There's people I get along with and there's people I don't. I feel no need to bend over backwards to please the latter given that I don't need to bend over backwards to get along with the former; I'm an adult, so I am comfortable with this.

There are and always have been people who like buying old stuff whether its tech, classic cars, clothes or 101 other miscellaneous things. The only problem with tech is that once it breaks that may be the end of it because even an electronics expert cant repair something that requires a replacement ASIC that's no longer made (eg pretty much every 70s, 80s and 90s electronic toy).

I dont want to pay a subscription to a media company ( I already have to pay a license fee for the BBC and that's enough). If theres a film I want to watch and keep I'll buy it on dvd otherwise ill wait for it to turn up on FTA TV.

The wonderful thing about a "spectrum" is that everyone is on it. Even on the "extremely high functioning but want to feel special about an aspect of my personality I may otherwise be insecure about" end.

Pathologizing the human condition is unhealthy. I'm not interested in playing.

"Privileged"! "Rich"!

The number of people who are powered by sheer envy is just depressing. Envy isn't a good thing, folks.

NYT had an article last week about how stressful it is for autistic white collar professionals to constantly mask their perceived antisocial behaviors and fake being normal in the workplace.

This was said earnestly. Apparently it is a form of psychological trauma to refrain from interrupting your boss and forcing yourself to stop what you're doing to make eye contact.

I told the wife about this, and naturally her reaction was that I must have aspergers on account of I'm blunt anddon't always prioritize the emotional well-being of my interlocutors, thus I must be blind to it.

I told her
a) Asperger's doesn't exist in DSM 5 (was folded into the "autism spectrum disorder" everyone and their mother now has
b) It's never a good idea to bring your whole self to work. You bring your professional self, because your whole self may not refrain from the urge to tell your colleagues *exactly* what you think of their deeply-held subjective opinions on politics, religion, or lifestyle choices. And that would be bad for unit cohesion.
c) I'm not blind to other people's emotional states. Sometimes I just don't give a fuck. Especially when time's a tickin' and safe space calm down time with playdoh and stuffies is not on the agenda.

Hi, Prof. Here for the test. I've brought my emotional support nerd. Nerds aren't people, so he counts. Don't mind if we wispers emotionally supporting right answers into my ear.

TFA has a bit about a kid who brought his mother to class and she ended up doing all of his class participation for him.

To fuck with gentle reminders. Bring back caning, I say.

Sorry Chief, I need a little extra time
a) putting out this house fire
b) catching the axe murderer
c) appllying CPR to the patient
d) cooking up this burger the customer paid for
e) preparing the regulatory filings ahead of the legally binding deadline
f) sitting on the couch and smoking pot instead of making myself useful

Suburb of Boston. Median household income well into six figures. Houses going for a million-plus. And over a quarter of the kids in the school system have IEPs on file.

Even worse in some of the other rich towns around here.

Granted I didn't grow up in a million dollar school district, but back in my day, maybe 2 or 3 percent of the kids in my class had IEPs and you could tell they had problems.

A quarter of my graduating class did *not* have problems. And back then they did not have IEPs.

It is 110% a scam to cheat on tests and it has been for a long time. Let me repeat: there are real disabled people out there getting necessary accommodations, but they are outnumbered at least 10 to 1 by fakers and grifters at places like rich towns outside of Boston and the Ivy plus schools they tend to attend afterwards.

As I said, ruzzia is a scourge https://slashdot.org/comments.... unfit to exist on this planet. It akways was a scourge, always will be. Same with islam, by the way, muslim brotherhood is coming for all of us, not just ruzzian zombies

Have you ever actually tried using Numpy in C?

Never saw the movie; I'll have to see it!

I just remember having my mind blown by the novel :)

You can tell how serious someone is about performance based on whether or not they bring out a profiler. If they don't use a profiler, they aren't serious about performance (or maybe they're just clueless).

What do you want to program?