It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.

A variable length lookbehind is the same as the opposite of a variable length lookahead.

I’m sure they can afford a lawyer. I was more referring to the link between being a Trump supporter and Trump’s own … habit of not paying his lawyers.

Just replace “Gay” with “Black” and see how awesome it sounds.

If they’re trump supporters… they probably wouldn’t be paying you anyway.

Right. The various Civil Rights Acts in establishing proteted classes in placed of public accommodation and associated case law created a standard whereby there does not need to be, for example, an explicit “No blacks!” sign out front. A demonstrated pattern of refusing to serve black customers was sufficient to run afoul of the laws.

In fact, the discriminatory effect doesn’t even need to be intentional. If the end result of a policy results in a discriminatory result, it too is a violation of the law. For instance, where I grew up down south, whenever you went indoors you took your hat off. It’s respectful and such. Imagine a dining establishment that turned this custom into a steadfast rule – no one is seated while wearing a hat. Seems reasonable right? Everyone is treated the same! Until you refuse to serve a Sikh customer because they refuse to remove their turban. Now you’re discriminating against someone because of their religion, and there’s no overarching reason (safety, health, etc.) that a person can’t eat and wear a turban at the same time.

Remember, elections have consequences. While, at least in the US, neither party is perfect, Republicans are actively engaged in climate denial.

Vote accordingly.

The only way to remove a sitting Supreme Court justice is via impeachment and conviction in the Senate. Impeachment requires only a simply majority in the House, but a conviction requires a 2/3rds majority in the Senate. It’s been a very long time since either party had such majorities.

Democrats held such a majority for about 3 months at the beginning of Obama’s 1st term. As far as I know, we haven’t seen it since.

There’s a fun thing about the US court system.

The only thing mandated by the US Constitution is the existence of a Supreme Court, and that justices of that Supreme Court “hold their offices during good behavior” (fancy speak for “lifetime appointments”).

The size of the court, the entire federal system of lower courts, the circuits, appeals courts, the whole thing is decided on by Congress. Congress literally passes legislation that dictates what the Court systems look like.

If Congress wanted, it could obliterate every federal court in the country, and every single federal crime would need to be tried by the Supreme Court.

Should one party with a majority wish it and have the political will, that party could expand the Supreme Court by any number of seats. Of course, it would immediately trigger an arms race as control of Congress flipped around, more and more seats would be added (or removed) until the legitimacy of the Court was in shambles.

But then, we’re already at “shambles” aren’t we. Might as well dillute the power of those 9 un-elected individuals by a factor of 50 or so.

By all accounts, carbon fiber doesn’t “strain”. It does its thing great right up until it fails catastrophically.

As a generative language model, I am incapable of lying, but sometimes, I am very, very wrong. /s

ChatGPT is, at least for the moment, just a really fancy snippet repository with an search function that works really well.

Is re-using code someone else wrote cheating? Nah.

But, no matter where you get the code from (cough Stackoverflow), if you use it without understanding what it’s doing, you’re not doing yourself any favors.

Only pictures of top-tier owls. Superb owls.

Not at all.

Writing code is a one-person, one-keyboard, one-computer at a time task.

I don’t mind if someone watches, and I don’t mind watching someone else, but actively engaging with another person while also trying to concentrate and solve the problem in front of me is worse that counterproductive.

The neat thing about the log4j thing was even a cursory explanation of the vulnerability made anyone with a passing familiarity with security say, “Why the fuck would that even be a feature?!”

Pethaps. Really, though, it’s moved on to a general protest about the staggering lack of respect and disdain for the community that built Reddit spez and the executive team supporting him are showing the userbase.

I wish them all the best, and while fun, I hope eventually they realize the only way to win is to stop playing.

Unless maybe she was hiding something, maybe stealing funds and hiding them as overstock?

What’s a little embezzlement between friends, right?

I can’t think of a good reason beyond theft and/or embezzlement that the boss would react so strongly to missing inventory.