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> I wonder what people like this would do if faced with a real lifelong challenge? Rethink this.

Same here, and I’ve worked at everything from mom-and-pops to a couple of household names. IME this (seemingly endless) discussion about how to manage commit history is the tabs-ve…

The claim I was responding to is, "In a democracy, there is no reason to hide behind anonymity while fighting for a just cause." What I'm saying is that there absolutely are reason…

Just when I thought tweetstorms couldn't get any worse, here's one where every tweet is a quote-tweet of the author. I don't even understand how I'm supposed to read this. > Copyri…

The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled repeatedly that anonymity is protected by the First Amendment, specifically because anonymity enables free speech. A person who doe…

Ah, I see what you were saying now. It was a little confusing for me in the context of a discussion about police.

You can record on-duty police officers in California without their permission. https://www.jmllaw.com/blog/keep-mind-9-rules-of-filming-pol... https://www.solutionlawapc.com/crimin…

I've seen a lot of people lately making the "you’re made out of animal parts, so eat animals" argument, which is reasonable on its face. But there's a pretty serious problem with i…

This reply from @AzureDevOps is bizarre: "We understand. However, the way to report this issues related to Windows 11 is through our Windows Insider even from another device. Thank…

Welp, guess I'll be taking all my code off of GitHub now, lest it be copied verbatim while ignoring my licenses. (I'm no John Carmack, but still.)

Really wish you'd been on my last hiring panel. (Quit after six months.)

The article is about link rot, not cultural rot.

Yeah, I get all that too. I think my problem was that I sort of misunderstood what Node is. I've always thought of it as a web server, not a language runtime. So to me it seemed li…

Gentle creatures of the forest, I'm a 40-something software engineer who, for the past ten years, has primarily been doing distributed systems backend work. Before that I was full-…

Right, I get that. What I don't get is why Node is a requirement for a JS compiler. Is that just to get the runtime? I'd always thought of Node as a server on top of a V8 runtime. …