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I think the quality of a language for shell scripting is often secondary. What’s of greater significance is where it is at. I.e., does it have it already installed? The answer with…

Notably Diamine’s Registrar Ink and Rohrer & Klingner’s Eisen-Gallus-Tinte inks are relatively easy brands of iron gall ink to acquire and the modern formulas are less harsh and us…

I’m not really excited about this; Meta has no strong incentive to be a long term good neighbor in the fediverse, but plenty of incentive to engage in poor behavior. No matter how …

You have to have been raised pretty sweetly to not have known this kind of racketeering was a 'thing' for a very long time. Pressure to hire cops is rampant. 'rent-a-cop' is not ai…

Short of something within a few hundred feet of Bezo's desk being actually on fire, AWS's health page never seems to actually report issues.

My read as well. I write shell-scripts when the current tools solve the problem easily. I distribute shell scripts to colleagues (never customers) only when I absolutely do not wan…

Is the story of how the paper was stood up documented anywhere?

> Our concern would be that a professional educator would not only work for the district, but the district would also be their landlord Employer: * we don't want to wages in an amo…

> Folks recommend the really cheap platinum preppy pens, but be warned they are super scratchy. The reason people recommend the platinum is that its cheap and its cap system is esp…

Commenting with the others: I'm a left-handed writer and an avid fountain pen user. It isn't so bad. The best thing I can say is: try to learn to write under the line (under-hand) …

It’s just Whataboutism. What the DNC did or did not do is entirely irrelevant to the case, because the DNC is not who was standing before the grand jury. “You could pin this on a l…

At a previous company I had a chance to sit down and talk with python developers across a number of groups, and a fun question was asked: Imagine Python 4 is another large breaking…

> EU is frozen and claim so many people will die in Europe due to high energy prices. This complaint is one that (jokingly) makes me ask if you're new around here. the Economist is…

Pair it with the fact that by-and-by, apartments are extremely expensive, and in short supply, so that service jobs are often not near where people are forced to live, and that you…

> but they got to releasing v1 and then seemingly never really developed it any further. Except for the core pieces, this is a distressing description of most google products.

Every COVID story here is an interesting little glimpse into how a seemingly normal forum has their latent political views exploited into adopting a conspiracy theory, re: anti-vac…

After all, any law which is enforced by fines is a law solely for the poor.

The anti-work philosophy is not anti-labor. I think anyone of sense can acknowledge that energy needs to be put into the system in order to produce the necessities of life. Rather,…

Not at all surprised. This is pretty much the fate of all "minimalistic" devices like this (the freewrite comes to mind as well). Minimal just means that they reserve the right to …

Worse, many firms are put off by juniors for entirely preventable reasons. In their minds, juniors are undesirable because the moment they are trained up, they tend to jump ship fo…

I think Gladwell cares about history, and he cares about story, but if (as is often the case in history) he has to choose one at the expense of the other, it is going to be _story_…

It wouldn't surprise me. In many genres, I'm not sure there is a huge difference in the product put out by traditional publishers vs. that put out by direct publishing. I own a lot…

> truck drivers are being tracked routinely and nobody makes a big fuss about that. I know a number of truck drivers and they _hate_ it. Routing software is imperfect, accidents ha…