Interestingly I would use the use of "the patriarchy" as a term as evidence against the belief of the transformation of the meaning of the phrase "toxic masculinity". The patriarchy doesn't have a qualifier: that a…
> All that striving for greatness is indivisible from the selfish need to inflict cruelty on your dominated foe. Take away the latter and there is no sports. It’s just exercise. I cannot empathise with someone that has…
I'm sorry, are you dismissing all psychology papers? > A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis My peers have told me that chemistry and biology also suffer from results that are difficult to reproduce,…
> The side project myth is getting out of control. I was rejected in an interview last year within seconds of the interview starting because my answer to "what would you do if you suddenly had a bunch of free time" was…
Do you have an example of a situation in which you'd want to cast the result of arithmetic intptr_t values to a pointer? The situations I can think of off the top of my head would be better done as arithmetic between…
> [...] ultimately in this new era there is no path to redemption, no mechanism by which an apology can be accepted. I'm pretty sure the mechanism is: backing down from your position of power, apologising, being quiet…
I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things. IMO, neither are quite named right: surely Map should be Mapping, and map should be…
Maybe it shouldn't be "don't reinvent the wheel", but rather "reinvent the wheel well"
There's a short sci-fi story (whose name escapes me, but is mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to be Free) in which the human race is given matter duplicators that can perfectly copy an item,…
I just changed my PayPal password today; they restrict the length of a password to between 8-20 characters. Why the upper limit? Once you're at 20, you're likely using a password manager, so another 20 wouldn't hurt.
Interestingly I would use the use of "the patriarchy" as a term as evidence against the belief of the transformation of the meaning of the phrase "toxic masculinity". The patriarchy doesn't have a qualifier: that a…
> All that striving for greatness is indivisible from the selfish need to inflict cruelty on your dominated foe. Take away the latter and there is no sports. It’s just exercise. I cannot empathise with someone that has…
I'm sorry, are you dismissing all psychology papers? > A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis My peers have told me that chemistry and biology also suffer from results that are difficult to reproduce,…
> The side project myth is getting out of control. I was rejected in an interview last year within seconds of the interview starting because my answer to "what would you do if you suddenly had a bunch of free time" was…
Do you have an example of a situation in which you'd want to cast the result of arithmetic intptr_t values to a pointer? The situations I can think of off the top of my head would be better done as arithmetic between…
> [...] ultimately in this new era there is no path to redemption, no mechanism by which an apology can be accepted. I'm pretty sure the mechanism is: backing down from your position of power, apologising, being quiet…
I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things. IMO, neither are quite named right: surely Map should be Mapping, and map should be…
Maybe it shouldn't be "don't reinvent the wheel", but rather "reinvent the wheel well"
There's a short sci-fi story (whose name escapes me, but is mentioned in Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to be Free) in which the human race is given matter duplicators that can perfectly copy an item,…
I just changed my PayPal password today; they restrict the length of a password to between 8-20 characters. Why the upper limit? Once you're at 20, you're likely using a password manager, so another 20 wouldn't hurt.