Source: http://blog.nullspace.io/batch.html
Lotta fun one-liners in this short article from two years ago. Here’s one of them:
«When I was in college a few years ago, I thought that PowerShell was a fun take on what a modern shell could look like. It is not. PowerShell is the cure for polio, and Jeffrey Snover is the Jonas Salk of the Windows ecosystem.»
🙂
Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/250
Tooltip, in case it doesn’t show up: “Also… everything is facts.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1038045116835885056.html
Hmm. Tried to share this link from my Android device and the share failed. >:/
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-midterms-working-america/569452/
«working-class minority communities are no more, and MAY BE EVEN LESS, ENGAGED [emphasis mine — John L] than their white counterparts.»
Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/defcon-teen-did-not-hack-a-state-election
«Instead, students were working with look-alikes created for the event that had vulnerabilities they were coached to find. Organizers provided them with cheat sheets, and adults walked the students through the challenges they would encounter.
Josh Franklin, an elections expert formerly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a speaker at Def Con, called the websites “fake.”
“When I learned that they were not using exact copies and pains hadn’t been taken to more properly replicate the underlying infrastructure, I was definitely saddened,” Franklin said.»
«If Democrats win the popular vote by “only” 5 to 6 percentage points — still a pretty comfortable margin, but not necessarily enough to make up Republicans’ advantages due to gerrymandering, incumbency and the clustering of Democratic voters in urban districts — they’re only about even-money to win the House. »
Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democrats-were-so-fiery-on-day-1-of-the-kavanaugh-hearings/
U.S. politics is fascinating, but I’d be less worried if I didn’t live here.
«in some ways, the voters, by electing a Republican president and a GOP Senate, decided that having judges on the court who were strong defenders of abortion rights and Obamacare were not a high priority to them. (And maybe they elected Republicans precisely to roll back Obamacare and abortion rights.)»
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915049
«How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels»
…something something immigrants who work something America….
(Be sure to read (some of) the comments at ycombinator.)
https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1036716400029691904?s=17
Abigail Nussbaum (@NussbaumAbigail) Tweeted:
«Sure, we need to have a conversation about the monetization of resistance, but leaving that aside, I’m struck by this: Nike crunched the numbers and decided that they can live without the racists’ money. That feels important.» https://t.co/uZ15BZXRwk
Was reading Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/) and was thinking, “Huh, this is just another dumb discussion site with a not-very-nice UI (tiny mouse targets, no keyboard shortcuts, no easy way to give up on an entire subtree of discussion) and a we’re-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room mentality where people post links and then discuss them [but they do have good links, usually], and why can’t they just use Reddit?” And then, I was reading a (somewhat) interesting discussion on Haskell (*somebody complain-bragged that Haskell is too open to writing very abstract abstractions and they constantly fall down the hole of making a super-general-purpose function Because They Can and then there were *200* comments on this (**actually, the original blog post was kind of fun)) and SURE ENOUGH they referred both to Reddit AND to YET ANOTHER discussion site named https://lobste.rs/ which looks pretty similar to Hacker News, and I’m like…
Where is the software to slurp all these discussion sites down into one thing so I can just have it all in one place and not have to visit each one? Is it NewsBlur?
Why, yes. Yes, it is.
Here, Read This 