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A cure for cancer is a perfect example. Research has been going on for a century and cumulatively amassed 100s of billions of dollars of funding. It has failed constantly to find a cure, but our understanding of the disease, treatment, how to conduct research, and prevention have all massively increased.

Cancer != cancer. There are hundreds of types of cancer. Many types meant certain death 50 years ago and can be treated and cured now with high reliability. "The" cure for cancer likely doesn't exist because "the" cancer is not a singular thing, but a categorization for a type of diseases.

Hostile reminder that vi exists.

Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

Say what you will, but that was an economically viable route to take. I'm still in love with TTD and RCT2.

Race theory 2.0 AI edition just dropped.

They are all superfluous if you know how to do quadratic expansion.

I always found this argument funny because how would you use pronouns for someone whose gender you do not know? They. It's they. E.g. you are given the sentence: Jordan went to the store to buy apples. And you want to ask a followup question regarding how many, you reply: How many apples did they buy?

And that's not how English was taught to me or 99℅ of the population (including English as a second or third language) 20+ years ago. Singular they was only used for situations where the gender (read as superficially visible sex) was factually unknown. You see a forgotten umbrella and never saw who forgot it: "Somebody forgot their umbrella." As soon as you only got a glimpse on the person forgetting it you would make a guess about he/she.

They has been used for gender ambiguity in everyone's lives since grammar school.

If you're younger than 30 and from Great Britain, maybe. GB were the first to formalize and teach it like that less than 2 decades ago (if I recall correctly).

People just have an inherent bias towards trans folks and it's incredibly depressing and sad.

That's bullshit projection.

I, a non-native speaker, complain about increased ambiguity of the language because of singular they as a personal pronoun and make a proposal about new pronouns for the purpose.

You: Ah, must be transphobe. Let's ignore everything he said (which doesn't relate to transphobia at all).

It's so frustrating not to be able to have a discussion about stuff making a language harder than it needs to be without people invoking transphobia, like, instantly.

But hey, I called it: can't have a discussion about it and I've given up on it.

edit: tiny add-on. I was still taught gender-neutral he and only heard about they later while being discouraged to use it in writing.

Doesn't feel like you want to have an honest argument when you ask how far we should go back on a proposal about going forward and don't address the single motivator ambiguity.

I criticized singular they/them for increasing language ambiguity and suggested replacing it with something new like xe/xer multiple times. The reply is usually a shitstorm and downvote tornado. I've given up on that front.

It doesn't make it flawless (at all), but installing the microsoft fonts helps. Most distros have a package or helper tool for that.

Invest in debugging and code review capabilities: With 45% of developers reporting increased debugging time for AI code, organizations need stronger code review processes. They need debugging tools specifically designed for AI-generated solutions.

Or, maybe, don't use tools that generate garbage code.

I've been using linux as a daily driver for more than twenty years. At the same time I had to use Windows for work. Windows has always created more headaches and wasted more of my time than linux. The people who fail on linux are those who expect/demand it to work like windows and those who are not willing to invest the same amount of time they used to learn their way around windows on linux.

"Windows just works" has always been a lie. It's a fragile heap of crap that constantly breaks or misbehaves. People spend a metric shitton of time with workarounds for failing updates, registry hacks ... or externalize that cost to others. Windows "just works" if your kids, company IT, or someone else keeps it working.

If you invest the time to learn a distributions/linux ways, and make a reasonable pick for distribution, linux is much more stable and low maintenance than windows.

Various notations appear in older sources were used, such as Ne(22) in 1934,[1]: 226 Ne22 for neon-22 (1935)[2] or Pb210 for lead-210 (1933)[3]: 7

You kids and your newfangled notations shakes fist at heaven

I had some really old physics books when I went to school ... and that has been a while.

The 235 belongs right of the U, you savage!

Do you have an HR fetish or something?

Though, obviously I had to come up with some ridiculous solutions:

 csharp

    
bool IsEven(int i) => ((Func<string, bool>)(s => s[^1] == 48))($"{i:B}");

This one works without conditionals :)

 csharp

    
bool IsEven(int i)
{
    try
    {
        int _ = (i & 1) / (i & 1);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

Not to take from all the funny answers ... but

 csharp

    
bool IsEven(int i) => (i & 1) != 1;

(C#)

At this point I assume ignorance and incompetence of everybody talking about benefits of "AI" for software development.

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