I recommend picking up Graham Hutton’s short text Programming in Haskell, Second Edition. Even if you don’t end up using Haskell in “real work” (and you might!) it will teach you a remarkable number of things about how functional programming works.

The term “open source software” was coined specifically to refer to software licensing that recognizes a particular set of freedoms. It is not a generic term for source-available software, and never was.

One of the freedoms of open source is “no discrimination against fields of endeavor.”

Calling the Hippocratic license family “open source” is inaccurate, since its entire goal is to discriminate against certain fields of endeavor.

It’s better described as a sort of source-available license.

As an individual? Don’t worry about it; show up at your local protest on the 19th.

Musks and Verses?

It was found in alum, so it should really have been alumium all along.

They Might Be Giants, “Your Racist Friend”

You don’t need one. Translators are good at their job.

Stone two birds with one hit.

The depicted products are from Danone, not Nestlé.

You can see the same products on their Thai page here: https://www.danone.co.th/

• The compiler hates you
• The compiler sees nothing wrong with your code and is just giving error messages to look busy
• The compiler was written by a maniac with a semicolon fixation
• The compiler could optimize your code, but it’s just not feeling it today
• The compiler wonders why you can’t match braces right like your brother does
• The compiler had a torrid affair with a Perl interpreter in 2006
• The compiler likes big butts and cannot lie
• The compiler wants to grow up to be an IDE but hasn’t told its parents they need to send it to GUI school yet
• The compiler reads Nazis on Twitter but only to make fun of them
• The compiler works for the Servants of Cthulhu

They certainly do miss some dangerous items, including weapons; but they also do catch thousands of people per year trying to take firearms on planes.

How many of these people intended political violence against civilians (i.e. terrorism) is not determined. Some may intend ordinary nonpolitical violent crime. Some may be really stupid hunters who don’t read the signs that are all over airports telling hunters not to try to carry on firearms. Some may be really incompetent gun smugglers. Some may have just forgotten which backpack they put their handgun in.

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2024/07/09/tsa-stopped-3269-firearms-airport-security-checkpoints-nationwide

There was the original 1947 UN plan for the partition of Palestine, for one. You can read in that article about which groups accepted and rejected it.

aggressive shouting, insults and humiliation in front of others

It’s worth noting that these acts may be “violence” in someone’s estimation, but are not within the typical description of “violent crime” or “domestic violence” in a criminal sense.

aggressive shouting, insults and humiliation in front of others

It’s worth nothing that these acts may be “violence” in someone’s estimation, but are not within the typical description of “violent crime” or “domestic violence”.

Bill & Ted is “Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!”

“What the user needed” / “What management demanded”

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog … until you tell them.

Good catch! Typo. Fixed.

Regex is good for a few very specific things, and sysadmins used to use it for goddamn everything. If all your server logs are in lightly-structured text files on a small number of servers, being able to improvise regex is damn useful for tracking down server problems. Just write a shell loop that spawns an ssh logging into each server and running grep over the log files, to look for that weird error.

These days, if you need to crunch production server logs you probably need to improvise in SQL and jq and protobufs or systemd assmonkery or something.

But if you actually need a parser, for goodness sake use a parser combinator toolkit, don’t roll your own, especially not with regex. Describing your input language in plain Haskell is much nicer than kludging it.

(This is the “totally serious software engineering advice” forum, right?)

Whatever you do, don’t get in a time machine back to 1998 and become a Unix sysadmin.

(Though we didn’t have CL-PPCRE then. It’s really the best thing that ever happened to regex.)