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> > “it is blasphemy to delete a test”, > was ever a thing. i still don't. I experienced this when working at a giant company where all the teams were required to report their "cod…

> This is less historical record than medieval propaganda piece I think you could make a good case that the title is a little sensationalistic, but you could pick at US civics clas…

> The funny part about the young author example, how older authors are not exciting to discover? Yeah the richest and most successful author of all time was discovered when she was…

I also started noticing this headline pattern ("something A as something B") all over the place a while ago and now automatically break it down as: * Something A (probably) happene…

Closest thing I've heard: https://github.com/g-truc/glm?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

Good review: I hadn't heard the Christian Science take on The Secret Garden before and am surprised the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, but it's pretty obvious now. The title…

I think this is actually hitting much closer to the intention of Levitical law than people realize. Data and debt are very strongly connected, and I think probably always have been…

> Compared to resistive heat, sure, but a heat pump powered by fossil fuels isn't much better than a gas furnace. My point is that we need to stop burning fossil fuels for electric…

I recently heard a priest say that all bad theology comes out of Germany. I'm pretty sure it was a joke, but sometimes I wonder...

The insult-people-for-being-car-skeptics trope is starting to show its age [1]. It's true that old fogey skeptics who have vested interest in the old ways are disposed towards moti…

> The term thieved is too strong here. Probably why technical term is loanword :) ... it's not like the word gets used up in the original language [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/…

> Does every stable relationship involve sexual aspects? Not generally. But creating a child necessarily involves creating a stable biological relationship primarily with two other…

This is called out as concretely happening in the "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" documentary. > Welfare policies made things worse by denying benefits to families with adult males in resid…

> technical leadership is hired by managers who's background is in the unrelated field of automobiles. ... On top of that, I think there is a bit of a generational gap between firm…

In the video of the incident linked elsewhere there is a caption that basically says that an automated system is what notified the controller there was an issue and probably why sh…

> What's going on in control towers that's causing this? Did hiring standards for ATCs drop all of a sudden, or something like that? There was a fairly major change recently [1]. B…

Definitely going to reference this fact next time I run into a bug due to an accumulated round off error. I'll wait to get out the pitchfork til they actually say "sugar-free" on t…

> Do I understand it correctly? Monday was the previous Sunday in Christian societies? Not sure exactly, but I think Sunday was always Sunday. It's Saturday that changed. https://e…

Not really though. FTA: > ... These are all ways to avoid bullshitting - but unfortunately there’s one simple way to avoid bullshit - by being critical. It’s far easier to retreat …

I work more in the firmware space, so my experience with feature toggles is always with half-baked tooling and limited ability to change deployed products. We do use continuous dev…

Looks very slick! I used QR codes and a sloppy script to back up a SSH key recently, and was dreading the possibly of needing to use said backups. I 100% will be looking into this.…

> Surely there is a market for such a device. 1% of a billion is a big number. >* Are manufacturers a cartel and won't allow breaking the duopoly? (Doesn't seem plausible, Samsung …

> Without certain chemicals, you can't have certain thoughts. Well put and true -- just like machines let us do certain things we couldn't do without them (either extending or repa…

> But don't feel bad for farmers. To inherit $10 million+ in land because your family's had it 100 years is a blessing most people don't get in life. ... I still think this is pret…

Of course it's worth mentioning that he's also depicted prominently in "A Man for all Seasons" of which "Wolf Hall" was created as a foil.