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This is true but I don't think it meaningfully checks the president, because the pardon power is also absolute and unreviewable, and does cover courts martial (as we saw in the Eddie Gallagher case). Military personnel are not required to follow illegal orders from the president, but if they do they won't face legal sanction.

thank you, friend

Guess again! Roberts explicitly calls out orders to the military as covered by absolute immunity. EDIT: and motive is explicitly barred from review too.

> ...all of these server applications would have to be easy-as-an-iphone to set up and administer. Right now, such apps don't exist, because there's no market for them. But if the market were there, millions of people with hosted servers just sitting around, you can imagine how quickly they'd get made.

I don't know about this. People have phones and computers, too, but we still have gmail instead of personal mail servers, and we still have reddit instead of usenet. As a developer I definitely prefer serving web pages to shipping iphone apps (never mind physical CDs) because the deployment and maintenance stories are so much simpler. In other words, even if millions of personal servers existed already, why would a developer prefer to write Self-Hosted!Instagram instead of just Instagram?

> we like them and we prefer to be friends with them.

How true is this? Every Finnish person I've ever met has mistrusted and feared Russia.

Right, but then you also shouldn't be using the techniques described in the article, right? To put it another way, there's no case where deferred collection with smart pointers is better than real GC.

I have the same problem as the GP, on four monitors. All four, bought at different times in different countries, are miscalibrated according to these calibration images. Is that plausible? If not, what might be going on?

And if it _is_ plausible that four random monitors are all miscalibrated in the same way, why should we optimize for well-calibrated monitors?

Suppose I have a configured tab width of 2 and I write a line with three tabs that's 78 characters wide. When my friend with tab-width 8 views it, he'll see a line that's 90 characters wide. What do projects with 80 character limits do in situations like that?

In either case the line contains only 75 characters, of course, but that's a pretty pedantic non-answer: we care about horizontal screen space, not the number of bytes of storage you'd need.

I think this analysis assumes that Dwarf Fortress has reached only a small fraction of its total addressable market (that is, the space of players who can enjoy DF without large improvements to new player onboarding). Any fixed-price offering risks cannibalizing Patreon subscriptions, whose expected LTV is probably _much greater_ than $19.

Their chosen tradeoff makes more sense if you think of it as "subscriptions versus one-offs" instead of "sales versus donations".

So they get all the business they want from word of mouth and referrals? Good for them, but doesn't that imply that there's a lot of unmet demand?

How about: "Reliable curation"

Do you have a source for this? According to opensecrets.org, they're in the top 2 for tech companies (their major rival is Comcast), but they spend much less than Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the National Association of Realtors. This has been true since at least 2010 (as far back as I checked).

They do sometimes spend more than Boeing, which I wouldn't have guessed.

That famous Platforms rant was supposed to be Google-internal, right? Implication: he's still writing, but you have to be a Google employee to read it.

Google really does have the best benefit program in tech.

EDIT: I'm kinda joking, and kinda not. Maybe it seems silly, but this really will be on my mind next time I hear from a Google recruiter.