As long as they’re not missing a critical faculty, sure.

Really? I know. So either you’re using that word wrong or your first principles are lacking.

I can confirm that no “Brit” uses a semicolon like that. We’re not barbarians.

The neighbours’ seven-year-old suggested using a VPN to get around age checks. I don’t know if he knows what one is, but he’s definitely seen adverts for them.

I’m surprised their response wasn’t, “you’re all on the side of predators; it’s as simple as that”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/peter-kyle-nigel-farage-extreme-pornographers-online-safety-bill

Even the standard formulation of newtonian dynamics admits nondeterminism. (This requires a non-Lipschitz setup to work; and in any case it doesn’t describe the world we live in. Also it’s a mathematical description, not the real thing.)

I’m not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn’t it turn “it works on my machine” into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: … "?

Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.

Sexually harassing his employees hit the headlines in 2016; rumours before that. Inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue and the “pedo guy” slander was 2018. Hyperloop was 2013. No Lidar on Tesla. If you’ve been paying attention he’s been outing himself for a long time.

Some of the GoF patterns over-emphasise inheritance, but by-and-large, you don’t build large systems without either using or rediscovering software patterns, whether they’re OO, FP, or what-have-you.

No, it didn’t.

The point of Java is to be a language for 90% of programmers. The vast majority of software development is not sexy, doesn’t require a PhD. Java was intended to be a commoditising language and in that it succeeded wildly.

Heaven’s Vault.

You total star!

Fewer.

With massive OOO pipelines, what’s the alternative?

It means you can take out the bride’s party, or the groom’s party.

I’m not sure if that opening sentence is fatuous or not. What errors in any industrial enterprise are not human in origin?

That’s actually the idea. It’s not general precrime, it’s a decision support tool for predicting recidivism when deciding parole cases.

That doesn’t mean it’s not on decidedly shonky ground statistically speaking.

570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.

Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.

It can reliably predict when people are black, though.