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New comment by johncessna in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

johncessna — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:39:43 +0000

I'm not saying what they did was correct, but they were allegedly told that he had a drug operation and a kidnapping dungeon.

New comment by johncessna in "We were right about Havana syndrome"

johncessna — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:30:33 +0000

As a reminder, they are likely subject to the lifetime prepublication review[1] which requires anything published to be reviewed by the agency prior to publishing.

[1]https://www.cia.gov/resources/publications/

New comment by johncessna in "19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack"

johncessna — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:22:23 +0000

From the article

> (The word "robot" didn't appear until 1921, when Czech dramatist Karel Čapek coined it in his science fiction play R.U.R..)

New comment by johncessna in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

johncessna — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:34:53 +0000

github copilot

New comment by johncessna in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

johncessna — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:23:55 +0000

Click bait hating on other click bait

New comment by johncessna in "Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy"

johncessna — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:52:02 +0000

Why shouldn't they have been on steam? There are plenty of movies we can all go buy/rent/watch on amazon right now that have that content.

New comment by johncessna in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

johncessna — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:38:59 +0000

Don't forget that Recall was initially on by default. It wasn't until users were like, WTF, did they make it off by default.

That will last for as long as it takes for the value of privacy and ownership erodes further and then it'll get switched back to on by default.

New comment by johncessna in "Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules"

johncessna — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:19:31 +0000

Yeah, nearly 80 years ago, and he married in Germany. First cousin marriages in the US today will certainly warrant some side eye as Sharlin mentioned.

According to wikipedia 24 states have it banned and then 7 more apply restrictions such as a minimum age or infertility

New comment by johncessna in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

johncessna — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:48:34 +0000

Morally Righteous? I think it's more they don't have to so they don't. It's like the DVR days where you'd just fast forward ads. It wasn't a moral high ground, it was just easy to do and was better than the alternative.

New comment by johncessna in "Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds"

johncessna — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:58:35 +0000

> Don't be fooled by media bias & misinformation.

Don't be fooled indeed.

New comment by johncessna in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

johncessna — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:50:59 +0000

Tell them that. Alumni support is critical for a university and if they feel their donation base is upset, change will happen.

New comment by johncessna in "The Daily Scrum: Does It Have to Be Daily?"

johncessna — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:53:54 +0000

It's really important to know the history of agile and why it came about. I don't think it's the problem. The root problem, which is true for any other methodology is business's unwillingness to accept uncertainty and change.

Standups were co-opted from a people-working-the-sprint touch point to discuss A 24 hour window and address problem, and turned into a status meeting, a jira hygiene meeting, or an number of unrelated things.

The answer to management's question, 'when will you be done' is, "at the end of the sprint." Don't ask me to report a daily, or god forbid, hourly status.

New comment by johncessna in "Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates"

johncessna — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:37:19 +0000

This used to be very common in the US especially around airports where drivers wait for up to an hour to get a fare and want to make sure it's worth the wait. It may still be happening, but I just go straight for the cab to avoid the hassle.

New comment by johncessna in "Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites"

johncessna — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:10:09 +0000

https://archive.ph/Zov3M

New comment by johncessna in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

johncessna — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:25:32 +0000

She also talks about the first bug during this one as well as some general lore, history, lessons learned and brings up some good future problems - some of which got solved, some didn't. Def worth watching the whole thing.

New comment by johncessna in "Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008)"

johncessna — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:09:35 +0000

The Gof book should be on the list, but I agree that it suffers from similar problems that a lot of first-of-their-kinds do. There are iterations on it that are a much better read.

New comment by johncessna in "Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees"

johncessna — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:53:38 +0000

It's been an issue in the past, and the articles mention it.

New comment by johncessna in "Cancer rates are rising in young people"

johncessna — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:32:16 +0000

or the ability to deal with stress declined

New comment by johncessna in "Why Americans aren't having babies"

johncessna — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:00:20 +0000

They, and anyone else, is welcome to have as much avocado toast as they'd like. Just don't say that XYZ is unaffordable because their money went to other financial choices.

New comment by johncessna in "Why Americans aren't having babies"

johncessna — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:54:34 +0000

I think the expense aspect doesn't dig deep enough. There are plenty of poor countries (and folks) having children. Additionally, being rich and having lots of kids don't usually go hand in hand (admittedly stereotypical)

Not wanting to be poor, or more likely, trading the yearly trip to $insertPlaceHere, eating out on the weekends, or the daily Starbucks, for a new kid, isn't a bad, but 'too expensive' doesn't really describe that situation accurately.