i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day
i wish the people making buildings around here knew that. some start at floor 3, others at 5. some start at 0. others at 2. every building has its own story. you need to understand the building before you can understand your position in it.
do you also have minced tables there?
he’s in a better place now
this seems like the only proper way to do anything in C++. it’s a language where there’s 5 ways to do 1 thing and 1 way to do 5 things.
and then they had the audacity to put that picture on the cover of the textbooks
maybe it’s using the british pronunciation of “strawbry”
this is unlikely because they’re incapable of feeling shame
being a prompt engineer is so much more than typing words. you also have to sometimes delete the words and then type new ones
what’s the appeal of haskell? (this is a genuine question.) i’ve been a bit curious about it for a while but haven’t really found the motivation to take a closer look at it.
this reminds me of what happened to the instagram cofounders when zuckerberg asked to buy their company:
Systrom [cofounder] said he feared turning down an acquisition offer from Facebook would send Zuckerberg into “destroy mode” — a concern that Cohler [early investor] affirmed.
(source)
this stuff came up in a court hearing, and then nothing happened about it
one time i had to call a company during regular 9-5 business hours to cancel a subscription after starting a free trial.
that experience was so horrible ive since sworn off free trials altogether. nowadays, if i need a free trial to use an app or website for a couple days, then i will simply not use that app or website.
i wonder how 5% of employees getting laid off will translate into executive bonuses. last year the top 2 guys made $72 million after laying off a bunch of people.
i’m not really sure what IQ has to do with this. it was originally designed to measure people’s proficiency in school. it was not designed to be a general measure of intelligence. that was something that was co opted by eugenicists.
here’s a quote from Simon Bidet, the original creator of the IQ test, about his thoughts on the eugenicists using his test:
Finally, when Binet did become aware of the “foreign ideas being grafted on his instrument” he condemned those who with ‘brutal pessimism’ and ‘deplorable verdicts’ were promoting the concept of intelligence as a single, unitary construct.
you can read more about this stuff on his wikipedia page. (the quote is from wikipedia)
even to this day, there is quite a bit of doubt as to how accurately IQ measures “general intelligence”
playing russian roulette is not going to give you permanent damage every 5/6 times
really fantastic photo. it looks amazing
back in my day we only had one language. it was called ASSEMBLY. wanted to make the computer do something? you had to ask it yourself. and that worked JUST FINE
if you’re trying to be malicious, wouldn’t it be better to multiply by Rand()
instead of divide by Rand()
?
assuming there are a decent number of recorded sales, you’d end up seeing many of the calls to Rand()
returning values very close to 0
. so, if you’re dividing by those values, you’d end see lots of sales records reporting values in the thousands, millions, or even billions of dollars. i feel like that screams “software bug” more than anything. on the other hand, seeing lots of values multiplied by values close to 0 would certainly look weird, but it wouldn’t be as immediately suspicious.
(of course a better thing would just be to use Rand()
on a range other than [
) ]
it’s floor 5 from monday to wednesday, and floor 2 from thursday to sunday