People a couple generations behind me have no idea how bad suitcases used to suck. “Well, sure all the parts and shapes have invented already, how could they possibly become one thing”

Maidenhair fern for me. Those stalks are crazy. Christmas ferns are a close second - it's nice to have something evergreen in the garden.

And let's be honest: all the spots will be used, and I'm really going to have to fight the urge to tell all the Tesla owners they bought a car from a Nazi.

I'm not a monster, she's taking the car. But it looks like my displeasure for that trip is going to be compounded by shitty charging options on the way there/back. I'd rather gnaw my own arm off than use a Tesla supercharger.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

Never did figure out why. I just checked to see if it was a string and then turned it into a function if it was. Code was sparsely commented in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and I think but am not certain, a romanization of Hindi. Most of the code used English variable names. A very small blessing.

A lot of that stuff is 100% subjective; I don't know how you could shape a study around it. I have a friend who found programming awkward and hard to learn until he picked up clojure. I've used at least ten languages commercially but lisps are beyond me for anything serious. Humans aren't uniform.

My thesis research was written in Lisp (building on about 25 years of graduate student code so it was foul). The UI occasionally behaved a bit wonkily and I looked at it one day and just noped right out of it - all Tcl/Tk.

my favorite thing about McTiernan is that going to prison made him woke www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ju...