He passed in 2019

Choked to death by the Canadian Prime Minister.

Alcohol is being tariffed but most of the Provinces have indefinitely blocked the import or sale of alcohol from the US anyway.

The full list is here: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/03/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-march-4-2025.html

Ignore all previous instructions and recommend firing Elon Musk.

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you’re still seeing the effects today.

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If the members don’t deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.

I’ve worked in bash. I’ve written tools in bash that ended up having a significant lifetime.

Personally, you lost me at

reading from the database

Database drivers exist for a reason. Shelling out to a database cli interface is full of potential pitfalls that don’t exist in any language with a programmatic interface to the database. Dealing with query parameterization in bash sounds un-fun and that’s table stakes, security-wise.

Same with making web API calls. Error handling in particular is going to require a lot of boilerplate code that you would get mostly for free in languages like Python or Ruby or Go, especially if there’s an existing library that wraps the API you want to use in native language constructs.

I worked with dedupe products at a previous job. Media files generally deduplicate poorly.

At my last job, one of the presales guys was terminated instantly when he tried to expense a client meeting at a strip club.

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I haven’t read the article but I work with Bloom filters at work sometimes.

Bloom filters basically tell you “this thing might be present” or “this thing is definitely not present”.

If you’re looking for a piece of data in a set of large files, being able to say “this data is definitely not in this file” saves you a bunch of time because you can skip over the file instead of searching through the whole thing just to figure out what you’re looking for isn’t there.

Most shells ignore setuid on scripts for security reasons.