jfengel

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by jfengel 7mo ago
I occasionally run into problems with JS weird parsing rules. My favorite is: return x Which does not return. It returns undefined. Typescript helps a lot with that. A linter will probably flag it as well. Still, JS went w
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Toyota pioneered hybrids, but they remain committed to the idea that a fossil fuel component is necessary. They continue to push for hydrogen, which is generated primarily from natural gas. With a hand-wave that maybe it'll be renewabl
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by jfengel 7mo ago
It's a good illustration of why solving climate change isn't just a matter of individual actions. We need to reconsider the whole infrastructure, and you can't do that from the bottom up.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
On a nice day it's fantastic to be out, but Paris can be cold and rainy. They really need to have a plan for those days, too. Paris Metro is pretty nice, and reaches most of the car free area. But I'm not sure if it can handle all
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by jfengel 8mo ago
We are absolutely not doing our best to resist him. Half of us are gung-ho for him. The other half are not turning out in the streets, or seizing control of the microphones in Congress, or having a general strike. We don't do that be
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It's not a war even if Congress approves it. It's still just "an exercise of the War Powers Act", which is not technically the same thing. To actually be a war Congress has to declare war. But they passed the War Powers
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Well... we allow other people to pay for oil from our enemy. Then they don't need to buy oil from the same places we buy oil from, so the price goes down. That doesn't make it any less weird that we're letting up pressure wit
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by jfengel 8mo ago
You're talking about a country that has "In God We Trust" on its currency and compels all of its students to reference God in its daily Indoctrination Oath. These have been upheld by the Supreme Court. That aspect of the Firs
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by jfengel 8mo ago
In the United States, a significant portion of the population is all for that "backsliding". This isn't something imposed by an unconstitutional autocracy. This was something we voted for. There is an election coming up, and
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Metaverse, we hardly knew ye. Actually, we didn't know ye at all. Did anybody actually see anything?
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by jfengel 8mo ago
And maintain them, which I suspect costs even more. Parking meters do fiddly work, out in all weather, where people hate them and do all kinds of vandalism. It doesn't surprise me that they want to make hardware maintenance your proble
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I'm skeptical, but I'd try it.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It sounds like a bit more than a rubber-stamp. The organization lost its affiliation with a larger group, but many campus organizations don't have such affiliations. The UF College Republicans could have continued on, perhaps with a ch
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by jfengel 8mo ago
There are indeed many, many lies, but the Iranian government confirmed these deaths. The BBC is a reasonably reliable source, and if they didn't have confirmation, they'd have written the headline as "Israel claims..." I
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Our neighbors are exactly the ones to blame. Putin didn't elect him. Our neighbors did -- almost 80 million of them, and tens of millions more who decided that either choice was fine with them. The ones who voted for him are not call
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The late actor will play Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest. So... they can digitally generate anything they can imagine, and they chose to generate a pasty white guy. I don't doubt Kilmer's devoti
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by jfengel 8mo ago
No malicious content. You are responsible for what you submit. Thanks for including that.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The Constitution guarantees the right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects". Which means what the Supreme Court says that it means. It's easy to imagine that it means something akin to what people mean
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by jfengel 8mo ago
That it's the only type of justice you can ever hope to get in the US, if any at all?
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Yes. That is why Biden dropped out. But the unprincipled are talking as if he was the candidate in 2024.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The people who said that are still saying it. Few minds appear to have really changed. Everyone just believes the same positions, harder.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
This administration has also expressed an interest in using that information to persecute citizens. Every administration needs to deal with the conflict of protection versus privacy. They all do things that privacy advocates wish they didn&
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The grant was for $349,000. There's an old joke about a billion here and a billion there, but this is 0.00035 billion. DOGE asserted it would save $2 trillion. Their own web site claims about 10% of that, and that number is likely exag
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Good on them, but the letter that they're replying to clearly spells out the consequences. NAS and NSF rely on federal grants and contracts. I don't know how much of their budget that is, but it will definitely impair their abilit
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by jfengel 8mo ago
That's too bad. I don't expect fake-meats to be healthy, or cheap, but I like that they can be made without killing animals and without raising them in inhumane conditions. I had really hoped that people would say, "Well, if
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Just up the road in Laurel, tickets are $17 apiece, for the really nice reclining seats. I haven't priced the popcorn or drinks, but I don't think they'd add on another $50.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
That's not limited to "great military leaders". Even ordinary military leaders do not commit war crimes aloud, on their own web sites. And trying to avoid complicity via "I'm not a criminal, I am merely ignorant of
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by jfengel 8mo ago
The term "parasocial relationship" is usually reserved for actual people. You could stretch it to include fictional characters, but it misses out on some of the reasons we coined the term. For example, you can't stalk Harry P
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by jfengel 8mo ago
If the machine can predict your writing, then so can the reader. Which means the reader is getting bored. Take the Google Docs suggestion as a sign that you shouldn't be writing that sentence at all. Back off, and find a way to tell th
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by jfengel 8mo ago
There's nothing wrong with Last Thursdayism. It's unfalsifiable. You're welcome to hold it. Most people find that it's more complicated to work with, since it requires a vastly more complicated set of initial conditions.

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