Weird realization: when I help people online, I often talk like ELIZA, repeating back the asker's phrases as a question. That simple program was able to mimic empathy and fool people at the time.
Q: How can I find the try/except around my code?
Me: Why do you say there's a try/except around your code?
@nedbatNed Batchelder "The book was written by a pair of former New York City teachers, and their thesis is that we talk to kids all wrong. You can’t argue with kids, and you shouldn’t dismiss their complaints. The magic formula includes: listen, repeat what they say, label their emotions. The kids will figure out the solution themselves." https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-talk-to-human-beings/
How to Talk to Human Beings
I hesitate to say everyone should have a child, because becoming a parent is an intensely personal choice. I try my best to avoid evangelizing the experience, but the deeper in I get, the more I believe that nothing captures the continued absurdity of the human condition better than having
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