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modern STEM education has created an army of naive computer scientists that know how to apply processes to data but are completely oblivious to the philosophical implications and criticisms of their work

ok so we want to collect your dna and put it in a big database

americans: hmm i dunno about that. i dont really trust the government with that kind of stuff

what if it was a private corporation and it helped you do race science

americans: oh hell yeah. i fucking love racism. sign me the fuck up

well, i know that i come by my "fuck css, fuck web design, fuck all this shit, we're going back to 2001, you will get a page wholly in html and MAYBE frames IF i am feeling SASSY but that is ONLY IF" occasional mood honestly, as my dad has been writing his blog by just hardcoding in the html for i think at least 20 years

Y2K was a huge issue in computing that was replicated among many systems worldwide. The reason why the world at large never saw anything bad occur was that a lot of people worked extremely hard to update afflicted systems.

Developers who had worked on mainframe systems writing code in languages that hadn't been used in one of more decades came out of retirement and worked overtime.

And once it was fixed... that was it. Nothing happened. Nobody ran articles talking about this enormous effort.

My objection to "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is that it discounts the possibility of tiger ladies

Little Cat is trying to convince me that she just HAPPENS to have flopped on her string, and she doesn't NEED me to wiggle it, but if I want to, I can

"This process should be inverted: a consistent UI that can be fully understood by end users should have its principles encoded, & a language & toolkit chosen to match this design."

@enkiv2 @ https://medium.com/@enkiv2/how-much-bad-ui-design-comes-from-a-focus-on-making-the-ui-consistent-with-underlying-code-that-was-5d18d52ba90e

Um ummmmm ummmmmmMMMMM

unrelatedly, Harriet is a fucking incredible movie

I need HBO or someone to make a 10-season-long hour drama about the antebellum abolitionists, the most interesting people in all of American history

there's an extremely powerful woman on the subway dressed almost exactly like Jotaro Kujo, and it's made all the more powerful by the fact that it's 100% not a cosplay

How do you do, fellow programmers!

Would any of you like to learn about interfaces and semantics?