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901.
by 20after4 4y ago
incompetence AND negligence
902.
by 20after4 4y ago
Of course nobody got in trouble for that. They were rewarded handsomely.
903.
by 20after4 4y ago
I feel like we've already reached this point, or nearly so.
904.
by 20after4 4y ago
Last time I checked, just a couple of years ago, Wikimedia's CEO makes ~$350k / year which seems extremely reasonable compared to most CEOs in the USA. It was ~2.5x my salary when I worked at the foundation. Typical CEO salary m
905.
by 20after4 4y ago
Because cops are (mostly) above the law.
906.
by 20after4 4y ago
I think some people just don’t even bother to resolve an issue. Maybe it’s not even broken but just reflexively assumed to be broken if something isn’t immediately as they expect it to work. My parents both use Linux daily and rarely ever n
907.
by 20after4 4y ago
This is sadly 100% accurate, in my experience.
908.
by 20after4 4y ago
Sad news. Drew, if you're reading, Thank you. FWIW I've enjoyed your writing and appreciate all you've done for free software.
909.
by 20after4 4y ago
Maybe the work of some of these fine folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorgram One pertinent reference: https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Critica...
910.
by 20after4 4y ago
I might have to try my hand at writing an extension for embedding tables/queries from Datasette. With the new write api[1], they (Silver bullet + datasette) could make for a killer combo. [1] https://simonwillison.net/
911.
by 20after4 4y ago
There is a watchdog feature where (if I remember correctly) systemd listens on a socket and the service must write to that socket periodically or it gets automatically killed and restarted. Unfortunately, the feature is rather obscure and
912.
by 20after4 4y ago
This is pretty much how gerrit does code review.
913.
by 20after4 4y ago
Indeed, seemingly simple functionality like you describe should be bare-minimum requirement for just about any kind of information system, and yet it's almost always omitted or implemented so terribly as to negate any practical benefit
914.
by 20after4 4y ago
Perhaps there is an up-side to Hyundai's general lack of attention to basic security practices: Apparently it's just as easy to hack the onboard infotainment system. Someone recently published a procedure that allows owners to in
915.
by 20after4 4y ago
I believe this applies to 2020 and 2021 models as well. According to NPR[1] Hyundai/Kia only decided to finally install engine immobilizers part way through the 2021 model year. [1]( https://www.npr.org/2022/09&#x2
916.
by 20after4 4y ago
Not an EV, but my 2021 Hyundai Elantra gets around 52mpg on the highway, though it's rated at "Up to 33 city / 43 highway" I've had an overall average of 46mpg with mixed city/highway driving. Hyundai clearl
917.
by 20after4 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! Even outside the medical field, it seems like most humans are pretty bad about both writing down and consulting notes. Even worse for the notes written by another human. We really aren't particularly good at transfe
918.
by 20after4 4y ago
I think that George Carlin produced a large volume of the most insightful political commentary in modern US history. I re-watch this one at least every couple of months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSAxtIYM08
919.
by 20after4 4y ago
That would be great but I don't see how we get there. The parties are in control, they choose who we are allowed to vote for.
920.
by 20after4 4y ago
Oh no! I don't even want to think about it. That couldn't possibly turn out well.
921.
by 20after4 4y ago
The money won't go to repay any victims.
922.
by 20after4 4y ago
Agreed, alternative funding methods and more decentralized organization structures are an area worth exploring further.
923.
by 20after4 4y ago
In many ways it's like a government job. If you're a good bureaucrat then it's a a really easy job with really great benefits and job security (as long as you play the politics well). Hello from another ex-Wikimedia developer
924.
by 20after4 4y ago
AFAIK they do provide grants to a bunch of independent chapters around the world which do things like organize events and outreach to encourage more people to participate in editing.
925.
by 20after4 4y ago
Sadly accurate. I think that Wikimedia was fairly light on parasitic administration up until the last few years when it's ballooned quickly.
926.
by 20after4 4y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was a Wikimedia employee. They told us at the time that in a worst-case scenario of zero fundraising and zero layoffs that the org had a runway of 18 months before they had to start making staffing cutba
927.
by 20after4 4y ago
Wikimedia likely has spent quite a lot of donor funds on pronoun consultants. I sat in on some of the meetings. - Former employee of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Opinions and pronouns are my own.
928.
by 20after4 4y ago
The New York Times is a shell of it's former self and no longer really practicing objective journalism as far as I can tell. Journalism is very nearly dead. The only information sources I find worth my time these days are a very short
929.
by 20after4 4y ago
Wikipedia uses MySQL and although I worked there for 7 years I never did much work directly with the DBs. It's been 9 years since I worked at deviantart.com but last I knew the site still operated on a large sharded MySQL cluster divid
930.
by 20after4 4y ago
It's not something that you can easily abstract away from the application's concerns without a significant performance penalty. For the most basic CRUD operations, an ORM could probably do a decent job. Surely someone has already

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