Don’t worry, Google will cancel the service at some point. Just have your marketing campaign and onboarding process ready for those fleeing the sunset Google product

Yea and you can look up the manufacturer on openfda api

I forget exactly what the DEA agent was saying, I think I recall him saying that he wasn’t detaining the citizen, who was free to leave, but the bag was detained. Seemed like bullshit from a 95 IQ glorified cop.

Actually a great side hustle for similarly situated employees who don’t mind fucking over other humans. I wonder how common it is? Big enough where people with these jobs discuss it in a forum on the net somewhere?

There are likely hundreds of employees with access to this information within the company, and thousands of third party employees.

I work as an analyst for a marketing company that fulfills gift/award points/miles for people who have opted into the loyalty programs for all the major airlines, hotel chains, fuel reward affiliates. We have data granular to the minute in a continuous feed.

I can only imagine that there are numerous opportunities for exfiltration along this chain. Personally, I make enough to never consider breaching protocol, but there are a dozen contacts in my sphere that are temps or contractors that deliver the data to us, I could imagine that the DEA offering double or more than their base salary with little danger of discovery would be tempting.

*I think that by becoming an informant you would be dissuaded from public discourse or lose your anonymity, so there’s probably aren’t any serious forums dedicated to the practice.

Is it more likely to happen as manager or dev? I suppose that is the important question, to which I don’t know the answer

From my experience it's manager and not close. Good devs are hard to find, especially devs who have built some stuff and can make fixes in 5 minutes that might take another dev a week to get up to speed.

You could do 15 mph in 2nd gear, that would solve the issue for all and you’d be less likely to maim or kill a pedestrian, which is nice

Symfony? Or is this a case where Laravel has actually built out their own packages for support in these two instances?

That was my first thought as well, I have never been annoyed with the explicit parens when instantiating and using a class inline

I had similar thoughts, but do appreciate the additional mb_ functions bringing multi byte support to some remaining functions.

Also people should be coding defensively with things like “if not defined” when implementing their own global helper functions (or avoid doing that at all)

"if not defined" doesn't help, if your own `array_find` doesn't have the same signature and semantics than the new global then you're screwed. You'd want the opposite: overwrite it if it already exists in the global scope (dunno if that's easy / how that'd work in PHP)

You can't redefine functions in PHP.

There are extensions which allow you to redefine even constants.

> `array_find` doesn't have the same signature and semantics than the new global then you're screwed

Screwed? Just rename or move the function to a namespace in an IDE and it will update all your references?

the answer is using a namespace

Tasers fail frequently and knives are extremely deadly within a certain range. Yours is a very unconsidered opinion; not really helpful to this debate.

Guns also fail frequently, in ways that are much deadlier to innocent and unprepared bystanders, as seen in the article. Perhaps tasers per se are not the answer, but there most certainly needs to be a range of nonlethal interventions available to police officers. The current system appears to be "turn up and make a snap decision who to murder to make the problem stop", which is - dare I say - a bad system. It is not even unreasonable to argue against giving government officials the power to simply end people on a whim at all.

I don’t necessarily disagree overall, but what does that have to do with the point about knives being very dangerous in close quarters, and tasers being a very poor/risky choice to try to stop someone trying to harm you/another with a knife? That’s what I was commenting on…