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by fatbird 9mo ago
Europe has provided massive aid to Ukraine, mostly financial. Their hesitation has been committing themselves militarily to the war, which, if they did, would be a huge benefit to Ukraine. But their current level of support is still very
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Every commit message starts with the ticket number of whatever issue tracking system you're using. If you're not using issue tracking with a system large enough for multiple devs, you've got a much bigger problem.
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by fatbird 10mo ago
His last film was Spinal Tap II. I think if you could tell him that Spinal Tap would bookend his life, he'd be tickled by that.
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by fatbird 10mo ago
You have two applications you have to ensure are always in sync and consistent. No, the point of the API is to loosely couple the frontend and backend with a contract. The frontend doesn't need to model the backend, and the backend
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by fatbird 10mo ago
Fuel oil deliveries to smaller communities that don't buy in tanker quantities. Those boats are basically the u-hauls of the sea.
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by fatbird 11mo ago
I keep thinking about how, 20 years, 3D printers became accessible for tech/price, and there was a lot of talk about how we'd all just print what we need (pretty much like in Stephenson's book Diamond Age ), and you'd g
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by fatbird 11mo ago
There's nothing wrong with technical debt per se . As with all debt, the problem is incurring it without a plan or means to pay it off. Debt based financing is the engine of modern capitalism. Gradual growth to large scale implies a
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by fatbird 11mo ago
My wife was a teacher and sexual health educator for most of her career (grades 8-12). When I was getting sex ed, part of the teacher's responsibility was grounding us in basic facts to dispel word-of-mouth myths that were patently abs
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by fatbird 11mo ago
My ADHD became screamingly obvious when I quit smoking, about a year after seriously reducing my coffee drinking from a couple pots a day to a cup or two.
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by fatbird 11mo ago
Peter Navarro is also a driving force behind the tariffs.
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by fatbird 11mo ago
While US weapons aid has basically been cut off, then somewhat restored through European purchases, US intel sharing has been relatively consistent and continuous throughout, and Ukraine is very dependent on it. When intel sharing was susp
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by fatbird 11mo ago
Now extrapolate to "let's do a Perl 6 that allows us to do all the things I couldn't work into Perl 5" and a lot more history makes sense.
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by fatbird 11mo ago
I agree, and the blame for its weirdness can be laid directly at Larry Wall's feet, because Wall wanted a language that allowed for cleverness, suprise, and ingenuity. He was never happier than when someone would come up with a comp
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by fatbird 11mo ago
what would have come of the Vietnam era if people could be individually and effortlessly targeted in their daily lives for going against it? Nothing. The U.S. lost Vietnam, not because it lost battles, but because it offered no governing
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by fatbird 11mo ago
Most civil servants are stand up people I will agree with this from personal experience. I've worked with several gov'ts on various projects and found almost everyone to be simply interested in doing their job well. The story o
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by fatbird 11mo ago
Because it's very doubtful they're actually transporting drugs at all. The US has presented no evidence of it, and they're well practiced at stopping, boarding, and searching such boats. They could do that here, perp-walk t
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by fatbird 11mo ago
Just like the IC story about Iraqi uranium refining was a "slam dunk"? That's not actually to impugn the US IC, exactly. It's more to call out that the IC can do their job thoroughly and correctly and the powers that be
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by fatbird 11mo ago
When I was in the Canadian army reserves in 1990, we were told that the operating assumption was that every population centre over 50,000 people was a primary target in a general nuclear strike, in addition to every military base or communi
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by fatbird 11mo ago
In the Battle of Kapyong, Korea [0], Canadian forces refused to retreat from their position, delaying advancing Chinese forces long enough to cause them to regroup. The Canadian forces were encircled, and several times called down artiller
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by fatbird 11mo ago
The race to the highest body count looks like Elon in first, RFK jr. second, and Stephen Miller a distant third but looking like he'll finish strong once the camps are fully operating.
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by fatbird 11mo ago
His daughter Liz left the MAGA Republican party long before it was obvious they'd return to power, and actively opposed them at great political cost. It's strange to watch someone you'd otherwise be against with every fibre o
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by fatbird 11mo ago
There's apparently an old Japanese saying that goes "Asleep, one mat; awake, half a mat." It refers to the space on a mat that everyone, even the Emperor, occupies.
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by fatbird 1y ago
This entire encounter is fake. What are you talking about? CBP has been in Illinois for weeks. Greg Bovino, their commander, has been hauled before a judge this week to testify about how CBP (and he, personally) have violated the judge&
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by fatbird 1y ago
Or as Steve Bannon put it: "flood the zone with shit"
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by fatbird 1y ago
They can't possibly believe that they'll get 37 states to ratify it in the next three years to make it all square and legal. Their only plausible path is some very tortured Supreme Court ruling.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Aggregate health outcomes in the US are worse than every other country with UHC. Life expectancy is worse in the US than every other country with UHC. You cannot claim socialized medicine sucks when it produces better outcomes overall, an
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by fatbird 1y ago
A reliable and effective general purpose robot will always be more expensive than a less reliable, less effective human being. Why would you sell something better than the average human willing to take the role, for less than that human wa
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by fatbird 1y ago
When they're obviously lying to you, at least you know that they're lying.
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by fatbird 1y ago
I worked on the pokemon.com website for several years. It has over 2 million LoC in python (~2.5 once you add in frontend JS). It's a Django site that uses Django's ORM; I can't recall ever seeing any raw SQL. As you might
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by fatbird 1y ago
I worked on a python codebase for several years that had over two million LoC. The code was well-organized and under constant development by at least ten devs. There were Java components in the larger project that were occasionally touche

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