Abstract

A software testing tool is presented, which uses dependency analysis to greatly optimize the process of running tests.

What causes homosexuality? The predominant understanding is that the causes are genetic, but this seems to be in conflict with the notion of natural selection: an individual who does not reproduce is a dead-end for the genes that they carry; therefore, the 'gay gene' should have gone extinct. A number of hypotheses have been proposed, attempting to resolve this paradox, but they are not very convincing. In this post I present a couple of my own hypotheses, which I believe do a better job at resolving the paradox.

The Stack Overflow Podcast awarded me with what they call a lifeboat!

This happened in Podcast 312 "We're building a web app, got any advice?" (2021/02/12)

The "episode notes" end with the following statement:

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Mike Nakis, who answered the question: What is the difference between memberwise copy, bitwise copy, shallow copy and deep copy?

Just one of those Greek things. Nothing here, move on.

Old comments

• Koyan 2024-07-26 16:50:34 UTC

  Τίνους είσαι εσύ?

  • michael.gr 2024-07-26 19:24:03 UTC

    Ναι, αυτό. Δεν ξέρω αν συνηθίζεται παντού στην Ελλάδα, ή αν είναι Νησιώτικο έθιμο. Δεν το χλευάζω, το αναγνωρίζω και το σέβομαι σαν έθιμο.

• Koyan 2024-07-27 20:35:48 UTC

  Στα μέρη μας (Μεσσηνία) πάντως συνηθίζεται (ή συνηθιζόταν)

• Koyan 2024-07-27 20:39:28 UTC

  Χμμμ. Διευκρινηση: δεν ρωταγα "εννοείς αυτό?". Δεν είχα καμία καμία αμφιβολία. Αλλα δεν μπορούσε να υπάρχει μόνη της η απαντηση χωρίς την ερώτηση, ήταν λίγο λάθος το σύμπαν.

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How to make the Ju52 cocktail:

In a tall glass with no ice, mix the following:

• 2 parts coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa)
• 2 parts cream liqueur (e.g. Baileys Irish Cream)
• 1 part orange liqueur (e g. Grand Marnier)
• 4 parts cold milk.

The special guy that I am, I had to go invent my own cocktail. As its name betrays, it is similar to the B52 cocktail. In fact, the Ju52 is just B52 with cold milk instead of ice.

The benefits

The replacement of ice with cold milk imparts the following benefits to the drink:

It is becoming customary in western societies to ask people in various settings to state their preferred pronouns. It started among younger people of the particularly woke persuasion, and it is spreading everywhere. When I find myself in such a setting, I do of course go along, because doing otherwise would be awkward, but I hope that it is only a fad which will eventually go away. While waiting to see how it pans out, let me describe a few issues I have with it.