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> It basically requires an act of congress or the President to change it once done.

Isn't the mere passage of time also a remover of classification? Like isn't there a default time from the creation date?

Or it must be positively declassified by an action?

These days I wonder about all the cameras in a modern environment and "keylogging" from another device filming the user typing.

Oh that's easy, it's Janreburary Firscond 2021.

^ This is huge. A lot of top-level macro usage would be really annoying to implement if wrapping a PROGN around top-level commands neutered their effect.

You might like Guile, a form of Scheme. It lets you have define calls inside a begin call (progn equivalent) exactly as you ask.

On parliament.uk they use a logo of a crowned portcullis, which apparently is a style that dates back centuries.

And a good dentist can swap out your existing mercury fillings for composite ones for you.

Is deb inferior to rpm? Genuine question.

And in this scenario, it might not even have been an assessment of risk, but rather "just to mess with him". The reporting person may have thought it would be a funny prank to have him questioned by police over the message and that would be the end of it.

I've been lightly car shopping in the past few weeks, and from chatting to salespeople, that does seem like the trend that's coming.

Some advertising of the ad-free paid plans is good because it takes the segment of customers who will not tolerate ads and gives them an option, rather than lose them.

What's interesting is that the button need not actually reset the Internet right away. It's actually a user signal that "customers are complaining the Internet does not work". The button could initiate a whole series of diagnostics and target a fix.

You say that, but Google Search is still free after decades, whereas you can pay ChatGPT $20/mo for a membership right now.

Or pushed.

Here's another article with possibly better legal citations: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=aeee1c5f-28d7...

(I'm not saying it's good or bad, just passing on information.)

As a law prof once told me, "shall" can end up being ambiguous in court, despite the common understanding.

I'm sure this isn't the best tutorial on the topic but it gives you a taste: https://www.barandbench.com/columns/shall-shocked-the-use-of...

Use human and robots. And UNION every query.

Just kidding. Then you'd eventually need extraterrestrials, sentient_ai, ghosts, and all kinds of extras.

Sorry if this is a silly question; why isn't there more investment in heated garages? Going outside to get into a below-freezing car sounds very uncomfortable.

I actually prefer programs to have their own configuration files with well-intentioned format choices. Where Linux has adopted these registry-style configurations accessible only through GUI or arcane CLI commands nobody is supposed to actually utilize, it becomes far less accessible and goes against the *nix spirit, IMHO.

I'd future-proof it against coming TLD's up-front.

It's not just a question of whether it makes a legit TLD; it's also whether military personnel should have any reason to send email there from a given system.

They'd need every permutation of 2, 3 letters of m, i, l; and while we're at it, add the keys close-by on a qwerty layout.

It seems like a better approach would be to harden all email software in usage to ban almost-but-not-quite .mil at the end of email addresses, looking for the above permutations client-side before anything is transmitted.

> Meta goes farther than Twitter ever did, as they actually deprioritize the more news-like content.

I think an interesting experiment would be to also prioritize some "news-ish" "good news" of the type that wouldn't quite make major TV news broadcasts. The type of stuff that John Krasinski was doing with Some Good News during the pandemic.

But the issue is -- would it break the things a web server is doing? It doesn't have to be a universal solution.

And the candidate would respond with a Dockerfile that says "FROM egg".

I prefer to write on ruled paper and tuck it into the front cover for the following reasons:

- ruled paper is easier to write on

- you won't run out of space (just add sheets)

- you can rewrite summaries as you revisit books decades later and retuck the new summary

- you can quickly scan the papers to archive a digital copy

- you can remove your notes to lend the book (or not)

- you can transfer your notes to a new edition trivially

- you can be more candid in what you write, knowing it's trivially discarded without giving up the book

- all the notes are in one place and you don't have to thumb through the book looking for where you wrote an idea that you half-remember

- you have space to draw diagrams if appropriate

- you can find something on the internet that importantly relates, print off a page or two, and adjunct your notes

- you can do extensive internet research and build a whole matching folder of contents on your laptop, but you can print a page of Title/URL's to adjunct your notes as a backup (and for anyone who borrows the book+notes)

(edit: formatting)

Given the token count limits on input and output, I've been wondering how folks work on these long-running projects? Is it just not a problem, or are there some tactics? I find in trying to build up lengthy outputs that it starts truncating or leaving out things from way before.

The Bible has changed connotations in certain verses in the translation stage.

For one example, "The Ten Commandments" is an unscriptural phrase; it's "The Ten Words" in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Only for the King James Version in English does it become commandments (possibly reflecting the monarch-benefactor's ideas of law and authority).

Simple and judicious note-taking as I read the book for the first time, by pen & paper; then I usually leave those notes tucked into the front of the book, and for a couple years, I revisit and review those notes every few months. At some point I might re-read the book.

> So does giving all your variable names one-letter names and putting your entire codebase on one line. Surely we can agree that character count is a poor measure of readability or maintainability.

Which is why pg advocates symbol count. (Although he seems to love brevity too.)