The question is intended to create an existential crisis and gaslight the pupils. How can anyone truly know anything?

So we’re ignoring “I a’m”?

Not really, he makes a lot of short side comments like this in the Tom Scott: England series.

This reads as sarcasm but is generally valid points…? I guess that explains why people downvoted it

Knowing him, I expected something like: “Turns out, it’s a Steam Deck, and half of you will have been screaming at the screen about how I could possibly not know that.”

That’s it. Not an explanation of what it is, just an acknowledgement of what it is. This kind of thing happens on Lateral pretty often.

No idea how you got that from my comment

And somehow, Tom Scott doesn’t even know what it is! He just calls it “basically a gaming console” with no further clarifications.

I’ve met enough ladies in my time to know some of them would be panicking given any insect larger than a fruit fly. And some men, too.

Nothing in the rulebook says a cat can’t play beachball

The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!

I knew someone would have beaten me to it :D

I like this because it doesn’t work on any level :D

Frankly if code is going to be used in a serious large scale project it shouldn’t be the realm of hobbyists …

Yes, exactly, but:

… and if it does somehow end up like that they should be held to same strict code as the professionals.

I’m thinking of things like dogecoin, which by all accounts was made as a joke with zero intention of catching on, but somehow became huge. The creator of dogecoin did not mean for it to end up like that, and by the time it did, it was out of his hands. Should he be held accountable for dogecoin to the same extent? I would say clearly not. But that sort of creates a loophole where anyone can make anything and pretend they just “never intended” for it to get as big as it has.

I’ve long said (well before AI) that we must have similar kinds of regulation for software, especially software that is used as infrastructure. This includes ~all social media, operating systems obviously, productivity software, shopping websites/apps… It’s all the wild west, with so many dark patterns and predatory tactics, all of which regulation would ban. Software engineers would have to be certified and personally responsible for their design, just like civil engineers.

It would have to be balanced somehow with software freedom. I don’t want to add any barriers for hobbyists and bedroom programmers just wanting to play around with code and share it. But at the same time, I see that barriers are sorely needed for everyone else.

I thought the same thing for about 3 seconds. Look at the photo. There is a natural dead giveaway that these two babies don’t have the same dad.

I’m calling you an ambulance.

To add insult to injury, a US cup is 236.6 millilitres, while a UK (imperial) cup is 170.48 millilitres. Not even close. There’s a whole lot of other measurements called “cup” too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

If I recall, that particular genie actually pretty much granted the wishes as they were intended, did he not?

In that case, tennis is football, volleyball is football, bowling is football, snooker is football (or perhaps footballs?)

You’ve open Pandora’s box of football!

Football or football?