We exported the latest version of the Google-internal Go Style Guide today:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/

Among editing for clarity, of which there was a lot, we revamped the import grouping guidance, clarified significantly how error wrapping is to be used, must functions, and more. Full delta here:

https://github.com/google/styleguide/pull/947

#Go #Golang

The Great Firewall of China has apparently experienced a great data spill. > 500gb of source code, work logs and internal communication records were leaked. Some light reading for the weekend /s

https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/

here's a social skill that a lot of tech people struggle with, me included: try answering simple, direct questions with simple, direct answers; if you can't, shut up.

strong opinions about doing it "the right way" or "your way" when not explicitly asked for, isn't helping anyone, it's a crudgel to beat the curiousity out of whoever is asking. i lose all interest in solving the problem at hand. i don't have time nor the emotional energy for your reddit-ass yap session. i don't want to argue an answer out of you. i don't care. just answer the question, or just say you don't know.

adjusting the complexity of the answer to align with the scope of the question will make it easier to trust you in future inquiries, it will actually help the person who asks, it will save everyone a lot of time. swallow your infodumps. swallow your snark. just answer the question. just put the fries in the bag. keep👏 it👏 simple👏

Look: I dig my privacy. 364 days out of the year I can think of nothing more pleasant than being left alone of an evening, working at writing a story, watching some television, making a small meal, smoking my pipe, just swimming along softly behind an ambience of aloneness. There is nothing of loneliness in all that, but aloneness, which is something else altogether, something fine and rewarding, filled with restoking the internal fires, coming to grips with myself, perceiving my directions and my place in the universe.

(Harlan Ellison, "No Offense Intended, but Fuck Xmas!"; in The Harlan Ellison Hornbook)

"Voor een functionerende democratie is een debat nodig dat de deelnemers voeren op grond van min of meer dezelfde feiten."
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-de-dag/nee-henri-bontenbal-je-door-een-hysterische-jack-van-gelder-laten-besproeien-met-drek-is-niet-iets-dat-erbij-hoort~baba5c62/
Daarom is desinformatie schadelijk voor de democratie.

En "daarom vallen antidemocraten wetenschap en journalistiek aan en hebben ze desinformatie nodig. In de chaos die ontstaat lijken zij de leiders die orde op zaken stellen."