Zen master says: the real issue resolution is within yourself.

That documentation sounds like marriage.

Microsoft employee: do you want to give me a raise?

Yes

Remind me later

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4th panel should be:

I hope you’re happy, because you get all As. Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with, William.

The product manager nurse also goes crazy, trying to push a wheel-less wheelchair.

privacy policy

look inside

sells your data

MAGA - Make Assembly Great Again

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https://xkcd.com/1168/

An app that will save the world…and other fantasies that software developers tell themselves to feel important

People who use the same spice for every dish.

Reminds me of a hilarious bug in early GHC: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/163

The compiler will delete your source file if there’s any compile error. And the user complained only by sending a very polite email to report this bug. Simon Peyton Jones mentioned it in one of his talks and I still find it quite hilarious till this day.

The problem with these token activism is that it’s hollow in content. The intent might be good, but the action is almost pure virtue signalling.

Slavoj Zizek pointed out in multiple interviews that there’s a pervert self-reflectiveness in the self-censorship: privileged people “enjoy” being guilty of their privilege, so it’s more about themselves rather than the people they claim to represent. “Sorry, but you were naive and unaware of people being racist when they use these words, so let me stop them and now you are protected (by me) in an inclusive atmosphere.”

A related radical freedom situation as an inverse to the above is that when friends get really close, even using racist slurs is treated as a gesture of intimacy, rather than racism. In an ideal world, the context in the public discourse would be so strong that even racist words lose their racist meaning (“oh, so you are joking as well”) rather than the opposite (assuming there’s ubiquitous “hidden” racism in the use of a word, even when there’s clearly none).

Another critique is that it presents itself as a substitute of real solutions. Instead of addressing real problems, it provides a simple “everyday” solution, very much similar to the recycling movement. Of course we need to recycle, but we should be aware that it’s not a substitute of radical real actions (e.g. stopping the big oil).

Yeeter/Yeetee

They are already invented: 😱 and 😱😱😱

Well, that already happened for Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Philip K. Dick’s early novella The Gun describes this, but instead of chat bots, they were auto nuclear weapons.

Sean k strikes it again.

Yes for OCaml. Haskell’s inequality is defined as /= (for ≠). <> is usually the Monoid mappend operator (i.e. generalized binary concatenation).