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Yeah, none of these other stories and photos are from reality

Yes, but this doesn’t prevent issues like the xz issue, where the code looks fine, but the build scripts alter it.

I am very concerned about Rust. Rust’s “decision” to have a very slim standard library has advantages, but it severely amplifies some other issues. In Go, I have to pull in zero de…

I suggest you read Amnesty’s report on the human rights situation in China and reevaluate your position: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/eas...

“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”

On a transatlantic flight I recently had the displeasure of browsing over a satellite connection. A lot of sites simply never loaded, even though the connection speed was reasonabl…

Why do you feel the need to bring this up?

This is a good example showing that all work is not removed by automating a task, such as selecting which products are related and displaying that on an online store’s product page…

Genuinely asking: Do developers look at these styles as more than helpful tips? Surely these CSS/JS blobs that Figma outputs have to be correctly and carefully merged into the code…

I think the correct response is that it really whips the llama’s ass.

Most people seem to think w3schools has some form of association with the W3C. It is actually run by a small family company, Refsnes Data AS, from Sandnes, a depressing city on the…

Good questions. The usual answer is “because it’s a good staring point for teaching the team to talk and coordinate often”. As with most scrum ceremonies, the standup should probab…

My bad. Great work by the Russian crew. Got my years mixed up, Norway won in ‘09, but hosted in ‘10.

That’s from the Norwegian finals! The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation has such an impressive and passionate technical crew, it is really fascinating how they manage to make trul…

They changed their charging port once since the release in 2007 and they made one other connector change (removing the headphone jack) during those 15 years.

Nope, especially considering the implications of this, with the amount of people working remotely. Google Meet, Classroom, etc. are down. This is probably literally costing billion…