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If you use it to make software that you or other people can use, it’s programming.

I’m not interested in mediating what “real” programming is, or who gets to call themselves a “real” programmer.

Also, there’s no real difference between “coding” and “programming”, it’s just a different, shorter word for the same activity.

Aside from people who don't like making small talk with a clerk, and folks who are in a rush

Maybe it’s just my demographics talking, but everyone I know is in one of these categories and often in two.

It's a little late in the game to painlessly transition away from fossil fuels

Again, that’s the point. It doesn’t have to be painless. It has to get done.

The guy is a fucking joke.

I have other associations too 😈

I’m not sure about the browser, but a lot of malware used to ship with the tor binary and used it to connect to the CNC. I can totally see it ending up in the indicator list.

I love bashing MS as much as the next guy, but this is not completely indefensible behavior given typical user use cases and needs. As long as it’s easy to add an exception of you installed it on purpose.

I was trying to make a larger point about the concept of plagiarism as a form of scientific misconduct. In a teaching setting you are just perpetrating exam fraud and should get nailed to the wall.

I have a suspicion that the reason universities crack down on plagiarism this hard (to the point of outright making up offenses like ‘self plagiarism’), is that it’s the only form scientific misconduct that is easy to prove and investigate.

If you are wondering if it’s true, just look at how long it took for Hendrik Schon to get caught. And even then, the smoking gun was reusing (fake) graphs in a publication.