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neat

https://www.dwds.de/wb/Wichse

wichsen Vb. ‘mit Wachs bestreichen’ (15. Jh.), ‘polieren, blank putzen’ (17. Jh.), ‘prügeln’ (18. Jh.), Lautvariante des von Wachs (s. d.) abgeleiteten Verbs wächsen, bei der Umlaut-e in i übergegangen ist. wächsen, in einzelnen Mundarten bewahrt, wird in der Literatursprache von wichsen verdrängt. Dazu gewichst Part.adj. ‘schlau, gerissen’, verwichsen Vb. ‘verprügeln’ (beide 19. Jh.). – Wichse f. ‘Schmierfett, Putzmittel, Prügel’ (18. Jh.), Rückbildung aus dem Verb. In der Studentensprache Wichs m. ‘Festtracht, Gala der Verbindungsstudenten’ (18. Jh.), danach auch umgangssprachlich ‘Festgewand, Putz, Staat’, sich in Wichs werfen ‘sich fein machen’ (19. Jh.).

;-)

Does the US still have a working reporting system?

Though, obviously I had to come up with some ridiculous solutions:

bool IsEven(int i) => ((Func<string, bool>)(s => s[^1] == 48))($"{i:B}");

This one works without conditionals :)

bool IsEven(int i)
{
    try
    {
        int _ = (i & 1) / (i & 1);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

Not to take from all the funny answers ... but

bool IsEven(int i) => (i & 1) != 1;

(C#)

At this point I assume ignorance and incompetence of everybody talking about benefits of "AI" for software development.

I'll quote myself from some time ago:

The entire article is based on the flawed premise, that "AI" would improve the performance of developers. From my daily observation the only people increasing their throughput with "AI" are inexperienced and/or bad developers. So, create terrible code faster with "AI". Suggestions by copilot are >95% garbage (even for trivial stuff) just slowing me down in writing proper code (obviously I disabled it precisely for that reason). And I spend more time on PRs to filter out the "AI" garbage inserted by juniors and idiots. "AI" is killing the productivity of the best developers even if they don't use it themselves, decreases code quality leading to more bugs (more time wasted) and reducing maintainability (more time wasted). At this point I assume ignorance and incompetence of everybody talking about benefits of "AI" for software development. Oh, you have 15 years of experience in the field and "AI" has improved your workflow? You sucked at what you've been doing for 15 years and "AI" increases the damage you are doing which later has to be fixed by people who are more competent.

Same as antibiotics.

Hot damn (I'm so [so] "guilty" of this); seriously – it's no even (or odd) funny!

fixed title

If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think ~~straight~~ will do it for us.

After reading your comment I was wondering why 24 years after the thing and not 20 or 25. "Round" numbers intuitively make more sense to me to create a connection to a previous event. Then it occurred to me, that the second and fourth letters of the alphabet are B and D, as in Dick Butler. Though I doubt Richard would have gone with that nickname. Then again, maybe him being constantly teased/bullied as the dick butler explains him going down a road of hate ;-)