Donald Trump is nature's way of explaining why multicellularity was a mistake.
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Dan Kortschak
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On the same page of a different book.
Why did anyone think that reincarnating Caligula in the 21st century would be a good idea?
Matthew GarrettTrying to convince my students that having all your security policy changes include a design doc describing the status quo, the desired outcome, why this change will achieve it, why alternatives were rejected, and then implementing it via some automation schema so it can't accidentally be reverted for no obvious reason is good actually
Just watched the Four Corners documentary on the toxic algal bloom on #Adelaide's beaches. According to the premier of South Australia, paraphrasing, it's not a poison chalice, the chalice itself is not poisonous, it _has_ poison _in_ it, but that doesn't make it a poison chalice.
Which is grammatically correct? (No, I'm not confused, just interested.)
There were more than one ways to do it.
There was more than one way to do it.
Poll ended at .
Filippo ValsordaDependabot security alerts have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, especially for Go vulnerabilities. That hurts security!
Just turn it off and set up a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.
Less work, less risk, better results!
Anyway, read Russ Cox's take on AI tool use in the Go project.
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/4Li4Ovd_ehE/m/8L9s_jq4BAAJ
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?
Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example
Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!
This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.
Larry GarfieldI may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.
It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.
The cloud computing corollary to Greenspun's tenth rule of programming:
"Any sufficiently complicated cloud service contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp, expressed in YAML, poorly."