The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday....
"The House was in session at the Capitol on Thursday, but thanks to the latest procession of Republicans reporting for duty in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse to show support for former President Donald J. Trump at his trial, the party risked ceding its control of the floor,” the New York Times reports....
Law and order is a euphemism for free minority labor. Build the laws to keep jails full since those lameo historical killjoys made outright slavery illegal.
There were 12 of these angry dogs, though. Not one trusting dog in a cinder pit. I don’t know if Noem would have been able to handle it even with a gun.
Is there a language that anyone would say really does fare well for continued development or is it just that few people enjoy maintaining code? I’ve maintained some pretty old Go programs I wrote and didn’t mind it at all. I’ve inherited some brand new ones and wanted to rage quit immediately. I’ve also hated my own code too, so it’s not just whether or not I wrote it.
I have found maintainability is vastly more about the abstractions and architecture (modules and cohesive design etc) chosen than it is about the language.
For a search company I can’t believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can’t even search “bank” for my banking apps, and there doesn’t really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like...
It’s cool, you just have to drop a grand every year or two to enjoy that gorgeous screen. Think of it like a subscription to a 15% prettier screen for only 5x the price over 10 years.
But here, the API is open and I can run my own copy and train my own LLM same as anyone else. It’s not one asshole who decides to whom and for how much he’ll sell the content we all gave him for free, so he can justify his $193 million paycheck.
Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say (apnews.com)
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday....
Republicans Flock to Trump’s Trial, Risking Control of the House Floor (www.nytimes.com)
"The House was in session at the Capitol on Thursday, but thanks to the latest procession of Republicans reporting for duty in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse to show support for former President Donald J. Trump at his trial, the party risked ceding its control of the floor,” the New York Times reports....
Nearly half of cancer patients have more than $5,000 in medical debt, even though most are insured (www.nbcnews.com)
The aurora last night was visible in South Carolina (lemmy.zip)
Detroit just had it's first population growth in 66 years. Huzzah! (kbin.run)
Mother fatally mauled by pack of dogs in Quitman, Georgia, 3 children taken to hospital (www.usatoday.com)
Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo (www.salon.com)
Perpetual Motion finally achieved! (lemmy.zip)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/15495372
The state of things (i.imgur.com)
Big breasted mourning dove. (lemmy.world)
hot dog (lemmy.world)
Benefits of a join table vs. array to express relations? (outside of SQL)
I am building an application that is using JSON / XML files to persist data. This is why I indicated “outside of SQL” in the title....
Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert's next game is 'classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park' (www.pcgamer.com)
PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all (lemmy.world)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
Go vs Rust learning (programming.dev)
Rant: vanilla local app search is ridiculously bad
For a search company I can’t believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can’t even search “bank” for my banking apps, and there doesn’t really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like...
My kind of advice (lemmy.today)
OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots (www.wired.com)
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions?
It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?
Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch (www.theverge.com)
Direct link to video: video.twimg.com/…/wisC0cfRP427swkT.mp4?tag=12