Good read from last year about how trucks from the current LLV fleet (which at this point are very old) keep catching on fire: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-...

The police have said they are evacuating the building, but have not identified a threat: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1327353175670657024

Credit to the people that wrote and maintained bugzilla, both as software and this particular instance. It's still ticking, much longer than (I assume) they planned it to.

My opinion for 20 years has been that Atlassian JIRA would have been stillborn if somebody had added a blue and white CSS theme for Bugzilla.

No no no you don't understand, the end users NEED drag and drop (and loading indicators, and slooow and heavy pages to admire those indicators).

> the end users NEED drag and drop

Ummm... they do.

This criticism is pretty rich, given the venue in which it is posted.

A hollowed-out book that contains something other than pages is literally a fake book. It looks like a book, but it is a fake. It is not a real book.

I'd say a repurposed book.

It's a art piece that has been changed to another type of art.

Book -> performance art

Although since inside is a written story, I'd argue it's still a a book, unless it leads to further clues then it becomes performance art.

A good example of a fake book is a book made of plastic which is then used in ikea or has a hidden void.

A hollowed out book does have a hidden void. I'm a pedant too, but I try to avoid contradicting myself. Your assertion that the contents constitute a written story is unsupportable, given the singular absence of declarative sentences or anything resembling a narrative.

Picture books are books. The words and pictures inside invoke emotions and a story. As the writer of the blog shows.

I guess I meant more written words, than a story.

But it does seem to follow onto some sort of 'club'

Either way, to me it's great art.

Cool story bro.

Not to be confused with a Mock Book.

If you are interested in this type of activism, and live in a city that offers its own form of ID (notably SF or LA), you can do this now by signing up for a city ID card. There is considerable concern that the city ID databases will be used as registries of illegal immigrants, so the more legal residents who take advantage of it, the weaker that signal becomes.

Plus, it's nice to have a second form of photo ID sometimes.

In SF, you need an appointment to get an ID. You can make one here: http://sfgov.org/countyclerk/sf-city-id-card

Years ago I worked for a company who was building a piece of networking hardware, and we had bought some code that implemented various well-known routing protocols. This included the TCP/IP layer, but it was just the BSD stack.

Our dev hardware had a boot loader that would use FTP to download the most recent images to finish the boot. After we cut over to this code, we started having an occasional problem where this download would fail -- the box would send a spurious RST and kill the connection. I was one of the protocols people, and it ended up on my plate.

I spent 3 days staring at tcpdump, adding enormous piles of debug traces, and finally going through the code line-by-line with a copy of the Stevens book open on my lap. Eventually I found the problem - they had made one single change to the BSD code, and in so doing introduced the bug. It was compiler-dependent.

Writing this code correctly is hard.

> It was compiler-dependent.

Reminds me of a bug i was wrangling in GTK, now hopefully long gone, that only showed up if the lib was compiled with a certain level of optimization set in GCC.

The disparity in disk snapshot performance was surprising.

This is the comment I was going to make. This is an /extremely/ apologetic spin from Owen Williams, and seems very unlikely to be accurate.

Sorry. We took a stab in the dark on that one really - I've reworded it as it was an incorrect assumption and shouldn't have been there. Many think 'skank' refers to the unpolished quality of the unfinished device.

Here, let me help those under 40.

"That's one skanky UI. There's no way Apple is shipping that!"

Yeah, just substitute with nasty.

For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik.

For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.