If I was an instructor on some software course, I'd make an online assignment to come up with 5 excuses for not writing documentation and share the best answers with the class afterwards.

Class invariants are imo cool and underappreciated part of OOP. It's also my belief, untainted by any real research though, that designing, verifying and testing them would kill lots of bugs.

tbh I do want to admit contemporary academic success measured by metrics isn't, like, the way to decide these things since phrenology also had its heyday once. I haven't been reading Chomsky since I was like 14 so I can't judge him adequately but I'm also somewhat disinterested in him so yeah.

Houllie d'Hoppée, Duchess of Mêmes

"I don't write comments because comments and code drift apart."

"See the unit tests if you really want to figure out how it works."

"I'll document it later now that I got it working and it made it into the API."

"I'll lock down this method's name before writing its documentation."

"Contracts? Code is law."

"We use test driven development here so we don't need dedicated testers."

"The language I use doesn't support checking class invariants well so I just ignore them."

"It was clear enough for Torvalds."

"Commit it now, compile it later."

"I don't write documentation for functions besides types, since types are compiler verified and they are plenty good anyway. Everybody gets these things just like me."

Chomsky is like the second most cited person ever after Plato though.

Hey I can post lots of stuff like this, just give a day! The Algorithm led me upon plenty of this stuff that sound similar and are also moe branded, for some reason. I suppose YouTubers collectively decided at some point that this is what moe girls sound like...

I love this so much

I literally thought of Ableton but I haven't ever used it actually. I was just thinking about what might be commonly enough used software that could spread that exact clap so widely.

Warning: extremely moe (I suppose): It's this clap. In the context it sounds somewhat unenthusiastic even, like it was tired salaryman asked to pretend to be enthusiastic after a 80 hour work week.

bring it on

nah I only asked how Hswap relates to Hstuck, that's way simpler, isn't it?

Philosopher Peter Singer has writte. about 'effective altruism' and questions like these in his books

1. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty.
2. The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically.

I'd say that there are things lacking funding that will bring a higher "ROI" on human welfare than investing in a balanced bundle of stocks and bonds and then giving to charity would.

To be clear, I'm no fan of utilitarianism but some similar principles are less objectionable when applied to charity imo.

The nice thing about is it that it covers two distinct uses:

1. Sincerely ranking things from the worst to the best
2. Ironically ranking things from the worst to the best

and only rarely do I as a viewer mix up the different intentions. I don't think that the motivational poster meme ever really did that and I do like this meme's origins better. Like how did we all come to share the understanding that all these silly light show CGI graphics had to do with smarts and wisdom?

Very same wow much

This is either the best bad or the worst good music video I've ever seen.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has sold more than one million copies in less than a month. Its all-time concurrent player peak is higher than The Witcher 3's. So why is a janky role-playing game set in the Holy Roman Empire so popular?

TBH this almost strikes me as answering it's own question, as this thing alone is distinguished enough to win attention from me. Basically only other thing that would make me explode with excitement would be a movie or game (action or rpg) with centered on the varangian guard, because I'm the kind of person who always plays with Byzantium if available. Actually a game set in Warring States or Three Kingdoms period of China would be plenty cool too, but also make it mythological and magical.

It is but one way in which crows radiate pure light and altruism in this world for they help fertilize the plants with their pee.

Jordan Peterson fans are known as lobsters after a thing Peterson's been waffling about in support of his reactionary positions. Peterson had a thing where he says that lobsters prove that hierarchies are natural (and desirable) because lobsters are evolutionarily old, share some mechanisms with human (they too have neurotransmitter serotonin) and they dominate over each other. This is very bad reasoning actually, but it turns out that crows have contrariwise virtues and are nicer and it's easy to use them to mock the idea of lobsters proving this-or-that about human nature.

In other words, it definitely is a niche joke, but Peterson is the latest reactionary 'public intellectual' in part because he peddles Christian self-help stuff along with his reactionary ideas. Because the kind of alienated young white men who were previously big into New Atheism couldn't find much help of meaning in it, they were bound to have someone pick them up with someone promising to give it to them.

Good to see Ian make a video on something he likes for a change!

Not v punk of you

Well they hated galileo too

this dude's comics rule I tell ya

nice

they are apparently lost to the history since the urls give me 404s. RIP 'nice' and ganja posts. but let me tell you, you didn't vanish in vain

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