A flawed democracy is still better than no democracy

It’s not over yet, friend. There are still things worth fighting for, and still so, so much more we could lose. Don’t give up hope.

I mean technically, but it’s not like it’s trying to be subtle about it. From the page:

I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world […]

The point is to discourage instances from federating with threads.

it’s its not it’s, right?

I always get tripped up on this case. What’s shown in the picture is correct, though you’re applying the rules of English grammar very logically, the apostrophe in it's is only for contraction, not possession. That may go out the window if someone uses it as a pronoun though, idk.

git rm -- \.*
git commit -m "be better"
git push --force origin/main
shutdown now  # take the rest of the week off - you've earned it

I will say that at least it has an error code. So you can actually look it up

I can just imagine something in the middle being like

`We couldn't log you in because ${getReason(e) || 'the network failed to do its network thing'}.`

Ah reminds me of the time (back in the LAMP days) when I tried to apply this complicated equation that sales had come up with to our inventory database. This was one of those “just have the junior run it at midnight” type of shops. Anyway, I made a mistake and ended up exactly halving all inventory prices on production. See OP’s picture for my face.

In retrospect, I’m thankful for that memory.

I also hate math, and am jealous of people who are good at it. I get anxiety just doing simple multiplications, and have to look everything up. That said, I’m a senior platform developer, and earn more than anyone else in my family, so like… math helps a lot, but you don’t neeed it to be a real dev. Certainly not to be a hobbyist/hacker, like yourself.

How much time have you spent doing it? What part didn’t you understand? If it’s the bit shifting stuff, don’t worry about it - hardly anyone actually knows how that works unless they look it up.

Yoink.

Actually I’ve probably been all of these at various times in my career.

I think OP meant moving a code block up or down in a file, not left or right

You sound like an awesome co-worker. I love the way this is stated, and I’m 💯 in alignment

Also some parts of code are just going to smell, because of deadlines, other trade offs. For those it helps to have a comment to really highlight that bit of weirdness - the what and the why. If it is weird it should really “pop out” when you’re reading it.

When the the documentation is epic, but no one remembers to add why this repo even exists.

I owe my abuse of xargs to Mr. Robot! I saw it on the show, and now I use it everywhere

I guess I’m talking more about blockchain? I never got too deep into this world. But like a way to hash transactions made with real money in a way that would be harder to commit fraud with. I dunno, maybe accountants already do this some way.

I’m imagining an example where you couldn’t disappear a line item because then the ledger’s hash wouldn’t come out right, and bingo bango, tax evasion charges incoming.

I knew people (well one person; in my developer meetup group) that went deep on the NTF craze, like has an spe avatar unironically, spent a bunch on NFTs, and if they’re telling the truth made bank off of them.

It’s pretty disappointing. I wonder whose money they took.

That arises at least somewhat more organically around a real interest that millions of people have been enjoying and obsessing over for generations. So it’s not fair to say it’s totally arbitrary.

The logo stuff is weird though. That’s definitely more “Veblen” like the high price point is itself a flex and desire for, if not true luxury, then the appearance of opulence.

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This server is guaranteed up, with 100.00000% uptime since this morning