A rubber ducky demands that you think about your own questions, rather than taking a mental back seat as you get pummeled with information that may or may not be relevant.

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supern0va 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assure you that if you rubber duck at another engineer that doesn't understand what you're doing, you will also be pummeled with information that may or may not be relevant. ;)

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stephenr an hour ago | parent [-]

That isn't rubber duck debugging. It's just talking to someone about the problem.

The entire point of rubber duck debugging is that the other side literally cannot respond - it's an inanimate object, or even a literal duck/animal.

	▲	quesera 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Oh it can definitely be a person. I've worked with a few!

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grimgrin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not saying you should do this, but you can do this:

https://gist.github.com/shmup/100a7529724cedfcda1276a65664dc...

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MBCook an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They also don’t waste electricity, water, drive up the prices of critical computer components, or DDOS websites to steal their content.

	▲	AceJohnny2 a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		I invite you to look up the ecological footprint of a human being.