The I and O of solid are fine and don’t cause too many problems.

But I agree that Dependency Inversion is a recipe for loads of pointless interfaces that are only ever used once. I strongly prefer the traditional pattern where high level modules depend on lower level modules, it’s much simpler.

I think it would be better as SOIL not SOLID.

Maybe they could have replaced the D with DRY…

X spends resources to kill Y. This benefits X because X doesn’t have to compete with Y anymore.

However Z also gets the benefits because they don’t have to compete with Y either. In addition Z hasn’t spent any resources to eliminate Y so Z wins. The stable equilibrium is 100% strategy Z.

Most animals will use violence in self defence, or when fighting over a specific resource. They don’t kill to remove competition.

Chimps and humans are an exception to this. Likely it’s because the coalitional nature of human and chimp violence reduces the cost of inflicting the violence to near zero, and the costs are spread across the group, so it’s worth doing.

I think our brains are just a bunch of cells and one day we will have a full understanding of how our brains work. Understanding the mechanism won’t suddenly make us not sentient.

LLMs are the first technology that can make a case for its own sentience. I think that’s pretty remarkable.

It takes incredible conviction and force of will to keep your kids off the phone till they’re 16. Fewer than 1% of parents manage it. The problem is that the teenager wants a thing that everyone else has and it’s hard to keep saying no.

I think internet connected smartphones should be illegal for kids under 16 to own or use. It’s a tough sell tho.

The Volvo XC90 EV is about 90k the petrol equivalent is 60k

Then if you drive 100,000 miles in it you’ll spend £20,000 on petrol.

100000 miles / 32 mpg = 3125 gal 3125 × 4.546 L = 14206 L 14206 L × £1.45/L = £20598.70 ≈ £20.6k total petrol cost

Even with free electricity petrol wins on cost.

If you buy the car used then the story changes.

The rest of the car drives fine.

In the past I’ve hopped on a call with them and where I’ve asked them to show me it running. When it falls over I say here are the things the system should do, send me a video of the new system doing all of them.

The embarrassment usually shames them into actually checking that the code works.

If it doesn’t then you might have to go to the senior stakeholder and quietly demonstrate that they said it works, but it does not actually work.

You don’t want to get into a situation where “integrate” means write the feature while others get credit.

1) The new feature does not follow the existing API guidelines found here: see examples an and b.

2) The new feature does not use our existing input validation and security checking code, see example.

Once the following points have been addressed we will be happy to integrate it.

All the best.

The ball is now in their court and the feature should come back better

This is a politics problem. Engineers were sending each other crap long before AI.

If you are then I would point out that being legitimate allows you to attract better talent. See America’s private military contracting sector. Yes you can go and be a mercenary abroad and operate in a legal grey area, but if you’re a Private Military Contractor working for a major US company then you won’t go to jail in the US when you come back, and you can put it on your CV.

If Laos wants to be taken off the list of permitted targets then it can crack down on fraud. They have effectively allowed digital privateering against us by failing to crack down on fraud.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-stat...

The US spends 135 billion on its police force so some wasteful spending is going to happen.

Defund the police people would spend that money on something unrelated to law enforcement.

I would spend it on something useful and law enforcement related like more training for officers.

Every afternoon one of the men would be standing at the corner selling drugs. People would walk up to the man to buy the drugs. They worked a rotation but there were about 4 regular dealers at my crossroads.

The first few times I walked past by myself they tried to sell me drugs. Then they knew I was not a customer and ignored me or greeted me politely.

One of them was very chatty and I had to explain to my daughter that we don’t trust him even though he is friendly because he makes bad choices. County lines gangs are involved in human trafficking as well as drug dealing.

Every dealer I saw on that corner was from an ethnic minority background. Usually county lines drug dealers live in London and commute out to where they sell their drugs. This is why the ethnicity of the gang does not match the local population.

I sincerely hope that you never experience anything like this.

The English countryside is over 95% white. It’s obvious when organised violent gangs consisting entirely of people of color from London take over and start selling drugs.

The police put a stop to it and we are all very grateful.

County lines drug dealing is where organised gangs in London send people out to deal drugs in small towns outside London. It’s obvious because of the race of the people involved.

2 years ago the police did a massive crackdown and the county lines drug dealers disappeared. County lines drug dealers haven’t come back and now there is no obvious public drug dealing in my neighbourhood.

The police do a difficult job and they are fantastic at it.

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/over-1-800-arrested-wit...