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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • But WHY are you trying to make a case for a bad practice? Don’t enable this kind of bullshit, please.

    If there’s an error, don’t say it’s 200 OK. Give me something, a 4xx, or at least a 500. Sure, add all you want to the body, but respect the goddamn headers!

    This fucks up so many things - starting right with API specs and documentation, s23 (or any other code this crap spits out) are not a part of the pdf file, which is the ONLY available documentation for this 3rd party service. If it serves any internal purpose, I have no clue, but for me it’s useless.

    Log analytics is a mess, and you can forget about auto-generating a client, of course…

    This is just a huge red flag for me, if their public interfaces look like this, I dont want to know whats under the hood, and I’m actively lobbying for us to change to another provider.




  • Oh yeah, I remember using tortoiseCVS briefly.

    Mercurial and Bazaar also showed up at around the same time as git, I think all spurred by BitKeeper ending their free licenses for Linux kernel devs.

    An interesting shot to the foot, that one.

    BitKeeper was a proprietary version control system that somehow (and with a lot of controversy) ended up being adopted by a big chunk of the Linux kernel developers, while others were adamant against it.

    In any case, they provided free licenses to Linux devs, with some feature restrictions (including not being able to see full version history) only available for premium clients, while Devs who worked on open source competing systems were even barred from buying a licence.

    When someone started to work on a client that allowed access to these locked away features, they revoked the free licenses, and a host of solutions started being developed immediately. Linus Thorvalds himself started work on git, and that eventually got adopted by the whole Linux ecosystem and, nowadays, the world.

    As for BitKeeper, it’s been dead for years now.





  • Are you arguing my point for me? Indeed, Sanders is exceptional, truly one of a kind - I’m not being sarcastic here, he really is a remarkable person.

    But how many times did he get to run for president? Zero. Both times he was shut down. In any normal country, I have no doubts he would have been president.

    What conclusions you decide to take are up to you, don’t make that my responsibility. You can take it lying down if that’s what you prefer, we tend to go out and make a bit of a mess around here.


  • Bloodletting is definitely NOT a treatment for lead poisoning, or for anything that you can think of.

    Poisoning by metals is usually treated by using a chelating agent: a molecule that creates an ionic bond with that metal, and makes it easier for the body to excrete it or prevents it from being absorbed further, like dimercaprol or EDTA.

    Guys, we figured all this shit out in the 18th and 19th century. How are we going back to the days of the dumbdumb? This moronic concept of “me think so must be” is dead: we actually test hypothesis now.


  • Your conclusion is wrong, in that I didn’t say they’re fake, I said that they serve as a way for different mega wealthy people to take turns at serving their own interests. Which may be a synonym or not, depending on your perspective.

    But I did imply that non-plutocrats have zero sway in elections, because of how the system is stacked for the two parties because of many different aspects, but one of the obvious ones is just how much money you need to run a successful campaign.



  • You’d be better off asking that to a republican, but to me, no.

    From a diplomatic perspective, they don’t seem closer at all because of the tariff escalation. Going forward, depends on how well the heads of state get along.

    From the kind of government perspective, they seem very much apart as well. China is your typical autocracy, with all power centered around the president. In the US, corporations and billionaires have too much power for trump to pull all the power to itself, so it’s an oligarchy in a trenchcoat with trump’s head peeking out (and Musk’s also showing…).