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Gripes With Go
You’ve read a lot of posts about the shortcomings of the Go programming language, so what’s one more. Lack of sum types Type assertions Date and Time Statements over Expressions Erroring out on unused variables Error handling Lack of Sum types A “Sum” ty…
via nerdypepper's μblog on Aug 01, 2020
Propaganda, harder than it looks
A poor effort at “black propaganda” The success or failure of black propaganda depends on the receiver’s willingness to accept the credibility of the source and the content of the message. Care has to be taken to place the sources and messages within a soc…
via grugq’s domain on Jul 17, 2020
WHO Director-General Attacked on Twitter with CCP-Related Memes
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), tweets daily out of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. But within minutes of many of his tweets going live, he is flooded with personal attacks, memes, and slurs…
via bellingcat on Aug 21, 2020