Randall hasn’t bothered to name any of them so the community has given them unofficial nicknames.

Megan is actually named in multiple comics though, so is Danish (Black Hat’s girlfrenemy) (actually that was picked semi-arbitrarily by the community). Cueballs also have different names occasionally but they’re all drawn the same.

And actually I do believe that certain non-named characters are the same comic-to-comic. Black hat and Beret guy almost certainly are.

Yes, as I’ve said, this is just me getting old rather than any issue with the joke format :)

Capitalists now: “Here is your 26 megajoule cupcake!”

Capitalists a year later: “Here is your insulin subscription, only $299/month!”

Man, I’m getting old. I don’t understand why all jokes have to be fake twitter screenshots now.

I think it’s a bit confusing, but in my view almost all socialists (including democratic socialists) are communists since the end goal they are trying to achieve is communism. Socialism (which can be described as welfare state, majority-publicly owned capital, and planned or market-socialist economy) is almost always seen as a stepping stone towards communism (stateless, classless, moneyless society), even though it is would also be an improvement on its own.

(to confuse matters even further, Lenin’s party was initially called Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, even though today’s understanding of social-democracy would only apply to the Menshevik wing).

Eh, this is sure to result in a lot of deaths and destruction, since subway trains don’t have any way to strap you in, and are unlikely to handle the accelerations required to stay on rollercoaster tracks. Also remember that one of his first appearances is https://xkcd.com/72 which seems like child’s play in comparison - he’s sure grown over the years

True enlightenment is realizing that variables don’t exist, it’s all just a sequence of bits in RAM that we assign meaning to as desired.

Ascension is realizing that bits don’t exist, it’s all just trapped electrons in transistors which we imagine to be bits.

Transcendence is realizing that transistors or code doesn’t exist, and it’s just some quarks and electrons attracted and repulsed by weird forces, vibrating and convulsing in a soup with entropy constantly rising until the heat death of the universe, of which we make futile attempts to make sense or purpose.

GenAI image generation is OK at text for half a year now, hence thousands of sloppy/unimaginative comics in your feeds. Not sure this in particular is AI because the text is well-aligned and matches with the background, and in general everything is kind of coherent, but it possibly could be.

I was more talking about (+ a b) and such.

Eh, reads pretty naturally to me. That said, (like I lisp)

Don’t forget the cop and the brown-children-bomber. Although maybe austerity cuts will make that one job as well.

Whenever I need to provide an estimate, I ask everyone on the team for their gut feeling, take the second-largest estimate and multiply by 1.5. Seems to work pretty well. (if you can’t tell I don’t know what I’m doing with management)

the third is only a problem if you’re already looking for a problem.

“Is vacation 28 days” should not be a question, it should be the minimum mandated by law. “Will you work weekends” should rarely be a question, it should be heavily regulated and only allowed for positions where it’s truly required (and never to compensate for management fuckups).

Feels like they are both made up scenarios for rage-bait.

Actually for both of them, the conclusion is correct. “The second they’ll get a better offer they’ll vanish” - no shit, this is how it works under capitalism. Want to keep them? Make a better offer. “The second they find someone to do the same for less pay, they’ll fire you” - no shit, this is how it works under capitalism. Want to make that harder to do? Join or organize a union, and otherwise fight for your labor rights.

Not least because there’s no such thing as a “compiled” or “interpreted” language.

I’d say there is (but the line is a bit blurry). IMHO the main distinction is the presence (and prevalence) of eval semantics in the language; if it is present, then any “compiler” would have to embed itself into the generated code, thus de-facto turning it into a bundled interpreter.

That said, the argument that interpreted languages are somehow not programming languages is stupid.

a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility

I have an app built for Android 4 running on my Android 15 device. It looks ugly but it works. Of course other apps will not be so lucky, but some backwards compat is absolutely there.

a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications

Not really, Microsoft is steadily breaking old stuff. For example lot of 10-15 year old software that was doing something hardware-related would be broken now due to driver signing changes/restrictions (e.g. WinRing0 things).

the most popular OS

It’s barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.