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by jfengel 8mo ago
When I say "we" I mean about 1/3 of us who voted for this, and about 1/3 who decided that either way was good for them. That includes a bunch of people who are diametrically opposed but for whom the main alternative wasn
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by jfengel 8mo ago
They do indeed have eyes. This is what they voted for and they are getting what they want. Honestly, as little respect as I have for them, I have even less for those who used to support him and no longer do. They had bad judgement then and
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by jfengel 8mo ago
We elected them. A lot of us are vociferously defending them. What does that say about us?
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I suspect that was deliberate. DoW is the preferred nomenclature but DoD is still technically correct. The article is phrased in a way to imply that the author would rather the publication maintain independence. It is probably the last time
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Maybe. But the Iran conflict also ties in with the Ukraine war, which is an assertion of Russian power into that US-Europe/China duopoly. And it's happening at the same time as the former alliance is breaking. It's possible
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by jfengel 8mo ago
They've switched to "A Democrat told me to shut up once so free speech is over."
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The fundraising never stops, not even for lame ducks, because the money can always be delivered into related war chests. But here it is going directly to the President's pockets. That has never happened before.
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The other world wars started as conflicts between two countries that expanded to take in their allies. Right now the West is desperately trying to walk a line of supplying Ukraine with money, weapons, and intelligence, but scrupulously avoi
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It means that it shares some, but not all, aspects of a social relationship. It's often applied to one-sided relationships with celebrities, where you feel a personal connection to them but they literally don't know you exist.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
I wish I understood screen readers. Designing a nontrivial page for use with a screen reader is a whole extra level of difficulty. I have no real experience with screen readers and each of the built-in ones that I've tried isn't i
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Aggravatingly, some of it is. The organic food regulations are impossible for the small farmers who invented the idea. Only mega corps can do it, and their definition is not much better (if at all) than industrial farms. It's still way
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Practically every law, and lobbying organization, is named for exactly the opposite of what it does. If I see the Puppies and Orphans Protection Act of 2028, I assume its purpose is to use puppies to strangle orphans. Proponents will point
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by jfengel 8mo ago
He's not exactly in their camp. I hate to invoke Hanlon's Razor because a lot of what he does is malice rather than stupidity, but on Russia he has been inconsistent in a way that doesn't suggest that he's just following
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It's not a DSL. It's a generic lexer and parser. It takes the text and gives you an abstract syntax tree. The actual DSL is your spec, and the syntax you apply. It's one of many equivalent such parser tools, a particularly ve
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Effectively, it's a continuation of the Gaza and Ukraine wars. Israel and Iran have been fighting for years, with Iran generally using various intermediaries. The October 7 attacks were orchestrated and funded by Iran. Having spent sev
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by jfengel 8mo ago
Sort of by choice. Often, the municipality won't let you build a movie theater unless you pinky-promise to abide by the rating system. They rarely enforce it, but if it gets out of hand, the city will start getting on your case about i
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by jfengel 8mo ago
> Short of video evidence of blatant gun to the back of the head style homicide qualified immunity means most law enforcement officials are never held accountable for their miscarriages of justice. And frequently not even then.
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by jfengel 8mo ago
You are exactly correct. Cops cannot be trusted. We spent a lot of time pointing that out in 2020. AI is the least of our problems with policing. Unfortunately, a lot of people are certain it won't happen to them, and it has been pract
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by jfengel 8mo ago
"Somebody said something dumb and I'm going to say something dumb in return."
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That's true, but it does seem like a time for Democrats to be screaming at the top of their lungs. It wouldn't accomplish anything, but they do have an election coming up, and I'd imagine that "We're going to stop t
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That's exactly what we are doing, releasing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The fact that it's both a record release and still not sufficient suggests they underestimated how bad it would be. But the US did prepare for this event
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Practically all of them, at least in recent years. Somebody attends the ceremony: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/ It was more like the Golden Raspberries in the early years. Every prize in the first ceremony wa
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by jfengel 8mo ago
It's both. The Republican party (like all parties) is made up of groups that barely tolerate each other. In this case, you have a bunch of Evangelical theocrats and a bunch of atheist technocrats. They tolerate each other because they
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by jfengel 8mo ago
"Signals" are rubbish. The market is irrational and will change its mind at random. This is, however, one of many indicators of an overall wobbling system. It would be a good time, not make the line go up, but to look for ways to
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For many tasks, being able to turn it over to an LLM means nobody really wanted the task done in the first place. We should definitely seek ways to turn things over to AI. Then turn the AI off, and figure out what actually needed to be done
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I don't think it can be figured out. Every democratic country has political parties.
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It's in the caption but there's no indication of how they fit into the story. If this is a recounting of the facts of the matter, I'd expect LIRR to say "there is no suggestion that we were involved at all".
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Deadlock would be fine if the other two branches weren't running amuck.
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The US Senate is designed to check and balance the House of Representatives. But that often puts the Congress as a whole in deadlock, meaning it can no longer balance the other two branches. When they could get anything done they delegated
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So that's what counts as good legal writing, huh? I see a lot of extraneous detail (e.g. "bound for another place", "a package of small size, about fifteen inches long, and was covered by a newspaper"). The sentence

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