What precisely is your interpretation of Falkner’s assertion that trans people should lobby for a “third place”?

It means you can take out the bride’s party, or the groom’s party.

Thousands separator.

I’m not sure if that opening sentence is fatuous or not. What errors in any industrial enterprise are not human in origin?

Did it? I thought that was Britain, in 1941.

(Edited to say: May 1940 - that was earlier than I’d thought.)

That’s actually the idea. It’s not general precrime, it’s a decision support tool for predicting recidivism when deciding parole cases.

That doesn’t mean it’s not on decidedly shonky ground statistically speaking.

570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.

Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.

It can reliably predict when people are black, though.

That’s a lot of toilets.

She (Paulina something…?) is rather famously (or infamously) banana-phobic. When the story went viral a handful of other public figures came out to say they had the same, somewhat unusual, phobia.

Sweden’s former minister for equality had a particular interest in these.

Not just domain logic. The implementation logic is often weird too. Cobol systems have crash/restart behaviour and other obscure semantics that often end up being used in anger; it’s like using exceptions for control flow, but exceedingly obscure and unfortunately (from what I’ve seen of production cobol) a “common trick” in lots of real-world deployments.

That’s pretty nuch why every one of these cases has settled before it reached court. The first thing the prosecution would do would be to get documetation of how many times this had happened, and the met policy that knowingly encouraged it.

Post Sept 11, (lots of) flights were grounded for several days.

If you want to nudge the ketohead narcissist, you have to pander to the ego.

More like because you’re eating broccoli.

C++ is one if those languages where writing a library feels hugely different from using it. Boost is a case in point here: there are brilliant peiple behind it, but (error messages aside) the ergonomics of using thise libs in an application are usually pretty good.

(Scala felt similar to me. There are other languages where it feels much less like I’m swapping hats as I flip between parts of a codebase.)

He doesn’t want to be co-president. He’s a founder of the USA.

Antibiotic-resistant communicable diseases don’t respect political borders.

Fucking well said.

I care about my friends, and if they want to talk about it, I’m happy to listen.

Depending on what the thing is (eg, potential new person) they can be inherently interesting too.