Agreed. Depending on the business sector, the PR damage could be worse than the cost of litigation.

My company has a very expensive software product they sell to other businesses (to the tune of millions of dollars a year per customer), and the cost is a hurdle the salespeople have to overcome. If there was litigation against them over trampling another business, that doesn’t exactly instill confidence in a trustworthy business relationship. So they pay their licensing costs.

Super interesting! Yeah, exactly where the water is going is just as interesting to me as why it’s going.

Cool, that’s more of what I meant when I said “where is it going?” I didn’t think it was disappearing; I more meant, “Where is it being stored or released?” Makes sense why there would be more of it when precipitation does show up, given that hotter air can store more.

I’m still curious, though, if certain local patterns are moving off to other locations. I’ll have to look into that aspect, now that I kind of have an idea what to look for.

TIL a new thing in computer science.

KiwiFarms, a forum dedicated to doxxing and IRL harassing of LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else they didn’t like. It was is a breeding ground for Nazis and other Conservative bigots and their ideologies, and they successfully harassed people into moving and hiding (or worse).

Edit: they’re still around

The only silver lining is that it might be relegated to ARM systems initially, so we’ve all got time to figure out a plan to shift to Linux.

And then QA sends it back with a bunch of regressions, then you go, “Why would somebody do it like that‽” and finally remember that the end user is dumb.

Just use emacs.

I don’t know why, but the idea of the Earth yeeting off into space at 67,000 mph all of a sudden is really funny to me.

bool_ via Numpy is its own object, and it’s fundamentally different from bool in Python (which is itself a subclass of int, whereas bool_ is not).

They are used similarly, but they’re similar in the same way a fork and a spork can both be used to eat spaghetti.

Maybe you need better signage. Maybe you need to reverse the direction of the door. Maybe you could automate the door. Or maybe the user is just fucking stupid. 😄

And that’s precisely why QA still exists and why it shouldn’t be the devs. And yet, you’ll still wind up with weird situations, despite your best efforts!

“Ugh, it works, but it was overly complicated to get what I needed.”

Ah, goddamn autocorrect! Yes, that’s what I meant.

Dunno what to tell you. I do QA for a living. I see postings all the time for QA positions in other companies, and my company has had QA for at least two decades, with the department expanding over the last three years.

I’m not claiming it’s ubiquitous, but maybe you’re just out of the loop.

A) Yes. Large companies have entire departments dedicated to QA, and it’s best not to leave QA to devs, if you can afford it. Dunno what you mean by “still,” since the job never went away.

B) Okay?

If I could add, it’s likely impossible to say, because evolution is driven by selection pressures.

If the original strain AA has descendent strains AA, AB, and AC, we can’t know with any certainty which is more fit to survive, because it could be one, two, or all of them simultaneously.

Edit: typo

I do QA for a living. If that’s the end result, it wasn’t intuitive. 😅

The main machines at work still do upgrades via tapes. The main program can communicate with lots of online services, but it still updates via tape. Probably too hard to spend the time to figure out how to implement OTA upgrades, since it was first created back in the 80s.

But the 512KB was more of a vague gesture towards the limitations back then. We had a separate floppy drive, with which I would load up a big black rectangle that had 1-5 very basic games on it. There’s something special about locking down the disk which you can’t get even with its smaller successor…

Neat. Sounds very confusing for future maintenance, but when you only have 512KB of storage, you do what you gotta do!