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We are having that discussion about blocking social media for under 16 year olds. The argument most ignored is that this will not reduce anything because at 18 you are not magically a sane and responsible, law abiding citizen. People drink, people smoke, and that both things are allowed after 18...

We had our own trouble with this kind of lawmaker, and still do. If I could redefine the process of making a law, I would make it mandantory to give a veto-bat to at least two randomly picked persons (like jury duty) who have a masters degree in that field. With televised application of said...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNeJ9OIhXVU There you go, and there is more where this came from.

Those who like the beep out, there are segments on Jimmy Kimmel with "unnecessary censorship" where they insert beeps into harmless statements, turning normal conversations into something completely different. Enjoy.

grandpa Yes it does. And it has/had indent-sensitive semantics. (shudder) Also, let me congratulate you on your signature, good sir. Now I have a nice stroll down memory lane.

Or they are back at their old desk two month later for twice the bucks as a freelancer. That happend to a coworker of my dad. You can say about banks what you want, but they have a better sense of risk-down-the-road than the run-off-the-mill beancounter.

Those geniuses did not know about the RFC that set the date for "unknown birthdate" and claimed that there were tons of people who are >120 years old collecting money. Same with elections. There is a huge problem with implied boundary conditions which are not part of any spec because they are...

Yes, AI has a great future in comedy I guess.

That is the onboard software. And yes, the management really screwed the pooch in the last decades. They are not the only ones, mind you. Some planes better get remodelled as something else before they remake themselves into a lawn ornament.

FTFY Yes, I know what that results in. My dad was an aerospace engineer and that is where his most colorful language would come out. These folks still use Fortran and I still have a "deck" consisting of F66 to F95 code, all in one executable. OP: You may look around places like Boing, they...

programmers are real, unless declared integer.

Dutch and German have the same roots, and for me the first reading was  Belästigungsdienst, which means "bothering service". Quite a good match, yes?

Good question. It has been years since I talked to one.

bgavin do you use guards for checking what CPU is installed? I once had a tool where some cool haxor used inline assembly, for x86, without guards. Because all the world is a vax, you know? And it was only one instruction. Running that on a big endian machine created havoc. It was a file system...

Inline assembly is not a tool, it is a 50 push-up offense.

C came from a time where compilers needed maybe 7 passes to do anything (and then assemble), keeping this well defined was not easy then. Also, it was not required. They treated C as a portable assembler, statements pretty much had a 1:1 pattern in the code generator. Today, this is completely...

So your coding is not tarot-complete. How do you deal with the cases that require that?

We are not scared easily. But I can imagine what the comments were like. As to your question about the motivation, do you know about Stockholm Syndrome? That can explain an awful lot, together with the sunken cost syndrome.

Is there still some things on topic to come?

And all these proponents of AI forget one thing, one thing that Henry Ford had understood. AI bots don't buy whatever you offer.