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The potential source of error is the assumption that the president has the authority to stop a prosecution (short of the pardon power). I say "potential" because a "unitary executive" advocate would claim this is true, and it is becoming more true during the second Trump administration, although it was notably false during the first one. [In prior administrations, including Trump I and Obama, the DOJ appointed independent counsel precisely to prosecute cases the president would have disagreed with prosecuting.]

it's two different languages

Thanks for posting this. Decision with the dissent is here: https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2024/2024-O...

I don't ever recall reading such an angry dissent, even in more politically charged cases. (I do think the dissent is correct on the merits, but sheesh.)

It's a deliciously insulting amount because it's not quite enough for a meal on Uber Eats.

having `git bisect run` do the thinking for you is incredible when it works

yes, it seems clear to me that there is much less dialect variation in the US, outside very rural areas, than there was 30 years ago. Even then, the adults had much more variation than the kids.

I appreciate the polemical framing -- not many people are comfortable taking the "wrong" side of this issue publicly and it's easy to preach purity when you have a nine-to-five.

I think, though, that even if you grant that speed is more important than all else, and even if you are willing to accept a 200% interest rate on tech debt to get your releases out, you still want unit tests from day one.

Done right, writing unit testing in parallel with your code speeds things up rather than slowing them down. Personally, I find this is the case for even tiny projects like a Project Euler problem unless they can be done in under about an hour.

Factoid: "snuck" and "drug" have in common that the irregular conjugation is the non-standard one, but are different in that "snuck" is a neologism of the 19th century whereas "drug" is in fact the older standard form, gradually supplanted by "dragged."

Conferences are good because travel can be fun in any job, and because it means you are talking to other specialists in your subfield instead of your normal colleagues.

Sabbaticals are good because time off from the tedious parts of work is good at any job. Most academics do research while on sabbatical but are free of some teaching and administrative duties.

I dev on a System76 Pangolin running Pop! OS. My only complaint is that there's no Ubuntu terminal that I like as much as iTerm.

> If you agree with an idea X that Bob said, say “I agree with the idea X”, don’t say “I agree with Bob”. The former states your advocacy; the latter is dividing the group into teams.

Not sure I agree with this one. The problem with the former framing is that Bob might perceive it as failing to credit him for his idea (or even taking credit for it).

This is a well-known bit of bridge strategic folklore: if your opponents never make doubled contracts, you don't double enough.

I don't love how Black doesn't let you put some clarificatory parentheses -- for instance, they get wiped from `eq_balanced = (left_hand_side == right_hand_side)` But the benefits of never wasting time on discussing inanity outweigh any specific complaints.

Initially voted Google based on a hunch: Google Search is the most likely flagship product of a FAANG to get displaced by a competitor. Unlike, say, Amazon as a hub for products or Facebook as a social network, Google Search is not a natural monopoly -- there's no inherent reason a search engine should maintain dominance if it loses its competitive advantage. The complaints from tech friends ("you can't find anything anymore") that I've heard for years now are starting to come from tech-agnostic family instead. Alternatives are still worse, but it's easy to imagine a breakthrough.

However, this doesn't mean Google/Alphabet itself, with its diverse product suite and huge amount of advertising data, will decline in any meaningful sense; that will happen on a much slower scale.

I use it for computing integrals / solving ODEs when I don't have access to one of the CAS's I know how to use. It's nice to get a quick answer and not have to remember syntax, since I only have this problem about once every six months or so.

I did the tax forms myself when living abroad, precisely because I didn't earn enough income to afford the $1000 cost (in fact, it was perhaps twice this, in Switzerland, based on my cursory Googling at the time). It routinely took over a week of working days, which was only possible because I had a sympathetic boss and generous vacation time.

It's also quite stressful, since there are many ambiguous questions, most of the proprietary tax software is ill-equipped to consider the situation of an American living abroad, and a wrong answer can subject you to audit.

It's not his most artful turn of phrase, but if you read the context of the remarks, I think Safai is saying "we can't continue to let them close" as in "we can't continue to allow these conditions which are forcing them to close," not as in "government should mandate that they stay open."

it is standard french pronunciation and he is providing a useful english guide