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No, it’s a lost sale.

It probably started with the Third Amendment to the Constitution, continued with the Posse Comitatus Act, and was alive and well last November under the leadership of Mark Kelly.

The important words are, American citizens . In times past, the thought of "waging war" against your own citizens would be a bad look.

> In order to fix this, we might start sending out satellites in every direction Minor correction: Satellites don't go in every direction; they orbit. Probes or spaceships are more…

The laughable thing here is the "argument" that one cannot judge the societal impact of the FBI unless one has worked in law enforcement.

Read The Fine Prompt, more or less, right?

Don’t forget that most modern version control systems are distributed. The same can not be said for ticketing systems.

Not to mention, the best commit messages are about the code that isn’t there. As you say, we know what’s there. I need the author to tell me why it’s there, and perhaps what other …

> 2. Margin of commit messages is often too small for documenting the rationale - this job is better left for tickets. The commit message lives with the code. The number of times i…

Only if gun manufacturers are liable for murders.

I read Head First Design Patterns years and years ago. I'm a fan of the series. It's less for dummies and more using ideas from psychology to help you learn the material. I'll fore…

You can disambiguate two types with the same name from different libraries, e.g. `Factotvm.URL` and `Foundation.URL`. Do you mean something more full-featured? You are not prefixin…

I'd like to see the difference in bug detection between "pull requests" vs. "over-the-shoulder code reviews". Edit: or, rather, in my experience the author of the code often finds …

I would imagine consciousness shrinks in the presence of an all-powerful god.

Slack is web-first at best. It has nearly zero platform conventions, at least on desktop. (It’s been some time since I’ve used the mobile app.) A quick couple of examples: multi-se…

Kansas, birthplace of the Lynx browser.

It’s been great in many ways, but the user interface is horrible. Why they show the scores on the thumbnail for replays is beyond me. Time shifting is all about not knowing the out…

Your talk of audio reminds me of how the climax of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is so powerful because of its restrained sound. The silence of Chingachgook's inaudible wail make…

I'm here for this, but not to declare empathically my position. Rather, I'd like to ask a question: Say I'm learning a new language that is opinionated about casing. Suppose it was…

For me, it’s because I’m on my work machine. I don’t move my personal credentials to my work machine. (In fact, I moved over to my phone to write this comment.) We could discuss th…

In essence, Goodhart's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Did you miss the part about kids?

Yes, I believe we do. I only need think of the math discovered solely to predict the stars to know that without the night sky, we are different. To say nothing of the poets.

You have chosen poorly. If we lose that essence of humanity where we feel wonder and awe looking up into the night sky, then we lose one of the prime movers of discovery and scienc…

Please check out The International Dark-Sky Association and consider donating. https://www.darksky.org/ Note: I am only a donor and not affiliated with them in any way.