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> If a security vulnerability is reported by someone who is also violating the CoC, what do you do? Do you ignore it? Fix it silently? Is this even a question? You triage and fix t…

… and regulation, too (as the article details).

> It was easier to have non-threatening debates because everyone felt more secure. When people are stressed and afraid, the debates aren’t just intellectual exercises but things th…

> Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita.

Snopes in 2018 and Snopes in 2008 were sadly two very different things. They used to be such a great resource!

I think that this is correct. Also, we really shouldn’t forget that Markdown is meant to generate HTML, and that HTML blocks are valid Markdown: a system which does not permit it i…

> If you run more than one monitor with different DPI, Wayland is the only choice. I run multiple monitors with differing physical DPIs on X11. Yeah, that means they have differing…

> Quoting is insane and hard to get right. This really makes me wonder if you’ve used Tcl. Quoting in Tcl is so much simpler than in e.g. bash or cmake. It’s all about know when a …

> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.

> I'll take Java over JavaScript any day Well sure, and I would choose to be hanged rather than broken on the wheel, but I’d rather neither. Fortunately, Armed Bear Common Lisp run…

I think it’s more like how some people still wear wool and linen despite the fact that polyester and rayon exist. Popularity does not equal quality.

> Having a unified tool set works wonders for group productivity, no more messing around with some employees not having a certain package and others needing to customize their vim …

Well, forbidding adults from smoking is one of the negative consequences.

> I know, it’s strange… since 1972 everyone was thinking that we were manipulating versions, but, it turned out, surprisingly, that thinking about the changes themselves as first c…

These are hilarious. Is it a meta-joke that a series of videos about over-complicated technology are only visible if one allows JavaScript and embedded Twitter posts?

It’s so much easier to destroy than to build. That applies to buildings, but it also applies to cultures and civilisations. The work of centuries — even of millennia — can be broke…

Imagine a Gandalfina origin story where she’s running, jumping, punching and kicking orcs!

> you should not assume the format of a non-200 status code You should never assume format based on status code at all! You should detect it based on the Content-Type header. > You…