Warl0k3

Wouldn't that be convenient? Everyone who does horrible things is a psychopath? No. They're just people. People that bought the patriotism line, or who wanted out of poverty and were told this might be a way, or people who have some notion of honor or duty or what have you. They're you, with different social pressures. That's what the fight is against - not groups that find terrible people and cultivate them, but groups that can frame terrible things in ways that ordinary people find noble or worthy. Just as much as you yourself are not immune to propaganda, neither is anyone else.

I wasn't really referring to this post with that question - though it is relevant that leaving even an effectively unconstrained field like one that allows for the shrek script to be submitted would have seen me fired (if it had somehow passed QC, field sizes are one of the first things checked).

I was more curious about how different our experiences seem to be: you seem to imply a background where you're expected to take the requirements as gospel with what you write based solely off that unless you're personally invested, whereas in my experience engaging critically with the project is the single most important aspect of the development process, and not questioning potentially unwanted behavior leaves you open to firing (or criminal neglect if you're dealing with medical PII, criminal records, etc...)

I'm quite genuinely interested in the different approach to development philosophy you present here.

Sincere question, are you not expected to clarify questionable business rules? I've never worked somewhere that leaving such an obvious issue like "unrestricted fields in a public-facing application" without getting it explicitly stated that that's intended functionality wouldn't have gotten me fired instantly.

Yeah, sleepy and wasn't thinking about file sizes. That 1Gb limit (or, the Tsql 65,536 * [something] limit) was what I was referring to, but rather obviously the plaintext script for the movie is a just a little tiny bit smaller than that (51kb).

It's still a good deal larger than what in my experience can be fit into a receipt printer, but I can forgive their phrasing even if it was only a small part of the whole script. And aside from that, it does look to be a pretty modern device so it's very possible that the stupid stupid 20kb file size limit that was so common has since been expanded (Last time I had to deal with a receipt printer the file was streamed over a serial connection into the printer cache before being run off G-code style. Incredibly charming piece of tech...)

This... wouldn't surprise them at all? Those types have always been very explicitly pro-authoritarian.

Cannot imagine how this could be legit - you'd run into a hard limit unless you explicitly designed that field to be unbounded.

"Do the quebecois deserve rights?" came up here recently, that was a fun one to see get moderated into oblivion.

It's depressingly predictable that this article doesn't talk at all about the push to restore the Brazilian military presence in Ecuador. That was a huge aspect of the national discourse around this topic that is strangely ignored in pretty much all the english-language reporting on this issue. It feels very much like this was written not to celebrate the victory for Ecuadorian independence, but to claim a loss for the US on a topic I do not know if a single major american news outlet has even mentioned. Most people in the US can't find Ecuador on a map, the trump officials doubtlessly included. It's a damn miracle Kristi Noem managed to land in the right country.

There was little real push from the US to even allow bases again, which is part of why this failed so spectacularly - nobody, noem seemingly included, is entirely clear on why Noboa was so heavily invested in getting the US back except because it was the only way he could see to signal his allegiance to trump. It was just extremely odd all around, and a spectacular demonstration that Noboa and his far right cronies have no idea what the hell they're doing.

Linux on cars, when?

IDK man, I think cars have more than enough driver issues already...

China is supplying Russia with material aid during this conflict - they get to profit from the war while russia collapses economically plus continue their economic and political war with Europe practically unopposed (the US dropped out and Russia isn't really in good shape to be compeition anymore) and all without having to address the issue of the millions of refugees nor the logistics of maintaining an occupying force in the largest least hospitable country in the world.

He owns a lot of boats, both the RV6000 (currently being constructed, rumored price $300 mil) and the Pressure Drop are research vessels that belong to him - pressure drop does some very good science, and has for quite a long time.

He also owns a fleet of pleasure yachts. The two groups of ships are conflated for... reasons I actually cannot understand.

(fwiw link works fine for me)