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I'm in this no-experience-to-apprenticeship program and everyone in my class thinks type coercion is the greatest thing ever.

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The elephant and rope parable rings its bell of sound morals!

Not so much the realizing what NaN means; that's more relevant to that XKCD which I probably don't need to describe here.

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Ah, but you thought about it for more than a quarter of a second. That's not allowed.

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit...

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Pointing at physical characteristics? Not as amazing.

Worse? Or better?

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Const goo =

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const Foo

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const foo = obj. Val;.

*deep breaths

If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?

They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story's plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...

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Ever since middle school, my "bless you" interaction has always been:

  • "Bless you."
  • Them: "Thank you."
  • "You're welcome."

And whenever I sneeze, it's "bless me, thank me, I'm welcome."

Thank you for attending my TEDtalk.

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