A lot of our interns and fresh-from-school say S.Q.L. but everyone else is calling it sequel. Usually after a few years even the youth start calling it sequel, in my experience.

Url and at-at are solidly initialisms. SQL has a solid enough argument for being an acronym that I’ll accept either.

Garage.

GraJ

Catch shit for it all the time, but at this point I think it’s more like a harmless Easter egg.

My grandma rolls the R in “Three”, and it’s become a game to get her to say it. She handles it with great humor.

I’m cool to have my own version of that.

The internet has always been a grand stage, though. We’re like 40 years into this reality at this point.

I think people who came-of-age during Facebook missed that memo, though. It was standard, even explicitly recommended to never use your real name or post identifying information on the internet. Facebook kinda beat that out of people under the guise of “only people you know can access your content, so it’s ok”. People were trained into complacency, but that doesn’t mean the nature of the beast had ever changed.

People maybe deluded themselves that posting on the internet was closer to walking their dog in their neighbourhood than it was to broadcasting live in front of international film crews, but they were (and always have been) dead wrong.

I am not implying, I am explicitly saying the process of memory recall is error-prone.

And further to the original commenters point, we already have enough understanding of the underlying physical mechanics of memory to be able to say that pass-by-value is a more appropriate analogue to how memory works than pass by reference.

If you fuzz the value of a value by 10%, your value is still within %10 of the original value. The same can not be said for pointers.

That isn’t an explanation of how we arrive at an understanding of how memory works. It’s just an easily understandable statement for a computer scientist to help “prime the pump” that there may be some low-hanging reasons why thinking of human memory in terms of pointers might not be a great analogue.

If that were the case, you wouldn’t just remember things a little wrong, you’d try and recall your name and instead be remembering a field trip you took in 3rd grade.

The other guy is right. Pass by value is a better analogue, and the act of recall actually performs a mutation.

People who are experts in the subject.

Propegandists thrive by trying to convince people that they can’t trust anyone, because it makes foolish people believe that every voice carries equal merit.

What value is a summary when you fully acknowledge that you can not trust it for accuracy?

It depends on the jurisdiction.

In Alberta, Canada, for example, employers will hire programmers from two distinct pools of educational streams: Computer Scientists and Software Engineers.

CS programs are governed by the faculties of science, software engineers by the schools of engineering.

The software engineers take the same oaths or whatever and belong to the same organization as the other engineers (in Alberta, APEGA) and are subject the same organizational requirements to be able to describe themselves as engineers. They can have the designation revoked the same way a civil engineer could.

Practically speaking, as someone who works with both, I don’t see a meaningful difference in the actual work produced by grads of either stream. But at least in my jurisdiction the types of arguments being made don’t really hold because it is a regulated professional designation.

I’m not from the US

The world is burning. Now. With the justice systems you’re alluding to.

To be honest, I actually don’t really appreciate human moderation, so that’s probably biasing my position.

I can block communities. I can block users. I can set word filters.

If I block someone, I never have to hear from them again. If a moderator does, they’ll be back with a new account, and then I DO have to hear from them.

I’d far prefer a “federated” and crowdsourced mechanism to layer onto an extremely lightly moderated foundational layer.

If someone, or someones, want to curate a filter list that aligns with my sensibilities, awesome, I’ll opt in. I’ll contribute. If I bump into unresolvable issues with other filter curators I’ll fork the filter.

I don’t need or want a tiny subset of users working full time for free getting burnt out or going on power trip crusades.

The quote I was referencing is this:

“People - Please don’t make the life of your mods a living hell. Anything that is celebrating violence is going to get taken down - if not from us, then from reddit. I think all the mods understand that there is a high level of frustration and antipathy towards insurance and insurance execs, but we also understand that murdering people in the streets is not good. We are a public group of medical professionals, we still need to act like that.”

The line about making their lives a living hell?

If you ever feel the need to type that in reference to your volunteer Reddit moderation… Stand up, go outside.

Why the fuck would the moderators care about how much work it is to remove the posts.

I disagree that being perfectly unambiguous is a feature of a “perfect” language.

Ambiguity creates holes for us to fill, and some people don’t realize how good it feels to fill those holes.

The energy is in the form of complex but stable intramolecular bonds

Banners body has a store of extremely high energy particles. When he transforms, they are converted to much lower energy particles and the energy is converted to mass (e=mc^2). When the hulk goes back to banner, is the same process in reverse: mass is converted to much more highly energetic particles.

www.realultimatepower.net

Really informative website from the 90s which was a one-stop-shop for authoritative information about Samurai.

Keep in mind, this was before Wikipedia. Finding high quality information online was much more difficult online in the past, but this was a rare gem.

Anyhow, I was able to use the site for research for a grade school paper, and I can proudly say I got A grade on it.

I don’t think it’s at all required that someone gained “a level of control”. I think the mechanism more likely at play (if this is the root cause) is that some training data included news articles about how these people wanted to remove their presence, and the articles were talking about the legality and morality around it.

The definition as taken to the courts in the USA is:

“Hate speech is any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, or national origin.”

It has more rigorous legal definitions in many other jurisdictions where hate speech is explicitly illegal.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-319.html

Canada for example.

You characterizing toxicity and hate speech as being related isn’t a position taken even remotely seriously by anyone who actually write laws on the subject, and many have been written across the world.

Broadly speaking, hate speech isn’t “being mean” in any legal definition… But that is what right-wing talking heads like to strawman it as.