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faut_reflechir commented on The U.S. Government's Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García   newyorker.com/news/the-le... · Posted by u/mitchbob
nickff · 6 months ago
Do you think the Justice Department should prosecute people they believe to be innocent? If not, it seems that every prosecution is an expression of the view that the accused is guilty, and by allowing the JD to proceed, the President is expressing approval of the view. Can you please point out the error in this logic?
faut_reflechir · 6 months ago
The potential source of error is the assumption that the president has the authority to stop a prosecution (short of the pardon power). I say "potential" because a "unitary executive" advocate would claim this is true, and it is becoming more true during the second Trump administration, although it was notably false during the first one. [In prior administrations, including Trump I and Obama, the DOJ appointed independent counsel precisely to prosecute cases the president would have disagreed with prosecuting.]
faut_reflechir commented on AI Hallucinations Are Fueling a New Class of Supply Chain Attacks   socket.dev/blog/slopsquat... · Posted by u/sksxihve
warkdarrior · a year ago
So those package names are not really hallucinated, since the packages actuualy exist?
faut_reflechir · a year ago
it's two different languages

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faut_reflechir commented on Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court   apnews.com/article/bonele... · Posted by u/pm2222
mikerg87 · 2 years ago
The decision, since the AP can't be bothered. https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/12/2023/2023-...
faut_reflechir · 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Decision with the dissent is here: https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2024/2024-O...

I don't ever recall reading such an angry dissent, even in more politically charged cases. (I do think the dissent is correct on the merits, but sheesh.)

faut_reflechir commented on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage   techcrunch.com/2024/07/24... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
faut_reflechir · 2 years ago
It's a deliciously insulting amount because it's not quite enough for a meal on Uber Eats.
faut_reflechir commented on Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using   martinheinz.dev/blog/109... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
m3kw9 · 2 years ago
Git bisect is really useful to see who messed up
faut_reflechir · 2 years ago
having `git bisect run` do the thinking for you is incredible when it works
faut_reflechir commented on North American English Dialects   aschmann.net/AmEng/... · Posted by u/petercooper
jmclnx · 3 years ago
Where I live, it is pretty much gone. No one under 40 knows the few common words we used in our youth.
faut_reflechir · 3 years ago
yes, it seems clear to me that there is much less dialect variation in the US, outside very rural areas, than there was 30 years ago. Even then, the adults had much more variation than the kids.
faut_reflechir commented on Software Tests Are for Millionaires (2020)   mrsteinberg.com/software-... · Posted by u/jimhi
faut_reflechir · 3 years ago
I appreciate the polemical framing -- not many people are comfortable taking the "wrong" side of this issue publicly and it's easy to preach purity when you have a nine-to-five.

I think, though, that even if you grant that speed is more important than all else, and even if you are willing to accept a 200% interest rate on tech debt to get your releases out, you still want unit tests from day one.

Done right, writing unit testing in parallel with your code speeds things up rather than slowing them down. Personally, I find this is the case for even tiny projects like a Project Euler problem unless they can be done in under about an hour.

faut_reflechir commented on Harrison Bergeron (1961)   archive.org/details/Harri... · Posted by u/dusted
dublin · 3 years ago
Google hits reflect popular usage, not proper usage. In many cases (like this one, and the even weirder "snuck") there is a big difference between those two...
faut_reflechir · 3 years ago
Factoid: "snuck" and "drug" have in common that the irregular conjugation is the non-standard one, but are different in that "snuck" is a neologism of the 19th century whereas "drug" is in fact the older standard form, gradually supplanted by "dragged."

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