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>> variable names (a hard part of computer science) >Naming is for software engineering, not CS. I figured they were referencing the “two hard problems of computer science”, those …

Your last paragraph is the perfect rebuttal to GP. Computers don’t exist in a vacuum. They still require mineral and electrical inputs, repair, orchestration… sounds an awful lot l…

They’re the only ones you mentioned, so I participated in the conversation you seeded. Care to weigh in on the other 98% of my response?

As much as I might like people like Jello Biafra or Hunter S. Thompson, those shouldn’t be the _only_ people informing you on society. You can completely wreck your credit and stil…

I don’t know if it’s 0 for me, but it’s definitely way less than 10 hours per week. I have ETFs and a HYSA that I basically never look at. That’s passive.

OK, but TFA is about the work part, not the passive part, despite the title. Even having a “portfolio of revenue generating products” will require work to maintain. Maybe full time…

Live on the wild side. Turn off the autocorrect.

Read the alt text. I can’t grab it on mobile, but it basically boils down to: never say never, and in service of that future possibility, we actually should explore it until such t…

Investigate anything hard enough and it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. Hard to imagine any result to that investigation that would be universally accepted. Why not apply a …

That kind of thing happens to people that do lock their doors all the time. So clearly, the usage of locks and lack thereof are not the issue.

Who here believes Trump will pull punches because the election wasn’t satisfactorily legitimizing? If you get killed on the high ground, you’re still dead.

I’ve long been of the opinion that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Between the NPC comment and breaking up with his girlfriend, I’d say he has a long way to go, if h…

Ugh how long until a new freemium model comes out where you can either pay with money or pay with microphone access…

This should be the top comment. OP is looking for confirmation bias and got plenty here, but they really need to introspect on how to be a more appealing coworker. Linking to Jack …

If you look at the problem as a swiss cheese model and not just a teleological propagation from one root cause, then there are many things that need fixing, not just a cobbler bein…

Hopefully they’re discouraging students from sending lots of fragmentary messages interspersed with superfluous nonsense like “hey” “i mean” etc

Not everything runs on electricity today. You can’t just snap your fingers and replace millions of cars, stoves, boilers, etc

I’ll just start by saying it’s bad that you or anyone else ever felt so vilified. That kind of behavior is the first place my mind went to when I saw just how complete this electio…

We’re so close to understanding each other here. People have validated your experience, and then said hey, we feel it too. Yet when they try to have the same conversation and seek …

> Stop murdering children first. Of course, Israelis and their supporters will say the same thing. There is no one party to this state of affairs still alive that threw the first s…

> "I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years," Berliner wrote in an email to CEO Katherine Maher. "I respect the integrity of my collea…

But this tool doesn’t know what is weird and what isn’t. What you’re talking about is something more like a fuzzer or static analyzer.

> Parts of the code probably rely on the bugs The combination of pieces is what should be tested then, not the behavior of each individual piece “just in case something needs it th…

Brilliant distillation of this insight, I've never heard it put in those words before but it's perfect. It cuts both ways too, if you have lots of tests but most of them aren't rea…

This articulates the problem I’m having right now in an interesting way. I’m fine writing unit tests that validate business logic requirements or bug fixes, but writing tests that …