I now really want my city to employ local artists to redraw all the street markings.

Chaos, sure, but beautiful chaos.

I really like the street sign analogy.

But in my case it was the other way around. I work in a Kowloon Walled City of code: dozens of intersecting communities with thousands of informally organized but largely content contributors. It looks like chaos, but it works ok.

Code formatting really did feel like a new neighbor declaring "you know what this place needs, better-marked bus lanes!" as though that would help them see the sky from the bottom of an ally or fix the underlying sanitation issues. As you might imagine, the efforts didn't get far and mostly annoyed people.

But as the GP said, it all depends on the culture. If you pick up and move to Singapore you'd damn well better keep your car washed and your code style black.

I mean fired and resigned when it became clear you'd be fired are the same thing really.

We're not actually entitled to know the exact details of someone's job ending. They worked there. Now they don't. That much is the bit we're entitled to.

For public misconduct like this, we should get to know if he was fired (or asked to resign) as opposed to his making the independent decision to find work elsewhere or retire or whatever. We should get to know if he left because the company wanted him gone or because he wanted to be gone.

Nah, The Register is far more strongly anti-AI. Mention AI and systemd in the same article and watch them froth

I absolutely disagree.

This has been done very professionally. They pulled the article. They handled the personnel matter. They didn't try to pretend it hasn't happened.

Why are people here acting like retracting an article is an attempt to hide something. They literally replaced the whole text with a note from the editor saying "this article was bad".

> Why are people here acting like retracting an article is an attempt to hide something.

Because the retraction notice hid the article name and the author name?

This is kinda cool. Thanks for sharing.

This is mad but cool. Keep at it.

Thanks, mad is fun for me! It costs me nothing if it fails.

nice concept, but my 'nearest' was miles away and not really a pub. Hmm.

require commits to be signed.

OK "Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer" got a proper chuckle from me

This is the basis for the software that allows you to use a single mouse to control a mouse pointer on several computers.

No, this is silly. Don't do this. You absolutely keep pushing for a refund and go via you CC provider if they don't respond.

And risk being locked out of the world’s online marketplace and all of Amazon’s other businesses? Maybe a bit hyperbolic but that’s where we are headed for sure.

It's perfectly feasible to never use Amazon. I don't know your situation, but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity. Most of the stuff that Amazon sell is crap anyway.

> but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity

Whether you find higher quality in your local area depends on your local area and what you're buying. More generally applicable, you can find higher quality with independent online stores.

The world's marketplace is alibaba.com, or aliexpress.com for individual orders.

You can find 99% of the junk on amazon on aliexpress for a lower price, though without prime shipping.

True, especially the goods shipped "with prime". It's always a 5-10 bucks premium over the AliExpress price of the same item. It depends on how much in a hurry I am.

You can do without Amazon. Should you really want to get something you can ask a friend to get it for you but I really think you won't need that.

Have you never been banned in a video game and wanted to get back in? You create a new account and call it a day.

It's not like you should feel bad about playing dirty with a company that considers it fine to just steal $1k.

For $1000 I'd definitely risk it and kick up a fuss about it if they locked me out.