Yeah, why talk about preemptive strikes when they’re still not responding appropriately to the invasion of Ukraine? Kick Russia out of there first. That’s a totally legitimate non-preemptive way to block Russian aggression. That’s how you show strength, not with words that help the Russian narrative.

Alcohol isn’t quite as dramatic or hard to detect, but you shouldn’t be sneaking alcohol into people’s non-alcoholic drinks either. Or otherwise intentionally get them drunk. That’s only for them to decide.

No. Drugging them is enough of a threat even if the culprit doesn’t manage to rape his victim. Treating at attempt to drug someone with a date rape drug as assault sounds like it might be a very good idea. Though I admit I haven’t thought about all the angles yet.

I don’t think these numbers quite add up. It says $93B a year, vs $21.9T over a decade. So that’s $2.19 per year, or a a bit over 20 times as much. So fixing hunger costs slightly less than 5% of the world’s military budget.

Still a more worthy way to spend that money, but let’s get the numbers correct.

There have always been undisciplined soldiers with a tendency to rape, pillage, loot, etc. It has never been acceptable, and certainly in more recent times it has been declared utterly illegal. We’ve got the Geneva Convention against that sort of thing.

Any country whose soldiers do this, shows itself to be depraved and lacking in military discipline. It’s a barbaric act, unbecoming of civilised countries.

%s/charged with/applauded for/

I would really like to see companies held more accountable for their data security. If data gets leaked through some security breach, regardless of the criminality of the perpetrators of that breach, if it contains sensitive data like unhashed passwords, credit card or other personal data, and other potentially even more sensitive stuff (medical, financial), the company that was supposed to secure that data needs to be held liable too.

Any company that stores any of that kind of data, needs to have real security experts on board and listen to them. If you can’t, don’t store that kind of data.

They need to use these drones as a live training exercise: detect them and shoot them down. Be prepared for them, and figure out the most effective way to disable them. Iterate until you get it right.

If they were really sure they were trafficking drugs, they could also just seize the boats rather than blowing them up. I think there’s a good reason they’re not doing that.

What kind of stupid propaganda piece is this? Venezuela the vanguard of the global south? Maduro is a dictator. Chavez at least won elections. Maduro doesn’t even have that going for him.

As far as I’m concerned, South America is wedged between two power hungry idiots: Milei and Maduro.

I’m appalled I haven’t heard the word wealthcare before.

Then why the shutdown?

Then what is the issue with that shutdown? Use that money to pay government employees first.

Isn’t there a shutdown? Because they can’t agree on a budget? And now there’s no money even to pay government employees? So where is this money suddenly coming from?

Well, that’s where the bar is. In Venezuela, and soon maybe also in the US, if Trump gets his way.

And without elections, it’s going to be a lot harder to get change.

I’m no fan of Thatcher, but at least she did respect elections. Maduro does not.

Venezuela has been at odds with the US since long before Trump deployed those warships.

This does sound very interesting. I should have said the debuggers I’m familiar with don’t do it. Or if they do, I have no idea how.

Certainly setting breakpoints on certain conditions instead of just a line, would help a lot. Being able to step backwards through the execution even more so.

I can also see the variables change by logging them.

Debuggers are great if you want to see in detail what’s going on in a specific loop or something, but across a big application with a framework that handles lots of things in unreadable code, multiple components modifying your state, async code, etc.; debuggers are a terrible way to track what’s going on.

And often when I’ve found where it goes wrong, I want to check what was happening in a previous bit of code, a previous iteration or call. Debuggers don’t go back; you have to restart and run through the whole thing, again finding exactly where it went wrong, but now just a bit before that, which is often impossible.

With logging, you just log everything, print a big warning where the thing has gone wrong, and scroll back a bit.

Debuggers are a fantastic bit of technology, but in practice, simple logging has helped me far more often. That said, there are issues where debuggers do beat logging, but they’re a small minority in my experience. Still useful to know both tools.

Nothing wrong with console.log.