The recent relentless AI-ification is another pain-point. People are getting sick of having to constantly fend off slob pull requests.

I’ve seen some beautiful visual metaphors in my time (including the original), but this immediately made my personal top-ten. Well done.

I usually hit the bottle, but I’m not about to criticize whatever works for you. If rubber duck debugging has been scientifically proven to work, I don’t see any valid argument against coding socks or smooth legs. Besides, those two things go together like insurance companies and arson or AI server farms and power supply cable cutting.

A match made in heaven, in other words.

See, this is what I like about the Internet: No matter how obscure, a subject matter expert is almost always right there.

Thanks, buddy.

I maintain that the definition of wrong is a function of the intended outcome. The former method is absolutely the correct approach for obtaining 2 dimensional horse-smoothies. And morbidly repainting the workshop.

Straight to the middle of his designated landing zone. As we all know, he’s a well prepared kitty.

A true classic. Right up there with biographies of Cantor and “Ignition!”.

Totally nailed it!

For all that it is in truth far more terrifying, I freely admit that expressions like “Oh, in the name of False Vacuum Decay” just doesn’t land the same. It’s s shame, really. Modern scientific curses like “may all your Li-Ion batteries grow centimeter long dendrites in seconds” are much more fearsome than they immediately appear.

I mean, “may your tap water turn to dioxygen difluoride while you’re taking a shower” would make even Satan go, “okay, stop, just… Jesus, stop.”

…That’s genius. Thanks!

See, this is one of those inconvenient situations where us Atheists really lack appropriate and proportional ways to express our feelings about things.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

It really doesn’t. I highly doubt there isn’t office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that’s likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

Eh. It’s not like we’d be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn’t exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we’re conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.