xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From (imgs.xkcd.com)

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Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

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[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Wouldn’t “inheritance” be a better answer for the software engineer?

[-] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

“Instantiation” would be my guess.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is why recursion is bad, folks. It leads to weird results and often fails to properly terminate.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

But on the other hand, tail recursion is its own reward!

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 month ago

The hospital, they come from the hospital. Along with a bill for $120k.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

That's where Americans come from. Thanks all gods, most babies are not American.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Most babies are Indian or Chinese

[-] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

Indian babies are mostly free (or a much more reasonable charge)(assuming no pregnancy complications requiring a very fancy operation in a private hospital)

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I am not enough of an expert in the other fields to compare how stupid those answers are, but the software engineer seems like it is quite different to the others.

For the other professions, it seems to me, as a layman in those fields, that they are applying their own fields' jargon to come up with a silly answer. But in the case of an an off-by-one error, some software engineer had to make an error. They had to be bad at their normal job. The other professions seem like they are simply too good at their normal jobs to have common sense elsewhere. That's why software engineer seems quite different.

It really feels like the parallel answer for software engineers would be something to do with "multiple inheritance" or "mixins".

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They [software engineers] had to be bad at their normal job.

So ...

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You didn't notice it by now?

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[-] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Software engineers are bad at their jobs.

It's just that everyone else is worse.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

everyone else is worse

The point is that they weren't portrayed that way in the comic.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I think the parent comment meant "everyone else is worse at software engineering"

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You know, that makes a lot more sense than what they actually wrote. You've convinced me that they meant to say what you said instead of what they said.

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