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Dear Christ, I'm sick of this dichotomy. Deliberately releasing code like this is malicious, and was clearly done with intent. I'm not sure if you could sue, but there is such a th…

I mean, the bare naked reality is that software, web software in particular, is still like... a hundred-billion dollar industry. Maybe more. As long as it's still profitable enough…

Transplant recipients are on immunosuppressants forever anyway, so this is as inconvenient as receiving a human heart. And hey, it beats being dead!

Careful, or they might eventually become a human heart attack!

And we're having a discussion. You asked for proof, then said it wasn't good enough. So why ask for it in the first place?

I'm not going to prove to you that vaccines work, sorry. Do your own homework, but remember that you're (probably) not an immunologist. Do what thou wilt.

But statistically it is. Unvaccinated people die more. Vaccinated people die less. You can't _know_ in a meaningful sense in your specific instance, but your risk is what it is no …

Risk after-the-fact doesn't work like that. Probabilities cease to be probabilities after the event happened. Plus, don't forget about all of the dead people who are unable to writ…

> at this point I want better public health evidence from CDC > At this point I don't really think that pointing at CDC public health releases is going to convince a scientist like…

This wasn't AWS CDK, it was a package to fake data and a package with some ANSI escape sequence constants. The comparison doesn't make sense. The problem is that developers apparen…

No. JavaScript developers (and Go developers) live in the "wild, wild west". Those of us using system package repositories with proper maintainers have been doing just fine for yea…

Honestly? They probably don't know how, or that's just not part of the JS culture. I've met a lot of JS-only developers, and most probably don't even know what ANSI escape sequence…

I keep telling people that, no matter what, we're going to learn something cool about the universe. I'm so excited to see these images. I mean, imagine humans 10,000 years ago, jus…

Yup! If the universe's age were a single year, we're looking back to January 6th. Truly remarkable. :)

Why would I bother with an NFT when I can already effortlessly copy bits? Digital property is not physical property and I'm not sure why people are still so intent on shoehorning t…

I meeeaan, "wants to wipe out another country" and "former president denied the Holocaust ever happened" can apply to a surprising number of places.

The hygrometers in my house swing between 30% and 70% depending on the season, but I apparently don't need to take that into account when buying printer ink. "Uh oh, it's raining! …

Erm, no? That's unnecessarily reductionist. "Can compel you to pay taxes" is not the same as "authoritarian". Go ahead, criticize the President online in the United States. Notice …

There are more resilient solutions to this problem. Don't rely on unreliable software.

Software will never be perfect, but most people aren't actually arguing for perfect. I've seen complicated web apps shit the bed with single-digit requests per second, and those de…

I've had "senior engineers" and engineering directors submit PRs that just flat out don't work. Like, I ran a minimum working example and it just... didn't work. I swear to God, so…

If anyone wants to learn more, here's why open recursive resolvers are a bad idea: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-recursive-dn...

I let them know with a gentle, three-second horn blare. Seems to help.

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." — C. S. Lewis, allegedly.