nvie said as much in 2020 and stuck a big disclaimer at the top of the post https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Can you spell ICE, Flock and Ring?

Regardless of how authoritarian the government is in the project maintainer’s home country, exposing themselves to a second authoritarian jurisdiction is probably a bad idea.

ICE doesn’t have a contract with Flock and Ring cancelled its partnership with Flock also.

I have news for you - this is happening, right now, in Big Orgs. It's mind numbingly moronic.

It's similar to when we wrote all our business logic in eg pl/sql, stored procedures etc. Seems attractive at first, but it breaks separation of concerns, becomes difficult to test etc.

> It's similar to when we wrote all our business logic in eg pl/sql [...]

What do you mean with "when"? /s

I dread companies who still have logic in their databases when it's not necessary. <insert sad face>

The real fun begins when you encounter a system where someone thought it was a good idea to store source code in the database rows.

I love this, but I'm thwarted. Apparently there are no trains from London Waterloo (one of the UKs busiest railway stations) at 1902. I've been stuck there waiting for trains for so many years I can tell you that's not the case :)

there were no trains from Waterloo at 19.02 because of a "major disruption" https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2170277/waterloo-trains-li...

I'm not sure that's what the article says (there was disruption on some lines because of a problem further down the line.) There certainly would have been trains leaving some platforms.

But, interesting that the game is based on live transport info, not schedules. Adds a new twist to it, thank you!

When they say "we" they're opposing this to "US ratepayers", not "our customers". Likely that this will appear on your Anthropic bill.

"cost of producing code is going plunge towards something near to zero "

Until the AI orgs need to turn a profit.

"They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s making system calls to an OS kernel that’s scheduling threads across cores they’ve never thought about, hitting RAM through a memory controller with caching layers they couldn’t diagram, all while npm pulls in 400 packages they’ve never read a line of."

and they still call themselves 'full stack developers' :eyeroll:

Certainly in the UK the 'legacy' part of media orgs (print) is still far more profitable than the pennies paid for ad-clicks.

Not many people buying papers here anymore. I bought one yesterday, but it's months since I last did.

Even the Metro free sheet goes uncollected a lot of the time. I just go to its puzzle page now. Constant scare stories and manipulation.

Purely financial shenanigans. Nothing to see here, please move along.