Hyrum’s Law applies, even when you take into account Hyrum’s Law. :)

A story about a Golang program that had assumed map iteration was uniformly random but it’s not, which caused a load balancer to assign work unevenly:

https://dev.to/wallyqs/gos-map-iteration-order-is-not-that-r...

A graph of the map iteration order’s distribution showing that it’s not uniformly random:

https://twitter.com/cafxx/status/1135190309514620928

Here's a fun game. The backstory: your friend has started vim because of some unfortunate environment variable settings, has typed some keystrokes and now needs your help to exit vim.

Player A suggests a sequence of keystrokes that supposedly works.

Player B explains why that sequence doesn't work. For example, if A says "esc colon q ! enter", B can counter with "your friend was in insert mode and had pressed ^V".

I thought the shortest winning sequence had seven keystrokes but it turns out it wasn't enough.

Collective behavior in response to COVID was a life transfer from the youth to the elderly.

I do not acknowledge the authority of the legal system of the United States of America over my own beliefs and statements. However, if I did, I'd just call to your attention the fact he was sentenced partly based on this the transgression I named, even if he was not charged with it. That would be enough for me to drop the "alleged" verbiage, were I inclined to put it there in the first place.