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It has made everyone, if not smarter then, better informed. We are in a "eternal September". It will pass (not literally eternal) I would not go back. It is brilliant

How sweet! I, too am sure, they obeyed the spirit and letter of the law. Even when the opportunity cost of doing so was in the billions...

I have just reread the first few pages of his memo. I had forgotten, it has been a few years. It is naive, pompous, and offensive to people who have been fighting against the currents of prejudice a…

"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. " was of course a proposition, no…

Not completely false. "Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership." Which coul…

OOP will rot your teeth.

No, this is untrue. I cannot speak to "Vertical Farming" and silicon valley types, but I live in the heart of a modern agriculture zone. It is catastrophic. The environmental devastation is…

"I wonder what are the cons of "TS. I would like to know too. Sounds too good to be true....

Depends if you want your code to be maintainable into the future with other teams. If you do not care about the future (which os OK in some contexts) then you are correct

Been a while for me, but I agree But when I spent a year doing Javascript I found that in JQuery there were a lot of shortcuts I was writing my self to lower the RSI from typing long Javascript statem…

"Discover Classical Art" it said. I entered "porn" in the search box I got nothing. Puzzled...

Forked Attitude AI and making a rules based AI

The dictatorial regimes in Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan are not facing the same problems. Nor the hideous racist regime in Israel. Castro and I would not get along, I am a dissident by nature, so I cannot…

Really bad idea to mix tobacco with your cannabis. Tobacco is a dangerous addictive drug that ruins your health and shortens your life.

I have spend the quarantine hacking in C. On FreeCIV. Still used lots and lots of places

So will we bail out the banks and their shareholders this time?

Inverse pass the parcel: Those who pass it on get the prize, the child that ends up holding it looses... everything

I think that is what it is...

Yes. That one

Can't you see it?

Exactly!

How is it possible to talk of the future of oil and ignore the elephant in the room?

It is saying that there is a lower bound to the complexity of the junk in your garage

Optimist

What is "vendored" in this context? Verbising nouns confuses me....

Right. No point at all. A waste of time and a yawning security hole

My daughter made a living (pre Covid-19) for five years a s a poet on the streets of a major city....

"the money’s in touring, performance, etc." Not any more. Sadly.

Why NPM? I think that is the real question I do not see anybody asking. SO I will... Why NPM?? What is the point?