Your Computer's Selective Hearing

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Content New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91 accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 0.8 1.78 An illustrated depiction of facial analysis technology similar to that used in the experiment. Illustration: Alamy

Ah, the sweet irony of Python development. While most languages let you put whitespace wherever the hell you want, Python's like that micromanaging boss who freaks out if your indentation is off by a single space. The poor soul in this image is literally pointing at his screen, probably wondering why his perfectly logical code is throwing an "IndentationError" because tab #47 is somehow different from tabs #1-46. Meanwhile, his colleagues using JavaScript are throwing semicolons around like confetti and getting away with it. Seven years of programming experience and I'm still counting spaces like a first-grader learning arithmetic. Progress!

Ah, the two eternal states of developer existence. First panel: code doesn't work and you have no idea why. Second panel: code suddenly works and you have even less idea why. The universe maintains balance by ensuring that understanding remains equally elusive in both failure and success. Just another day where blind luck trumps actual competence. At least the confusion is consistent.

The generational coding war in three frames. Junior dev with a broomstick getting roasted for using "ordinary functions and objects" and basic HTTP requests by some floating coding wizard. Then the mic drop: "My mentor said it was enough for projects of this era." Every senior dev has been that floating wizard, criticizing someone for not using the latest framework-du-jour or some unnecessarily complex architecture. Meanwhile, the junior with their simple CRUD app is actually shipping while we're busy bikeshedding about whether to use GraphQL or gRPC for a to-do list.