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This was definitely SUPPOSED TO BE the common philosophy in software development since the SDLC was standardized.

I, too, covet this sticker and I can trade for a mini calculator and a metric ton of good will.

When the Office ribbon bar was in beta, a buddy sent an e-mail to the Office team expressing dislike for the ribbon. The response said "You've clearly not watched the Vision Video" and "You need to watch the Vision Video to understand what we're doing".

This is so perfect that I was worried it might've been AI generated.

Resign now. Make way for real leadership.

Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
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Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election

Congrats to the eight Democrats who gave this regime a huge win over the weekend. Here’s your reward.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

She doesn’t even say his name.

I lived through everything from LCS to the Teams beta. They were all abominations that made me miss just using the phone.

Why the fuck did it ever install Skype for Business?

Andrew Cuomo truly doesn't understand the meaning of 'no'.

A compatriot recently told me that shitposting is the only valid use of generative AI.

I asked ChatGPT:

"We recognize that “artificial intelligence” is not neutral, not magical, and definitely not our friend. AI systems are built from stolen labor, stolen art, stolen writing, and stolen data—often scraped from independent creators, zinemakers, and librarians without consent..."

In the neighborhood, it's much more likely that she's a Caribbean ex-pat than a California ex-pat. That's still a potential explanation.

Sort of. It's 56F in Brooklyn this morning and I was fine in a t-shirt but the lady who passed me, walking the other way, was committed to puffy jacket, scarf, and knit hat.

"Why can't you appreciate me (making you uncomfortable)?"

Kubernetes is the sum of all the shell scripts, and practices, system administrators have cobbled together over time, presented as a single system behind a declarative set of APIs.

Yeah so they’re cutting flights at the 40 busiest airports starting with 4% on Friday and ramping up to 10% through the weekend, and that includes ATL. If you’re attending #KubeCon and you aren’t threat modeling around this and making contingency plans already, strongly recommend starting now

It's not true - the source pictured in the first screenshot is pure clickbait BS.

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins a historic mamdate!

Anybody know if there'll be a livestream of Cuomo packing to move to Florida?

Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

This Fucking Guy I lived in New York City for twenty-five years and I don’t live there anymore.

Here's hoping that Andrew Cuomo spends tomorrow packing for his move to Florida.

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Richard Stallman has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

DON'T HANG UP! DEEJAYS MAKE WAIT BEARABLE Forget collisions, rollovers or patches of fog. The worst news you'll hear on Barbara Lee's live traffic report is that the wait for customer-support help is more than 45 seconds. Lee is no ordin...

A million years ago, software company Novell had a DJ who played their hold music, narrated how many people were waiting in various queues, and took requests.

(Apparently, that started with WordPerfect -- www.deseret.com/1991/7/17/18...)