With drinking game!
Everything you need to know about day one of Brexit.
Amid RHA and Bifa concerns about the lack of progress, HMRC, Defra, the HO, the Dft, the BPDG and the TTF are building up IT systems for post-Brexit GB-EU trade and particularly for RoRo at Dover-Calais which will involve exporters submitting import/export declarations to Chief and the CDS, S&S information to S&S GB and ICS, and collating their SPS documentation - including an EHC filled out by an CSO under the supervision of an OV sent via a BCP - with the importer logging it on Traces NT, while generating a GMR via GVMS and SI Brexit, and then HGVs getting a KAP, all to avoid the RWCS.
Here is a Minimal Bash script template that will make your scripts safer, consistent with standards, and provide a way to parse and validate parameters.
Relevant: ShellCheck – A shell script static analysis tool.
I wish it would know.
John Adams’ “Three Weeks and I'm Still Outta My Mind” is one of the weirdest songs I’ve heard recently, at the end of episode 1 of “We are who we are”… (which obviously has an excellent soundtrack overall.)
Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
On top of this, those with dark personality traits don’t have much luck outside of work. Even if they manage to avoid prison (imprisonment being a high possibility for those with extreme traits), they are at increased risk of suicide and violent death. They are also not particularly happy: people with dark traits tend to report poor self-image, an inability to intimately connect with others, and little life satisfaction.
Ethical Programming – Is It Worth It? (Via lobste.rs.)
I’m not trying to scare you or anything, but did you know that Volkswagen’s engineer got sentenced to more than three years in prison for being involved in a scheme that allowed VW to sell diesel cars that generated more pollution than it was allowed? You can read all about it here. You decide if it was worth it for that guy.
Liz Phair’s Memoir, Horror Stories, Is a Poetic Ode to a Messy Life.
The blunt, incisive voice that made her a movement of one when she emerged in 1993, with Exile in Guyville, wasn’t just a middle finger to literal and figurative boys clubs—it was a grounding force for young women, both at the time and now.
Witley Wonder Underwater Ballroom.
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Optimizing things in the USSR.
Perhaps things would have been better if the optimal planners got their way, but it seems like the consensus is that their plans would have failed even if they were implemented.
Relevant:
- In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
- Red Plenty
- Comments at lobste.rs
(…) the modern internet: a small number of global players controlling the core, and a ragtag assortment of startups wondering whether to give their seed money to Microsoft, Google, or Amazon in exchange for a seat at the table. The network is the computer, and the computer has five access terminals.