is effectively s…

> Prudential Real Estate is a franchise operation. Prudential does not actually broker any real estate. Instead, a local franchisee pays a fee for the use of the name and logo and …

You're right, doubleplusungood. We really need to submit a proper report to the authorities for this flagrant violation of gender correctness rules. Thank you for your vigilance, c…

Absolutely untrue. Whiteboard problems absolutely do work. The vast majority of applicants cannot code at all. And I mean that literally: they're at a loss at how to write a functi…

Yeah, you're right. Many hospitals encourage bad practices like gratuitous C-sections. (But then again many home birth proponents also encourage bad practices.) I guess I'm saying …

> The commands are more uniform and predictable. Git won because it was a) unopinionated and b) powerful enough to support arbitrary workflows for any enterprise. For the enterpris…

Trash flows downstream. Not very surprising.

You use the full force of the state to bash people for crimethink and they eventually comply? Wow, such news, so surprise!

> As in, it is their job. What makes you say that? That's like expecting software engineers to understand the implications of clock synchronization in your server CPU. Sure, it'd b…

> Most of all, it's comforting at home, especially at such an important time Birth is serious business and you should be thinking about your child's welfare, not tickling your own …

Being a doctor (i.e., general practitioner) is a job that is less cognitively loaded and carries less responsibility than the job of a car mechanic. General practitioners are simpl…

Antibiotic abuse is a real problem, but expecting doctors to fix or even understand it is like expecting car mechanics to make traffic laws for your country. Antibiotics should be …

Presumably, by getting a bacterial test. That's done in a lab and isn't a doctor's job.