chaps

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   by chaps 9mo ago

   Yeah, my experiences match yours and I very, very much work with messy data (FOIA data), though I use postgres instead of duckdb. Most of the datasets I work with are indeed <10GB but the ones that are much larger follow the same ETL and
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   by chaps 9mo ago

   > Another quick aside since I suspect this is a second point of confusion, "lethal force" does not mean "with the intent to kill", it means "force that is likely to cause severe injury or death". It.. is not
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   by chaps 9mo ago

   > That doesn't mean she deserves it, but that she was doing something stupid without realizing just how stupid it was Am I right to say that your argument can be summarized as, "She didn't deserve it, but her actions were
4. 244.▲
   by chaps 9mo ago

   Please understand where I'm coming from: My mom's dad was shot and killed by police. Absolutely nobody in my family knows anything about it, but the default is "he was a bad person and deserved it" or, "he probably
5. 245.▲
   by chaps 9mo ago

   I'm sorry that you think she deserved death.
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   by chaps 9mo ago

   I'm not understanding your point either, so here's how I'm interpreting what you're saying, in good faith: "she was in the way, so it was worth shooting her. fullstop". So I'm struggling to understand why
7. 247.▲
   by chaps 9mo ago

   I'm not attempting to dispute whether or not she was obstructing.
8. 248.▲
   by chaps 9mo ago

   It's as if you're trying to find every excuse to just not research on your own; instead you expect everyone to feed you information Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1q9tg16/updated_11
9. 249.▲
   by chaps 9mo ago

   Serious question: have you tried looking?!
10. 250.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    This is a topic that interests me deeply! But dang this article needs some supporting documents/visualizations to get its point across better.
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    Ah, apologies. Happy friday.
12. 252.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    (this is not the same thing...)
13. 253.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    Masochism, or something like that :) But more honestly, it comes from reflecting about the ways that knowledge gaps affect FOIA litigation/conversation/interpretation and the criminal litigation reporting/research/invest
14. 254.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    Agreed. I'm currently looking to get a law degree and the education requirements are... silly. I've done a significant amount of law-and-law-accessories work over the past ten years and have had a nice career in sysadmin/sre&
15. 255.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    I'm aware. But I'm also aware that breaking these sorts of systems is quite fun for a lot of nerds. So don't expect anything like that to last for any meaningful amount of time.
16. 256.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    This wouldn't solve anything. To see what I mean, take a screenshot of a random captcha that needs solving and ask an LLM to solve it for you. It will do it accurately.
17. 257.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    Sure, just be careful not to fall into the trap of technosolutionism.
18. 258.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    ....cameras exist :)
19. 259.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    "They" already know about google location services. But this article isn't about what google collects.
20. 260.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    "The only valid point:" This is a post about preferences . Why do you think your preferences are "more valid" than theirs?
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    I program without syntax highlighting. Comes from a combination of learning shell scripts within vi (not vim) and the bloatedness of syntax highlighting and autocomplete nonsense. Coding without it all is a nice way to ensure that everythin
22. 262.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    My point is that -- the criminal case exists. Please try out court watching!
23. 263.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    The human should be left in the loop, full stop. Language is hard and court rooms can be chaotic places and you want the transcript to be clean. (disability accomodations is a different conversation altogether)
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    Friend, I highly highly recommend you do some court watching. The courts.. really, really, really do not work that way.
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    You seem to have faith in the courts still. It was not a bribe. Here's a short exchange between me and the court reporter who did indeed sent me the transcripts after payment: "Out of curiosity, is it normal to pay court repor
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    Nice, thank you. It's really appreciated. For Chicagoland: Lucy Parsons Labs: https://www.lucyparsonslabs.com/donate Chicago Appleseed: https://www.chicagoappleseed.org/ways-to-give/ Invisible Ins
27. 267.▲
    by chaps 9mo ago

    Yes and yes. I'm sure there's historical or possibly ethical reasons for it being this way, but I don't understand why it's not the clerk of court's job. Something to figure out!
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    Great recs. Reclaim the Records and I do a loooot of the same work but it's separate enough that we don't really interact much. But I'm a big, big fan of their work and have had a couple light chats with the founder a couple
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    I do a lot of IL criminal courts research and it's really, really fucking bad out there. Transcripts: Multiple dollars per pages. Want that expedited? Multiply that amount by four. Don't know the court date? Can't get your tr
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    by chaps 9mo ago

    Broke this one in a motorcycle accident and I'm really, really not looking forward to the late life implications of it.