Clearly your gender field is a boolean. Which means it can be either true, false, null, or undefined. Except in javascript where for some reason it can sometimes be NaN, but only when you try to compare two people.

*OH₂

Where does the 93 come from? The percentage is almost correct, but it should be 11 (1.074%)

So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?

Calling to defederate merely on the basis of political opinion might be premature. However, I suspect defederation will happen for legal reasons: they host users who openly support terrorist organizations designated as such by the EU. LW is subject to Dutch law - hosting such content is more of a gray area than CSAM, but still very much illegal in most countries.

The reason I’m not pushing here with examples is because I have not yet contacted the mods/admins to remove said content. They may have simply not been aware and I’ll give them that chance. But even seeing that content has a chilling effect on users who would contribute - even in unrelated communities.

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

IDI are vocal in their criticism of Netanyahu, but their statistical methods tend to hold up. They answer your question pretty succinctly:

We found that a very large majority of the total sample (89%) think that Hamas bears a great deal of responsibility for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

And also:

we asked: “Given the current circumstances, is Israel’s leadership is doing its utmost to secure the release of the hostages?” We found that slightly more than half of the Jewish respondents think or are certain that the leadership is doing all it can to bring the hostages home. Only a small minority of Arab respondents concur.

That is legitimately one of the most level-headed replies I’ve read here in the last few months. Kudos.

Two things I want to add:

1. one of the two IRGC generals killed helped plan October 7th - one of the semi-official war goals is to kill every person who was involved
2. Ignore the amount intercepted - that’s not what matters for geopolitics. An equivalent escalation would mean Israel responding with 15,000 ballistic missiles and 30,000 suicide drones

Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.

It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.

Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.

Used by search engines for listing which pages should be indexed.

Google’s documentation

This is a shit shitpost post shitpost.

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

Uninterruptible sleep makes this harder than it looks

Yeah, I was fumbling with the markdown for a hot minute.

I first found it on the bottom shelf of a CVS shampoo aisle.

It’s real: