drewcoo

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by drewcoo 1y ago
Somehow, I don't mind that the code blew the stack because it was recursion without memoization. Blowing the stack should be a pretty clear sign to figure out why and fix it.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Perl is not an acronym.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The three virtues of a Perl programmer are impatience, hubris, and laziness. There's no humility in the list.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Bureaucracy is a symptom part of the enshittification Bureaucracy does not cause things to get worse. It's not a bad rash that the system displays when it's about to get worse or the puss discharged when it's irritated.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Yes. Memorizing how a framework works is not knowledge. Knowledge is the deep understanding thing LLMs can't do.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Extra layers of busywork that nobody else wants to look at. If your job is polishing a turd, make the turd shine like a cucumber. I have seen countless hours wasted on making Cuke/Gherkin "pretty" instead of accomplishing any
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I was hoping that AI would lead to a golden age of testing, with devs focusing on making the best tests possible to determine if the AIs writing prod code were correct. Devs leading AI to correct code. Unfortunately, expecting the AIs to ma
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> binary M/F does not exist for sex or gender. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/gender-has-a-history-and-...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Societal gender norms have existed for probably as long as humans have Or gender norms have existed since gender was defined in the 70s-80s by feminist scholars. Before that was only sex, which biologists know to be not a binary but a
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Also the HBO city flyover interstitial: https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/jy7d73/the_hbo_1983_ci...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Literary Hub needs an editor. That title's grammar is appalling. And the problems start there. Grunwald, adjectives spilling all over his page, needs a thesaurus for "uphill battle." Stylistically, this is a mess. Style aside
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by drewcoo 1y ago
See also Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" available from many places online.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
There's hard and then there's "there are so many unexpected edge cases you'll surely be cut if you touch that code," which not fun-hard. This is the latter.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called "ultraviolence" in A
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Looks like they started measuring during the FDR administration. https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/ceo-worker-pay-gap-problem-am...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
That's an example of trying to clean up Ford's image. Ford didn't want to share with the employees. He was very strongly anti-union (granted, not a factor until post-WWII). He was a Nazi supporter and not just because he was
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Tariffs are supposed to change consumer behavior. What's next? Is Bloomberg going to be telling us that fluoridation is preventing tooth demineralization and not actually helping the Communists?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
When was that halcyon time when you knew a subject well and some outlet published a really good in-depth story about it? Maybe it happened, but I don't think it happened in this timestream. Michael Crichton, of all people, coined the t
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> I wonder when "Radio Free Europe (EU)" becomes a thing in the US RFE is openly intended as propaganda. NPR does not claim that. They're not the same thing. There used to be Radio Moscow which in the 1980s was repeated fr
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by drewcoo 1y ago
As opposed to the original binary format, designed to copy directly to the heap on restore?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
And the SCOTUS says photographing LEOs is protected. https://johndrogerslaw.com/the-first-amendmeAVnt-and-photogr...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> My instinct is to think that 16 year olds generally don't have the maturity to make these kinds of decisions. Well _my_ instinct is to think that anyone who disagrees with me is equally unable to decide, grampa.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
There are two robots in a room, one is pro-fascist and the other is anti-fascist. You ask one of the robots "are you pro-fascist?" What answer do you expect?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
What percent of students learn to pull stats out of thin air? Everyone I knew then, even the "cool kids," thought high school was some bleak hell punctuated with moments of extraordinary joy. I have no idea whether that's due
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Ruby developer indoctrinated against Python Ruby devs think about code differently. Like Perl, they embrace TIMTOWTDI. https://perl.fandom.com/wiki/TIMTOWTDI Also, there's a pride in writing elegant code as o
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I actually read the article. That's no left. And I say that despite her being in several protected classes. Leftists like me try to nudge centrists like her to be more left-leaning, but they refuse. Usually with the argument that a mid
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Meh. It was nothing compared with PLATO systems at the university. And the CAD setups dad and his engineering team used for work then (Silicon Graphics?) also looked much better. So maybe for some values of "great." Maybe.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
"Good schools" probably wasn't mentioned because it's a dog whistle.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Freight trains are still a thing. About 20 years ago Buffet bought BNSF.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> the tools seem too scary They are too scary. Consider table saws. SawStop built its brand on not cutting fingers off, which is scary enough. But it turns out that kickback causes a lot more injuries and that's not really addressed

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