Because they’re all over the sidewalk lol. I have a tree in my yard.

That’s insane lol.

Oil executives to congress: “My mom is kind of homeless so you should let us drill more.”

DDG for everyday use, Yandex for media.

You’ve been able to mock concrete classes in Java for like a decade or so, probably longer. As long as I can remember at least. Using Mockito it’s super easy.

I’m making a separate comment for this, but people saying “Liskov substitution principle” instead of “Behavioral subtyping” generally seem more interested in finding a set of rules to follow rather than exploring what makes those rules useful. (Context, the L in solid is “Liskov substitution principle.”) Barbra Liskov herself has said that the proper name for it would be behavioral subtyping.

In an interview in 2016, Liskov herself explains that what she presented in her keynote address was an “informal rule”, that Jeannette Wing later proposed that they “try to figure out precisely what this means”, which led to their joint publication [A behavioral notion of subtyping], and indeed that “technically, it’s called behavioral subtyping”.[5] During the interview, she does not use substitution terminology to discuss the concepts.

You can watch the video interview here. It’s less than five minutes. https://youtu.be/-Z-17h3jG0A

YAGNI ("you aren’t/ain’t gonna need it) is my response to making an interface for every single class. If and when we need one, we can extract an interface out. An exception to this is if I’m writing code that another team will use (as opposed to a web API) but like 99% of code I write only my team ever uses and doesn’t have any down stream dependencies.

Fork repo, make local changes intending to push to fork for PR, never push anything. Very common.

Also, SO MANY SITES have the button that says “Fork me on GitHub!” that is often wonder if people think it’s something that it isn’t.

I wouldn’t, because everyone would just have to learn another new language if they learned English because it’s the current one.

Atlanta ripped up their street cars and I’m still angry about it. So many towns in Georgia have old train stops that have been converted into museums or restaurants. My parents and I both have one, but there’s no way for me to take a train to them. It’s upsetting.

I haven’t been outside of the US, but it’s not really because I want to stay in America, it’s more than I don’t really experience a strong urge to travel in general. I live ear Atlanta Georgia. I’m roughly within driving distance of a lot of nice locations. I can fly to the west coast. If I really wanted to go to an island I could go to somewhere like Hawaii or Puerto Rico without a passport. Though if I wanted to go somewhere specific I would get a passport, it’s not like I refuse to get one. I just haven’t needed to get one yet and haven’t bothered to.

Yucky 🤮

Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory

This is news to me. I’ll look into them saying that and change how I talk about this event. Because before knowing this I would’ve described it similarly as the other person. But yeah, any grace I was willing to extend goes away if they’re parroting white replacement.

I asked it this out of curiosity since something like a strict filter (not AI) on the n-word wouldn’t be surprising. Nope, it answered correctly. Which tbh is the right thing to do, it’s a legitimate question. I don’t think things like encyclopedias should censor that.

Well, if you asked me a couple months ago I’d say a study that says genocide is happening is Gaza but the UN finally did it. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

I think people get too defensive about security by obscurity not being security. It’s still better for things to be obscure, it’s just not sufficient. A hidden lock to open a door is marginally better than a lock on the door. A hidden button to open a door isn’t secure though, of course.

But at the same time, I fully understand why it’s stressed so much. People tend to make analogies in their mind to the physical world. The digital world is so different though. An example I use often is you can’t jiggle every doorknob in the world to see if it’s unlocked, but it’s (relatively) easy to check every IPv4 address for an open port to some database with default credentials.

If there’s any hostility it was initiated by yourself my friend.

Bullshit.

Come on now think for a second here.

I feel like there’s some hostility or defensiveness and we keep talking past each other when trying to resolve it, so I’m going to drop the topic because I don’t think there are actually any disagreements between us.

Nothing I was said was about “independent studies” versus “studies”. I get your point, I’m just saying that wasn’t part of what I found odd. I only used the phrase independent studies instead of studies because you did.

The image being so small makes it funnier.