jameskilton

A reminder that every line of code written is a liability, not an asset.

If I had any inkling of giving GitLab a try, this killed it.

Flock is pure cruelty. All justice, no mercy. It needs to go away.

Nice, they have availability numbers now on their status page, but they aren't aggregating.

If you multiply all current numbers together (as of Apr 28), you find out that GitHub has a 97.26% uptime.

One ... single ... 9.

They can do better.

Never underestimate the lengths and depths people will go in the name of a salary.

As the American Justice system is fundamentally broken now, if Interpol decides to "disappear" Trump to the Hague next time he's in Europe it would be greatly appreciated.

Why do you think Melania started talking about Epstein again when she did?

We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt.

We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injured in the same blast that killed Khamenei), but it's a pretty good bet that they are even more extreme and hard-line than before.

We've shown that Iran has complete and total control over the global economy via energy markets.

Every other country in the region wants Iran gone. Or to put it in more direct terms, the US kind of needs to "finish the job".

If we back down now, Iran wins, and that may actually be the worst possible situation to end up in.

To everyone who voted for Trump ... YOU VOTED FOR THIS. THANKS.

Are you expecting "mentally sound behavior" or "strategic coherence" from today's administration?

Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.

Folks are getting dangerously attached to [political parties/candidates/news sources/social networks] that always tell them they're right.

It's really nothing new. It takes significant mental energy (a finite resource) to question what you're being told, and to do your own fact checking. Instead people by default gravitate towards echo chambers where they can feel good about being a part of a group bigger than themselves, and can spend their limited energy towards what really matters in their lives.

Something that a lot of tech people, especially in Silicon Valley, seem to want to forget, is that at every level you still have people making decisions. AI is suggesting but someone, somewhere, still has to make the decision to act on that suggestion.

It's still people doing people things.

But ... but her emails!

That's the trick, it's always been about control. No-one in such positions actually cares about the children.

> only 6% of US defense contractors have fully transparent supply chains

The Industrial-Military complex and the constant fight against Right-to-Repair is finally biting us in the ass. It remains to be seen if we will learn anything from this disaster.

Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the kingmaker that he was during Facebook's peak, and he is desperately trying to create the next platform to be the one in power once again.

It would be sad if it wasn't so unbelievably destructive to everything it touches.

This is a tale as old as humanity itself. Power-hungry people will always push lies to foster their version of events. This always causes pain and destruction.

In all seriousness, if I ever had access to a time machine, I would want to see what the world looks like now in the timeline that Al Gore became president. I fully suspect that September 11 is one of those events that, in Doctor Who parlance, is a static point in all timelines, so I want to see how Gore would have responded, and what ramifications that would have had over the next 20 years.

"The Pentagon" has been the nomenclature for DoD / DoW for decades. Everyone knows what it means.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Matthew 6:25-34

Stripe has been doing annual tender offers. Their stance on not being public yet is that they don't need to be, as an IPO is mainly a way to raise money.

As an ex-Stripe, I understand the sentiment, and the tender offers are a nice middle ground for now, but I still would like to see them go public eventually.

Blizzard recently set up a World of Warcraft promotion with Pinterest where you could share your housing builds from in-game. Many people were insta-banned from Pinterest for "spam" after just posting one or two pictures.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/pinterest-suspended-...

Something is very broken over at Pinterest.

And you'd be happily working at IBM building "resource management" software and hardware for the Nazis because "what they do with this software is not your responsibility".

It ain't so black-and-white, and people with this kind of mentality are what enable the atrocities we've seen in the past and are seeing today.

Thanks, you're probably right, this is what I was looking for but I guess my search-fu failed.

API documentation / types / signature is just one of the four types of documentation[1] that every service and library should ship. The other three are for telling people the things that code cannot tell you. The OP is arguing that the only "docs" you need are "how do I call this", not "what does this do", or "what do I do with the results", among plenty of others.

So no, what the author should be writing is "Ship Types and Docs".

[1] https://diataxis.fr/

This is such an objectively bad take I don't even know how to respond.

No, they wouldn't, because they didn't care when this happened during Trump's first term, Trump said this would happen during his 2nd term, AND THEY STILL VOTED FOR HIM.

This is what America voted for.

No, the Constitution is fine.

We are failing to enforce the Constitution like we did in the past, and that is why America is falling apart.

The article misses the other reason that Walmart has invested in multiple attempts at electronic payments: not paying merchant fees to Visa and Mastercard. That's why their system requires you hooking up to your bank account directly.

All of Walmart's attempts at this have been focused on making Walmart's bottom line better, which is why every one of them has failed, whereas Apple Pay is making my payment experience better, and why I use it all the time.

I would have never guessed that Idiocracy was an optimistic look at our future...

This is the only statement that matters. We knew exactly who Trump is and exactly what he would do if voted in again. The "opposition" did nothing during Trump's first term, and now they are completely powerless do do anything.

America voted for this, we failed miserably to prevent this from happening for the past 30 years, and we will pay the price for this for generations.