Positive reality? World is flat out dystopian and they think people are not having kids because not having kids is more socially acceptable? Maybe it is because of rampant inflation, job insecurity, rising fascism, imminent climate chaos, and all of the other awful things that make people consider against parenthood.

Don’t say it or you’re an anti-semite. Shocking that opposing the murdering and starving of people is antisemitic.

One of the reasons i don’t make policy decisions: my solution yo the antivax problem is to develop a bioweapon and a corresponding vaccine. Secretly add the new vaccine into all other vaccines for two years. Warn people that the coming flu season is going to be bad and that a new dangerous strain of covid is spreading to increase vaccination rates. Then deploy the bioweapon. No more antivaxxers.

More evidence for why he threatened to sue if someone leaks his SAT scores.

No, no, this question deserves the RTFM response, not the asked and answered. Unless you linked to an RTFM answer, in which case I’ll allow it.

Every old timer knows AI is supposed to be written in Prolog.

I have stopped using twitter. Is that enough or do I need to delete my account somehow?

Looks like you got your answer so I am just going to complain that I can’t set my search engine to never give me results from Pinterest. I hate that site. I can block it in my firewall, but it shows up way too much in search results.

I think you mean it will ducking correct…

I turned mine off completely because it has bo comprehension of when an apostrophe is appropriate in front of the letter s. Forever making words possessive that were intended to be plural. Apostrophes do not mean “look out, here comes an s.”

I would not be surprised if autocorrect was a major culprit along with phone keyboards. You can type something correctly and have autocorrect make it wrong. It’s also super easy to get the wrong letter if you have normal sized hands and are typing on a phone keyboard. I have turned autocorrect completely off and am significantly less error prone as a result.

I frequently decide against correcting an error if I think my intention is clear, and I am in a hurry. I don’t really care what strangers on the internet think of my editing skills.

Yeah that sounds awful. Fortunately corporate policies prohibit putting our technical data into AIs.

Scrum is just something I have to endure in order to get paid to program. The worst is when you’re working on something hard and your status hasn’t changed substantially from the previous day. “I did a bunch of things that didn’t pan out, so I only really have an expanding list of things that are not the problem. No, assigning someone to help me is unlikely to resolve the issue faster.”

For us this design is closer to marketing’s portrayal. The design is a tiger that has lost his tail, is slightly inbred, and has a bit of mange. The implementation looks like this implementation after a dog has used it as a chew toy.

So glad I am not the only one. It doesn’t help that I work on various projects, some of which use really old compilers. Tried using make_shared the other day and the compiler was not having any of it. Triple checked my syntax and spelling three times before realizing that the compiler was too old to support it.

I tried to use dd with too much hubris once. I had to restore from backups (which ironically, I had made with dd). I’m usually overly cautious, but I was in a hurry.

The mistake is admitting that you’re refactoring. I just implemented the feature/ fixed the bug. Why did I change so much? The issue was a little underscoped.

The fun thing is to try to force your fellow devs to refactor piecemeal through comments on their pull requests.

If elected, my plan for saving social security:

1. Remove the cap on social security withholding.

2. Include capital gains in income for social security withholding purposes.

3. Include unrealized capital gains in income for social security withholding purposes.

Nevertheless, I stand by my view. We are already trying our hardest to make the atmosphere replicate the atmosphere of the K-T extinction.

I get more pessimistic every year and I started out extremely pessimistic. I think humanity going extinct in my lifetime is more likely than the US getting single payer in my lifetime.

I have no confidence that medicare will still exist. It could be gone by next month.