This is my mantra. Maintainability is king. I can’t convince anyone designing our systems that this is more important than fancy 3rd party libraries that add some capability that only a couple of people will ever understand how to use, but will find it’s way throughout the codebase and be a thorn in the side of bug fixes and new features for years.

Seems like people don’t know their Sting like they used to.

“I will accept no contrary advice from my councilors, nor advisors, nor my people!” said no non-megalomaniac ever.

Then again, with that same theory, he could just eliminate Congress altogether before the voting starts for impeachment. Or place specific justices on house arrest before they vote. Basically, the idiotic idea of a president not beholden to laws is mostly the same as a despotism if the “president” wishes it to be.

It looks like Snoo’s drunk uncle. What’s with the 5 o’clock shadow?

I’ve heard you can just email one of the authors of the paper, if you’re looking for a specific one.

You’re basically correct, in this case. I’ve chosen my official “side” as that of humanity. I’m not fully certain what that means other than I feel for the protestors/people of both sides and don’t want bad things to happen to either. The governments directly involved here, such as they are, are in the business of revenge and power. The people in general are being played by their governments, pawns to be sacrificed or otherwise used to further the purpose.

Hurricanes could, and did, wipe out entire communities. It’s easy to forget how important the study of meteorology is, as well as how vital modern weather satellites are, in keeping people safe.

As one example of massive damage done in the not terribly distant past: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

Oh, I had one of these! It was amazing, until it stopped working. Sad day.

I shouldn’t feed the trolls…

I suppose the better question is, what did he do right?

• Taunted Twitter CEO, culminating in what constituted a valid offer to purchase at a very inflated price
• Tried to back out of his legally made offer
• Fired the vast majority of staff that knew how to run the site
• Fired all of the staff in charge of ethics
• Stopped paying rent and other bills, despite having used the location/services
• Demanded employees devote their non-sleeping lives to the company
• Ignored all his other companies, from which he continues to draw paychecks (ok, maybe ignoring them is for their best interest)
• Failed to pay promised severance
• Change algorithm to promote his voice above all other
• Rebrand off of one of the most recognizable names and logos in the world

And these are the ones just off the top of my head.

For those who aren’t in the know:

https://youtu.be/GmqeZl8OI2M

That’s an interesting thought. I hadn’t considered that as an option.

I haven’t heard of them before. Awfully reasonable pricing. I’ll check them out, thanks!

Do you know – do most people run cloud instances, or just a spare computer sitting in the closet collecting dust? I’d be tempted to looking into my own, but don’t want to spend a small fortune keeping a large EC2 just because it sounded interesting one weekend.