Akshully, I think you need to read the case law, Marbury v. Madison, on that one, and not just the Constitution.

The way this works on Windows is as follows:

The operating system has a subsystem called “messages” to tell applications about things such as mouse clicks. Every time you click on the application, the OS drops a message* in the app’s queue. When the app is ready it reads the messages off the queue and decides what to do.

Windows can’t really tell what your application is doing, but it can see whether or not the app is reading the messages or just letting them pile up. So if no messages are pulled for 5 seconds, Windows throws up the “not responding” screen. The rest of the 316 clicks are just stuffing the message mailbox to the brim.

Linux is mostly very similar, except the UI stuff is not a part of the core OS, and there are several different systems.

• On Windows a mouse click is actually two messages: “button pressed” followed by “button released”.

I do like me some salami on toast.

They broke multiple with the very first email…

Can you cite any specific statutes or CFRs?

I’m not aware of anything that specifically prevents OPM from lying to the federal civil service (about the terms of a buyout offer) in an email. Or from making empty threats about “consequences” in ten days or whatever.

As far as I know, the President is legally entitled to control OPM pretty unilaterally. Like OMB.

A lot of hoopla has been made about Musk and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. But I’m not aware of anything that has been definitely illegal so far. (Unless he starts messing with legally mandated payments. BFS is basically just a fancy check printing house. All of the important fiscal decisions are supposed to be made in other government departments, offices, and Congressional appropriations.)

The only things I know about that are probably squarely illegal are the IG firings, and the EOs that are already in litigation. In the case of the IGs, I’m not sure if there any kind of substantial enforcement mechanism.

Medical device programmers:

I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn’t changed there

In a counterfactual hypothetical, if the Mexican armed forces, or an organized cartel paramilitary with command structure and uniforms, were massing near the border in preparation for a real honest to God invasion, then active duty could be warranted.

Chromosomes are either xy or xx from conception

(Don’t tell anyone about the other combinations.)

He can’t quite get that arm up real good, can he.

Also, on Gentoo Linux, there will be an ebuild that integrates all of the cmake options into the rest of the packaging system and manage the dependencies

I preferred the Facebook group “If 2,147,483,648 people join this group, then an integer overflow may occur” back in the day.

The state capital on the cover was not in area code 318 or the listed coverage area of this directory.

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford survives a nuclear test by hiding in a refrigerator.

Since DNS is hierarchical, it could be set up so that they both work.

Backpage moderated some posts, sure. But what was the role of Salesforce here besides supplying a software package?

The problem is that it is still relatively rare for someone to have the patience and attention to detail to be able to tell the computer exactly what they want from it. The fraction of people that have that kind of natural ability hasn’t changed that much, and it’s not really something you can train.

So while the schools are pumping out more grads, the average quality of those entry level junior engineers is going down, down, down.

This heartens me that there will still be a place those who can produce quality software. But the current situation is not going to do any favours for average software quality any time soon.

Edit: I want to clarify something. I think anyone can be trained to write computer programs. The natural ability I’m talking about is actually the ability to tolerate programming day in and day out, as an occupation.

Patent infringement, yes. But there’s also a gazillion quality control rules and forms and FDA submissions to manufacture drugs licitly. We know Walter White can control the quality, but does he have the patience to file the paperwork?

I agree. If the republican party controls the white house and both chambers of Congress, they don’t need to negotiate with democrats to pass a budget. So there’s absolutely no reason to have a government shutdown. Unless you like stiffing government employees, I guess.

Trying to stay out of the camps.

Better Zemenhof than ex-optometrist Bashar Al-Assad.