"Regardless of any moral suasion, at the end of the day employers are going to make these sorts of decisions based on business imperatives."

Respectfully, in many cases, no.

The sociopaths working as corporate executives aren't there to make the company more successful. They're there to get off on bossing around other human beings, and seeing them squirm when they do so. That's the fundamental motivation.

In some minority of cases there are rationally-run businesses. But the culture isn't shared universally through any executive suite. And the overall small numbers within an industry make a change in culture, at best, turning-an-aircraft-carrier-around slow. We seen this cycle numerous times at this point, I'm not sure it will ever be truly successful.

Elementary, season 6, episode 8 (2018): Sand Trap

Given that House MD is inevitably wrong for 3 out of 4 acts every episode (a 75% miss rate), that's actually very close to the ballpark.

Meanwhile, I've spent all day following up on a student pulling up ChatGPT in a CS final exam I proctored yesterday. Even with recorded video evidence the school still requires I spend days on this process and get the student to accept any penalty I give out. Must be nice to be at Stanford.

This Is The Dumbest Goddamn Thing You Can Say About Statistics

I can walk or take the transit around NYC and see a hundred or a thousand people on the phone and not one case.

"Nobody ever goes there anymore. It’s too crowded." -- Yogi Berra

Speaker at my college: "You have to accept that students don't read books, and they never will ever again."

Respectfully, a well-designed unit is one that is scaled to avoid conversions in the most common use-cases.

I'd say that more important than that is the ability to estimate and communicate on the fly without any artificial tools available.

Sure, and that's what we see in UML, for example.

It seems like the mental design process is more (a) describe the data we need here, then (b) decide on what type it should be (as a college CS instructor I'm keenly aware of this).

Related and more importantly, return types should be at the end of a function declaration; that seems like kind of a no-brainer (following the same mental design process).

I agree with pretty much all this except that the word "species" is itself singular -- "a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name" (Merriam-Webster).

That's exactly what they're saying here.

"Everything else in the world comes with a warranty and some sort of performance guarantee"

I can tell you're not reading any of your software licenses.

You sadly dropped a decimal place there.

I'm really surprised that the conversation about Musk isn't, by default, his obvious constant drug-addled state. This is the first I've seen anyone broach the subject, and it's appreciated. If the world made sense this would be the first boilerplate paragraph of every article about the guy.