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Passing the senate back then was because of shenanigans; not popularity. They played tricks with the “unanimous consent” procedure where senators didn’t know it was happening until…

This was exactly what I thought of as well. Garfield’s version seems more complicated since you have to calculate the area of a trapezoid instead of the area of a square, but conce…

> code.google going away, without the excuse that google itself was going away, after I had started to rely on it and link to it in docs and scripts all over the place It didn't go…

That’s already been a thing for several decades: https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...

Any argument of the form “if you knew that all along you’d be rich by now from playing the stock market” is fundamentally flawed because it overlooks one of the most well known dan…

No it doesn’t. They would have to earn $10 million dollars or more in annual revenue to be affected.

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/ I misremembered; it’s 16, not 15

The Zoom arbitration agreement includes a specific clause for that which lets them combine separate claims together and only arbitrate 15 of them. From a consumer perspective it re…

Rebases are supported; you have to do the rebases through git-appraise in order for it to know that the original and rewritten commits are related.

This one does. You can comment on any line in any file.

Perhaps this wasn’t clear enough, but I was making an explicit distinction between dependency injection and dependency injection frameworks. Dependency injection makes code easier …

Dependency injection frameworks are a horrible idea. They optimize for the wrong thing; making code easier to write but harder to read and edit. Writing code is a one time cost whe…

How does this compare to age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age ?

“Is there a way to do what you're suggesting with identities” There are certainly solutions, but I don’t know what the best solution is, hence why I called it an open problem. An e…

“All of the core decisions here are solid (pub key identities…” I agree, except for the bit about public keys as identities. I think public key identities are a step in the right d…

You can do that with git-appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

Indeed, ~1000 worldwide had any sort of hepatitis at all, whereas over 400 have died from Covid in the U.S. alone. Even if their theory is right about isolation being the cause of …

Overall that looks really nice, so thanks for sharing. A bit of unsolicited feedback; listing the seat post options based on rider height (regular for shorter than 6’3”, and extra …

Thanks for the pointer; I had never heard of sparkleshare before. It sounds like it addresses roughly the same use case, but I couldn’t find any technical details about it in its d…

I built a similar tool a couple of years ago here: https://github.com/google/git-sync-changes Both save uncommitted changes in a hidden ref. Based on the README, the differences se…

You copy the message and then send it to 7726. You’ll get an automated response back saying something like “Thank you for reporting spam”

The article indicated it was a federal trial. California laws would not be a factor.

It was a federal trial.