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Comment · 3 days ago
Nope, fireworks are still explosives and they can cause death and severe bodily harm. Where’s the nonsense?
Comment · 4 days ago
So you admit that fireworks are known to cause death and severe bodily harm. What sort of prison sentence would be appropriate for attacking people with such devices?
Comment · 4 days ago
Those aren't "explosives", they are explosives. Google death/maiming by fireworks for examples.
Comment · 4 days ago
You think a prison sentence for shooting a federal law enforcement officer in the neck is chilling?
Comment · 1 month ago
Printers are just a loss leader for toner.
Comment · 1 year ago
Of course lots of AWS services have hidden dependencies on us-east-1. During a previous outage we needed to update a Route53(DNS) record in us-west-2, but couldn't because of the outage in us-east-1.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
In college the course on Maxwell's equations was taught by Dr. Lord. Every time I walked in to class I thought "Let there be light"
Comment · 2 years ago
> nobody would bother re-testing all those n-1 commits after the fix was added

I do.

Comment · 2 years ago
You should do this instead:

git push —-force-with-lease repo branch

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. zsh history may have a similar problem.

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