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Trump repeatedly said the administration would be targeting 'violent criminals and rapists', 'gang members', and 'heinous monsters' first.

So, you know, maybe they could try to do what they said they'd do for once?

Because the governor requested federal assistance.

Enshitification is often a company-wide culture problem, but the fish does rot from the head.

There are a variety of reasons why a company might begin to over-incentivize short-term gain (or high-stakes risk-taking) at the expense of customer happiness and possibly to the detriment of the company's long-term interests.

For example: Growth stagnation, an existential threat, a pessimistic long-term financial outlook, bad reward structure, low customer regard, organizational infighting, low employee retention, etc.

The sudden emergence of AI and volatile economy are triggering several of those for a boat load of companies. And, well, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

You're referring to XHTML 2?

> but he has earned the cred and walks the walk.

One of the lessons I wish I'd learned earlier is that indulging bombastic behavior neither benefits them nor you.

Strong opinions, weakly held are good. Well-reasoned opinions to the contrary are even encouraged. Provided, of course, that they're smart enough to know when to persist and when to disagree and commit.

If you just indulge it, they end up with the engineering equivalent of Nobelitis. And if they're on your team, you end up with more burden than asset no matter how brilliant they are.

"clean on OPSEC"

- Pete Hegseth

That line simultaneously becomes funnier and more depressing.

I find the enjoyment is correlated with my ability to maintain forward momentum.

If you work at a company where there's a byzantine process to do anything, this pitch might speak to you. Especially if leadership is hungry for AI but has little appetite for more meaningful changes.

Same data in a Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IUVU9Q4uN_lxqNd5AsN...

Note: I normalized the data a bit and I think I translated some of the abbreviations and reasons for rejection. It also got reordered at some point.

It was only to be used for a limited subset of Secret or lower comms. It was hardened and didn't use RIM's servers.

Are you trying to prove their point?

The author said their aim was to "be nondestructive to this Apple mouse", and would it truly be an Apple mouse if it didn't have at least one questionable design decision?

But, in all seriousness, I'm impressed that they were able to do this non-destructively.

> Looks like this finally is the year of the Linux Desktop!

If only we'd had the foresight to say "client" instead of "desktop" we could have said we got there with Android. But, alas, in the 90s the mobile device in waiting was a wristwatch.

I liked being able to reorder them outside boundaries, but I'd suggest some additional visual cues that might address the same issue:

1. Place an outline around the tile when it's on a word square.

2. Make the quadrant backgrounds a different color, shade, or texture. That will make it easier to see which tiles belong to which quadrant.

Agree on B.

The bigger controversy was the MacBook Pro launched a few months later:

- Ditching MagSafe

- Touch Bar (at first without a dedicated escape key)

- Butterfly Keyboard

- Uncomfortably hot to the touch

- Full-sized left and right arrow keys which made it harder to find without looking

- Only USB-C ports

Whoever had the reigns when Apple finally reversed these decisions and made the M1 MBP -- this is the best laptop I've ever owned.

Purely anecdotal: I worked at an Apple VAR when the TiBook was released, but I honestly can't remember any real controversy. They were a big hit. Quite easy to repair too.

I wasn't there for the plastic Intel MacBooks, but the biggest complaint I remember hearing about was that the black one collected fingerprints like crazy and, later on, some overheating issues. They were also a pain to repair, though not as bad as the iBooks before them.

Open source finds a way.

Good enough + open (and free) is a very appealing proposition.

That reminded me of the compiler that used to include a large poem in every binary, just for shits and giggles. You've heard of a magic number, it had a magic sonnet.

I thought it was early versions of the Rust compiler, but I can't seem to find any references to it. Maybe it was Go?

EDIT: Found it: 'rust-lang/rust#13871: "hello world" contains Lovecraft quotes' https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871

Reminds me of something from a few months ago:

Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vice-chair of the first IEEE 802.3 task group that wrote a standard around RJ-45-style connector, appears and offers to take the blame.

That led to this short documentary: "TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y

Yes, but the president is the head of the executive branch, which includes the DoJ. He can simply instruct them not to prosecute.

That does leave companies like Oracle, who TikTok uses to host their content, in a weird position where they could be fined by future administrations for continuing to provide them service now.

However, the law does give the president the ability to give them a one-time 90 day stay of execution. So, theoretically, they could repeal the law in the next 3 months.

> The danger of these rules was not just that they created land mines for the unwary

In real life, these "land mines" don't usually explode unless people think you're stepping on it intentionally.

For instance, every time I've accidentally used the wrong pronoun for someone, I've gotten a polite correction, I make a mental note, and everyone moves on. It's just not a big deal.

With a large enough audience, there will always be someone who assumes you've acted with ill intent. But if you know you've done it innocently, then you can just ignore them and move on.

Intent matters. Those performative things communicate your intent to make others feel welcome and included. So if you fly off the handle at a reasonable request that would make a group of people feel more included, you've communicated your intent accordingly.

Occasionally, there are some purely performative things that don't actually make anyone feel more included. Personally, I think it's reasonable to ask that question if you're genuinely interested in finding the answer. However, purely performative things tend to disappear in time; so sometimes the most pragmatic response is to just go with the flow and see where things land.

Most of those are terms for different things.

Not all people who are black are African American.

Not all people of color are black.

Was that the period of time when you got more bang for your buck building a PC with dual-socket Celerons than one high-end Pentium?

EDIT: An excellent retrospective on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE-k4hYHIDE

Perhaps not that many people were using `itssh` or replaced the initial profile command with SSH + SSH integration.

As others have pointed out, that was only setting up the UI.

Here's the repo with the rest of the source: https://github.com/rauchg/doom-captcha

They also had to modify Doom to skip the menus, add the necessary callbacks, and a few other tweaks.

That's a low bar. Google's reCAPTCHA sometimes feels like it was created in a lab to be as infuriating to humans as possible.

If you're not logged in and are using a shared IP (CG-NAT in my case), you get all sorts of fun behaviors. It loves to fail correct responses -- sometimes multiple consecutive ones. Occasionally, it will deliberately slow down new image fade-in to a snail's pace to test reaction time. Spot those stairs too fast? You must be a bot.

I don't know if the market is big enough to offset the cost of setting up production again.

That doesn't normalize the URL nor does it handle relative URL joining logic. It also doesn't handle URLs like: `file:///foo.txt`

Having been years since I last watched a DVD, I'd forgotten how many of them had unskippable trailers and/or ads you had to sit through before it would let you watch the movie you ostensibly owned.

A friend of mine had one when we were teenagers. It was fun in a way that only a cheap, tiny car can be. More go-kart than car.

The whole frame became a crumple zone in a low-speed collision with a Lexus. Fortunately, he escaped injuries in the way only the young can.

Well, maybe not the one who drove across the country in a diaper to assault her ex-boyfriend's lover.