Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@WPalant Avoid German software companies. Got it; thanks for the PSA.

@freemo is that a different cops-kick-guy-out-of-ambulance story?

@freemo https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2024/01/17/cops-kick-dying-man-out-of-ambulance/ "Eventually they take him to the hospital. He died a couple of weeks later."

@freemo He died weeks later in the hospital?

@freeschool @freemo $ man ls

@JuliusGoat Maybe. If that's what Rufo is trying to do, then it seems worth noting he doesn't seem to have accomplished much.

@ncweaver @robpike Use some kind of linter that checks for this.

I mean, this is sort of the equivalent of thinking "this will never fail" and forgetting to use a try/catch in c++; it's not like exceptions necessarily magically eliminate this bug, right? I guess like Java's system sort of forces it, but the linter is the rough equivalent of this.

I'm using exception-free c++ (weird, I know) and https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/status, which IIUC is like Go's error handling, more or less. My environment won't let me compile code if I forget to look at the returned status object. Seems to work pretty well.

@StillIRise1963 Oxman took responsibility for her mistakes and didn't threaten to sue BI. So that's a difference I guess.

@pilgrim @StillIRise1963 Don't be ridiculous, pilgrim. I didn't like Gay's or Magill's answers to Stefanik, but I don't think we have any reason to think this is true about either of them.

I appreciate Oxman owning her errors, I wish Gay had done that more in her op-ed rather than playing the victim. But you're being absurd.

@StillIRise1963

Very different... is it though?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/21/gay-plagiarism-dissertation-corrections/

https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/claudine-gay-set-to-keep-800k-salary-despite-resigning/ "Gay ... will return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty."

@ncweaver @robpike there's a question about exceptions in the Q&A; he basically laughs off the idea of exceptions.

@orionkidder @ct_bergstrom Right; racism made her plagiarize.

@JuliusGoat focusing on the messenger rather than the message is probably less useful.

@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv And for good measure he throws in the canard about free speech only being a government thing.

@tab2space @Popehat @OliverUv Interestingly, you are linking to a substack-hosted article.😂 It argues quite compellingly against the "nazi bar" label.

I think the main argument here is problematic, though. It appears to be basically this: Substack's policies aren't exactly equal to the 1st ammendment, therefore they are BS ("puffery"). I don't get it.

@Randall well like even before 2014 there were a lot of Russians living there.

@randahl I suspect a much higher %age of people living in Crimea want to be part of Russia than people living in the Danelaw area want to be part of Denmark.

To me, I feel like there are other reasons why ceding Crimea is a bad idea right now. (It might be nice to have a proper referendum on this someday long after the violence stops, and free of little green men.)

@artemesia @georgetakei Additionally, taking somebody off the ballot for a crime for which they were not convicted is a bad look. Op's position really needs to maintain the high road in order to be legitimate.