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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nice quote, did you steal it from the President?


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks for the tip about trying to pass an arbitrary parameter, unfortunately, it was discarded by the offender. And in my defense, the significance of that circumstance which solved it for you only dawned on me in hindsight...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm curious how easy this riddle I recently found myself spending days to solve would be for professional software developers.


A fictionalized description of the situation: I'm in charge of a cadre of robots, whose working shift is from 6 am to 5.50 am next day. Every time they assemble a batch of Dyson swarm units, a database entry with the size of the newly born batch is created, amounting to hundreds of rows per robot per shift. To report on the process, by midday I need to submit a table on the previous shift numbers, but unfortunately my interface only supports exporting data from 00:00 to 23:59 of a given day. Nobody pays much attention to the shift tail end's results, because even robots slack after midnight, but the results for the previous day, which actually matter, are seriously truncated after downloading, let's say 20% of the expected amount of data. After random messing with filters in the interface, turning something off, maybe turning it on again, I am able to download something looking like the full data set.


I reverse engineer the REST API of the web interface, and try to replicate that random tinkering in a script. For example, exclude those robots assigned to assemble catgirl bots instead of Dyson bots, or do two downloads, of the robots painted red seperately of the robots painted blue, or some other even more convoluted approaches. Each approach works exactly once, as if there is somebody on the other side of the API, blocking every approach he encounters.


What was (apparently) happening and how did I (hopefully) prevail?


Those idiots cache the result of any particular query, even if the day for which the query was made was not finished yet. And because I applied each countermeasure both to the important data of the previous day, and to the rump of the shift that falls on the current day, the next day all those "countermeasured" queries were already cached too. I had to resort to ludicrous random.shuffle() in the function which assembles a query.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My first and last serious relationship > The Red Pill > the freshly published Untitled, plus Radicalizing the Romanceless > the rest of Slate Star Codex > HPMOR, The Motte, some Tumblrs. Nowadays I find Kiwi Farms more to my liking, though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wanted to show my boss which diagram type I had in mind, but I forgot its name and couldn't describe it to Google. In the end, I had to search for came in a fluffer.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Avatar's Dirty Secret: Nature Is Just Fancy Infrastructure
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As good place to ask as any. When in A Fire Upon The Deep nobody in-unverse could understand the purpose of a broadcast sent by the Blight involving humans, which led to the false speculation about our unique susceptibility, was it to poison the well against similar, but in that case true, accusations against another species?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There has been a discussion of Death Note lately, and I feel obliged to shill my favorite fanfiction of it: Silent Partner, Unfinished Business, which is the best thriller novel I've ever read, including original literary works. And a few days back one forum participant was disgusted by the canon's treatment of Naomi's death — here she survives Light's sadistic execution, and... well, that would be spoilers. But to that forum participant (I honestly don't remember the name): it could be to your liking, and wouldn't even require knowledge of the original series past the episode with Naomi.