I still recall to this day, one of my university tutors talking about the C fastmath compiler directive: “I do not need a computer to arrive very, very quickly at the wrong answer; I can do that myself.”

It’s good to see that with applications of modern comp-sci we have graduated to arriving very, very slowly and at great expense at the wrong answer.

GitHub no longer has a single manager (I forget if the term was “CEO”), and is being folded in under MS’s AI team.

Sometimes I struggle with impostor syndrome. Reading this made me feel a lot more confident that I am actually really good at my job and not just fooling everyone into thinking I am.

Lot of people don’t get that, tho.

We have high power compute machines at my workplace for environmental modelling, named Motherbrain and Daughter after the environmental control computers from Phantasy Star 4. I am entirely to blame and I have no regrets. The only downside is when a younger engineer finds out and asks me if nudge wink maybe it’s a Metroid reference. :P

That’s fine, so long as I continue to not know it.

Don’t get me started on the difference between a group and a Group…

Wait, Rust is a functional language and not object oriented?

If you aren’t a fan of the book, I hear it’s fine. If you are, I hear you should skip it.

My first boss was a “just” guy. Thankfully he was also pro dev, being one himself, but sadly he was completely self-taught. This led to some interesting ideas, such as:

“We should not migrate anything to, or start any new projects in, .net framework 3. We should become the experts in .net framework 2, so people who need .net 2 solutions come to us.”

“Agile means we do less documentation.” (But we were already doing no documentation)

“Why are you guys still making that common functions class library? I just copy a .vb file into every project I work on, that way I can change it to suit the new project.” (This one led to the most amusing compound error I’ve fixed for a fellow dev.)

Good guy, all in all. But frustrating to work for often.

Ah right, you’re right

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I think

Junior Non-Commissioned Officers…?

Edit: No seriously, what else does it stand for?

That’s actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)

Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.

I have research to do, I see.

Can you elaborate for the curious among us?

Aren’t the eyes teeeechnically part of the brain?

Oh don’t get me wrong! I also only learned about water toxicity when I was very much an adult.

But the difference between us and the type of person I’m talking about, is that we (I’m presuming on your part) don’t think fluoride in water is a bad thing.

The kind of person who hears “the government adds CHEMICAL_NAME to water” and assumes that’s a bad thing is the kind of person who will not believe drinking too much water can kill you, even (or especially) if they are told by an expert.

The people who need to hear this sadly would not believe that too much water can kill you even if you showed them someone die from it, I fear. I’d also be shocked if they read “water poisoning” and didn’t think of poisoned water.