thewillowcat

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by thewillowcat 14d ago
I agree. It's one thing to think her action was riskier than you would like for your own child. It's another to think it should be a crime.
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by thewillowcat 14d ago
This was my reaction exactly. I was surprised by the diagram of a "normal" linked list.
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by thewillowcat 14d ago
Even if we concede that it is irresponsible, which would very much depend on the individual child, it should not be a crime.
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by thewillowcat 14d ago
It happened because a neighbor was so disturbed by a child walking alone to report it, the police thought it was serious enough to refer for prosecution, and a prosecutor decided it needed to be charged using their office's limited res
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by thewillowcat 14d ago
It's rare, but if it happens it is catastrophic. You will be paying a lawyer 10's of thousands of dollars and if you do have to plead out, the charges you plead to may look very bad on paper on a background check.
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by thewillowcat 2mo ago
For example, many kinds of biopsy can result in serious infection or other surgical complications.
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by thewillowcat 2mo ago
This doesn't seem to account for the outcome that someone receives testing and treatment for a problem found by the MRI, and is injured in the process, despite the fact that non-treatment would have been harmless; a not-uncommon outcom
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
I've been thinking about formal verification a lot, recently. I've dabbled in it before, but it was clear that it was only used by a small research community, and the effort required to verify anything larger than toy code would b
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
These companies aren't coming in, buying property at market rates, and developing it with existing infrastructure under current zoning laws. They usually want tax breaks, major infrastructure changes, and other accommodations and guara
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
I can tell you, based on local examples, that politicians are setting up deals to bring in data centers without trying to build community support first. Not only that, they are often signing NDAs that prohibit them from telling voters what
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
I would love to pay and manage parking from my phone if the apps actually worked intuitively, but they rarely do. It was easier when all I had to do was have a roll of quarters in my car.
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
C-level does not seem uniformly convinced, and they have a lot of reasons to tell that story, even if it isn't really true.
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by thewillowcat 3mo ago
I don't see an uptick. Demand has been steady for the past two years after falling from the post-pandemic frenzy. That fits with my personal experience of the tech industry over the past several years. People are right to point out tha
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by thewillowcat 5mo ago
I think the pandemic broke the feeling most Americans had that we were all in the same boat and we could work together to solve our problems. Liberals stopped seeing Trump's election as a fluke but an indication that conservatives were
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by thewillowcat 5mo ago
Even though I am personally agnostic, I do structure my life around the traditionally meaningful things you're talking about, and I do see the cultural mood a kind of spiritual crisis. What's less clear to me is why the actual fal
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by thewillowcat 5mo ago
This is mostly true, but things were almost universally worse in the mid-to-late 1970s. There was a similar feeling of anomie, stagflation, and a sense that the country was on the wrong track. But people still reported themselves as happier
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by thewillowcat 6mo ago
Engineers, I am so sorry. They are still going to be your bosses.
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by thewillowcat 7mo ago
Just because the wider society encourages it, your family doesn't have to lean into individualism, and many don't. We got by when I was a kid with a lot of help from friends and family, when I am absolutely sure we didn't hav
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by thewillowcat 7mo ago
This calculator says that the median household in my county is not making a living wage, which is ridiculous on its face.
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by thewillowcat 8mo ago
You're telling me this car insurance drives itself?
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by thewillowcat 8mo ago
I was so lonely in this opinion for so long, and it is great to see it becoming mainstream. GHA is terrible.
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by thewillowcat 8mo ago
The vast majority of engineers aren't refusing to use AI until it can do 100% of their job. They are just sick of being told it already can, when their direct experience contradicts that claim.
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by thewillowcat 8mo ago
These posts are never, never made by someone who is responsible for shipping production code in a large, heavily used application. It's always someone at a director+ level who stopped production coding years ago, if they ever did, and