Observability is a capability my last employer really fucked up. I would have loved this power.

Trying to figure out wtf is going on with database locks, or celery tasks you can’t find in the dashboard, was like blindfold surgery.

Fat chance that team would use elixir, though. Nothing more esoteric than python.

Second draw.io - I’ve done lots of diagrams with VSCode and the draw.io plugin

Excellent - I’m about to install it for my aged mother, because windows keeps moving her cheese.

I want something that doesn’t change the workflows once she’s learned how to do a task, and that local techs can help her with, and that I can VNC to when I have to.

I used a Sidewinder keyboard for years with programmable macros.

Yeah, I had my password as a macro.

Dick move on my part as the macro, I’m fairly sure, is stored in plaintext on the PC. But the convenience was great. I don’t do that any more.

I’m a native English speaker. I can’t understand your comment. I sense that you have a useful perspective, could you rephrase it so it’s understandable?

Think of the lexiconsequences

Maybe not. But that was before he was president for four years - fuck, it’s still crazy to think that happened - and really forced people to acknowledge that yeah, he is a pathological liar who doesn’t give a shit about the country.

A lot of people still suck on the tit. But a lot of others recognise that the hot pain comes from getting burned.

You had all the tea party nutters for years - but none of them became president.

The bit about “secret” whatsapp messages is alarming.

when Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers in his garage

Just erase Wozniak from history huh

the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server)

Your concern about this is misguided. Inter-process communication always has to cross a barrier, by definition.

I take it http also feels wrong to you?

Binary protocols do exist, e.g. gRPC, but they incur costs of their own.

Shame I had to scroll this far to find PRQL

No! Bad dev! No biscuit!

Never merge master into a feature branch. It’s called a “wrong-way” merge and it makes the history fucking awful.

You shit in the face of project maintainers when you do this.

You may not care, in fact many don’t. Also people buy timeshares, read celebrity gossip magazines, and vote for scumbags. They are fucking idiots who don’t know what they are doing. So are people who leave wrong-way merges in shared history.

In fact, wrong-way mergers are worse, because you can’t just ignore them - git blame rubs your face in their shit, so they shit in your face forever.

Just don’t fucking do it, OK? Or I will hit you in the throat with a cricket bat soaked in wasps. As a first warning.

If I were a democrat pol, I’d want to keep Gaetz, and Trump, and all the nut jobs.

They are loved by their base and horrible to work with in the houses, but they are electorally toxic.

Prediction for your next presidential election: Trump will still be on trial on federal charges, he will be the nominee anyway, and he will lose badly. DeSantis will bite chunks out of him. Bullish on popcorn.

Or Trump bites chunks out of whoever they do nominate. The party either gets moderate votes, or Trump votes, or DeSantis votes, but not all three.

Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

Actually no, I’ve met some people who present themselves like slobs but are excellent human beings.

Substitute “member of an out-group” for the bonus point

They are. If Trump stands, it’ll be a big victory for Biden, because Trump has made himself unelectable for swing voters.

Over here, the tories are heading for a wipeout. They’ve been telling us their shit smelled like roses, and it worked, up until it didn’t.

Edgy shit like this is why anti-woke is a vote winner. It’s repulsive to normal people.

It’s not a uniform, it’s a dress code, and it long predates boomers.

That one’s easy. Colour is a quality that we discern in light with wavelengths around the 600 - 800 nm range. That wavelength is enormously larger than atomic scale. Visible light, practically speaking, cannot even reflect off an atom - you need to get way way down past the X-ray wavelength to get even some reflection.

Another Kagi fan here. I pay $10 a month.

I’m a reasonably heavy search user, but have never hit the quota.

It’s wonderful to have relevant results again.

The one thing it doesn’t work for is shopping. From time to time I use Google. I should probably switch that to Bing, as the lesser of two evils.