Big "our greatest moments are behind us" vibes from Triangle academic libraries:
Big "our greatest moments are behind us" vibes from Triangle academic libraries:
Accepting weakness in a culture that valorizes strength; accepting illness in a world that’s intolerable to it; needing help at a time when empathy is not very easy to find,
these are the challenges that extend beyond one’s own suffering and into a collective pain, one most of us remain in denial about until something bad happens to us, too.
- Kate Wagner, "The Hairshirt Doldrums"
Is now the right time to bring up that Summon (the library search tool) switched _to_ hashbang-based URL structure in 2013 and the platform still relies on them?
To make it worse, the URL encodes the query _both_ as regular query terms and as a hashbang. The "true" query makes the URL bookmarkable, but the application translates the terms to a hashbang and only uses the hashbang portion when in actual operation.
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A quick conceptual hack you can use when technologists are arguing that a particular legal regime shouldn't apply to their new shiny stuff: imagine that they are saying that holding up a bank is fine as long as you do it with a raygun.
"rayguns are extremely futuristic, and therefore your old laws don't apply to them"
"rayguns are very good for holding up banks, do you want to stand in the way of progress"
"you can't put the genie back in the bottle, rayguns are here to stay"