Either Thomas Jefferson had two first names, or Jefferson Davis had two last names.

“What the user needed” / “What management demanded”

Blahblahrians!

Anyone with even one level in monk automatically counters this with an Ānāpānasati save.

Trade is ancient. Consider: People have been ordering products from abroad, relying on promises and reputations, since the days of Ea-nāṣir. It’s always depended on trust, which is why we still know the name Ea-nāṣir.

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As a reminder, helping the Antichrist bring about the end times does not earn them a spot in heaven, but rather in the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

If only free & consensual sex counts, Donald Trump is a virgin.

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“Tim Kaine in the membrane, Tim Kaine in the brain”?

Merely being in the same room as his stinky ass might very well suffice.

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Because he misses having threesomes with Jeffrey and Ivanka?

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This just in: Yes-men say “yes”

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog … until you tell them.

Do you remember the beginning of Trump’s previous term? His very first priority was to harm Muslims.

Good catch! Typo. Fixed.

Regex is good for a few very specific things, and sysadmins used to use it for goddamn everything. If all your server logs are in lightly-structured text files on a small number of servers, being able to improvise regex is damn useful for tracking down server problems. Just write a shell loop that spawns an ssh logging into each server and running grep over the log files, to look for that weird error.

These days, if you need to crunch production server logs you probably need to improvise in SQL and jq and protobufs or systemd assmonkery or something.

But if you actually need a parser, for goodness sake use a parser combinator toolkit, don’t roll your own, especially not with regex. Describing your input language in plain Haskell is much nicer than kludging it.

(This is the “totally serious software engineering advice” forum, right?)

Yep. This is why online recipe sites put a whole goddamn personal essay before the actual recipe: if someone scrapes the page and copies it, they’ll scrape the (copyrightable) essay as well as the (non-copyrightable) recipe.