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> There are no book bans in the US. ...

Not true here in Florida. The governor banned and burned books that taught slavery was bad, revoked tenure and fired all teachers who were reported teaching that slavery was bad. The new state-approved textbooks teach that slavery taught blacks useful skills and that there was violence on both sides.


So you can't just go to a local book store and buy a copy or order it on Amazon? Oh wait you can? Crazy damn I really thought a banned book would mean I couldn't buy it at literally any book store.

> Not true here in Florida. The governor banned and burned books

The books are not banned.

The public schools don't allow them, which is the case for many things.

Whether you agree with it or not, calling this "banning books" is dumb. There are a lot of things that are not allowed in schools, but we don't go around saying "Florida banned alcohol" or "Florida banned smoking" or "Florida banned pornography" because they're not allowed in schools.


> The books are not banned...The public schools don't allow them

What's a word that means "forbidden from being included" or "disallowed"? "Banned"! Check your local dictionary, or just type it into your favorite search box.

> Calling this "banning books" is dumb. There are a lot of things that are not allowed in schools, but we don't go around saying "Florida banned alcohol" or "Florida banned smoking"

No, it's not dumb. Children don't go to school for the purpose of getting drunk or smoking. They do go to school to learn things, including things that might be politically controversial or divisive.

You know what is dumb? Gatekeeping truthful information from being accessible to kids because the curiosity it sparks might inconvenience some people.


The acrobatics ya'll are performing to reach these conclusions sure are impressive.

It's not a war, just a special military operations that lasts longer than WW 2.

Remember. Over 20% of America still supports this fascism.

Statistically some of them would be here


I sometimes wonder if Kubernetes was designed with selling support and training services as a goal.

Built by Google and... Redhat!

I had read somewhere that Kubernetes is like a Tamagotchi for operations teams.

... and while searching for where I found that quote, it seems someone vibecoded that metaphor literally: https://github.com/Yscale-sh/Kubagachi


While I understand why C++ defines bool as an Integer, it might have been better if it wasn't. It's not a problem for me that in some modern languages, boolean cannot be mixed with numbers in an expression.


Is "fearless concurrency" a technical term? I thought it was just the catchy name of a chapter of the Rust book.


I too love plain text data, but absent a universally accepted standard, meta data is needed to avoid guessing a document's charset, encoding, and line ending convention.

Associating such meta data with text files wasn't simple in the beginning, but that changed in the 1990s. Nearly all filesystems since then allow meta data: POSIX compliant filesystems support extended attributes, mostly used for security meta data. Even ancient HFS (Apple Mac) supports meta data. NTFS supports it with alternative file streams.

While possible, no system I know of attempts to use any such meta data, probably due to a lack of standards. A pity.


Every day that goes by, it's more likely that it's UTF-8 and "\r and/or \n (greedy)(in that order)" works to parse the line endings. So I'm not very bothered.


I think the best shape for a city is a Mobius strip: go anywhere without turns, so no traffic lights needed.


If you're thinking in terms of optimizing car traffic there's a good chance this city will suck


Dang says tomhow is the better moderator.

Dang, says tomhow, is the better moderator.


- Verily I say unto thee today, shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.

- But when, Lord, when?!

- Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.

- Ahhhh.


> - Verily I say unto thee today, shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.

Shouldn't this one be "Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise?"


You're right of course, that is the grammatically correct way. I guess I was dangerously forcing my poetic license.

But it's still a good example of where a comma (or lack of) can make all the difference.


English can be so imprecise.


Those sentences are perfectly precise. Yes they are sensitive to the commas, just as they are to the whitespace and spelling.


WiFi is not an acronym for "wireless fidelity"; the developers likely just thought it sounded cool. The term is probably just a play on the words from the audio term "high fidelity". The phrase "Wireless Fidelity" is meaningless.

The more you know!


Wiki on wifi:

> It is disputed whether the name Wi-Fi is short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity',[34] although the Wi-Fi Alliance did use the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after the brand name was created,[31][35] referenced "the Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) logo" in a white paper[33] and the Wi-Fi Alliance was also called the "Wireless Fidelity Alliance Inc." in some publications.[36] IEEE, a separate but related organization, has stated "WiFi is a short name for Wireless Fidelity" on their website.[37][38] The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.[39]

So it’s not really safe to say it’s not meant to mean wireless fidelity, in fact it sounds pretty likely.


Two suggestions, based on my experience:

1) Add a section called "Potential Changes". This is broader than "missing features", and can include other items too, such as new hardware that might become avaliable, customer requirement changes you might anticipate, possible new technology (e.g. a new database or cloud service that might be useful), multilingual support, etc. Listing some of these often causes reviewers to think of others as well.

Ensuring the design is modular around such changes means implementing any of them will be far easier than if assumptions are hard-coded throughout the codebase.

2) Security and privacy are two aspects of a more general category of "compliance assurance". Those two are worthy of their own categories, but you should have a section covering any other legal, regulatory, or corporate requirements. The plan for auditing these compliances should be listed too.

Often, of course, there are none beyond security and privacy.


Your point is fishy. But if the IAU definition changes to "a body orbiting a star", we can rename them to "paparazzi".


That was quite funny. I think my point is that terms are not always as precise as people think they are.

As others have stated, there appears to be some kind of spectrum. Some of the inner planets have more in common with the moons of Jupiter and Saturn in some regards, than they do with Jupiter and Saturn themselves. For a start they have a surface that can be landed on. (Maybe not so much in the case of Venus or Io!!!)

Pluto's most obvious problem is that it is too similar in size to a large number of other objects. But it does have some resemblances to planets and larger moons. I'm not keen on the phrase "dwarf planet" because it makes me think of objects that are much smaller than Pluto is.


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