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New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:20:02 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/@TorqueTestChannel is another great channel for more tool-specific reviews

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "SQL: Incorrect by Construction"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:34:35 +0000

What’s amusing is you’ve now stolen $10 from all of Alice’s accounts if she has more than one, or if Bob has none.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:02 +0000

What possible type of guarantee could one ever hope to "negotiate" with someone who has just successfully blackmailed/ransomed/extorted?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:45:30 +0000

One should never take a field sobriety test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHFpc6uiWA

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Not buying another Kindle"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:04:14 +0000

Nearly instantaneous access to the definition of a word, usually.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:33:56 +0000

I'm surprised 5-7 torpedo warheads detonating didn't do more damage to it. About 2750kg-4000kg of high explosive.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

LgWoodenBadger — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:02:44 +0000

Because it’s a mythical silver bullet of increased output combined with reduced costs.

It makes me think of an executive I once reported to who “increased velocity” by changing the utilization rate on a spreadsheet from 75% to 80%.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:51:43 +0000

I completely agree. I much prefer leveraging actual javascript to get what I need instead of spending time trying to fumble my way through jq syntax.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

LgWoodenBadger — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:47:12 +0000

It's more than just a quote, it's a sample of Bill Hicks himself speaking it.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software"

LgWoodenBadger — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:32:28 +0000

All software should provide something meaningful for anybody to diagnose, if they’re inclined to. It’s particularly bad in the (Apple) mobile ecosystem, including AppleTV.

I have AdGuard Home but one of my spouse’s streaming services wouldn’t work. “There was a problem.” Gee thanks. Eventually figured out that I had to unblock a few hosts so it would work. Only found which ones by googling and finding some other poor soul who fixed it and documented it.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Don't become an engineering manager"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:44:26 +0000

Titles are what “salary comparisons” go by when HR “compares” compensation between employees and “competition.”

What else would they be able to use?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

LgWoodenBadger — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:51:26 +0000

And even more confounding, what's "water ice?"

https://www.ritasice.com

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:06:41 +0000

“because it is possible to have race conditions surface even within a single database query.”

This brought back awful memories of MS SQLServer and JDBC. Way back when, maybe Java 1.5 or so, SQLServer would deadlock between connections when all they were doing was executing the exact same statement. Literally. Not the same general statement with different parameters.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

LgWoodenBadger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Well, “just” as in “recently forced everyone to replace their cards” also works. My CapitalOne mastercard was deactivated January 14, even though it was still valid through 2030.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Things Unix can do atomically (2010)"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:25:29 +0000

Uhh, if the system powers off immediately after the first command (mv a b), the second command (mv c d) would never run. So where would d come from if the command that created it never executed?

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

LgWoodenBadger — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:35:40 +0000

Capitalone is going to need something to make up for switching all their debit cards from MasterCard to Discover

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

LgWoodenBadger — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:52:08 +0000

He should already be in prison NOW. He’s a convicted felon.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:53:10 +0000

Your comment is also partially incorrect. Vehicles 25 years and older may be imported and registered regardless of safety standards or emissions.

https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1100?language=en_...

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says"

LgWoodenBadger — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:25:52 +0000

To see extreme examples of this, look at any wallowed-out/wallered-out through-bore in construction equipment (e.g. excavator buckets), particularly when a pin hasn't been greased, or is seized.

This same scenario combined with the amount of vibration and stresses caused by the engine, should scream "this is a catastrophe waiting to happen" for any engineer.

New comment by LgWoodenBadger in "Apple Creator Studio"

LgWoodenBadger — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:04:45 +0000

The Aperture discontinuation still pains me as well. Especially since I can't even run it anymore.

I also bought Final Cut Express. Not sure I'll buy Apple software again either.