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My hot take on a better excel: the two things excel sucks at: version control and syncing. On the backend, separate the data and the logic in the spreadsheet and put each into vers…

Here's his central point: >This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what t…

The original reason for banning sales of wild game meat in NA is because species were being driven extinct or extirpated due to hunting. https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-game-…

Democracy is orthogonal too authoritarian.

When I went skydiving, they took me up to 12.5k feet. Good weather was necessary, and they offered to only go to 9k feet if I was a little "scared". Not sure why jumping out of a p…

I remember reading about the Delta incident a ways back, here they claim it cost them ~$150 million. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/09/08/delt... That's not the …

The black bear population in CA has quadrupled since the state banned black bear hunting with dogs a long time ago. Nonetheless, the humane society sponsors bills: https://www.them…

I think they are simply pointing out that you must kill other animals in order to live. There's no way around it. If your interested in killing the least amount of animals, why not…

This should be fixed with a shebang and shellcheck. If your shebang is #!/bin/sh, shellcheck will complain loudly about bash-isms. If production is sh and doesn't have bash, there'…

This is laughable. So poking fun at a projects cost overruns and failures is actually the reason for the failure in the first place? I guess then Jon Stewart is responsible for the…

Democrats have a super majority in SF, have a majority in the CA state government, and PG&E is essentially a state (as in CA) controlled corporation. The democrats have had majorit…

Do you have inside knowledge of how the recalls are done? It's a lot more complicated than that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-... Even to the point w…

Yes they have, just not very often and not without a long political fight and not without strong political leaders to push it forward. Say what you want about the "system" and the …

A state could be a leader and enact that type of provision into their state law or state constitution. Good leadership is hard to find.

They also banned youth clay sporting leagues: https://thereload.com/california-youth-shooting-sports-leagu... edit: spelling

His argument was that a lot of people being armed leads to regular standoffs. CCW being very common and leading to almost no standoffs over stupid arguments absolutely does address…

CCW is very common in the US now, CCW holders are less likely to commit crimes than police officers. In general CCW or constitutional carry states don't see big wild west shoutouts…

The incentive to lie and manipulate is greater now than in the past. New information technology (nowadays social media....) increases the benefits of lying, and decreases the costs…

COINTELPRO was a thing, yes, but now almost all news is manipulated. Then stuff related to those stories was, big difference. >The media has always had to kowtow to some degree to …

Biased and manipulated news is a spectrum like security. You can find instances of anything in the past of you look hard enough. We are currently in a time of more bias and manipul…

The equivalent comparison with init scripts would be all the documentation and complexity of every program invoked by the init scripts, not just by sysvinit or rc's documentation a…

Some day when I'm rich and bored, I hope to help a distro move in this direction. It'd be really really cool to have a fully, very easily, debuggable and then fixable system where …

And probably https://github.com/pradyunsg/installer https://pypi.org/project/installer/ too, but that one isn't under the pypa org yet, given the author, it probably will be. All t…

Shouldn't https://github.com/pypa/build help? I don't think it has enough features yet but I was under the impression that was the distro solution.

I've come to the conclusion that it's a good skill to have since it's (or logging which is basically the same) the only debugging method that's always guaranteed to be available. F…