Fun grammatical fact that I only learned after years of speaking French: when borrowing words from other languages, you usually (not always) take the gender of the equivalent word in French, so technically it would be “de la memory” :)
That's the rule the old geezers at the Academy insist on. But then you have idiotic situations where everyone is using "le" for e.g. the COVID virus, while Academicians cry about the D meaning "Disease", which is feminine, making it "la COVID" in their book. As for all languages, the most important rule is that usage prevails. And that's something we in France still have a hard time integrating into public discourse.
An interesting case is "WiFi", short for "wireless fidelity". "Fidélité sans fil" in French should be feminine, but every technical person says "le WiFi" (masculine) while many (most?) non-technical people intuitively say "la WiFi" (feminine).
If you keep your access point secure and in good working order, or if you can flash any firmware into OpenWRT... make sure to publicly credit your excellent "Wi-fu"
WiFi is not an acronym for "wireless fidelity"; the developers likely just thought it sounded cool. The term is probably just a play on the words from the audio term "high fidelity". The phrase "Wireless Fidelity" is meaningless.
> It is disputed whether the name Wi-Fi is short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity',[34] although the Wi-Fi Alliance did use the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after the brand name was created,[31][35] referenced "the Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) logo" in a white paper[33] and the Wi-Fi Alliance was also called the "Wireless Fidelity Alliance Inc." in some publications.[36] IEEE, a separate but related organization, has stated "WiFi is a short name for Wireless Fidelity" on their website.[37][38] The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.[39]
So it’s not really safe to say it’s not meant to mean wireless fidelity, in fact it sounds pretty likely.
US beef production is actually slightly higher than 30 years ago. What has fallen is the cattle headcount (now the smallest since 1951) but heavier animals have kept total output up. The recent herd shrinkage owes more to drought economics and the normal boom and bust cycle of ranching than to cattle becoming unraisable.
Defacing public property is worse. It's toxic individualism and self-expression. If people wanted to put up a mural, they'd collectively vote to do so. In a proper society, graffiti artists would face public punishment from the collective.
Is it really toxic individualism if there’s a (mostly healthy) subculture dedicated to it, though?
In a “proper society” we could pass around the talking stick to reach consensus on a whole grab bag of things.
I’m not a tagger myself, but I do think there is something poetically democratic about people participating in the public forum in this way. At least, beyond the four-letter words and flying dicks, anyways.
Yes, because the subculture doesn't represent the majority. It's the opposite of "democratic"--it's a small group of people imposing their aesthetic on what you acknowledge is a "public form"--without the consent of the public.
"Democracy" isn't about individuals or small groups making their voices heard. That might be a necessary factor, but it's not the purpose. Democracy is about the majority having the right to create the kind of society they want to live in. Maybe people in Sao Paulo like the graffiti (or maybe not, since the ban on other types of visual pollution seems popular). But it's the majority's decision to make.
I personally prefer including issues as git trailers:
fix thing in foo
Issue: ABC-123
Git has plenty of builtins for parsing and formatting these trailers, so you can easily create custom git log aliases that let you see them inline and parse them for use with CI.
I think you’re the first person in this comment section to mention this. Git has a structure for machine-readable structured data. Put it there, not in free text fields for humans.
That's all good and well but the UX sucks. I usually have dozens of commands like
git commit -m "PROJECT-XXXX Foo the bar to baz the qux"
in my shell history, which means 1) I can easily create follow-up commits under the same ticket number (no having to type the ticket number again), 2) I don't have to keep remembering the ticket number once I created the first commit on the given ticket. I'm sure I could set up an elaborate set of shell scripts and git aliases to auto-insert a ticket number as structured data at the bottom of each of my commits. But good luck convincing the rest of your team to do that.
Also, having the ticket number in the subject line means every git-related tool I use will always display it (even if the rest of the message gets cut off).
I used Charles for a while and also jumped on the Proxyman bandwagon. It’s a slick tool and even works for remote debugging (i.e., an iPhone attached to your computer with a cable).
Proxygen (https://proxygen.app) has this super cool way to pair its iPhone app with the Mac app, and then remotely inspect traffic from iPhone apps on the Mac. You do the pairing once and then just beam traffic over. Attaching cables feels pretty ancient compared to this.
It’s not Tesonet, Proton is wholly self-owned and managed. Proton VPN was briefly sharing employees with Tesonet during initial app bringup, and that partnership is long over.
Naturally due to competition and the huge importance of privacy in this space, people still bring this up, but Proton VPN does not and never will sell or share your data with anyone.
Then the question becomes why would they help a company that competes with their portfolio companies. And even stronger case that they got some shares in return.
One reason is that helping contributors that you know will survive (as proton was already well known) grows the market. Basically give the competitor of piece of the cake because they will enlarge the cake for everyone.
It's when your director goes and tells you not to tell anyone but to report to another building to another team for a month or three, and help them with whatever they ask, because you have a very specific set of skills. (In this case, setting up VPN backend infra.)
I think most of what makes this font readable is the user using context to sort of guess at what the word could be.
If you start writing things that aren’t sentences normal people would use (or especially if you start mixing case) it doesn’t hold up. Still interesting for a “normal” use case though.
I think the author is speaking about a specific tradition of Buddhism, Zen, and is drawing parallels between that tradition and Quakerism. The “picking and choosing” point doesn’t make sense to me from that angle. Are you picking and choosing from Christianity when you talk about Protestantism, for example? His thoughts on Zen are pretty on point.
The author is ultimately speaking of a specific practice, meditation. A practice that predates Buddhism by probably more then a millennium. Zen is not relevant here as it is a latter development.
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