If it was in Fahrenheit it would a 3.6 degrees of warming, so another reason to switch to the Metric System: it'll be cooler. :-)

Or run for House / Senate. /s

Seven has always been a troublemaker, starting when it ate nine.

Agreed.

Especially the guy whose oath is literally to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States". Didn't Trump repeatedly promise to be "the most transparent President" and have "the most transparent administration" in history? Maybe he and his minions were frightened off by the word "trans" ... :-)

Noting that OAN (One America News Network) signed it. From US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

The Pentagon has apparently backtracked a bit, saying organizations don't have to agree, just acknowledge they understand it. Not sure that's any better...

The genesis of many, many bad ideas: ", but on ..."

(Pretty sure the first part of that quote is dumb too.)

I've been hosting my open-source projects on Github for years.

Why you ask? After all, isn't every open-source and free software advocate's duty to stay clear away from Microsoft?

Here's my reason: I only use the git part of Github. I don't use any of Microsoft's proprietary crap on top of it.

Therefore, Microsoft has no vendor lock-in on me: my projects are one git-push away from being hosted elsewhere. I waste their resources by making them host my massive files for free and they have absolutely nothing to show for it - no revenue, no private data to monetize, nothing.

But the minute Microsoft starts getting annoying, my repos are gone. I'll move them to Codeberg and I will gladly pay for the hosting in the form of donations.

When you have 32 kilobytes of RAM and a 1 MHz processor, you need all the programming talent you can get to squeeze the most performances out of them.

When you have 32 gigabytes and dozens of cores, any incompetent code monkey can churn out the same application in Visual Basic or Python.

Resources don't make your computer faster. They empower incompetent and sloppy developers, who crucially are paid less than good ones, so their boss can make more money.

I remember in the last 90's / early 2000's discussing with a colleague how it was possible that X allocated 2 megabytes for an empty window, just for sitting there on the screen.

I'd settle for members of Congress getting that message: Oath to The Constitution, Responsibilities of Congress, Checks and Balances, ... -- you know, all the stuff we (should have) learned in high school government class.

For SCOTUS, I'd add: Don't pull and misapply stuff from 400 years ago to invent justifications for your agendas. If you're an Originalist or Textualist, then be that more than just when it's convenient.

This kind of stuff makes me feel better about keeping, and spending $$ to repaint, my 2002 Honda CR-V Ex, which only has 60k miles and is in excellent mechanical condition -- and has a manual transmission, which is almost impossible to get now. Same goes for my 2001 Honda Civic Ex, with only 130k miles. As a bonus, them being only a year apart, all the interior controls are nearly identical.

Newer isn't always better.

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