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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • It’s great to see the attempt and also an example of what the C4 guidelines are made to avoid.

    Notice how many comments are little nitpicks about this and that. Completely stalling the commit and getting further away from the original point of C4 which is to reduce contributor friction and avoid these kind of endless discussions on PRs.

    I don’t want to be too critical because some of that is a clear lack of understanding of the motivations of C4 which is explained more thoroughly in Pieter’s blog posts. You don’t want to adopt a contributor guidelines that you don’t understand of course.

    IMO it’s better just to implement it as-is and start using it in practice rather than bikeshedding.


  • Best practices for minimizing complexity:

    1. Try out “stacking”
    2. Simplify software design

    I didn’t say there wasn’t information in there but the above paraphrased quote goes to the heart of what my comment was about.

    Firstly, how is purchasing their product considered a “best practice”? It’s not generally accepted or the standard superior option by any stretch of the imagination.

    Secondly, the option they give to minimizing complexity is to simplify your software design. Ignoring a couple problems with this statement, if they’re being honest this should be above the recommendation to “try out stacking”.

    It doesn’t have to be that deep. You can give it a quick read and take from it what you will, but it is an ad for their product more so than it is an article that contains broadly useful information. They have every right to do so and maybe their product really is tremendously great but I’m just calling it how I see it.


  • It’s the fact that there is no extradition treaty in place that would give a legal basis to get him back making it not so easy. Also, the justice department only agreed on letting him out on bail only because they could thought they could manage the flight risk by imposing travel restrictions. It says all this in the article.

    This part is my opinion but seeing as he helped launder money for terrorist groups, many of which are based in that region of the world, combined with the other resources at his disposal, there is a definite risk that he has a “change of heart” and attempts to evade his sentence.

    Knowingly and willfully laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and people engaging in the exploitation of children is definitely villainous. More so than Trump.








  • I would 100% agree you with you if not for the fact that they already investigating this exact possibility including subpoena the phone records and eventually closed the investigation without saying anything wrong happened. It's definitely suss and worthy of a proper investigation but when that happens and nothing comes of it what then?

    IF it did happen we can only hope that she comes to her senses and reveals that information herself. But she's an adult now and that choice is entirely up to her. Nobody can force her. The government can't get involved and say no you aren't allowed to get married.

    Believe me I have absolutely no love for the catholic church or really any religion in general. But I definitely do believe in civil liberties and despite how uncomfortable it can be at times this is how our system works.



  • The article doesn't say anything about that. It says there was an investigation that was later closed with no findings of wrong doing.

    And yes it's borderline that he waited til she was 18, but he DID wait til she was 18. Isn't that the entire point?

    And she is 18 and has the right to make her own choices/mistakes now. Are you going to tell someone who is an adult in the eyes of the law that they can't choose whom to marry, or that the decision to marry is somehow morally wrong? Because that's exactly the implication that the church is trying to push here.

    Maturity is a different question entirely.