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  • 9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI

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  • “Within the limits of their discretion, directors must make stockholder welfare their sole end,” Strine wrote. “Other interests may be taken into consideration only as a means of promoting stockholder welfare.” -- Chief Justice Strine, Delaware’s Supreme Court, 1985’s Revlon v. MacAndrews

  • 9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI

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  • It isn't a shock. Right or wrong, if you call out your boss/board/investors, you should expect to be fired. Corporations are required to protect their shareholders, not make a moral stand. I hope the gentleman here understood that -- when you choose to take a moral stand, it isn't going to be without consequences. It's one of the reasons we generally admire people who took a stand (and ended up judged "correct" by history).

  • Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills

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  • Sure, but Windows 11 is a pain in the ass. My Internet was lagging the other day so my start menu wouldn't find a locally installed program because it couldn't search the Internet too.

  • Cate Blanchett launches program to empower female, trans & nonbinary filmmakers

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  • Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

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  • It's also disingenuous because they already decline to host sex workers newsletters. So if the censorship angle was true, they're already censoring.

  • Biden is pardoning thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington

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  • The government owns a ton of land used for national parks, grazing, and fish / wildlife conservation. But the biggest benefactors of this will probably be Washington D.C. which has about as many citizens as Alaska.

  • DayZ, Rust Teams Troll The Day Before Studio's Closure Announcement

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  • Steam is offering refunds. Do you honestly think Valve is going to eat that cost while paying out to the devs? If someone bought the game elsewhere, do a chargeback.

    There's no reason these devs should see a shiny penny from this game.

  • DayZ, Rust Teams Troll The Day Before Studio's Closure Announcement

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  • Yeah. Unless the Day Before devs / marketing specifically bad mouthed DayZ and Rust, this really seems like a "kick em while they're down" move.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Mod makes your companions fully AI in combat

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  • Honestly, given the heroic / chaotic good slant of the game, it's actually pretty annoying to play the edgy DUrge. Playing it but making all the good choices is heavily scripted and pretty nifty.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Mod makes your companions fully AI in combat

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  • It's pretty clear that Redeemed Durge Tav is the canonical Tav and the most interesting. All the other versions are bland in comparison.

    But you can definitely get some of the interactions you're looking for by playing an Origin character. Playing as Karlach, I definitely created non-canonical interactions with the other Origin characters.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Mod makes your companions fully AI in combat

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  • If the AI for the ghouls from Danse Macabre is any example, they make stupid choices. The ghouls can be standing next to an enemy and waste their turn with Dash to get to another enemy.

  • Removed

    Removed, please disregard

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  • The "Sync Contacts" setting is weird. You can toggle it on, but it doesn't gain or ask for the OS permissions on Android. There's a brief message saying you have to give it the permission. No idea why they didn't just use the built in SDK to ask for the permission.

  • Need a rust version too.

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  • The go community is strongly opinionated in unique ways. For example, using libraries is generally frowned upon. You either use something included in the language itself (standard library) or copy/paste the code you wrote in another project. There's also advocacy for shorter variable names which generally seems counter to the normal "write descriptive variable name" mantra.

    All in all, I hope the ideas / opinions came from a good place and then some people took them as black & white rules. But they also come off as one or two people's pet peeves who got to build a language around them.

  • Need a rust version too.

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  • I'm going to have to print out the Go version for all future "it's idiomatic" and "but the community!" debates at work

  • How do I convince my company to add tests for FE?

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  • Just add them. You're a developer and automated testing is one of our tools. A woodworker wouldn't ask permission to sand.

  • Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised

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  • It depends. This case is brought against Amazon because the plaintiff was specifically (allegedly) injured by a product sold by Amazon. The judge/jury might find that Amazon's safety practices were negligent, which might have a ripple effect on other retailers safety practices. Alternatively, the judge/jury might find the products themselves are illegal, which would impact the whole industry*.

    * So technically only the court / circuit the litigation is being brought in, unless it's appealed to the Supreme Court. Then the verdict impacts the whole country.

  • ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites

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  • The npm package has about 4000 weekly downloads. I don't know what that means in terms of popularity.

  • Names

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  • These people don't even read their own literature. The Catholic church's ban on alchemy is about falsely claiming something is a valuable metal in order to pay for debts. It has nothing to do with the occult -- the ban was because it's a sin to lie / cheat / steal. A saint is even on record saying that alchemical gold is ok if the end if product is real gold.

    With that context, of course God doesn't give a shit if you use SQLAlchemy as long as you aren't using it to defraud people. If you were defrauding people, it wouldn't matter what tool you used.

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  • Chrome’s Web Store review—the next big weapon in the war on ad blockers

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  • I use Firefox full time but I'm bummed at the number of sites that break in odd ways when not using Chrome. As an engineer, I understand how appealing it is to only have to test in one browser, but this monopoly is the result.