The neighbours’ seven-year-old suggested using a VPN to get around age checks. I don’t know if he knows what one is, but he’s definitely seen adverts for them.

I’m surprised their response wasn’t, “you’re all on the side of predators; it’s as simple as that”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/peter-kyle-nigel-farage-extreme-pornographers-online-safety-bill

You’ve managed to pivot from idiot to twat. Take a breather.

Even the standard formulation of newtonian dynamics admits nondeterminism. (This requires a non-Lipschitz setup to work; and in any case it doesn’t describe the world we live in. Also it’s a mathematical description, not the real thing.)

I’m not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn’t it turn “it works on my machine” into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: … "?

I am no messenger.

But I do bring you a message:

the message - of death!

Some of the GoF patterns over-emphasise inheritance, but by-and-large, you don’t build large systems without either using or rediscovering software patterns, whether they’re OO, FP, or what-have-you.

No, it didn’t.

Mind your ankles. The slopes around here are slippery.

The point of Java is to be a language for 90% of programmers. The vast majority of software development is not sexy, doesn’t require a PhD. Java was intended to be a commoditising language and in that it succeeded wildly.

In the UK, in general, take advice. If you’re bang to rights then a guilty plea (in court, not to the police) can affect sentencing.

Unfortunately, having said that, the UK conviction rate for rape is unbelievably low. “She liked sex ergo she deserved it” is still a line that juries are too willing to buy. It’s fucking depressing.

Heaven’s Vault.

If you had a brace of five-syllable lines bracketing that and managed to reference the season, you’d have a perfect haiku.

Honestly I think W3 jumped the shark when it added a fifth faction for Gwent, and I know I’m not alone in this opinion.

With massive OOO pipelines, what’s the alternative?

I think Kermit’s cover of Cash’s cover was brilliant.

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?

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.