Reposts from 13 November 2023

Imagine being the kind of person that *thinks* that homelessness is a lifestyle but actually coming out and broadcasting it???????

Unionize all the engineers!

Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. Programming is doing this because it's the standard way to uncover intermittent bugs.

Who else allowed themselves 0.5 seconds of joy having seen Suella being sacked before the rot immediately set back in with David Cameron being appointed Foreign Secretary

Hey guys, how is capitalism going? It's going great! Thanks to profit motive based innovation and hard work, the ransomware industry has grown to a $250 Billion(!) industry, with "Ransomware As A Service" (RaaS) now being a very real business service offered by actual companies and resulting in probably multiple times more in costs in down time, and other costs. Where do we get this incredible boost to productivity and efficiency from? It's as if by an invisible hand! https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/ransomware-as-a-service-raas/

Apparently mathematicians think I should use the term "large positive integers" and not "big naturals"

Attached: 1 video My closing suggestion was to support open source projects you depend on by reaching out to their maintainers and offering to pay them money to speak to your team! Ask them for an hour over Zoom or similar. Here's a clip with this idea in more detail

Attached: 1 image Smart Quotes and Coding Examples Every so often, I copy and paste some code from a website and it utterly fails. This is probably a good reminder not to practise ✂️ & 📋 development, but it is also a reminder that "smart" formatting often trips up new students. Here are a few examples I've seen recently - produced as a result of computers trying to be cleverer than humans, and huma https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/smart-quotes-and-coding-examples/ #/etc/ #code #education #NaBloPoMo