“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”

Honestly the fact you can become a coder and get paid for it is impressive, by the historical human society average.

Like 99% of the recorded ones are going to be one empire or feudal lord fighting another. History was just like that until the last couple hundreds of years.

Since then, there’s been a few much more clear-cut cases, like WWII or Ukraine, but those are unusual. There’s still been a lot of asshole-on-asshole fights like WWI, Russia Empire vs. Japan, Iran vs. Iraq, Napoleon vs. everyone…

Obviously we talk a lot about the just ones, because they legitimately teach us things, and also simply because it makes for a better story.

Edit: The basic thing you said about arms races is totally valid, but the struggle between different ideas and own own better and worse natures is itself kind of a perpetual cycle, and I thought I should point it out.

I mean, which boundaries and wishes are reasonable is itself a disagreed on concept. In warfare usually both sides are assholes.

Not exactly. Share price is some multiple of expected future yearly profit, depending on accompanying variability/risk.

And sometimes share prices or profits suffer and technology doesn’t care. Ask Blockbuster.

Interesting. My experiences with FORTRAN made me expect the worst.

But what if you don’t get it?

Ed. /s

(Except actually I guess that could happen)

I had this happen recently. Very satisfying.

I did add some more comments and change names, though, since stuff I thought was obvious at the time wasn’t totally.

From what I’ve heard about Windows, it works more like the Simpsons “Barney coming up behind Moe” meme.

So, as it should be, Tux.

It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it’s hard to do education any other way.

Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren’t a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

Skill issue. Used an implied “of them”, which is idiomatic in the language, but forgot to update the value of “them” first. Without that, taking the first value is compliant with the standard.

/s, but only if we assume us programmers have common sense. ^/s

You know, I always assumed black people wouldn’t have the kamikaze-bugs-against-your face problem. If so, this is an ironic choice of template.

Can’t argue about bases if you refuse to elaborate beyond Presburger arithmetic. (Guy pointing at head meme)

i work at cloudflare

Thank you for the easier captchas, and pre-emptively damn you for whatever evil thing CloudFlare will eventually do with their MITM access to everything.

I guess, but neither kind of dashboard catches dash from your horses these days. And forget about all bears being “brown ones”. Language evolves.

Haha, true. But then again, I’ve definitely thought that about like, a self-loading rifle or a can opener that way.

Shark avatar, though.

I think that’s the basic idea, but in practice it’s used for people who are just generally dumb as well.

It offers protection from crackers and cybergangs too, because they always follow laws. /s

So do you trust cell towers more, or just stay offline when out and about?