Welp, there you go, nothing to see, it’s been thoroughly investigated and taken very seriously.
SAPD investigators handle these allegations very seriously and have thoroughly reviewed all available information
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Pretty soon, the only “real” hate crimes that LEOs take seriously will be against white, straight, Christians…
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- Against white, straight, Christians
- Against LEOs
- Anything (depending on who did it, or who it’s against) that can be labeled as “anti-Semitic” (but only because it’s politically convenient and doesn’t really matter whether or not it’s actually anti-Semitic or even a crime.)
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In reality, they’ll be going after anti-zionist as being the only form of antisemitism. Actual antisemitism (holocaust denial, conspiracy theories about Jewish people, that the Jews killed Jesus, wanting all Jews to be in Israel in order for Jesus to come back and kill all of them who don’t convert under duress, etc), will be ignored…
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I always remember him immortalized by this Susan Ware portrait.
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https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They devised a form that each engineer was required to submit every Friday, which included a field for the number of lines of code that were written that week.
Bill Atkinson, the author of Quickdraw and the main user interface designer, who was by far the most important Lisa implementer, thought that lines of code was a silly measure of software productivity. He thought his goal was to write as small and fast a program as possible, and that the lines of code metric only encouraged writing sloppy, bloated, broken code.
He recently was working on optimizing Quickdraw’s region calculation machinery, and had completely rewritten the region engine using a simpler, more general algorithm which, after some tweaking, made region operations almost six times faster. As a by-product, the rewrite also saved around 2,000 lines of code.
He was just putting the finishing touches on the optimization when it was time to fill out the management form for the first time. When he got to the lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000.
I’m not sure how the managers reacted to that, but I do know that after a couple more weeks, they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form, and he gladly complied.
There’s plenty more Bill Atkinson stories on folklore.org
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“One of the best”: Ukrainian drone operator Kateryna “Meow” Troian killed in action
(Ukrainska Pravda)
©Kateryna completed over a thousand successful drone sorties. Photo: Sashko Shershun© Ukrainska Pravda
Kateryna “Meow” Troian, a first-person view drone operator with the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade, has been killed in action on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk Oblast.
Source: Olena Kondratiuk, Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament
Details: Kateryna joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces less than two years ago and carried out missions in the operational zone in Russia’s Kursk Oblast and in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. During her service, Meow completed over a thousand successful drone sorties.
Kondratiuk said that she and Ambassador Valerii Zaluzhnyi had shared Kateryna’s story with members of the UK Parliament just a week earlier, during the opening of the photo exhibition Women Defending Ukraine.
Kateryna was killed on the Pokrovsk front at the age of 32.
Her brother-in-arms, Sashko Shershun, expressed his condolences and shared memories of her.
Quote from Saskho: "There are fewer and fewer truly great people… We never saw you give up. You were never afraid to ask questions and you were always ready to learn, teach and help.
You endured guided bomb attacks, artillery and mortar barrages and enemy FPV drone strikes with us. You were one of the best in your element."
More details: Another comrade, Valentyn Dembitskyi, called Kateryna “both a brave person and a skilled warrior” with whom he had withstood numerous Russian attacks and completed many complex missions.
“Meow came to war to become a true expert,” he said. "We will remember her as a teammate who genuinely cared – the most important quality.
“She came to war as an equal,” he added. “We knew her as a person with an open heart and no arrogance. She was always ready to help and never hesitated to ask for help herself.”
Kateryna’s friends have launched a fundraiser to support her family.
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Fair warning: if you go to folklore.org, prepare to spend a lot of time there. It is one of those rare sites I can spend hours on without even realizing it.
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I love the story of Steve Jobs taking Atkinson on a walk to show him the importance of rounded rectangles. It’s absurd interactions like that that made the Macintosh great.
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I came to post about the same. For me Atkinson, Kare and Hertfeld were more creators of the Macintosh than Jobs would ever be. This trio collaborated to create the look and feel we associate with the classic apple era.
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