That’s the worst part about it - the fix is so simple. Google just completely abandoned it.

It was just a single kernel function call on a single line with slightly modified arguments. Just make a small update and it works perfectly fine.

I spent much more time researching the fix than I did applying it. But now I have to rebuild and reinstall it every single time I update my kernel.

I’m from Indy - no one is buying the story. The councilor is a complete tool who’s hated by his own constituents and will be voted out. He’s been caught multiple times making up shit like this just for attention.

Just a thought - if someone was this passionate against new AI data centers, why would they get an anti-data center flyer, put it in a plastic bag, leave it under his doormat, and then shoot up his door? If they’re going to this much trouble, they want to stop the data centers. But they’d be relying on the councilor looking under his doormat and that his opinions wouldn’t be hardened by this. Why wouldn’t they try to kill the councilor, too? Why wouldn’t they at least leave behind an actual threat?

What’s much more likely is he either did this for attention or it was a drive-by shooting and he either put the flyer there himself or it just happened to already be on his porch.

Like the other person said, that’s not really YAML’s fault - just whoever decided to use YAML there.

If users aren’t intended to interact directly with the data, use JSON.

Or by configuring your parser.

I do agree there are plenty of annoyances that shouldn’t exist in YAML but do because someone had an opinionated belief at one point, though. For example, it shouldn’t try to guess that “yes”, “no”, “y”, and “n” are truthy values. Let the programmer handle that. If they write true/false, then go ahead and consider those truthy. Times can also be a bit of a pain - iirc writing 12:00 is supposed to be interpreted as 0.5 - but at least that’s something you can work around.

But there’s plenty in that article that are only problems because the writer made them problems. Every language lets you make mistakes, markup languages aren’t any different. It’s not a bad thing that you can write strings without quotes. It’s not forcing you to do so. Anchors also make it simple to reuse YAML and they’re completely optional. The issue with numbers (1.2 stays as 1.2 while 1.2.3 becomes "1.2.3" is very nitpicky. It’s completely reasonable for it to try to treat numbers as numbers where it can. If type conversion is that big of an issue for you, then I really doubt you know what you’re doing.

On top of all this, YAML is just a superset of JSON. You can literally just paste JSON into your YAML file and it’ll process it just fine.

I’m not saying it’s perfect, but if you want something that’s easy to read and write, even for people who aren’t techy, YAML is probably the best option.

without a community that consists entirely of basement dwelling, self-righteous wankers, who have never learned social human interaction!

Well, it’s made for gamers soooo…

Here’s a nice quote from The Communist Manifesto:

What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour.

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen…

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate… Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy, till the moment of execution, and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do, without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people…

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

Ah shit, never mind. This was from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

I’m also in the Midwest (Indiana) and have the opposite experience.

They might not be perfect homophones but you’re rarely using a full hard T sound. Usually something between a d and t sound.

They’d get the same tax deduction by disposing of the drinks.

It’s not worth the effort and testing. People would only experience it once every 3-4 years, depending on when they get a new laptop. Must still shouldn’t have to worry since other software would install that version of .NET already.

Plus, people don’t bother to read error messages anyways. Another tool I created would create PDFs of the financials. The first section would be pulled from the EPM and the second would be a data dump of every transaction for each cost center. If the totals don’t match to the dollar, the script would throw an error.

90% of the time, it was because the EPM data was being refreshed as it’s scheduled to do so every half hour and takes 3-4 minutes. So I had the error message tell the person to just go take a quick break and come back. Still, people would email me saying they don’t understand why they’re getting the error and it would always be fixed if they just wait.

I don’t even work in IT but I make complex Excel tools for my Finance team.

I get an email about once every week or two from one of my coworkers asking what to do about an issue. Nearly every single issue would have been resolved if they just read even the first few instructions.

My favorite is a specific tool we use to review the financials. It relies on Scripting.Dictionary which is only present in .NET 3.5.1 or prior. The very first instruction on the file says you need to download it. There’s even a very handy button right there which will take you to our software center to install it.

Yet every single time someone gets a new laptop, they immediately assume that the file is broken.

Most don’t get that many. OP is likely targeted in the systems. My guess is that he votes often in the primaries and has shown interest elsewhere, like by signing up for communications or donating to or volunteering for campaigns.

I just checked my spam and I’ve received four political texts in July.

Call screening is honestly one of the best features to ever come to a phone. I really wish this could be added to every handset.

I’m all for American versions of things, but please get these staples of British cuisine right.

Kind of ironic this is where you’re making a stand.

The first known use of the recipe for pig in a blanket, the American cuisine, was in 1940 by the US military.

The first known use of the recipe for pigs in blankets, the British cuisine, was in 1957 and was inspired by British soldiers who tried the American version during WWII.

My TV came with a five year warranty - two year manufacturer, two years Costco, and one year from my Costco credit card.

My washer and dryer got seven. Same deal, but Costco was offering an extra extended warranty plan for free.

The best part is that they design their warranties to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Unfortunately, Citi got rid of the extended warranty with the Costco credit cards about a year and a half ago.

That’s every binary, though. False are everything that’s not true. Ones are everything that’s not zero.

God cloned Adam to make Eve, thus we all are the same gender. Wake up sheeple!

No, that’s just quantum gender mechanics.

Should be every single one that supports IPv6.

If the slide has all the information, then it’s a poor slide deck.

The slides are supposed to be an outline. The rule of thumb is max seven lines and max seven words per line.

Here’s a couple examples.

Good slide:

• Revenue: -10% vs Estimate
• Industry trends
• Low demand for new products
• Strong demand for XYZ

Also good slide, depending on who you’re presenting to:

• Revenue: -10% vs Estimate
• Industry: -3%
• New products: -30%
• XYZ: +4%

Bad slide:

• Revenue is 10% below estimate
• Industry has seen a 3% drop in sales
• New products ABC and MNO have had a 30% lower demand than we expected
• Product XYZ has higher demand than anticipated with sales 4% higher than estimate

All the extra information on the bad slide can be delivered by the presenter. It’s not necessary on the slide. The slide is for people to glance at to assist them during and after the presentation and to help them anchor themselves in the discussion.

You sent over twenty-two thousand notifications lmao.

And then the bot added about as many tags to the PR.