ShroudedNight

Bonus points when they spoof your own number?

I have encountered a number of people who exhibit startling hostility at being told something they were already aware of. While I cannot currently recall a specific example, I strongly suspect I have previously felt this way myself.

While sharing may be better than assuming when only considering the local optimum, if your signal to noise ratio is bad enough, you will face an impairment to communication that simply wouldn't exist if you had been more selective.

Oh please, this is why it's _clearly_ superior to run Catenary or P. Papua

That doesn't really excuse the strange acerbic brevity [that] I and most of my peers default to when writing technical documentation.

I agree that most scenarios are not going to be so perilous. However, GOTO FAIL[1] would fit your C99 foot gun description neatly, with repercussions that would approach the peril of my metaphor within at least an order of magnitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable_code#goto_fail_bug

I agree that software engineering isn't exempt from warranting serious introspection as to the world that a given project is enabling. I do not agree that we should simply throw up our collective hands and say "Oh well, everyone is complicit." Professional endeavours causing interpersonal harm and enabling exploitative behaviour should be called out and forced to bare the reputational cost wherever and whenever they occur.

A wheel is generous. This seems more like inviting the computing equivalent of spilling twenty thousand tons of crude into the sea, which then promptly catch fire.

Is this still true, post Defamation Act 2013?

I sure as fuck did not vote for Ford, directly or by the local MP proxy. However, I will readily acknowledge that at the time of the election that brought the Progressive Conservative party into power, the Ontario Liberal Party was giving off strong signals that it had essentially given up any attempt at excellence in its execution of public policy, and that it was seemingly bereft of significant insight beyond the then current state of governance.

They were also hindered by the public's perception of their performance in the matters of Ornge and Hydro One.

It seems strange to me to frame the results of that election as being a reward for re-internalizing the waste management costs of consumer products.

Time of a strategic reserve of J-Links?

I'm not sure what your point is here.

1) They don't sell for $3-4 a pack, yet your post seems to imply that the system has failed for cigarettes.

2) For externalities beyond the input cost of a product, the default [natural] condition is for those costs not to be included - one needn't enforce anything. Rather, it requires that someone with power put their thumb on the scale to enforce the inclusion of those costs during a sale[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigouvian_tax

I'm not sure that was the God of Abraham, so much as The Great Caucasian God[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/RJiwovX3mNA

The SMS stuff seems like theatre when SS7[1] has been known to need a nuclear-powered auto bailer for how porous it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

It's not clear to me that the counter-party risk is _remotely_ similar between the two offerings. Someone reselling indefinite access to AWS could relatively easily set things up to go "poof" after a few years, whereas if it's your box, that's not possible. Now, critical components of the box could croak, and someone could still be screwed, but even there, you likely have more options for support than just paying Amazon's ransom.

What does "easy" mean in this context? From my [ignorant] reading, it sounds like it requires being able compute a fixed point for the hash function in order to be able to integrate it into the program and respond differently under test. I thought that was one of the things cryptographically secure hash functions explicitly made difficult?

The distinction between an ardent enthusiast and a sycophant was lost on many I encountered using the term.

"Twixer" must be relatively new, or more specific regionalism. I've only known them to be called "twenty-sixers"

How does "Rip" not contain an entry for the driving equivalent of mall rats' loitering?

"Out for a Rip?"

I'm surprised "Four Oh [X]" is specifically a Canadianism. I would have expected it to manifest more broadly, given things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/409_(song)

In Ontario, we still have Hydro One as a (the?) primary distributor of electricity outside urban environments.

If I remember correctly, Hydro One also serves some parts of the Ottawa area, and their delivery rates were different enough from Hydro Ottawa that it was often a material consideration for where one chose to buy one's house.

I can't speak authoritatively for the OP, but yes, I would expect red sauce to be tomato-based. Compare with "sauce brune" [brown sauce ~= gravy] which is what gets put on poutine.

It's been a long time now, but from what I remember from school, a critical part of the notability of Gabrielle Roy[1] was that she wrote from the perspective of francophones living in the prairies.

I appreciate the DHCP-3 is not a monolithic work, but to have both authorship and editorial oversight of a corpus that presents itself as a rigorous treatise of Canadianisms demonstrate either broad ignorance of, or reckless disregard for a significant portion of our heritage is just baffling to me. What's the point if one is not going to be ruthlessly thorough?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Roy

£17 million doesn't sound that unreasonable for climate control for a system as large as London's

Why don't they use batteries to buffer between consumption / regen and the upstream power?

This is highly reminiscent of work I was exposed to in grad school on recombining library versions from different binary distributions in an attempt to diversify the attack surface of a system, but at a much more granular level:

https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/bfoster-gecco-2010...

What does 'better' mean in this context? Commercial viability is important if one wants to eat, but doesn't seem to justify the smugness projected...

> a bunch of implementation magic that exists to hide the fact that those supposedly stack-allocated containers are in fact allocating heap objects behind your back

The heap is but one source for allocator-backed memory. I've used pieces of stack for this, too. One could also use an entirely staticly sized and allocated array.

> Around 10 years ago I found a JIT bug in a JDK from a big Java vendor.

Was it J9? Even the remote possibility of having been a cubicle partition away from the unrolling of your story, or that I might have heard about it at lunch, or even contributed in some small way... it's strangely affirming.

If it was J9, I'm curious if you remember much about it. The options the service team would have given you may well be still around: https://github.com/eclipse-omr/omr/blob/master/compiler/cont...

How many novel depressions were created as a result of high velocity impacts after making that discovery? I think I'd be seeing red...

Were these commodity boards? Having to resort to using the cellular connection, instead of attaching a hardware debugging probe (J-Link?) seems like a recipe for a painful squandering of intellect.