>>YAML is better than XML...

...for some value of "better".

When I can write my thesis in YAML then I'll look at it more closely as a markup language.

Right now it's for config files, and I'm sure it's very happy where it is.

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How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to typographic excellence? [c.t.t]

I so wanted a Microsoft Bob key or a Paperclip key...

I think the point is that it's the Millenials who have gotten jobs in IT; they're actually supposed to know stuff.

Many (most?) of these so-called "expert" Millenials don't know shit. All they know is how to click on FB. Fortunately there are a few who have actually grokked IT, and those are the ones to employ. Unfortunately, most PHBs don't know this...

I don't think that actually worries the NSA.

Already done. No bullying needed, just a private chat between senior officials, plus the gross digital ignorance of our [Irish] politicians. Anyone who believes that the NSA doesn't scan all Irish traffic is living in cloud-cuckoo land.

Too many of them would be too inexperienced or even naive, methinks. Most scientists just want the politicians to get the fuck out of the lab so they can get on with doing science.

Yeah, well we all know what kind of web pages you get the viruses that do the disconnect-and-redial trick on...

I wonder if they bother using the (XML-based) systems that provide (enforce, even) the multiple views and accurate categorizations that were designed for serious heavy-duty tech doc. Or if they just stuff everything into Word. Maybe someone in the know can tell us.

Doesn't quantum theory mean that the above can all be true at the same time?

In any case, all the models are theories anyway. We can prove individual factlets (for some given values that seem to hold true for us here and now), but we have no clue at all about how the facts stand up elsewhere or elsewhen, so we can have no idea if the theories would also hold up there and then.

It's turtles all the way down...

Nah, he has a passport. Can't be an American...

I don't get this. What happens when the drone arrives at my address? Does it ring the doorbell and wait? Does it go round the back and leave it on the back porch if I'm out? (I'm in a low-crime neighbourhood where this is possible.) Or will it leave it with my neighbour, as instructed?

s/above/more than/

tl;dr

Not to mention that these things don't fly at the speed of a jetliner -- they barely limp along, and they don't fly very high, either. It won't be long before people in areas where guns are freely available will be using the drones for target practice.