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In the US, I pay $90/month ($1,080/year) for 1 Gbps internet.

That's it. No TV. No landline. Just Internet.

In addition to questions of end-of-life, Existentialism also deals with questions of purpose-of-life. Which can be mind racking even if you're not afraid of death.

Still not super interesting questions to me though.

If you restrict it to just Americans, then yeah, I get that. There are a ton of white people in America.

I was thinking worldwide though. You don't have to be American to be hated.

Now I'm curious.

Are you saying that there are more LGBTQ+ people than there are non-white people?

I'm curious because I would have expected the opposite, but I don't actually have any numbers to back that up. What percent of people identify as LGBTQ+? And is it uniform across races?

I was gonna say this.

Existentialism is kinda boring IMO. But the philosophy of language, knowledge, and ethics are all super interesting.

I'd go so far as to swap these rules

• Rule #1 - Awareness
• Rule #2 - Predictability

Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) got her start as a rapper in the 1980s and began acting in the 1990s.

She is probably most known for her roles in Chicago, Hairspray, Bessie, and the Ice Age series.

These days, she stars on the CBS drama The Equalizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Latifah

s/fire/not hire/

The argument is the same.

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That's moot. His supporters aren't going to switch their vote to Biden over this.

What this may do, however, is prevent some moderate Republicans from switching their vote to Biden.

This is a smart move. Smart enough that I doubt the Clown Prince of Diapers came up with it himself.

TL;DR

The two most popular insect specialists used to control spider mites are a ladybug named Stethorus punctum and a predatory mite named T. pyri.

And later they say that the ladybug was the go-to. But new EPA regulations prompted some farms to use pesticides that kill the ladybugs. So the predatory mites are better if you are using those kinds of pesticides.

Nintendo has shown they have no interest in making real console hardware

Ah yes, the no true Scotsman argument.

Nintendo doesn't make hardware to compete with Sony and Microsoft, despite having the best selling console hardware all-time, among the current generation, and among several previous generations.

You don't have to be a graphical powerhouse to compete with PlayStation and Xbox...

Obergefell is a 14th Amendment ruling, which is "equal protection under the law." So if straight couples are allowed to marry, then gay couples must be allowed to marry.

But with at-will employment, everyone is equally unprotected under the law. So no 14th Amendment violation.

The non-discrimination stuff in employment law comes from the Civil Rights act.

While I agree that it's shitty, I don't see how it's a first amendment issue. The first amendment is just a limit on the kinds of laws that can be passed. Privately, there can be consequences based on speech, religion, etc. For example, platforms like Twitter are not required to host speech that they disagree with.

The US has at-will employment. Your employer can fire you not hire you for almost any reason, including if you make public statements that they disagree with.

There are very few limits to this. One of which is that you employer cannot discriminate based on sex. The lower court found that discrimination based on sexual orientation counts as discrimination based on sex. The appeals court disagreed.

This is normally the kind of thing that the Supreme Court should settle. But given who is currently sitting on the SCOTUS, I don't think I want this case to go that far right now.

Service-oriented architecture does not imply SaaS.

Obviously plenty of FOSS software uses servers. IRC, Mastodon, Email, NTP, X11... There are plenty of good uses for service-oriented architecture in FOSS.

Is it bad practice to use rm -rf / to delete my files, or should I specify the path explicitly?

I've always used rm -rf / to delete my files, but I noticed that it also deletes a lot of other things. Is this bad?

If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I'm confused about what is actually causing the load. They don't mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I'm too lazy to check for myself though...

Ok. So if you have the infra already, it's really just a matter of actually writing the tests. That can be done incrementally.

40%-60% unit test coverage is honestly not too bad. But if the company's bottom line rests on this code, you probably want to get that up. 100% though isn't really worth it for application code, but it is definitely worth it for library code.

One thing where I work is that all commits must be reviewed before being merged. A great way to improve coverage is to be that guy when people send you PRs.

Wow 😲

It's not that hard to setup GitHub or GitLab to make sure all the unit tests run for each PR.

If you use something else for version control, check if they offer a similar CI feature. If not, setup Jenkins.

I'm an SRE at a big tech company, so part of my job is to make sure CI infrastructure is readily available to our Dev partners. But I've worked at smaller companies before (10 or less SWEs) and even they had a Jenkins instance.

This is a bright red flag to me. If I worked for a company that didn't have CI, the first thing I would do is set it up. If I wasn't allowed to take the time required to do that, I would quit...