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Put money in your 401k! Nothing else really matters as much.

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No … Wingdings.

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If George Lucas had directed Spinal Tap, he would have already gone back and made Stonehenge orange.

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nor his manservant, nor his maidservant

“Slaves” in the original, but of course we can’t allow any hint of three thousand year old shit not being strictly relevant any more.

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As Moses said, “fuck the Cowboys”.

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you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones

Pretty specific - I guess that closes the “get them high” loophole.

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So cynical … what makes you think “a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and AI companies” can’t be trusted implicitly?

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I’m a school bus driver, and one of my weirder experiences is listening to a middle-school boy ripping on some middle-school girl for having “only” ten thousand followers.

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Plot twist: Richard Gere was actually George Washington!

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Its pretty similar

No, that was the sequel.

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Take WWII for instance, being neutral kind of says yeah we are cool with both sides.

Being literally surrounded by the Third Reich meant their choices were neutrality or actually joining up with Hitler, so they really can’t be criticized for choosing neutrality. They can be criticized for their actions during and after the war in helping the Nazi leaders squirrel away the wealth they stole from the Jews, something that was not necessary for a neutral nation to do.

I’d rather rip on Sweden which at least had some possibility of joining the Allies but instead supplied Germany with the high-quality iron ore they absolutely needed to keep their war machine running - the exact same thing they did in WWI. They also supplied Germany with much-needed ball bearings, but at least they sold them to the Allies as well.

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Nothing drives me as crazy as my phone constantly putting in “thus” instead of “this”. Nobody fucking ever uses the word “thus” in a text message.

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They get taken over by sales & marketing types

Like Steve Jobs lol.

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They have the close, minimize and full screen buttons in the upper left corner instead of the upper right.

/s just in case.

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Is BeOS still floating around?

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As I recall, Gasse was offered something like $440 million for BeOS by Apple and he turned them down. Not sure it would have made any difference in anything by this point, but at least Objective-C wouldn’t have been littered with classes with the “NS” prefix.

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Yeah, BeOS was awesome. I remember a coworker showing it to me in 1996 - he also taught me how to wow the c-suite with giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases, a parlor trick that has served me well over the years.

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c-suite

CEO, CTO, CFO etc. In a '90s Internet startup like the company I worked for, the “C” really stood for “clueless”.

giant printouts of insanely over-normalized databases

Over-normalization is a database thing - a simple example of normalization would be a “People” table where instead of having the “Salutation” field just contain text like Mr, Mrs. etc., you have a separate “Salutations” table with all the possibilities listed and keyed with an ID (usually just a sequential number), and then the “People” table stores a Salutation ID for each entry instead of the actual text. It’s a valid and standard thing to do with database design, but it can be taken to extremes where absolutely every possible trivial thing that can be normalized is, producing an overcomplicated mess that is extremely difficult to work with programmatically.

Printing out this over-normalized mess of a database on multiple sheets of paper which are then taped to the wall is utterly useless.

How is a database a trick?

The printout is the trick - it fools the bosses into thinking you’re doing something amazing and productive when you’re really just fucking around. It only works on the technically incompetent, of which there was no shortage in '90s Internet startups (or today).

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They don’t even have a duty to know what the law is.

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a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font”

Wingdings!!!

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I used to live in that state. So glad I left, no fucking idea what I was doing there in the first place. Even Texas is better.

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I see this shit at my gym very rarely, but it’s because they offer free summer memberships to teenagers and some of them don’t know how to act in the adult world. So it’s an asshole teenager thing rather than a gym thing.

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My gym has no equipment that requires spotting lol. If you need a spot for the Smith machine, you’re doing it wrong.

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If this were

Only reason I don’t think this is a legitimate W quote is that it’s grammatically correct.

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It’s not even a chord … it’s just one note from an out-of-tune cowbell.

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Not only all that, but also Trump has promised to deport pro-Palestinian protesters. Thinking he’s going to be the hero of Palestine is remarkably insane.

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The real crime is the peppers - you’d get assaulted if you ordered those here in Philly.

