Most probably it was internal, for money only?

Forbes vets its own ads. Many people there had to think this was a good thing.

It’s not a random ad from another company

Maybe the convention lost them more voters than gained ? Widely circulated videos of democrat delegates making fun of the protest that was naming the dead kids might have lost Michigan all by itself .

He is right about the Palestinian humanitarian orgs, been doing that for a year. I don’t know about the military, unless he means Biden is probably not doing all he can to prevent them from being misused domestically. Don’t know anything there

Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .

It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.

I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office

I don’t know anything about cryptology; I have an imagination about how many things can go wrong hooking up parts and running them.

If it’s the law to make an age verification system then it will be made.

But I think one either has an age verification or privacy, but not both, in any country in the world.

I’m totally sure many of the discussions here about crypto are way above my head. But I’m equally sure while any one part will look fine in paper, the sum total will be used by an expanding government agency, crime, or both.

Doesn’t this assume the issuing agency has all employees who are morally sound and not leaking data, unnoticed by an internally badly designed system, which is designed by people who are out of touch? Most things like this are designed that way, irregardless of country .

I’m sure one can make it watertight but it’s so hard and still depends in trusting people. The conversation here is about one thing of a larger system. There are probably a hundred moving parts in any bureaucracy.

Even if those workers were not being deliberately killed because of their affiliation with a known humanitarian agency. It shows what is happening to many, with the purposeful eradication of food distribution

I’m really unclear about when this was written, but it does not include rust or type safety

Yes, it’s good to know stuff like that , and even though there are not too many solutions today other than “containerize and hope”, this is part of a good software engineering education

All code today is coupled to complex ecosystems which may thrive or perish later. There are no good solutions which can be given out as generic advice.

And even specific solutions to any tech stack can be hit or miss. Time kills all projects unless they are run in a frozen environment which itself keeps up with the times, constantly

I once used a virtual desktop in the cloud, and I could access that from anywhere. It was just a regular OS that had all my tools, and it was where my work was done changes. Ultimately, that remote desktop went away when I changed jobs. But, it would be something I would think about again for me.

There is a danger of things going poof, or not being accessible. It cannot be helped at all. But a push to a backup repo during each commit, would allow an emergency restore. Doing a snapshot every few days of the machine, for example if its on AWS or other, helps lessen the loss when and if it goes poof.

To solve the issue of the internet going out, have one of your local computers do a regular pull as a cron job of the backup repo

I find this validating 30 years after I spent weeks banging my head on these volumes. I meekly gave up and was not brave like you who called it what it was: horribly written

Parity bit

I’ve been programming for years, I’ve only happy when working on my own stuff. It’s like the difference between renting and owning

It keeps happening in history: people using horror suffered in the past to give cover to their own crimes. Attacking others in the name of their own holy dead.

Sharing stories or pictures of a previous genocide to make others overlook a current genocide. Accusing others of being enemies to their religion and ethnicity when voices raise in protest.

Over a hundred times in the world, in the last few thousand years. It’s just particularly galling to me to see this, now, in my name.

Over time I have matured as a programmer and realize xml is very good to use sometimes, even superior. But I still want layers between me and it. I do output as yaml when I have to see what’s in there