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Rubber duck debugging

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In software engineering, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck.

via Rubber duck debugging – Wikipedia

Although, I can’t really imagine that implementing this en masse in my current office landscape will gain much in the effect of not interrupting your colleagues… I imagine sales will step in and stop it before any larger customer can see us… 😀

Header image: “Ty Beanie Duck Programming — It may not be a rubber duck, but I can hug it when it goes really bad!” Own work.

Science and Technology

Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time | New Scientist

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Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death.

via Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time | New Scientist

Interesting! This is, of course, one way to refine this technology to decrease bad side effects until it may be mature enough to even use it to go to Saturn…

Unless the side effects are worse than death, but it seems they’ve tested it on animals with good results…

Politics and Society

Tennessee lawmaker says pornography is “root cause” of school shootings – CNNPolitics

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via Tennessee lawmaker says pornography is “root cause” of school shootings – CNNPolitics

If I was as dumb as Diane Black I’d retort that it’s probably more likely abstinence was a root cause for school shootings… but I’m not, so I’m just going to point out that the wankers that perform school shootings would probably have stayed at home and wanked, had they not gotten their hands (don’t think about where they have been) on guns.