the use of sizeof on pointers isn't the worst, but it is near the worst. The worst is the fact that bitwise operators don't do what you expect in boolean expressions, because their precedence is incorrectly specified, or that '=' is allowed in any expression (including those you may have wished to type '==' in)

I'm happy I use python or matlab for everything these days. Using "C" was just getting annoying, living in terror of forgetting to initialize a pointer, having it then pick up crap from the stack, use it to silently corrupt memory, and then attack me several billion instructions later.

There are entire teams of people dedicated to finding things like that at cisco, where the collision of 30 million lines of C code with newly minted java programmers invariably produces hundreds of these untraceable errors per year. No wonder nobody wants to install the newer release trains anymore.

Actually, that experiment has been replicated many times. The sun and moon were both part of the apparatus used to conduct the experiment.

I grant that some fields have difficult time with replication. Consider economics. There are 'natural experiments' that occur because of policy changes. However, replicating them can rarely be done, due to the complexity, and also due to the ethical implications.

However, this is rarely true in psychology. Those experiments can be redone cheaply again and again. The fact that they aren't replicated has more to do with lack of will than anything else.

Someone needs to start a journal of 'reproducible results', that will only publish articles about experiments that have results which have been replicated by three independent teams. To hell with reviewers, they just push their hidden agendas anyway.

This isn't how evolution works. It doesn't work on groups, it works on individuals. So, unless high-T folks got less food than they needed, and thus did not reproduce as often, high-T-ism would not decrease in the population.

If it is true that high testosterone increases one's ability to compete for food and mates (which it does) then it should increase over all, since the high-T guys would reproduce more often.

So, having testosterone levels drop suddenly is a puzzle. There was probably some unrelated mutation that conferred a benefit, like disease resistance, that swept through the population, and that had low-T as a side effect. That would have allowed the small groups to coalesce into larger groups, due to lowered levels of competition.

Hmmm. Here is an article that seems to assert the opposite. It is newer (2012 vs 2009 for your link.)

Here is another article, that suggests that testosterone actually affects dominance, which makes more sense, and supports the original article.

I've been rewatching the original star trek. The monsters in "Operation: Annihilate!" are flying bags of joke vomit

In another episode, the monster in "The Devil in the Dark" was basically a rug with lights in it.

The only reasonable sets I can recall from the period was Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Talk about lovingly hand crafted sets. 10 years before had such masterpieces as "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (sets a bit wonky, but fun) and "Forbidden Planet". Now those were fun sets. "Gort! Klatu barada nikto!"

I wanna be a rider of the purple wage.

I tried listening to his show in 2003* at one point. After a few minutes, I was literally yelling at my radio. Never again...

* I know it was 2003, because it happened while I was driving to a job I particularly hated, that forced me to drive in during rush hour. I quit in mid 2003, after 4 months.

I've heard of bitrot, but Code, California? Some google employee enclave? And you say it is deteriorating?

FTFY

He could be hit by a firework, causing the firework to go off course. Not likely, but you never know.

So, they took down the sources for cyanogenmod. Do you have any idea what you would be claiming is not patented by them if you sent this little note? They could sue you for damages.