> I can backlog it as a bug, but it's not going to be easily searchable.
In my experience, I've marked it as a bug, comment with the stack trace and mark as U. Then when it arises again, hopefully someone searches for a part of the stack and comes lucky or more often than not, I (or others) will hear of the crash and relay the bug info. Bug is updated with any new info and live continues until it crashes again... Not perfect by any means. I'd love to hear how others deal with this
I’ve also: Added more logging code for future cases, and or try to reason about how it could have occurred. Try to make it impossible if you can, but sometimes that requires too big of a rearchitecture to be worth it.
> I don't know where to start, consider me triggered ;-)
Ha! You and me both. As an Irish lad in the UK, one of the funniest things I still encounter is republicans (British ones!) who hold him up as a hero. You really have to wonder at times.
I used to be of that mindset (re: become a republic) but tbh I'm more of the line of thinking, if it ain't broke... With the parliamentary style of government, you need a figurehead. So you'd have to tear up a whole host of UK conventions going back centuries and re-jig everything, just so someone else gets the ceremonial role?
Much as some might like a complete re-write, I say expand the unit tests around it if minor bugs arise ( e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15492607 ) and let the system run unless a major blocker comes up ;)
Yeah, I am Irish and I think that patriotism is a disease.
But even so, historical figures who have reputations for ethnic cleansing and genocide [1] should not be forgotten OR forgiven.
This is an article about Oliver Cromwell, where the author completely brushes off the atrocities he committed in Ireland.
You are correct that as well as all the murder and disenfranchisement and land confiscation, it was only indentured servitude (in Caribbean plantations, where the servants often died before their term of servitude was complete) and not chattel slavery.
But that's not really enough to accuse people of being racist assholes.
Racist? Toward whom, Irish? I'm sorry, not from the anglosaxon world, I know britain put Ireland under the boot centuries ago, but is calling all of that's effects a form of enslavement deragotary toward Irish?
There's a frequent claim, especially amongst the American far-right, that chattel slavery of Irish people was a common thing (it wasn't, outside isolated cases, generally of non-white Irish people eg https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/an-irish-slave-in-antigua-7...), and that this somehow shows that slavery isn't a factor in the modern socioeconomic condition of black people in the US (because Irish people in the US had better socioeconomic outcomes).
In reality, indentured servitude of Irish people (and English people) was common in the early colonisation of America. This would be considered _modern_ slavery, colloquially (the term slavery is in a modern context used for all unfree labour), but it wasn't _chattel_ slavery, and was pretty dramatically different from chattel slavery. In addition, most Irish people immigrated to the America in the 19th century as free immigrants.
The Irish slavery myth isn't inherently racist (though it is inherently ahistorical), but it is often used as a racist talking point.
By the way, it's worth noting that claims of widespread Irish chattel slavery are almost exclusively an American thing. Here in Ireland history classes etc give a more accurate impression of it. Cromwell engaged in in forced population displacement and unfree labour in Ireland (and there's certainly a case that he engaged in genocide), but not chattel slavery. Think more Stalin than Caesar.
Thanks. So it's a term that's taken its own life in US, and is not itself offensive, but labels the user as a member of one faction in the current US culture wars.
Even if one was speaking only about Irish history without any link to US.
> If you believe nobody credible opposes the UK government, you've been fed a narrative.
That's a complete strawman. You gave a letter signed by a massively padded out list of "academics" (probably intended to scare your average layman) and when pointed out that astronomers and students probably don't have much to offer right now
I bought a lot of canned and long lived foods (ones I'd buy anyways), toilet paper, tissues and medicines. Can't get hand sanitiser in any supermarkets since last Friday.
I wouldn't work for a company involved in the deliberate taking of human life.
There's a lot of big gambling companies near me that have me conflicted. I enjoy a flutter and all, but you hear of some people and how they're addicted to it. I dunno, I just stay clear. There's other jobs out there
Well depends on the country more than company, doesn't it? I have 34 days PTO this year, which is not out of the norm for my peers and broadly in line with previous employers.
> I can backlog it as a bug, but it's not going to be easily searchable.
In my experience, I've marked it as a bug, comment with the stack trace and mark as U. Then when it arises again, hopefully someone searches for a part of the stack and comes lucky or more often than not, I (or others) will hear of the crash and relay the bug info. Bug is updated with any new info and live continues until it crashes again... Not perfect by any means. I'd love to hear how others deal with this