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My namesake, er, not quite ;).

With that for the rest of the day I won't get the Tragically Hip song "New Orleans is Sinking" out of my head. https://youtu.be/LAZUsCONjIQ?si=QIvXOppHk3X1UuQ0

But at least JS now has a built-in leftpad function ;) (called padStart).

I'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.

What?!?! I was an IBM Systems Engineer in the late 1980s / early 1990s and that was nothing like my job description.

Yup, impossible to read. I was a paid APL coder in the early 80's. We called it WORN: Write Once, Read Never.

Lol, on my trip up Pikes Peak I was blissfully unaware that altitude sickness could be a thing. So I can't recall if I felt any different. I do recall the carburetor on my motorcyc…

Finally, some deshitification news on HN!

Luge too :)

Brilliant. But be prepared for failure. Some days instead of the rejection you're expecting you'll be accepted instead!

It's not really a promised or conscious boycott. It's after weighing the pros and cons, many of them intangible, the feeling is visiting the US right now could result in unpleasant…

Although the probability is closer to 0% than 100%, it is far enough away from 0% to have many Canadians concerned. As the midterm elections approach and things start looking like …

They could monitor the midterm elections /s

Lol, reminds me of a story: at his workplace my brother was invited to join a lottery ticket pool where each got to pick the numbers for a ticket. The numbers he picked were 1-2-3-…

Especially with template partials now in the core of Django 6.

By the end of Trump's third term the US will be isolated from almost all global trade anyways.

OOP is like alcohol: enjoyable in moderation but dangerous in excess. In moderation, an object is a data structure with associated functions (methods) that acts as a kind of namesp…

Yup. And Toronto in Canada is closer to the equator than to the north Pole.

I've been doing IT for decades. Many times I've come across something that seems stupid yet also has a non-trivial number of supporters. When this happens (and it will many times),…

Lot's of comments here at the "micro" level: about the comfort of an individual pedestrian. There's also the "macro" view: how best to quickly and safely move a large number of ped…

There are those like me who eat meat, like the taste of meat, but think for health reasons they should be eating less meat.

> ,,, we're now on the cusp ... Would that be the same cusp self-driving cars were on 5 years ago? I think the benefits of LLMs are farther in the future but the (massive) costs ar…

Yup, lots of Y2K work shipped offshore in the 90s while onshore worked on the web boom. After Jan 1, 2000, mgmt thought, hey, how can I use these cheap guys elsewhere.