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Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/

Unpopular because it's so flagrantly ignorant. How much do you know about the "egregious" expenditures by rank-and-file federal employees just doing their jobs?

> A butler has always been a person of authority, expertise, and responsibility. Why "houseboy"? Because he's Asian? facepalm The author describes Marc Andreessen's Gilded Age slas…

No, it is bad advice, and it is absolutely not idiomatic Python. The language specification reserves them to ensure new ones can be added in the future. https://docs.python.org/3/r…

Cartels disrupting law enforcement, and/or vice versa.

Pulumi, cdk8s.

Until you need to update it, or apply it to multiple environments, or any number of tasks where the concepts of configuration parameters and dependencies become important. Edit: I'…

The lesson is that shockingly few people have realized is that the problem space is not, nor has it ever been, served by declarative solutions. You can describe the state you want …

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

"Moving on" and recounting a story can be, and often are, entirely different things.

Ruby/RoR values form over function. Over the past few (five or so?) years, as teams went through the transition from aggressive feature development to devoting more effort to maint…

Their own internal price target, the FMV they assign to shares. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-cuts-internal-valuation-...

Please. Stripe is privately held so let's look at a market comp, SQ. SQ 2021 Revenue: $17B SQ 2021 cash and short term investments: $5.3B Stripe 2021 Revenue: $12B Similar business…

You aren't missing anything. This guy is absolutely, completely, without rival or parallel, beyond compare, unquestionably supreme, the God-King, the Emperor, the One True Big Kahu…

Interesting concept, and plenty of good discussion and criticism in other comments. One thing in particular from the article that I found especially objectionable: > For now, the t…

I tried to order a Solo Stove last fall. I placed the order, they accepted it, everything seemed like a normal e-commerce experience. Two days later, I received an email saying my …

There are many complaints in this discussion about inaccuracies in the post but you've actually captured the essence of the problem--type hints just don't solve the problem well. M…

Good gravy, this is a lot to unpack. It's an alarming story from the very beginning, and a cautionary tale of how tempting it is to do everything with Jenkins, even though it's an …

This isn't a batch scheduling problem. It's a monitoring and alerting problem. OP needs a monitoring and alerting solution . Stop ~~~ engineering ~~~ things and choose the right to…

You put it better than I could. There are certainly naive examples of how to use it out in the wild but that's not SQLAlchemy's fault. It's a sophisticated tool that accurately ref…

Yes, the premium received at the time the contract was sold.

That's not what the fallacy fallacy means. It is possible to form an coherent argument that happens to include a fallacy, where eliminating that fallacy doesn't invalidate the argu…

citation needed

> The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally. Not really. Jails and chroots are a form of containerization and have existed for a long time…

Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You als…