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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And lets you easily write metal languages due to the way you can pass around blocks. Think configuration as code type stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me want to write a function for you to add to numbers where the variables are leftumber and rightnumber, instead of x and y.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is risk. A lot of the bureaucracy that exists for any company is risk mitigation. The wiping of servers, or using suction cups, or any of that is a security against a large dollar amount to spend if something goes wrong. But that’s just the cost of security, it’s worthless if it isn’t tested. If a locked door isn’t rattled or deter someone, it might as well have been unlocked.

  He took a gamble and the doors were not rattled and everything worked. The thing to criticize here is really the carelessness. What if one of those servers got out and somebody stole all of that data? What if while under those floorboards he got damaged, or something related did? And it’s not just these two questions, there’s stuff in that article that probably wasn’t covered that we can question.

  There may be things that are not in the book that we can question, and that is the problem with Elon. He needs a string of bad luck to show how truly dangerous he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A question about the CCleaner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Proof is the burden of those who make the assertion. Is ccleaner useless? It has yet remained to be seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A question about the CCleaner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  His rationale is that on a stock install, it removes entries, and that it might break some things. But he doesn’t show much more than stuff being removed. He doesn’t reason that windows may or may not clean them up itself, or explain which programs are crashing. It’s a 6 minute video you can probably Skip. There may be better videos with more evidence out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People who make decisions like this don’t know what a sitemap is. They probably think CNET is an app.

  I don’t know about that – if they have any good tech leadership, it’d combat that type of thinking. Hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have taken those articles out of the sitemap and get the same results.