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Very interesting, very impressive, and a little concerning that this is what it takes to get noticed! I actually went in expecting something along the lines of "I started a profitable company in order to pad my resume and get some interviews; it worked, so now I can shut the company down."

> it will be a bit of a stretch to say Microsoft should have stopped us deploying CrowdStrike

I read GP's post to mean that if you take a step back, Windows' history of (in)security is what has led us to an environment where CrowdStrike is used / needed.

Something similar hit the news in Spain recently:

https://cadenaser.com/castillayleon/2024/03/15/el-candidato-...

I love that the fix was an optimization allowing the code to keep the simplifying assumption that only one MIDI event ever needs to be buffered... rather than a "cleaner" / "future-proof" design change allowing buffering of more than one MIDI event.

That's a 10x lover!

Interesting, thanks for the link. But by those metrics, Erlang is worse than PHP... Definitely just one data point of many.

I didn't realize the nested CSS support level was already so high (80%).

CSS nesting looks like a nice quality-of-life improvement in some cases.

I'm not CSS-ninja enough for any of the other items to catch my eye, though the "stylable select element" tease at the end looks interesting.

> Donald Barthelme in particular praised you for writing about things readers had never heard before between Black and white characters.

It's bizarre to me that in certain circles some Colors are capitalized, while other colors are not.

This week there's a solar eclipse; women and minorities hardest hit.

> If you need ammunition to encourage your corporate IT to allow you to run the proper ssh-agent service to do your job instead of increasing your attack surface by installing PuTTY/Pageant, you could collect a list of vulnerabilities such as the one posted here...

This made me laugh :-) Grandparent is probably happy to just fly under the radar. The suggested conversation would probably play out thusly:

> IT! You idiots! Your dumb policies are forcing me to use this insecure software! Look how many vulnerabilities it has had over the years!

>> Hold up. Rewind. What's this software that you've installed?

> It's called PuTTY. And if you just change this policy I could...

>> And how insecure is it?

> Just check out all these vulnerabilities! It's probably not worse than the average, but it's unnecessary extra attack surface area that...

>> I'm going to need you to uninstall that. Now. And I'll need confirmation via email that you have done so by EOB, with your boss and the CISO on CC.

> But if you just change this boneheaded policy...

>> Now, please. We have a security incident on our hands. We can discuss policy another time. Is there anything else installed on your laptop that I should be aware of?

I've resorted to watching Twitch on YouTube (just watch yesterday's streams after they've been uploaded).

Besides the one mention of Go, he seems to be comparing C# to JavaScript/TypeScript. C# is decent, but the JS/TS ecosystem does not set a high bar for comparison...

It seems strange to label Intel + AMD + Qualcomm + ARM + TI + NVIDIA + Samsung + Fujitsu + etc as "1 choice".

Even on the Chinese side I assume it's more than just SMIC (or whatever the big one is over there).

> he certainly believed that all 613 of the minutia-governing rules of judaism were important to obey

I think he rather cared about the few core principles behind the rules, no? From Luke 10, for example:

> On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."

Further complicated by the fact that he came to fulfill old promises and replace the old rules. From Luke 6, for example:

> One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. Some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?" Jesus answered them, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions." Then Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Or as summarized by his followers 20 years after his death and resurrection, in Galatians 3:

> Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

Pretty clearly implying the diminished mental capacity which prevents us from agreeing with him, no? I addressed this above:

> The "they would agree with me if they were smarter" trope is tired and gets us nowhere.

> Unfortunately a non-negligible number of people in tech also have libertarian leanings

Why is this unfortunate? Because you don't agree with us? The "they would agree with me if they were smarter" trope is tired and gets us nowhere.

Meh. The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee report itself doesn't mention him or the article:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5804/ldselect/ldenvc...

Rather, he's mentioned in referenced material provided by Green Alliance, an eco think tank:

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/124805/html...

Regular frenzy, or reckless rage?

> Gaza is a good place to start.

This made me chuckle :-) "Let's dip our toes into solving international conflicts with an easy one, like the Israeli / Palestine conflict!"

> which in retrospect were best understood as dry runs for Gamergate

Where do I sign up for this monolithic Vast Right-wing Media Conspiracy? How much are the annual dues? I always get left out of these things!

True, but it sounds (nearly?) "useless" based on the description provided by the author:

> For example, one thing that was noted is that if we strip the debug symbols by default, then backtraces of release builds will... not contain any debug info, such as line numbers. That is indeed true, but my claim is that these have not been useful anyway. If you have a binary that only has debug symbols for the standard library, but not for your own code, then even though the backtrace will contain some line numbers from stdlib, it will not really give you any useful context [...]

I don't have a horse in this race, but a programming language that prides itself on "zero-cost abstractions" and then generates a Hello World program that is 90% wasted space doesn't leave a great impression.

Possibly both? Only one of them qualifies as modern, though :-)

You seem determined to frame the changes in a positive light. I disagree, but that's besides the point for the purposes of this discussion. My point is that in a society which heavily discourages premarital sex, dating sites might optimize the marriage process, as opposed to optimizing the hookup process. For an extreme example, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57818758

No idea. Let me know if you find any research on the topic. I certainly don't trust modern Hollywood tropes on this subject.

This seems self-evident to me, but here you go:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11011072_Changes_ov...

> A perfect storm of wide spread free information and dating apps [...]

Possibly true, but at the very least you are missing a key ingredient in the loosening of sexual mores over the past 60 years. A world with today's technology but the sexual conventions of the 1950's might apply those efficiencies towards the creation of happy marriages, rather than the creation of... whatever we call the webs that we have today.

Can you be a little more specific about where you are reading that she would like to "censor and manipulate content directly in the browser"?

I read the entire linked post, then searched for "browser", "user agent" and "software" and still don't see it.

Very cool, thanks for the pointer! We might be able to run an internal test to check performance vs. a zlib replacement, but I think that AGPL license is going to be a showstopper for anything else...