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For what it's worth, "AI partner as amoral echo chamber" was also a plot line in the excellent Ray Nayler novel, "The Mountain in the Sea." "I'm going to do something terrible." "O…

To my great sadness, I have known too many people who I consider to be addicts and abusers of drugs, both illegal and prescription. Except I've never met anyone with an abusive or …

It will happen, but if you want to see the bash, warts and all, here you go. https://github.com/enfabrica/enkit/blob/master/scripts/gee One of the big issues you'll find is that so…

That seems unnecessary. Maybe you made someone feel threatened.

It's easier to support a company of users when everybody is using the vcs tool in a consistent way.

That's a good question. My wrapper isn't meant to insulate the users from git, it's meant to teach git. It shows every git command it runs and gives the user an easier on-ramp.

Shellcheck clean. But I still want to port it to python.

I wrote my company's git wrapper. It was meant to standardize our workflow and to be communal memory for every lesson learned and sharpened edge shaved. It's now 6000 lines of bash…

The jury is still out re: the efficacy of Kinzhal missiles. Ukraine reports it's been able to intercept them with old-fashion Patriot anti-missile systems. I agree with parts of th…

This sounds like a good solution to me for the hordes of workers I have known who have set their families up in communities like Livermore or Gilroy, and commute TWO HOURS EACH WAY…

It's 2023 and I'm still losing the battle in the workplace to build semantic versioning into each of our APIs. them: "Don't worry, we compile the git commit hash in. Sometimes." me…

The more I use BATS, the more I want to give the new kid on the block a try.

commercial use of california water is tiny: https://waterdesk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/where-calif... With that said, "take away something that's clean and free and then sell…

The author gave up the game with the bald-faced assertion that "The reason why it was decided to make it voluntary is because all homeless people according to them are victims of c…

I only have one anecdote. At my previous job, I vividly recall my office mate being bullied and ordered about by a more junior peer. After said peer left, he would breathe a deep s…