dcminter

> So biology becomes incredibly fine tuned for one goal: survival Again, this is a category error. It works well as a metaphor, but evolution has no goal. Evolution is a description of a simple f…

The what is evolution and again, it is a category error to assume it has a goal. Why do you presume a goal is necessary?

This is a category error. A cell is not a thing that has a goal. To imagine it has one is pure anthropomorphism. The religious may have other views of course.

Spinning platters are prone to catastrophic mechanical failure and tape can undergo delamination. What of it?

But not by most devs. Back in the day it was true for most devs.

Hmm, perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but is this a side effect of the majority of the training data being from earlier years - much like I tend to vaguely think of "50 years ago"…

I'm not claiming that there is no C or C++ out there. But it's such a nit pick when for most developers, no, their day-to-day work absolutely does not involve the creation of object files. S…

Sure, but I think that "back in the day your compiler would ..." is a reasonable characterisation. Back in the day, yes, your compiler almost certainly would do that. Now, your compiler m…

I'd be very surprised if the C/C++ code being written today was comparable in volume to the collective pile of JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Python, and PHP. Contrast to the heyday of C and C++…

The Player giving a bit of meta-commentary (meta-meta-commentary?) on plays in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: "Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do yo…

> Suspension would also allow the wheel to move upward relative to the frame and pedals when hitting a bump. Perhaps I'm being dim, but I don't get why this would be bad; it just sounds…

Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in…

Even more amazingly, I just discovered (from a friend after ranting about this on Facebook) that you're not allowed letters of this type in names on British Passports¹ Apparently there's a…

I think parent poster had an X1 or something and assumed the conversation was about a similar contemporary device. I'm a little sad this board isn't for my X220 ... I would be sorely tempted…

For your anecdata I'm in Sweden and definitely had a contrast agent (presumably gadolinium based) for a recent MRI of my gallbladder/pancreas/liver area.

Yes, exactly that, and some of the steps required removing kaptan (?) tape over rather fragile looking wires. I think it used to be more or less "undo screw, remove cover, remove keyboard" .…

I'd probably have signed up if it were not for those two issues. Step zero in breaking the network effect is not to piss off those who might join despite it.

ISWYDT https://xkcd.com/1172/

I swapped the keyboard on my wife's X1 and man, they are so fiddly to get to these days. It used to be a 2 minute job but I think this took me nearly 2 hours! I had to remove practically everythi…

I think I could pretty easily have been persuaded by Google Plus. At that time I had broadly positive sentiments towards Google. Two things put me off. Firstly, that whole account-unification thing wh…

This was our mistake, and we take full responsibility. That preceding line makes it, to me, a real apology. They admit fault.

If you've not already done so, peruse the Staff Engineer¹ website and maybe get the book associated with that² or another one that I like³ It's not clear to me if you have a role with that k…

I rather enjoyed this, although I had assumed from the title that it was going to be "things" like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority that at one time was Jon Postel (a person). Any oth…

Hmm. Why should I take this critique as being any more accurate than Bryson, given that the writer says in so many words: "[...] I - someone who’s far from an expert at linguistics [...]" …

> Is there any more annoying popup than the newsletter popup? Rhetorical I'm sure, but actually yes! The popup that tries to get you to switch to the app when you are actively trying to give t…

"I'm sorry you feel that way" is shaped like an apology, but is essentially blaming the other party's feelings as being the problem. "I'm sorry I did that" is an act…