This was on a poster in my 8th grade English teacher’s class:

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not know and does not ask remains a fool forever.”

Becoming proficient enough in my professional life such that I no longer felt anxiety about admitting what I did not know through asking questions was a massive achievement. Fortunately, I learned that lesson well and started applying it everywhere, not just in my work.

This is brilliant satire. Wonderful response to the “rewrite” of chardet.

^ For those who haven’t been keeping up on the debacle.

I would guess conditions. Not certain.

> So if I'm locked out of my 365 sysadmin user by this, what then?

I'm sure they have TOS that indemnify them, but I'd sure like to see a similarly-sized company sue them for resulting downtime.

Something I heard from someone who worked at the Palo Alto Apple Store two decades ago:

Steve Jobs's kids drew on an eMac with markers or something. He made them make an appoint for the store's Genius Bar and wait in line to have it looked at like everyone else. I don't know anything about how the staff tried to clean it or the outcome.