Programming

At scale, even edge cases become common.

humanities scholars see a STEM topic they don't understand and think "damn, guess i don't understand that. they must be smart" while STEM people see a humanities topic they don't understand & go "they must just be making shit up"

Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature.

A good tool teaches you the concept.

A bad tool teaches you itself.

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

Put the arts back in schools and never let them leave again. Because now I understand how STEM only schools have not led to Innovation or critical thinking skills. Disinformation is prospering as a result

The simplicity of C is dangerously misleading.

It’s a characteristic of big tech workers who have been raised on performative activities for promotions to focus on output (I did a lot of hard work) but not the outcomes (the resulting product was terrible).