The worst is schroedinger’s auditory buffer. (Heisenbuffer?)

If you give me a second to parse what you said, I can reply just fine. If you ask “are you listening?” in an aggravated tone, the buffer gets discarded instantly.

And this is completely orthogonal to whether I was trying to pay attention to your words, cuz I basically can’t process your words directly as you speak anyway.

So I might have an easier time continuing the conversation if I’m mildly distracted instead of constantly overwriting the perfectly understandable stuff from 5 seconds ago with the white noise that I’m hearing in the immediate present.

It’s not all bad

Trump admin suffers blow

Huh. I thought they enjoyed blow.

Technically, that’d be an ‘iff’

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we’ve been too naive. We’ve left children’s digital lives to platforms that never had their wellbeing in mind. We must move from digital captivity to community.”

Powerful words.

Small question: Why are you giving these horrible platforms more leverage over their digital captives instead of just banning them or outlawing the worst parts of their business models?

Having to resolve the same conflict multiple times suggests excess noise in your git history. You might want to pay closer attention to creating a useful git history. It’ll help with any future archaeology, and it’ll also help rebasing go smoothly.

Think of it like your browser history but for Git. It’s a list of the SHAs related to your recent operations.

And because Git is a content-addressable data store, a SHA is basically like a URL. Even if a branch no longer exists, if you know the SHA it pointed to then you can still check out the exact contents of that branch. The reflog helps you find that.

Git repository operations are (almost?) always recoverable. git reflog is your friend.

The filesystem operations are another story. Handle with care.

I understand it for normal words. But for an acronym? About a body of technical research? How are we supposed to refer to the thing that Fielding meant when he coined the term?

Does ReST mean anything anymore? It was originally a set of principles guiding the development of the HTTP 1.1 spec. Then it meant mapping CRUD to HTTP verbs so application-agnostic load balancers could work right. And now I guess it’s just HTTP+JSON?

And also was a Republican policy in the first place — proposed by the Heritage Foundation and initially drafted as legislation by Republicans.

People have thought for thousands of years that they were living in the time of a great final battle against eternal tyranny — and that they were destined to fail.

There’s a strange comfort in being certain of doom. It makes the world simple and understandable. Predictable, and therefore less jarring. Doom is invulnerable to good news — in fact, good news is always bad news in the framework of doom, because it means delaying the inevitable and inviting false hope.

But the real story of the last several thousand years is that the world is complex. People are more complex than we could’ve understood even a hundred years ago. And the universe may be even stranger than we possibly can imagine.

I’m not telling you to be certain of a positive outcome. I’m just telling you to let go of certainty.

Sometimes “micro yesses” work for me. That’s where you turn “getting started” into something absurdly simple. Like, way simpler than you think. If your goal is to do the laundry, your “micro yes” is not grabbing the laundry basket, or going into the bedroom, or even standing up. It’s to wiggle your toes.

But he called them ugly. That proves he’s innocent. A rapist would never call his victims ugly.

protected against being fired if somehow a Democrat accidentally wins the Presidency again…

Just as protected as they are right now. If there are no penalties for the firing, and the firing can’t be undone, then is it really illegal? The only thing keeping a Dem president from doing it is a desire to follow the law.

Needs an integrated battery and USB-C alt mode for display so you can use a keyboard + AR glasses and nothing else

Had a convo with someone a while back:

Bug report: “The ‘reset password’ form doesn’t show an error if you try to reset an account that doesn’t exist.”

Me: “That would be a security risk. Closed.”

Them: “What? How? You have to click the link in the email before it does anything.”

Me: “Try putting in a bogus email on the login screen. See how it says ‘wrong email/password combination’, and not ‘no such account’? If we tell the user whether we recognize a given email, we’re basically providing attackers a list of users they can try passwords for.”

I’d settle for just requiring interoperability. Seems like a reasonable requirement for a government to demand the ability to change vendors.

We have that requirement when it comes to munitions. You’re not allowed to sell the military a gun for which you are the only ammo manufacturer.

A side effect would probably be that more commercial software would be interoperable as a result, just because it’s easier for the vendors to maintain a single product rather than wildly different variants.

Not a truce. An unconditional surrender.

Just for context, this was before Kirk got merc’d