The potential source of error is the assumption that the president has the authority to stop a prosecution (short of the pardon power). I say "potential" because a "unitary executive" advocate would claim this is true, and it is becoming more true during the second Trump administration, although it was notably false during the first one. [In prior administrations, including Trump I and Obama, the DOJ appointed independent counsel precisely to prosecute cases the president would have disagreed with prosecuting.]
I don't ever recall reading such an angry dissent, even in more politically charged cases. (I do think the dissent is correct on the merits, but sheesh.)
Not quite enough? The last time I had a "discount" for Uber Eats, it was a $15 meal with so many fees on it that AFTER the $30 discount, I still needed to pay $35. Cancelled.
Yes, Uber Eats is so expensive it feels like they could give away $10 vouchers and still make a handsome profit. I wonder how much CrowdStrike paid for these vouchers? Surely nothing like $10 each.
Maybe someone in Uber's marketing department was very clever and saw this opportunity. "He Crowdstrike, we see that you are having a bad week. How about we help you out with free gift cards for your customers. That will help fix up the relationships". Or maybe they even paid Crowdstrike.
£7.75 GBP, ill admit i haven't used Uber eats in years because the prices are insane but im not sure that covers much more than the delivery fee.
(Also, people who want McDonalds 20 minutes after it was remotely edible and shaken to shit on the back of a moped, who are you? I see the bikes everywhere but have never met one of you irl)
yes, it seems clear to me that there is much less dialect variation in the US, outside very rural areas, than there was 30 years ago. Even then, the adults had much more variation than the kids.
I'm currently reading Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley in Search of America". He wrote it in 1960 and even then he remarks on how the US is quickly losing local dialects thanks to radio, television, and mass media.
I'm from N. GA which has a flowery dialect and all those expressions my grandparents used are dying. I think 1 or 2 more generations is all that's left.
There tends to be the most variation in the country where a language originated—-the “center of diversity”. Taiwan is the CoD for the Polynesian languages including Indonesian and native languages of Madagascar. (As per Guns Germs and Steel)
British people also sound more American than ever. Nearby, in Ireland, there are rich (suburban, I think?) Dubliners who have never left Europe that, with their normal accents, can briefly pass for Americans to Americans.
I spent 2 weeks in Iceland doing the ring road. We stopped for dinner in a tiny village in North Iceland. Our server genuinely sounded like an American. We asked if he had lived in America. He said he had never left his village, even to go to the capital. He just learned English from American media. His English was flawless. He could have said he spent most of his life in America and we would have believed him based on his accent alone.
Between schools teaching some form of standard pronunciation (in most countries, at least), and routine exposure to the same through mass media and intermingling in large cities, most languages seem to be on the trend towards less dialectal variety.
I can't possibly remember where but I remember hearing that there are actually more new dialects today. It seems like something that is in constant flux everywhere.
I appreciate the polemical framing -- not many people are comfortable taking the "wrong" side of this issue publicly and it's easy to preach purity when you have a nine-to-five.
I think, though, that even if you grant that speed is more important than all else, and even if you are willing to accept a 200% interest rate on tech debt to get your releases out, you still want unit tests from day one.
Done right, writing unit testing in parallel with your code speeds things up rather than slowing them down. Personally, I find this is the case for even tiny projects like a Project Euler problem unless they can be done in under about an hour.
Personally, I have found that unit tests speed you up a lot, while integration tests often slow you down. In other words, if you're writing a "mock_[X]" class/function, it's probably slower than just testing with X.
Typically people refer to those by the opposite naming convention - unit tests just test one thing and mock any dependencies, while integration tests integrate multiple things and generally involve less mocking
Factoid: "snuck" and "drug" have in common that the irregular conjugation is the non-standard one, but are different in that "snuck" is a neologism of the 19th century whereas "drug" is in fact the older standard form, gradually supplanted by "dragged."
Conferences are good because travel can be fun in any job, and because it means you are talking to other specialists in your subfield instead of your normal colleagues.
Sabbaticals are good because time off from the tedious parts of work is good at any job. Most academics do research while on sabbatical but are free of some teaching and administrative duties.
