rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

British people are more like French and Dutch people than they are like American people. It's easy to think that Britons and Americans are alike because they share a common language but in fact they are very different.

Membership of the Paris Agreement should be treated like the UN. If a country is not signed up and meets targets, it should be treated as a rouge nation of fascist idiots and ousted from international trade agreements.

There's no more arrogant a person than a non software engineer telling a software engineer how easy something is to code.

Look. Either we reintroduce apex predators like wolves and lynxes, or we kill and eat the fucking deer ourselves. You can't have it both ways. Which is it to be?

"Legacy code" is often code that you want to replace because you don't understand it. The problem is, before you can replace it, you need to understand it, and, once you understand it, replacing it is rarely the cheapest option any more.

#SoftwareEngineering

#3039 - Human Altitude

A numerically interesting year. 2025 is the sum of all cubes 1 through 9.
I dug in a bit. It's a bit of a wait for the next one.

% ivy
op sumcube x = +/(iota x)**3

sumcube 9
2025

sumcube@ iota 10
1 9 36 100 225 441 784 1296 2025 3025

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

1. "Considers" is the wrong word here. Trump hasn't considered anything in his entire life, and he certainly hasn't started now. He consistently acts without thinking, such as his recent threats to the President of Panama via social media. The correct word for that is "threaten".

2. "Expansion" is the wrong word here. Expansion implies peaceful or at least negotiated growth. What Trump has threatened is taking land by force. The correct word for that is "invasion".

3. "If he's serious" is the wrong phrase here. Under no circumstances should anyone suggest threatening war with our allies is an unserious action. He's not a clown. He's the president elect. The correct phrase to describe his actions is "If he's not lying".

4. "Territorial" is the wrong phrase here. Panama, Greenland, and Canada are sovereign nations, who have roundly rejected outright any attempt at annexation by the US. The correct word for a military annexation is "occupied territory".

5. "Louisiana Purchase" is the wrong phrase here. The Louisiana Purchase was the result of a purchase agreement. What Trump is threatening Panama, Greenland, and Canada with is military occupation. The closest historical example is the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and Germany's annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938.

With that in mind, here's your corrected, now accurate title, CNN:

"Trump Threatens US Invasion.
If he isn't lying, an occupied territorial invasion and military annexation of Panama, Greenland, and Canada, would rival the Anschluß of Austria by Nazi Germany."

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

MPs pay should be tripled. It's an extremely high profile, high pressure career with a lot of responsibility. But no second jobs. No consultancy gigs. No alternative income of any description.

"the fleet of five single-decker buses had the capacity to carry 10,000 passengers a week but needed two crew on board for safety reasons"

I have to use my go-to question for dev teams here: what problem does this solve?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/17/driverless-bus-service-in-scotland-to-be-withdrawn-due-to-lack-of-interest

The hardest problem in computer science is avoiding the temptation to imagine a more interesting problem to solve instead of the one someone is asking for help with

@Crow @anon_opin
“Life hack: Get vaccinated to avoid harmful diseases.”
“Life hack: Inform yourself about a candidate’s actual policies, before you vote.”
“Life hack: Reduce carbon emissions to keep the planet habitable.”

I think we should double down on these things.