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Surely having human-resource backups will also help with disaster recovery


or directly in powershell, `Start-Process myproc.exe -Environment @{ FOO = 'bar' }`


What an absolutely awful syntax.

How Powershell ever got popular is beyond me.


Because it's objects, not text. It "scales" a lot better in your brain because in general you need to know a lot less than in bash. No more awkward sed and awk scripts, manipulating objects is a breeze. Awkward syntax at places where you have to create an object from scratch is a fair price.


Right? This is your brain on Windows.


yeah | it's | so | much | better | with | bash | tr | cut -d' ' -t5 | jq .entry[].text | sed -i s/who/evenknows/g

Anyone who has ever maintained a semi complex set of bash invocations and pipes knows it's a fragile incantation that breaks anytime you look at it funny, or something in your chain produces unexpected output.

Powershell, while absolutely horrible to read and only slightly less horrible to write (hey look, proper auto completion instead of trying to cut on the 4th, wait no sorry 5th, ah fuck it's the 6th there's an invisible space) at least produces consistent and reproductible results.

No, your python script doesn't count, it makes me do a pip install requests. Oh, sorry, pip can't be used like that, gotta run apt instill python3-pip or my whole system breaks.


These phish testing companies always stick a header (X-PHISH-TEST or some such) on the email so the email server can white-list -- easy to just Outlook blackhole filter anything with that header after you've seen one test.


What stops an attacker from abusing the same header?

It could be kinda-secure if the header had to have a payload which matched a certain value pre-approved for a time-period. However an insider threat could see the test going on and then launch their own campaign during the validity window.


"Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider."


I'm gonna wait until after Matt Levine tells me to know what I think about this.


Everybody is engaging in securities fraud. PSA: reading his column is securities fraud.


Serious question: In what specific ways is it securities fraud?


I think this is a reference to Matt's interesting PoV 'everything is securities fraud' (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt..., https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-22/everyt..., etc.)


It’s a joke about his newsletter segment


Any day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (large enough) businesses are.


If you want to hold a long-term personal boycott against Volkswagon for immoral business practice, I assure you there are better reasons than the diesel emissions testing scandal.


Who are the private organizations buying road salt/salting services to within even two orders of magnitude of municipalities/state govts?


This is an unfortunate analogy given how complicated and poorly understood the heat-affects-food chemical reactions are. And yet food gets cooked.


I'd say that makes it an apt analogy.

It just makes a point opposite to the author's intent.


Are you sure about the author’s intent? Unless you know the writer very, very well, I think it’s impossible to tell from written text.


You make an excellent point. I shouldn't have been sure about the author's intent.

Thank you for pointing out my error.


Exactly, you don't need to know how molecules act under the hood to be productive cooking.


Until you need to substitute ingredients, you use a different type or rangetop, the pan metal or thickness is different, or something else changes. This was a perfect analogy. People can follow the recipe of assemling various frameworks and toolkits to create software, but they will eventually encounter difficulty.

You may not need to understand molecular differences, but knowing hows fats, proteins, and carbs work, along with how to substitute ingredients, and different theories of cooking all help to actually understand why you can cook until mysteriously things don't work the same as yesterday.


I've been learning to cook recently and I haven't the slightest idea how heat affects food.


It is said that each fold on a chef's hat represents a different way they know how to cook an egg. Thet need to understand when to apply low heat, high heat, add liquids, when proteins denature and when they coagulate.

Of course, following a recipe in specific ideal circumstances works, as long as nothing changes.


Why not? Money is a social contruct, but dollars to donuts, populations with less of it will have lower vaccine efficacy.


You're right. That would be a counter-example because of non-biological second-order effects.

But in this context, we're talking about first-order biological effects that aren't accounted for because of race. If race doesn't have biological underpinnings then the larger argument is meaningless.


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