It's a weird situation. Part of me is thinking "but this time we must surely see it" and another part is laughing at me for my naïveté.

America, this is what a competent, grounded, educated leader looks like in a crisis. Now compare with what we have. Do you begin to see why elections matter?

Tiptoeing back, I'd call that.

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incredibly impressive visualization: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ #wealth #money #nogood (thanx, Paqui )

Increasingly getting the feeling that I'm reading bots talking to bots around here. Not sure if interesting or... what.

Bundesverfassungsgericht: Musterkommentar zu verfassungswidrigen Überwachungsgesetzen [wiederverwendbar] spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzp… via DER SPIEGEL

A simulation is a great idea where a real experiment is too pricy/complex. Could add a factor for the lack of reusability that also often occurs in non-TDD code. We can keep favoring non-testers in sims, suspect they'll continue losing out long term.

Costa Rica hat seinen Regenwald fast vollständig wieder aufgeforstet. Mittlerweile ist das Land fast zu 60% von Wald bedeckt. Ende der 80er waren es etwa 21%. 🌳🌳🌳 Es gibt zu viele negative News, daher twittere ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it's not a small problem--it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people.

Aha. Und nächste Woche dann in der FAZ: "Steuern sind Diebstahl". Freu mich schon. faz.net/-ht6-a410w?GEP… via Frankfurter Allgemeine

#Clojure interop with Python. Pytorch from Clojure. How great is that, I ask? Trouble remembering the last time I felt such childlike joy about a new toy. gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/1…

"x-werbeid" klingt nicht wirklich nach "Erforderliche Cookies", aber das bin jetzt nur ich.

Da gab es doch letztens einen Test zur Medienkompetenz, der vor Quellen warnte, die durch eine Wertung in der Überschrift auffallen? Oder ist das nur das gute alte Framing? Grünen-Chefin: Baerbock will den Pflegevorsorgefonds plündern faz.net/-ib3-ab7z3?GEP… via Frankfurter Allgemeine

Besides being funny, it's striking how this approach to software makes the best out of a weird situation instead of just crashing or giving up. And since those events will happen, that points to a future for it.

From "things that would have sounded weird to the 20-year-old-self": my tv is getting slower.

Are C# docs really written using actual XML tags? Opening _and_ closing? How on earth...? Is there some original sin C# developers are still paying for?

Don't think OOP belongs in that list of things you need in the end, but this feels like something one should mull on before deciding to go CRUD.

Getting some satisfaction out of typing `git push origin -fu ...` a lot while fighting with gitlab pipeline here. Take that, origin. You're welcome, inner child.

The story here, for those who may have forgotten 2015 (it was a long time ago!) is that the NSA inserted a backdoor into a major encryption standard and then leaned on manufacturers to install it. Thread. 1/