Friday Ephemeraren’t

Oh man – the programming one is right on!!
And I thought that was mainly because I’ve never formally learned how to code, and I’m not a computer scientist. But my friend who is tells me that no, even he is on Google and Stack Overflow looking for how to do stuff he runs up against.

On you kids with your “gogle”. Weak-ass stuff. In my day we had to actually go down the hall and risk the wrath of the Guru face to face.

Reminiscing about the days before the TSA. [sigh] Ahh, those were the days.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/how-air-travel-has-changed-in-the-last-100-years/ss-BBJIjta?ocid=spartanntp#image=4

Ahh, those were the days.
My dad was an engineer for what was then McDonnell Aircraft Company. When I was little (the ’60s), we’d go for fun to the St. Louis Airport and walk onto an observation platform which jutted into the tarmac. Dad would point out the DC-6s and 7s, Lockheed Constellations, as well as the odd Boeing 707 and DC-8. I remember it was very loud and smelly, but it was very cool seeing all the aircraft.

Why do the cops bring their wives when they make an arrest?

Class war.
Via https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz
https://twitter.com/Tent101/status/969276460459577344

Oh man – the programming one is right on!!
Recent, very elementary, JavaScript homework:
// Set testGrade to get the loop started
var testGrade = 101;
// Start the loop
while (testGrade >= 101) {
// Collect the score to be translated into a grade
testGrade = prompt(“What is your grade?”);
// Test for 90 to 100 and an A.
if (testGrade >= 90 && testGrade <= 100) { letterGrade = "A"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 80 to 89 and a B. else if (testGrade >= 80 && testGrade <= 89) { letterGrade = "B"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 70 to 79 and a C. else if (testGrade >= 70 && testGrade <= 79) { letterGrade = "C"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 70 to 79 and a D. else if (testGrade >= 60 && testGrade <= 69) { letterGrade = "D"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 60 and below and an F. else if (testGrade < 60) { letterGrade = "F"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for over 100 and not a grade else { alert("That is not a grade") } }

Morning, all.
Today’s terms to memorise are “Gender Studies” and “male feminist.”
No, please, don’t thank me.

even he is on Google and Stack Overflow looking for how to do stuff he runs up against.
In my experience, all that’s doing is increasing the amount of copypasta and cargo cult programming going on.

the lie of the male erection, which is necessary only for the penis to be used as a weapon in rape,
Setting aside the practitioners who are merely dishonest or incompetent, Gender Studies – and Angry Studies more generally – attracts a high concentration of people who appear to have mental health issues of varying severity. As above, there’s at the very least a tendency to extrapolate grandly, and in a manner that’s absurd, from what I assume is some personal hang-up or dysfunction.

Hate body odour? You’re more likely to have rightwing views
And if you’re oddly fond of body odour, you’re more likely to be involved in performance art.

Further to the above, note the slogan “healthcare is a human right.”

And if you’re oddly fond of body odour, you’re more likely to be involved in performance art.
It seems plausible that people with a disgusting lack of hygiene might eagerly embrace an ideology that validates their defects.

Hey, what about the culinary blowtorch?
Ha. It’s still sitting there, untouched. I’ll have to dust the damn thing soon.

“a tendency to extrapolate grandly, and in a manner that’s absurd”
Someone mentioned all the traditional, “real” subjects being already explored and the Clown Quarter is anxious to prove their worth by new, edgy, pop-culturally fashionable “research”.
They think they’re “doing science”, because, well, just look at the stack of sophistry literature!
I’m not usually a fan of Noam Chomsky, but…
“We’re just like the physicists. They talk incomprehensively? We can talk incomprehensively! They have big words? We’ll have big words! They draw far-reaching conclusions? We’ll draw far-reaching conclusions! We’re just as prestigious as they are.
Now if [the physicists] say, “Well, look — we’re doing real science and you guys aren’t”, then that’s white male/sexist/bourgeois/whatever the answer is.”

a demonstration of the mechanics behind differential followed by a bunch of verbal garbage.
It’s not, I fear, their greatest work. But then, what could compete with this?

the programming one is right on
The front half of that, that is what you normal people think we really do? Damn. I got married way too soon.
Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.

Stoltenberg was life partner to Andrea Dworkin for thirty-one years …
That alone would explain quite a lot about his lack of understanding of male reproductive physiology.

“Oh man – the programming one is right on!!”
You’re doing it wrong.
“I’ve never formally learned how to code”
I’m always slightly suspicious of anyone who did. (‘Course, they’re all better than me, but that’s not the point. I’m not sure what is, but it’s not that.)
“experientially, hard erections are neither comfortable nor pleasurable”
I can’t find the clip to do a pithy link, but what comes to mind is the scene in the Tony Hancock film The Rebel when his landlady (the incomparable Irene Handl) comes across the giant sculpture he’s been working on.
“I call it ‘woman’. It’s not figurative, of course. That is how I see ‘woman’”.
[perfectly-timed pause]
“Oh, you poor man.”

“Ne” has now entered the lexicon of university sacred words.

No word yet as to whether they’ll require a shrubbery.

trans-species-woman-returning-to-original-reptilian-form
Sssssss

Hitting Hollywood where it hurts.
Send that man some cake.

Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.
At one point the other week, one of the instructors cheerfully typed up a function for generating other functions . . .
—More or less translation, a coding function is a contained bit of code for tossing in some variable or two or something to get some generated result based on what is put in.

function glue(y, z, x) (
Connect together y, z and x in the order of x, y, and z
)
glue(“pickled eggs in the “, “martinis, again.”, “David has been serving “,)
. . . replies with David has been serving pickled eggs in the martinis, again.

—and supposedly handing back particular results is all that a function is supposed to be able to do . . . In languages other than JavaScript, when one attempts to write a function to generate a function, the language spits all over the screen . . . !

That alone would explain quite a lot about his lack of understanding of male reproductive physiology.
Dr Ben Eltham, a media studies lecturer at Monash University, rushes to the defence of our male feminist, Mr Stoltenberg, and his “lie of the male erection.” If you find Mr Stoltenberg’s blathering absurd, then apparently you’re “wilfully ignorant.”
Inevitably, Dr Eltham also writes for the Guardian.

Also from New Real Peer Review
The goal of women’s studies is to train students to become human viruses that infect and disrupt other fields.

Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.
Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!

Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.

After working with it for a few weeks, I wrote on my whiteboard that Perl is the Devil’s flatus.

Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!
Heh. Touché….As I, er…typed that it felt awkward. The phrase I think I was looking for was “not type-safe languages”. Or something. I dunno. It’s Friday and my brain is mush.

This.
And this.
Via.

It’s hip(po) to be square!
What is the difference between “fatness” and “fat bodies”? Are they mayhap afraid that if fat bodies is not specified, people will think of them as “fatheads”?

“Planetary bodies” perhaps.
The obsession with labeled “bodies” seems to be a panintersectional phenomenon. As in, every stripe of this sort of ass can’t seem to squeak a manifesto or denouncement out without at least one madlibbed “body” appearing.
The impression one gets is that they are all just meat that speaks, even from their own viewpoint.

Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!
The Governor’s next drink is on my tab.

From 30+ years as a coder – the imagined vs real programming is spot on, except 25 years ago we used a library of manuals rather than Stack Exchange.

Oh, my…
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/chinas-condoms-are-too-small-says-zimbabwes-health-minister/news-story/0361918b79eee5500070bf28001f24b8

I don’t know if this is a parody, but…
Hmm? Other stories on that site being . . .
“I’m Fixing It” Zuckerberg Calmly Douses Facebook HQ In Petrol
and
Peasant Hunting At Davos Cancelled Due To Excessive Snow
and
Brexit Negotiations Progress Significantly As Boris Has Mouth Sewn Shut
and
Designer Reveals Jennifer Lawrence’s Dress Made Of 49.5% Feminism, 49.5% Patriarchy
. . . where This in turn drew opprobrium from mild mannered people who disagreed in ALL CAPS, is one of the comment in the latter . . .

Hey Darleen…been waiting for you to pop up here again… I think there’s something that, at least to my knowledge, only you can answer. I’ve seen your comments in a few places lately in addition to here and the old PW site, and also other places where your comments had references Patterico. There’s a guy who comments at Patterico that I had also seen years ago at PW, and on rare occasion at Ace, called happyfeet. Do you happen to know if he comments elsewhere? I greatly enjoy his sardonic-ish take on things but suspect/fear Patterico will ban him at some point. Plus I’m getting real tired of having to wade through P and his fellow traveller leftist’s shiite to read hf’s takes. As I am banned at P (under a couple aliases now…long stories) I cannot ask him directly so hoped maybe you might be able to direct me?

Cultural appropriation?
Blimey. How does it…? I mean, is there a mechanism inside?

This.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/969740243380285440

“Sadly, “Peking” was supposed to be pronounced closer to “Beijing” in the first place.”
Doesn’t matter. It changed. The extraneous “s” we put on to “Marseilles” in English used to be pronounced, but who does that today? Same with “Calais”, and of course we still do it with “Paris”. People who jokingly pronounce the “j” in “Majorca” are actually correct, according to standard English pronunciation until about half a century ago. The stress used to be on the middle syllable of “Monaco” (Stirling Moss still does this; old dogs and new tricks, etc.), but of course French puts equal stress on all syllables, so the modern pronunciation is no more “correct”.
I’m not against pronunciation changing; I’m against the legislation of language. And I’m especially against patronizingly bowing down to foreigners when they try to do it to us. As I started off, it’s not “respectful”; it’s deeply disrespectful of them, and disrespectful to ourselves. No English speaker ever pronounces “Tokyo” as two syllables: To-kyo. Due to the way our brains have been wired learning English as infants, we find “kyo” difficult to pronounce as one syllable. So in English, it’s three: To-ke-o. That’s just the way it is.
“The impression one gets is that they are all just meat that speaks, even from their own viewpoint.”
There’s always been an undercurrent of that on the Left, though. The idea that society is a machine in which The Workers are just cogs, and all that. That’s how each major strain of socialism in the 20th Century ended up with death camps. I’ve said it before: they keep banging on about The People, but they have real trouble with actual, living, breathing, thinking people with minds of their own.
“This”
I suppose they think if they say it often enough it’ll come true. Please let that be it… please let that be it… please let that be it…

I once worked with a guy who referred to anyone who wasn’t an American and didn’t speak english as “Mexican”. Haitians, Lebanese, Cubans, French Canadians we worked with, all Mexicans. At times I see see the charm and wisdom of his ways.

Same with “nor yay” and “nippon.”
Is it possible that “nippon” is out of favor because during WWII American politicians spoke of “the Nipponese Empire”? and “nips” was a derogatory slang term?