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  • Programming is definitely not an exact science.

    Armchair amateur here but there's often a lot of talk about O(n), memory optimization, trash cleanup, compression methods, race conditions, vertex choice in matrices etc...

    It reminds me of the neo-plasticists, whose argument was there is no significant difference between painting a farmer next to a pile of hay vs painting a pink square next to a yellow square: both are just arranging representative symbols on a canvas.

  • newspapers are long in the business of not getting sued.

    If you write a story about a rich enough person, they have someone whose job it is to litigate every story about them. It's automatic. They do something news worthy and all you do is repeat the fact, the lawsuit is on your desk the same day. Doesn't matter how truthful it is, the lawsuit is there because they are rich.

  • Art fulfills many practical purposes. You live in an abode designed by architects, presumably painted and furnished with many objects d'art such as, a couch, a wardrobe, ceiling fixtures, a bathtub; also presumably festooned with art on the walls; you cook and eat food in designed cookware, crockery and cutlery, and that food is frequently more than pure sustenance; and, presumably you spend a fair amount of time consuming media such as television, film, literature, music, comedy, dance, or even porn.

  • interestingly, too, this is a technique when you're improvising songs, it's called Target Rhyming.

    The most effective way is to do A / B1 / C / B2 rhymes. You pick the B2 rhyme, let's say, "ibruprofen" and you get all of A and B1 to think of a rhyme

    Oh its Christmas time
    And I was up on my roof when
    I heard a jolly old voice
    Ask me for ibuprofen

    And the audience thinks you're fucking incredible for complex rhymes.