An article on Ars Technica, complaining about advertising.

What hypocrite posted this?

I doubt more than 6 people at Google knew what it was.

Therefore this it is the company’s responsibility as a whole.

The governance of the company as a whole is the CEO’s responsibility. Thus a company-wide failure is 100% the CEO’s fault.

If the CEO does not resign over this, the governance of the company will not change significantly, and it will happen again.

“the sudden announcement of Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s resignation by the end of 2024 was interpreted as a response to the company’s persistent safety issues.”

I hope Boeing has serious bonus claw-backs in their contracts, because this idiot’s “cost-savings” have actually cost Boeing a fortune, and destroyed their reputation. The entire board should go.

You have it the wrong way round; humans invented god.

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I’d really like to meet whoever it was that first convinced some gullible rich idiot that poop coffee was a delicacy worth paying thought the nose for. That person could sell anything.

Modern programming languages and IDE’s are so complex it’s enough to put a lot of people off ever learning to program - it seems such a massive learning curve. There’s something to be said for learning Basic then assembly on an 8-bit computer, where everything is so much sampler and direct. Writing a value to memory and seeing a blotch of pixels change on the screen gives such a direct understanding of what’s going on inside the machine. And if you only have 48k of memory, you can genuinely understand everything the computer is doing.

The moon phase cycle is 29.5 days. The reported bug cycle is 49 days. Yet somehow, “Not strictly the cycle of the moon but close”.

With that sort of logical analysis ability, no wonder this guy struggles with stupid bugs.

I used to enjoy programming as a hobby in my spare time, but in two years I’ve opened the IDE on my personal machine no more than twice.

This is why I have never taken on programming as a profession. I earn more than I would ever make as a developer (even a very senior developer) leveraging my (average) programming skills to produce a personal suite of software tools and scripts that means I can do my chosen profession better, faster and with less effort than any of my colleagues or competitors. I have also developed small apps on a private/ personal basis that I have then sold to my employer for wider use in the company.

And I still enjoy programming as a hobby as much as I ever have. Don’t underestimate how much being able to program at even an average level can boost a career in another field.

Being the second tenth best language at everything

FTFY

I first saw this joke back in the days of 8-bit home microcomputers. Of course then it only needed 256 lines of code, and took up about 8k of your precious, precious RAM.

And I though Peter Cushing’s appearance in Rogue One was a bit uncanny valley…

Some context:

http://www.antiscald.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=15

At 116F you would require firm, continuous contact for more than 20 minutes to produce a 2nd degree burn, and over 45 minutes to produce a 3rd degree burn.

It’s not evolution, it’s an extinction event.

Statistically, competition is for losers.

Both measures were according to the mothers’ self-reports.

In other words, this study has no real scientific value.

But there are many more problems with this “study” than just that.

Not everyone be any means, but if you admire narcissistic extroverts then sure, you’re always going to be disappointed.

Social media influencers are money-grubbing low-lives who will promote anything for some cash? Well colour me surprised.

Just FYI, there are some really wild drugs available in the Peruvian jungle.