Things can be meaningless on a cosmic timescale and still matter a great deal on a human one. Most of us will never influence the universe, but we'll influence our families, friends, coworkers and even future generations, that's enough...
I tend to agree with this take. If you do something wrong at least doing it consistently will be more valuable than not. Unfortunately dogma is not easy to avoid. Even it wasn't for Bob's Clean Code, some other guy would distill some patterns, market another book with a catchy title that'd be inevitably somewhat misunderstood and misused.
Why would anyone call you a luddite for advocating for MicroSDs? Of course the reason SD were pushed away (at least for Apple) was to offer cloud backup as the only option with no alternatives.
> Note what happened. A high-value credential—a passport—was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk.
Why do these systems hold onto user's data post verification?
I don't think they're necessarily afraid of what's in those pamphlets. I think they're trying to make people afraid to dissent, and I have to say they're having some success at it.
What difference does it make? The point being that nobody should be sentenced for transporting pamphlets, regardless of what's in them. And the 30 year sentence? This is absurd.
I got a ClockworkPi uConsole and am not really using it much, and that’s because it’s become very hard for me to read on the high dpi small screen for too long.
I don’t know what your point really is. Yes Korea has been already selling arms, but as of recently, they stepped up drastically. This is what this article is about. Is the title wrong? That’s an issue with most titles these days