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Error'd: Clever domain name here

1 month 2 weeks ago

An anonymous cable-puller wrote "Reading a long specification manual. The words "shall" and "shall not" have specific meaning, and throughout the document are in bold italic. Looks like someone got a bit shall-ow with their search-and-replace skills."

 

Picki jeffphi attends to details. "Apparently this recruiter doesn't have a goal or metric around proper brace selection and matching." You're hired.

 

UGG.LI admins highlighted "even KFC hat Breakpoints deployed in Prod now ..." I wanted to say something funny about Herren Admins' Handle but reminded myself of John Scalzi's quote about the failure case of smartass so I refrained. You might be funnier than I.

 

Smarter still, Steve says "A big company like Google surely has a huge QA staff and AI bots to make sure embarrassing typos don't slip through, right? You wouldn't want to damage you reputation..."

 

I'll bet Pascal didn't expect this, eh? "Delivered, but On the way, Searching for a driver, but Asdrubal"

 

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Lyle Seaman

Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

1 month 2 weeks ago
Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

On Call Y2k  Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Simon Sharwood

EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water

1 month 2 weeks ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Responding to public health concerns about microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's drinking water, the Trump administration for the first time has placed them on a draft list of contaminants maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA announced the move Thursday, touting it as a "historic step" for the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement, which often raises concerns about toxic chemicals and plastic pollution in our food and environment. Also Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a $144 million initiative, called STOMP, to develop tools to measure and monitor microplastics in drinking water and in a later stage, to remove them. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to publish an updated version of its Contaminant Candidate List every five years. This is the sixth iteration of the list. Microplastics and pharmaceuticals appear in the draft of the upcoming list, alongside per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and dozens of other chemicals and microbes. Their inclusion on the list gives local regulators a tool to evaluate risks in their water supply, the EPA says, and it can set the stage for more research and regulatory action -- but doesn't actually guarantee that will happen.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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