Ordered Chinese food for dinner for which UberEats just tried to upsell “do you want to bundle Panda Express with your order?” Of course I want Chinese food with my order of Chinese food. Who doesn’t. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Programmers.

The Sahm Rule Has Been Triggered The Sahm rule is an early recession indicator. As of today, it has been triggered. Since 1950, the Sahm rule has indicated only one false positive (in 1959), and even then, six months later the US had entered a recession. Origin of the Sahm

“The fewer things a program does, the less it can suck.” -Buddha.

❤️Lawrence O'Donnell for ripping into mainstream media’s utter incompetence, giving uncontested live coverage of Trump’s spewage of lies and falsehoods.

The de rigueur ~1984 pre-GPU version of object picking used a tiny offscreen viewport of the picking area and, with the standard renderer, render objects into that buffer, checking for written pixels between each object. Same basic idea applies today, adapted for GPU counters.

For those still confused about it, it’s 2024 and it still holds not (KN95+) masking in crowds is still statistically dumb. fortune.com/well/article/l…

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Between all important issues like wars, eroding women’s rights, authoritarianism, clownhat technocracy, and promulgating preschool-level journalism, how can we possibly focus on trivialities like rampant spreading of deadly diseases 🤷🏼‍♂️

Are you a professor? If so, consider signing the petition against the American Association of University Professors' recent about-face, in which they cravenly declare that academic boycotts are OK after all. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

The Apple II created a whole generation of programmers who printed all sorts of reckless and dangerous text messages. We should ban the Apple II, retroactively.

NEW: America’s largest meat producers are reportedly fixing prices. Tyson, Hormel, and Cargill are using a little-known technology—Agri Stats—to share secret data and make your groceries more expensive. It’s one of the biggest conspiracies in corporate history.

What off-the-shelf(?) software is used at your company to provide an accurate inventory of your on-prem systems? (Where system could be workstations, server hosts, VMs, maybe even dev kits and phones)

How do you distinguish a “server” from a “workstation” in a functional way (ie a rule that can be encoded as code)? Attempt 0: does it have a keyboard attached? What even *is* a server?!

A favorite UI fail is LinkedIn on iPhone. To see/edit your profile you have to tap your profile pic. Except, if you don’t have a profile pic, they don’t highlight the area. So the user has to know to tap a white EMPTY SPACE (circled) in the upper left corner! 🤦🏼‍♂️ LinkedIn Help

Great post! EVERYONE working on library code (eg middleware or open source), or any code that produces data/code for inclusion in other code (eg tool exporters, compilers, build systems) SHOULD write deterministic code. Read to learn what that means.

If in CA or US in general, you probably got the below notice of (yet another) data breach. I just emailed the CA AG (FCC next) suggesting they should force companies to provide 10 YEARS of comp. credit monitoring, not just 1 year. Please do the same! oag.ca.gov/system/files/Y…

I need a Democrat in Congress to propose the ‘Save Donald Trump’s life gun reform bill’ so the Republicans either have to pass it or go on record that they don’t care about protecting Donald Trump.