Leadership is valid when you’re elevated there by the consensus of your peers. That person might have the title of CEO or President. In a lefty organization that’s still in a society with currency, they wouldn’t have 10,000x the pay of the median worker. They might not even have 10x the pay.

People said that for years before Mickey entered public domain. It didn’t happen.

How’s that working out for Boeing?

Here’s one that’s not as consequential as other posts here. It’s not going to change the world, but would make things slightly better.

Split lock washers are worse than useless. They’re supposed to be a spring against the bolt to help resist it turning back out over time. They don’t. If anything, they make it worse.

Here’s a NASA publication on fastener design (because of course there’s a NASA publication on fastener design): https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900009424

The lockwasher serves as a spring while the bolt is being tightened. However, the washer is normally flat by the time the bolt is fully torqued. At this time it is equivalent to a solid flat washer, and its locking ability is nonexistent. In summary, a Iockwasher of this type is useless for locking.

This was published in 1990, but we’re still using this shit. Stop. There are many other kinds of fastener locking that work, like nylon locking nuts or threadlock, and we don’t need these.

At this point, she’s already delayed things enough to push any ruling past the election. There’s less and less downside to having her removed as the date gets closer.

All this for what should be the easiest case against Trump. Did he store boxes full of classified documents on his personal property? Yes. Did he declassify them before leaving office? No. Did he have the right to store them? No. We should be done here.

Something something Jesus invalidated that part.

Conviently forgetting that means Christianity explicitly does not consider these to be very important.

Not like that!

This is the same language where you have to say PLEASE sometimes or it won’t compile. But if you say PLEASE too much, the compiler will think you’re pandering and also refuse to compile. The range between too polite and not polite enough is not specified and varies by implementation.

import tensorflow # we don't actually use this anywhere, but my boss told the client we use AI

Well, a huge chunk of those probably came from patriotic LGBT+ citizens cramming the reports with junk. Which is a good thing to do, but we wouldn’t expect them to do more than a cursory check.

College? Pythagorean Theorem is mid-level high school math.

I did once talk to a high school math teacher about a graphics program I was hacking away on at the time, and she was surprised that I actually use the stuff she teaches. Which is to say that I wouldn’t expect most programmers to know it exactly off the top of their head, but I would expect they’ve been exposed to it and can look it up if needed. I happen to have it pretty well ingrained in my brain.

Motherboard front panel connectors should be officially standardized. These fucking things have been basically the same since the 90s, but we still have to line up all the individual wires instead of having one plug.

Oh, and fix RGB headers while we’re at it. They’re the flimseist fucking thing, and you shouldn’t be able to use a 4 pin plug on a three pin header.

It’s such a lib solution. “Let’s make sure guns are inaccessible except to rich people”.

They’re the OG libertarians. The right explicitly stole the term and celebrated doing so.

In short, they’re a branch of anarchism.

Oh, if only my moral compass was just a bit weaker. The TSA spent about a decade after its conception trying to find a magic box that identifies terrorists in airports. The millimeter wave scanners are the most successful thing to come out of the entire effort. Those at least sorta work, and most of the rest on the list are far worse than that. Made a bunch of people a lot of money, though.

Every time I see a defense of IPv4 and NAT, I think back to the days of trying to get myself and my roommate to play C&C: Generals together online, with a 2v2 game, with one of us hosting. Getting just the right combination of port forwarding working was more effort than us playing C&C: Red Alert on dial up when we both lived at home.

With IPv6, the answer is to open incoming traffic on the port(s) to the host machine (or just both since the other guy is might host next time). With IPv4, we have to have a conversation about port forwarding and possibly hairpin routes on top of that. This isn’t a gate for people “who know what they’re doing”, it’s just a bunch of extra bullshit to deal with.

There’s one practical thing. Routers have had years to optimize IPv4 routing, which has to be redone for IPv6. Same with networking stacks in general.

In theory, IPv6 should be faster by not having to do bullshit like CGNAT. There’s every reason to think it’ll match that advantage if we just make it happen.

Or if you want a shorter version, “circle the part of the chromosome where it says men hold the door open for women”. There are obviously differences between what’s written in genes and the billion little social rules surrounding gender. It makes sense to have different terms to differentiate biology from social rules, and “sex” and “gender” can do that just fine.

Which should pair well with the whiskey and coke. According to a friend.

Rogue One is how you do two acts of slow burn, followed by a third act that gives you payoff for your patience.

The first season of Picard is exactly how not to do that.