gitgrump

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by gitgrump 5y ago
Dear Christ, I'm sick of this dichotomy. Deliberately releasing code like this is malicious, and was clearly done with intent. I'm not sure if you could sue, but there is such a thing as torts. You can't booby trap your yard
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I mean, the bare naked reality is that software, web software in particular, is still like... a hundred-billion dollar industry. Maybe more. As long as it's still profitable enough to deal with these supply chain attacks occasionally,
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Transplant recipients are on immunosuppressants forever anyway, so this is as inconvenient as receiving a human heart. And hey, it beats being dead!
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Careful, or they might eventually become a human heart attack!
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by gitgrump 5y ago
And we're having a discussion. You asked for proof, then said it wasn't good enough. So why ask for it in the first place?
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I'm not going to prove to you that vaccines work, sorry. Do your own homework, but remember that you're (probably) not an immunologist. Do what thou wilt.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
But statistically it is. Unvaccinated people die more. Vaccinated people die less. You can't _know_ in a meaningful sense in your specific instance, but your risk is what it is no matter what. I'm not sure what's hard about t
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Risk after-the-fact doesn't work like that. Probabilities cease to be probabilities after the event happened. Plus, don't forget about all of the dead people who are unable to write posts like this. I'm glad you're okay,
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by gitgrump 5y ago
> at this point I want better public health evidence from CDC > At this point I don't really think that pointing at CDC public health releases is going to convince a scientist like me. I just watched you move the goal posts in re
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by gitgrump 5y ago
This wasn't AWS CDK, it was a package to fake data and a package with some ANSI escape sequence constants. The comparison doesn't make sense. The problem is that developers apparently can't even differentiate between when you
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by gitgrump 5y ago
No. JavaScript developers (and Go developers) live in the "wild, wild west". Those of us using system package repositories with proper maintainers have been doing just fine for years, thanks.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Honestly? They probably don't know how, or that's just not part of the JS culture. I've met a lot of JS-only developers, and most probably don't even know what ANSI escape sequences are, let alone how to work with them.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I keep telling people that, no matter what, we're going to learn something cool about the universe. I'm so excited to see these images. I mean, imagine humans 10,000 years ago, just surviving, maybe figuring out agriculture, and t
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Yup! If the universe's age were a single year, we're looking back to January 6th. Truly remarkable. :)
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Why would I bother with an NFT when I can already effortlessly copy bits? Digital property is not physical property and I'm not sure why people are still so intent on shoehorning the characteristics of the latter into the former.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I meeeaan, "wants to wipe out another country" and "former president denied the Holocaust ever happened" can apply to a surprising number of places.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
The hygrometers in my house swing between 30% and 70% depending on the season, but I apparently don't need to take that into account when buying printer ink. "Uh oh, it's raining! Honey, get the South America ink cartridge, q
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Erm, no? That's unnecessarily reductionist. "Can compel you to pay taxes" is not the same as "authoritarian". Go ahead, criticize the President online in the United States. Notice how you weren't jailed or exec
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by gitgrump 5y ago
There are more resilient solutions to this problem. Don't rely on unreliable software.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
Software will never be perfect, but most people aren't actually arguing for perfect. I've seen complicated web apps shit the bed with single-digit requests per second, and those developers also said it doesn't need to be perf
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I've had "senior engineers" and engineering directors submit PRs that just flat out don't work. Like, I ran a minimum working example and it just... didn't work. I swear to God, some people are actually professional
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by gitgrump 5y ago
If anyone wants to learn more, here's why open recursive resolvers are a bad idea: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-recursive-dn...
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I let them know with a gentle, three-second horn blare. Seems to help.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." — C. S. Lewis, allegedly.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I doubt enforcement has changed significantly. I'm more willing to believe that this is part of the slow unraveling of the social contract in the United States. Everyone hates each other, and now people are driving like it too.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
> ... and in 2022 the developer experience is what matters the most to many software companies... This is what happens when you keep lowering the bar, and more and more developers can do less and less.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
This Randian view of taxes is exhausting. If taxation is theft, then you're complicit every time you drive on a road. For the sake of your conscience, the only moral thing to do is to move into the woods and depend on nothing and nobod
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by gitgrump 5y ago
works - verb. Moves millions of people efficiently and without the pollution or danger of driving an expensive, private vehicle.
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by gitgrump 5y ago
I vote for "webwashing".
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by gitgrump 5y ago
That's kind of how relative risk works. I mean, no COVID would be nice, but we left that world behind two years ago. What do you mean "get away free" anyway? There's no morality here. The vaccine didn't "do&quo

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