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It’s funny how many times I’ve had guys threaten to rip my fucken eyeballs out, specifically. That must be why we have a famous eye institute here.

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Pat’s

Lol you get assaulted just for going to Pat’s.

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My main experience using C++ was because I got stuck modifying an app written with Qt Creator, an utterly insane cross-platform framework that used (still uses? I dunno, only people in Finland ever used it in the first place) C++ for the under-the-hood processing and Javascript for the UI. For good measure, the application developers had modified all the C++ stuff with macros to the point where it was barely even recognizable as C++. Fortunately, it mattered not at all because the app’s customers were ISPs who just wanted a Skype clone so they could say they had one even though none of their customers ever used the damn thing.

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The year they both came out (1995) I was coding in Visual Basic 3. Ack.

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If you’re right that’s a big pile of doo-doo that’s gonna hit Boeing hard.

Damn, Boeing is really going to have to start offing a lot more whistleblowers.

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One Boeing 737 MAX = 6.5 million avocado toasts. You’d have to go without avocado toast for … uh … two weeks?

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Seriously, what’s next? We’re going to talk about the keyboardist?

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“The band’s called Dogstar … because we’re Sirius.”

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Neural networks are based on an oversimplified model of neuron cells.

As a programmer who has studied neuroanatomy and the structure/function of neurons themselves, I remain astonished at how not like real biological nervous systems computer neural networks still are. It’s like the whole field is based on one person’s poor understanding of the state of biological knowledge in the late 1970s. That doesn’t mean it’s not effective in some ways as it is, but you’d think there’d be more experimentation in neural networks based on current biological knowledge.

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there’s nothing left to do research.

There’s still military robots, unfortunately.

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Wait, chatgpt was convicted of multiple felonies?

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The one thing that stands out to me the most is that programmatic “neurons” are basically passive units that weigh inputs and decide to fire or not. The whole net is exposed to the input, the firing decisions are worked through the net, and then whatever output is triggered. In biological neural nets, most neurons are always firing at some rate and the inputs from pre-synaptic neurons affect that rate, so in a sense the passed information is coded as a change in rate rather than as an all-or-nothing decision to fire or not fire as is the case with (most) programmatic neurons. Implementing something like this in code would be more complicated, but it could produce something much more like a living organism which is always doing something rather than passively waiting for an input to produce some output.

And TBF there probably are a lot of people doing this kind of thing, but if so they don’t get much press.

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I don’t understand why they don’t just put “My” on it: MyMail, MyOutlook etc.

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Years ago I got a copy of MSDN which had apparently been put together by developers who all had giant monitors. On a normal laptop screen none of the text wrapped properly so every article had a horizontal scrollbar which you had to work left and right to read every fucking line. I eventually had to start copying the contents into a Notepad instance just to be able to read the damn things normally.

This is why I think developers should always have to work on 10-year-old laptops with 800x600 screens.

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Many places I worked the recent college grads were paid as much as (or more than) the senior developers, so this strategy didn’t work. They still did it, though.

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I solved this dilemma by quitting and becoming a school bus driver. Now I only have to worry about middle-schoolers threatening to shoot me.

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Carrot Bottom

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I invented the Ethiopian burrito: yemisir wat wrapped up in injera like a burrito. Problem is it only lasts for about three seconds before dissolving into a mess.

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I witnessed a huge number of failed projects in my 25-year career. The cause was almost always the same: inexperienced developers trying to create a reusable product that could be applied to imagined future scenarios, leading to a vastly overcomplicated mess that couldn’t even satisfy the needs of the original client. Made no difference what the language or framework was or what development methodology was utilized.

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I feel like that’s the same underlying issue: The requirements are not understood upfront.

Actually on most of these failed projects the requirements of the original customer were pretty clear. But the developers tried to go far beyond those original requirements. It is fair to say that the future requirements were not well understood.

the alternative is building a prototype, which you’re allowed to throw away afterwards

Lol I’ve done many prototypes. The problem is that management sees them and says “oh, so we’re finished with the project already? Yay!”

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Gay Old Pedophiles

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