"Benign Violation Theory"
Discovered courtesy of my friend Lucas, here's the quote from the website about what this is:
In collaboration with Caleb Warren, McGraw has been developing and testing a general theory of humor called the benign violation theory. The theory builds on work by a linguist, Tom Veatch, and integrates existing humor theories to propose that humor occurs when and only when three conditions are satisfied: (1) a situation is a violation, (2) the situation is benign, and (3) both perceptions occur simultaneously. For example, play fighting and tickling, which produce laughter in humans (and other primates), are benign violations because they are physically threatening but harmless attacks.
A strength of the theory is that it also explains when things are not funny: a situation can fail to be funny because it depicts a violation that does not simultaneously seem benign, or because it depicts a benign situation that has no violation. For example, play fighting and tickling cease to elicit laughter either when the attack stops (strictly benign) or becomes too aggressive (malign violation). Jokes similarly fail to be funny when either they are too tame or too risqué.
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Two amazing quotes from tonight's D&D session:
"You deal with your mother, we'll deal with the dead dragon"
"This is where the Vietnam hippy in the van took us."
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"My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase"
Found this story on LinkedIn and it made me laugh.
So our summer intern (who I'm 90% sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos.
Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. The last guy who understood it fully left to become a yoga instructor in Peru.
Enter our intern. First week, he asks why our commit messages are so boring. Starts adding memes to his. Whatever, right? Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like:
// This function is older than me and probably pays taxes // TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance // Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call
The senior devs were split between horrified and amused. But here's where it gets good.
He's reading through the auth code (because "the commit messages here are too normal, sus") and adds this gem:
// yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though // fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin // wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all
Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats.
The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)"
The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report.
The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ngl"
I can't tell if this is the peak or rock bottom of our engineering culture. But I do know our intern's getting a return offer, if only because I need to see what he'll do to our GraphQL documentation.
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40 Gig file to check even/odd of a number
Simply marvelous. This is the sort of thing the Internet was created for.
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Bullets in a baby diaper caught by TSA
Posting here solely to recognize the author's first line of the article:
It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think.
Security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper Wednesday at New York's LaGuardia Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said.
Officers pulled the otherwise clean diaper from a passenger's carry-on bag after it triggered an alarm in an X-ray machine at an airport security checkpoint, the TSA said.
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"Every U.S. President Ranked by How Good They Would Be at Video Games"
This is incredible.
Bottom of the barrel is Teddy Roosevelt at #45:
Teddy Roosevelt practically invented touching grass, and would be horrified at the idea of something like Death Stranding, when he could go outside and walk around with a bunch of shit on his back in real life.
It only goes on from there and is very very funny.
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Do you know what science field has the hardest time filling positions? Physics.
Because so many of them end up being theoretical.
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There is an article in the Atlantic about @Horse_Ebooks
I don't know whether to laugh with joy or cry with sadness at the current state of journalism.
Reading the article makes it make a bit more sense where they view the current events through a tweet by the account's usage on Twitter, but it's still wild to see.
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