Today I learned that there was a North American Cat Gap.
Really wish that SQL supported the concept of “we know there isn’t a value here” in addition the the idea of “we don’t know what the value is”. Unfortunately, it only properly supports the latter, which is why NULL = NULL is false.
“Script”: a slur used by programming language bigots to denigrate dynamic languages.
“That isn’t s real program; it’s only a script.”
According to the Chicago Board of Elections Illinois residents can now register for a Permanent Vote by Mail Roster. 🗳️✉️🙌
*mumble* *grumble* Frickin' systems that won’t obey Unicode variation selector 15. *mumble*
Pickup on South Street is spectacular. Thanks to Lions, Towers, & Shields, I’ll watch whatever Shelly Brisbin tells me to. 🎥
Ah, the modern age of programming against an API that involves case-insensitivity.
How does it do the comparison?
Comparing upper case? Comparing lower case? Comparing Unicode fold case? Something else?
Documentation needs to be specific about what “case-insensitive” means.
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor’s IP address via Google Fonts
Good. Need more of this.
Weird that, in 2022, Ruby still doesn’t have a fold-case method for Strings.
Oops, turns out that there is case folding, but you have to call .upcase(:fold) or .downcase(:fold), which is wakadoo.
This is really, really good.
It’s been a This Mortal Coil festival around here for the last week or so.
Enjoy the story of the Puritan war on Christmas: overcast.fm/+L-hp9XIb… 🎙
Merry Consumermas: www.youtube.com/watch 🎄💰🎵📺
I learn about memes that I didn’t know existed by watching Kirby Ferguson. 📺
Today’s dumb mistake:
sudo iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
😳
Regulators don’t allow any licensee to buy Arm; does Arm go under?
If so, what is RISC V’s governance structure?
🍂 Fall-iage 📷
