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  • Beginners are the least likely to ask thoughtful questions. We include slides in lectures about how to ask a question, but when there's an assignment deadline and you're inexperienced, it's more likely you're going to just blurt out "help me!" rather than provide a detailed explanation that doesn't require repeated prompting. It takes time to learn how to work through an issue yourself before asking. Students are often facing time pressure and that can drive bad behavior. Correcting them is important, just don't do it in a way that crushes their spirit.

  • Ever ask a question on SO? I tell my students to search there but never, ever ask a question. The unmitigated hostility is not what new developers need or deserve. ChatGPT won't humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.

  • If he's supposed to be such a great businessman, why is he angry over this? This is exactly what a business does in a tariff situation. No business willingly reduces its margins, it just passes the costs onto the customer.

  • Black Mirror has its work cut out for it, that's all I'll say.

  • I have, and I'm disappointed. It was going to be my next Subaru, now I'm thinking Crosstrek, as long as it doesn't get upsized.

  • The government naively assumed the auto makers wouldn't notice the gaping loophole in the CAFE standards and then did nothing while trucks grew to outlandish sizes.

  • My Subaru Forester is not a tiny SUV. I was parked between two pickup trucks the other day, and my roof was only slightly higher than their hoods. The Simpsons' Canyonero is no longer a parody.

  • Behold the next generation of voters.

  • Left-leaning folks are all for EVs. Turning into a Nazi wasn't going to go over well with Tesla's most likely customers.

    A reminder that he's not quite as smart as he believes himself to be.

  • Performative.

  • I ask myself this simple question: Are you making things better? I find meaning in helping others, and this is my guiding principle. I hope that when my time comes, I can say that I did make things better, that I did help others.

  • Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan. It's likely to be the only version of the song most people have ever heard.

  • The canola oil I buy has rape seed in the ingredients. In very small type, of course.

  • Literally, the opposite of what they should be doing. And saying Americans are too stupid to understand a word like "oligarchy" isn't a good look, either.

  • Cut him some slack, he's doing as well as can be expected given his blood alcohol content.

  • He's dumber than most people can imagine. Jack, Ted, and Bobby might have been morally bankrupt but they weren't stupid. Something went seriously wrong with this one.

  • The "intense anger" tells you this is absolutely the right thing to do.

  • Perfect.

  • We were halfway there a long time ago. Now we're all the way there, with concentration camps and people being snatched off the streets by masked men. This is the kind of stuff we used to condemn (despite sometime clandestinely supporting in the name of "anti-communism").