gred

Also "gift".

Portable & Graphical

Pee En Gee

That makes two image format names which I will refuse to pronounce correctly (the other being GIF [1]).

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif

Why so many pages of "Recommendation: implement multi-factor authentication" and other IT security irrelevancies? Did they need to pad out the number of pages?

Sure, but even better would be if she had experience in the industry to judge tactical advice she is given and set strategic direction. Otherwise the best she can do is "not get in the way".

> REE boss was put there by the ruling party.

Yeah, these public / private entities can get ridiculous. Her background is legal and political: Secretary of Women and Equality, Spokesperson for Housing, Minister of Housing, State Secretary of Housing and Urban Construction, etc. But she's a party loyalist and she took a few business classes, so it's all good.

> There are no moral hazards when it comes to social welfare programs.

This is a wild statement. Of course people take advantage of welfare programs. Of course welfare programs have unintended consequences and sometimes encourage immoral or anti-social behavior. That doesn't mean they're all bad or that they need to be completely eliminated, but leading with this obvious falsehood made it very hard to read the rest of your comment.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/covid-19-fraud-enfor...

The Trump administration largely doesn't trust the employees and infrastructure which it oversees. Not only did career government employees sabotage administration priorities throughout Trump's first four years, some of the government devices provided to the administration were used against it during the "Russia collusion" investigations [1]. Based on this experience, the administration rejected the government devices offered by the GSA the second time around [2]. Because of this deep distrust, we also have the "anti-FBI guy" in charge of the FBI, the "anti-IC" gal in charge of the intelligence community, the "anti-FDA" guy in charge of the HHS and FDA, etc. I wish it weren't this way, but sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, I guess.

[1] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/do...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-team-transition-agreement...

I'm also enjoying the conversation, but IMO font licensing is core to whether or not there is actual irony and hypocrisy at play (specifically the copyright aspect, and whether or not the font clone actually infringed copyright).

This makes me think of the Hari Seldon recordings which play over the course of centuries in the "Foundation" books by Isaac Asimov.

2025:

> While HTML offers onclick handlers to buttons, these are often disallowed outside of demos or tutorials due to Content Security Policy (CSP) rules.

2033:

> While HTML offers command and commandfor handlers to buttons, these are often disallowed outside of demos or tutorials due to Content Security Policy (CSP) rules.

> So are you arguing [...]

No, I have no issue with tax-funded police, firemen and roads; nor with equal protection under the law, or equal civil rights for all citizens :-)

But if you start to talk about "moving beyond individual generosity" I start to get the sense that you want to force me to be part of a TBD "collective generosity".

I can't make it, but I'd be interested in a summary of the event afterwards.

> How do you make long-term structural change that creates opportunity for everyone? It is an incredibly complex problem. But if we focus our efforts in a particular area, I believe we can change a lot of things in this country. Maybe not everything, but something foundational to the next part of our history as a country: how to move beyond individual generosity and toward systems that create security, dignity, and possibility for all.

In general, if you're talking equal opportunity, I won't be hard to convince. If you're moving "beyond individual generosity" to a system which forces others to be "generous" (via taxation) in order to achieve equality of outcomes, I will be very hard to convince.

Muppets!

(As an American, I love UK slang. It's both familiar and exotic at the same time.)

Good. Even if they lose, they should make as much noise as possible before giving up on the UK market. Maybe it will start to turn the tide of public perception.

It's a serious suggestion and a real possibility.

Or he just wants to make the world a better place, and you don't see eye to eye on the best way to make that happen?

Hah, the whiplash must be tremendous for some of the employees, and even for some of the customers.

It'll be very interesting to see how both employees and customers react and evolve over the next few years.

Before reading the article, I parsed the title as "ask for permission only if you want a 'no', otherwise don't ask for permission and just do it".

So they might be in the union, but not protected by it yet. Again, "new" or "junior" enough that the admin would rather go after them than "regular" employees.

Once you're past your probationary period, you are likely protected by a union. Therefore it is a side-effect of unionization that these junior-est of employees are the easiest pickings.

Agree that the term "junior" here has some nuance to it, though.

Exactly. They are so junior they aren't even protected yet. This is still a side-effect of unionization, from my POV.

I'd guess that it will be less than $9B pretty soon.

This is the nature of union employment: seniority >> everything else.

My experience with very simple Jersey web apps is ~1.5 seconds to start up. Much less than his reported ~8 seconds with Spring Boot, but still not in the 100 ms range he reports with Go. I assume one second or so is about as low as you can go with a mainstream Java framework without AOT, though I'd be happy to be corrected.

I'm struggling to describe the levels of skepticism that I'm feeling right now.

I work, my wife is a housewife.

My father worked, my mother was a housewife.

Her father worked, her mother was a housewife.

We married knowing our values were pretty aligned on this. My wife worked until we had children, but dropped her career when the children arrived. She struggled a bit with the decision, but I let her make it without pushing her too much. It's a big decision and I didn't want to risk any unnecessary resentment. But I probably would have pushed if she had shown stronger signs of wanting to keep the career (possibly after a predictably-challenging trial period).

Ideally you would have been on the same page on this before marrying. You'll both need a bit of honesty, empathy and compromise for this one.

(BTW, ignore the "I don't see this marriage lasting" guy. What you make of your marriage is up to you and your wife, not us internet randos. Best of luck!)

This is a capstone of sorts to a process begun by the W3C's XHTML focus 20 years ago. Once again, incremental improvements to a flawed technology (HTML) were more successful than a perfectionist rewrite (XHTML). We so often ignore or downplay costs associated with adoption and migration when we build our "castles in the air".

> The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (Fred Brooks)

The W3C HTML working group was even further removed from users, imagining castles but then delegating the building to others.