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So yak shaving comes after bike shedding?

Those exact words are the positioning statement (start the second paragraph) of the document you linked. What are you trying to say?

Is this article just trying to distract from the fact that the largest data breach was actually Elon Musk and DOGE in 2025?

It is demonstrably NOT talcum powder. What did you really mean to say?

A trait doesn’t have to be advantageous to persist just non-detrimental.

Trump could increase the tariffs he already set in April 2025 for new cars manufactured in Canada. Depending on the car model the increases vary between 2500 and 15000 USD.

Not my blog but it’s an interesting exercise

The issue does not lie with Unicode. It's just a custom string encoder/decoder whose encoded character set is restricted to non-printables. Many editors and IDEs have features (or …

The last time you voted in The United States of America may be the last time you get a vote in The United States of America. All three branches of The United States of America has …

Do I understand correctly that you deliberately entered personal contact information into LLM? If so, I would be a reprimanding anyone in my org that did this. While it’s more effo…

It’s just another way to rip off the small guy who thinks they are getting a deal but the company has all the power. Who doesn’t think the terms and conditions will include phrases…

Beware the terms of use for those point programs you are maximizing

They still do and investigate each failure. If the end result is that the library is “wrong” tickets and patches get sent to the library maintainers.

Postgres calls these foreign data wrappers (FDW) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

%v/pattern/d can also be written as %g!/pattern/d

Copilot is just another junior teammate. You need to peer review the heck out of that code

You can use Obsidian to create markdown from One Note. https://help.obsidian.md/import/onenote

I would very much appreciate the same for RUNE if you feel motivated. I'm looking now to choose the obsidian plugin that helps me take advantage of the vast amount of notes I have …

I recommend this blog post to all devs I work with that need to pick up Perl: https://qntm.org/perl_en

Front end web development is an ever revolving carousel of pain. 20 years ago I was in the same place as you but with Enterprise Java. I stuck with simpler environments where my ab…

Is it a vulnerability in a business or in a government service/dept?

Thank you all with the suggestions!