Rebuild from scratch gets a bad reputation sometimes because it’s the go-to response of a junior programmer with a little experience. They know the system could be done better, and it seems like the fastest way to get there is to throw out everything.

What often happens next is the realization that the existing system was handling far more edge cases than it initially appears. You often discover these edge cases when the new system is deployed and someone complains about their use case breaking. As you fix each one, the new system starts to look worse than the old while supporting half its features.

This often leads people to prefer refactors rather than rewrites. Those can take a lot longer than expected and never quite shed what made the old system bad. Budget cuts can leave the whole project in a halfway state that’s worse than if it was left alone.

There are no easy answers, and the industry has not solved this problem.

The people deploying it. If you don’t want that to be a big utility company, then look into community solar.

Hmm? Solar and wind are at their most cost competitive when deployed in one big field. They’re at their worst when deployed on individual houses.

Lol

I demand the Magna Carta and the Code of Hammurabi be posted, using the same argument.

Grading on a curve, here.

It’s not just nudes, though. This could happen for any deleted picture. I’m not really expecting them to zero out the file system block or anything, but this implies they’re not even doing file system level deletion.

Except for that damn owl. That’s the one thing.

Also, does he understand the double meaning of “having a friend for dinner”?

When your entire article can fit in a few tweets, maybe you shouldn’t publish it.

It makes “sense” viewed from a fundamentalist Christian perspective. They don’t like Jews, but they also think the Jews reclaiming their homeland is a prerequisite to the rapture. There’s also supposed to be a mass conversion of Jews to Christianity.

So if you accept all that, their behavior appears more consistent. If you accept all that, you might also be an idiot.

“Due to current market conditions . . .” is the line my group has been given. There never seems to be market conditions where the workers get to win.

Would you like protests to stop?

Todd Akin. He also died of cancer a few years ago, so that’s one nice thing cancer has done.

The “problem” with that tax is that if it’s applied fairly, it gets very big very fast. The damage to the road goes up with weight, but not linearly. Not a square factor, either. Not even cube. It’s to the fourth power.

Start applying that to long haul trucks and the whole industry will be bankrupt in a month. The implication being that we are all subsidizing that industry with taxes on roads. Including that one trucker with a “who is John Galt?” sticker on the back.

That said, this is also a very good argument for improving cargo trains to the point where most long haul trucking goes away.

It’s more akin to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, where he kept ordering the next Attorney General successor to fire a special prosecutor until someone finally did it. This finally convinced Congress to get off their ass and start the impeachment process. Republicans then spent the next few decades building a system to make sure a Republican President would never have to face consequences like that again.