Interesting Links for 07-02-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Star Wars, The Osmonds, and Twincest Predictions

(tags:StarWars twins incest music predictions )

2. Scientists suggest way to help children get desensitised to peanut allergy (effective for 80% of them)

(tags:peanuts allergies )

3. Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?

(tags:airplanes crash Malaysia )

4. How damaging is the trans prisoners row for the SNP?

(tags:transgender lgbt snp scotland )

5. The kindest way to break up with a friend is to ghost them

(tags:friendship )

6. What actually helps reduce bullying?

(tags:bullying society )

7. LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales

(tags:lgbt wales transgender GoodNews )

8. I have regularly thought that more computing education should be as apprenticeships. I suspect the same is true of many other jobs.

(tags:apprentices Education uk )

9. China is building a staggering amount of solar power, here's how

(tags:China solarpower )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Have you not worked with people who are happy to be handed a design/requirements and churn out the code for it, but have no interest in how any of their libraries work?

[channelpenguin]

Hmm... oh, not as drastic as I was thinking. I see what you mean. Really not as often as I've worked with people who are MORE curious about inner workings than I am!

But it is typical that I'm the one who will casually suggest "what we need is a mutex", be surprised nobody has heard of one, and go find out what the issues with the algorithm used in the most popular library are ... (Spoiler, they ignored that last bit ... For a whole week - until we were under full load and hit the conditions that flaw shows up in).

On the other hand, I detest people interviewing me with uni level logic / code exercises and I'd not be able to tell you if the performance of this or that was On or O log n and all that bunk. That stuff I haven't thought of in 30yrs...