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The caption is mislabeled, but don’t worry, I’ve got your back:

Left: Biology majors looking at Computer Science majors all day

Right: Bugs looking at bugs all day

I wasn’t aware my mediocrity was on display. 😅

Honestly, I liked the professor. When he had time to teach something he was clearly interested in, he did a great job of connecting. He didn’t get to teach us OOP though because there was a staffing emergency. The person we did get normally taught Hardware, so he was basically just reading aloud the textbook. Poor guy.

And you’re right, the professor did let us know that there was going to be a change of requirements partway through. But it wouldn’t be a good lesson if he told us what was going to change, although he did give some examples from previous times he’d taught the course.

A lot of people got burned when the change came. For my part I thought I did pretty okay, the refactor didn’t go perfectly but it was better than if I hadn’t been prepared. But I’ve also written a bunch of really gross objects that served no purpose just because they might change later. As anything is, it’s all about finding that happy medium

That’s a fair assessment. It’s kind of like the rule for premature optimization: don’t.

With experience you might get some intuition about when it’s good to lean into inheritance. We were definitely lacking experience at that point though.

OOP is a pretty powerful paradigm, which means it’s also easy to provide enough rope to hang yourself with. See also just about any other meme here about OOP

Most of my college coursework was around OOP. That said, they actually did a pretty lousy job of explaining it in a practical sense, so since we were left to figure it out ourselves a lot of our assignments ended up looking like this.

At the end of the program, our capstone project was to build a full stack app. They did a pretty good job simulating a real professional experience: we all worked together on requirements gathering and database design, then were expected to build our own app.

To really drive home the real world experience, the professor would change the requirements partway through the project. Which is a total dick move, but actually a good lesson on its own.

Anyway, this app was mostly about rendering a bunch of different views, and something subtly would change that ended up affecting all views. After the fact, the professor would say something to the effect of “If you used good objects, you’ll only have to make the change in one place.”

This of course is only helpful if you really appreciated the power of OOP and planned it from the start. Most of us were flying by the seat of our pants, so it was usually a ton of work to get those changes in

My dad recently got hearing aids. The technology has come a long way. His are bluetooth and pair with his phone.

Back in the day of you wanted to ignore someone you’d just turn off your hearing aids. He uses his to listen to music now.

I’m sure there might be some practical difference between hearing aids and airbuds, but it does seem like there’s a lot of overlap

Oh sure, I don’t disagree with that.

But I also don’t think a group of teenage soccer players are the people who deserve to receive extrajudicial violence

Reading articles like this you always want to be careful. People are often pretty quick to pick sides when it’s about whether or not a mob was justified.

There’s a genocide being perpetrated by Israel, but not all jews are Israeli, and even if they were you can’t really hold individuals abroad culpable for the sins of their government.

So this mob is racially motivated and engaged in terrorism - what else do you call turning an armed mob loose on a bunch of teenagers? This will surely come back to say that Palestine supporters are terrorists, and now you’re right back to lumping everyone into a group.

There would be a certain amount of irony that goes with racially profiling a racist mob. Too bad that means lumping a whole people in with the shitheels who’d be prepared to threaten kids with knives

This seems to be about oppressing women while uplifting the creepiest sort of men.

To give the maximum benefit of the doubt (which frankly, I don’t think they deserve), there’s evidence to suggest that birth defects become more likely as the mother gets older. I’ve always understood that to happen in women of a more advanced age though, 30 is too young to be a cutoff.

Also, women can’t marry older than 25? What kind of bass ackwards handmaid’s tale bullshit is that? If you want to have a family I guess you’ve got to hitch your wagon to any horse you can get your hands on. They’re so fortunate though that the law doesn’t apply to men, so they’ll have plenty of creepy fifty year old dudes to choose from.

I think as a rule we should start sterilizing politicians who endorse sterilization. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? Of course, a hysterectomy is quite an invasive procedure compared to a vasectomy, so maybe in the interest of equitability we should begin with castration.

Anyway, this kind of rhetoric isn’t really for women - they just happen to be the ones affected by it. For the men that this appeals to, they’re probably believe they’re more likely to attract a virginal beauty if they start removing women’s options. It’s truly abhorrent.

I mean… it would have to be?

Is there even that much money in the global economy?

I came here to say the same thing!

I was hopeful for a moment there…

Yeah, I’m sure a soldiers don’t normally face reprisal for refusing to follow orders. /s

Maybe… don’t issue orders that may be war crimes?

The Canadian government estimates there are 235,000 Canadians who experience homelessness. A 2020 study suggests that there are 1.3 million unoccupied homes in Canada

Something tells me a 0.2% population decline (approximately 80,000 people, although they estimate 670,000 homes won’t have to be built) isn’t going to be a magic bullet solution.

edit: My math was off by an order of magnitude, which means the real numbers are more outlandish 🙃

My favorite Christopher Columbus fact:

In his time, the world was widely regarded as round. You might have heard some myth about him proving that it is, but this had been surmised by the ancient Greeks.

The story that I had heard was that Christopher Columbus couldn’t get funding for his expedition because nobody believed him that the world was round. The real reason he couldn’t get funding was because he wanted to go to India by sailing west from Europe. No land was known to be between Europe and India, so this would have been an unfathomably long journey doomed to failure.

He only ‘discovered’ the new world by dumb luck - and for the people living there, I’d say it was very bad luck indeed. And after he did, he maintained that he had found the east coast of Asia.

The man was delusional but somehow kept failing upward into colonialism

You laughed in my face and called my viewpoint absurd while defending the status quo

If you think the status quo is acceptable then I’m not going to be the person to convince you otherwise

If you think 35% of people not being able to afford a home in a world of plenty is ok, then I think you have more to learn about than statistics

Many years ago, I worked at a Walmart.
One of the only events that staff would look forward to was an employee profit-sharing program.
It was essentially an annual bonus, and it was typically worth about half a week’s pay. Most places that would be an insulting low bonus, but when you work minimum wage and don’t get benefits, anything extra is appreciated.

While I was working there, the store went through some major renovations to become a Super Centre. If you’re not familiar, that means they added a bunch of refrigerators and such so they could sell fresh groceries instead of just pantry items.
It was a huge pain to deal with during the renovations, they were super disruptive to operations, but the store never closed. We just had to work around the contractors, and the customers were more ornery than usual.

That same year they opened another store across town. Ours is a fairly small town, at the time I wouldn’t have thought that our town would support two Walmarts. But since our store was going through major renovations, the other location cannibalized a lot of our traffic.

We didn’t get our bonus that year because we weren’t profitable enough. We didn’t decide to do renovations. We didn’t decide to open a new store. We all had to work harder to accommodate the grander corporate strategy of strangling the life out of our town’s economy.

This was at least ten years ago. Income inequality has only gotten worse since then. Why the fuck would I do more than the minimal effort if they’re going to squeeze me for the minimal wage?

‘Most’ isn’t good enough
51% is ‘most’
If you scored 51% on a test, you would fail

If the company admits that the cost of wrongdoing might be worth a billion dollars, and then still engages in a billion dollars worth of wrongdoing, maybe the fine ought to be two billion

This one goes out for all the dudes out there

Y’know, I think the only silver lining to deepfakes is that if my nudes get leaked I could just brush it off and say they’re fake.

Of course, that’s easy to say until you’re slapped in the face with your own bits