Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

mkwt

@ mkwt @lemmy.world

Posts
2
Comments
459
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Paxton calls Jett ‘Karen’ following Senate drinking allegations

    Jump

  • For reference, Oklahoma has quite a history with alcohol prohibition. The state retained full prohibition until 1959, some 20 years after the 21st amendment and repeal of the Volstead Act.

    Liquor by the drink, aka bars, were not legalized until 1984. Before then you had to pay a membership fee to join a "private club" where you could then have a bartender pour you shots out of "your" personal bottle that was kept behind the bar.

    Oklahoma had 3.2 beer until 2018 when it was repealed by state referendum.

  • ed posting

    Jump

  • Not even. ed is The Standard Editor.

  • Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training

    Jump

  • this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,

    That's, uh, not why DoD occasionally sends officers to Harvard and other elite universities. DoD does this because they want some of their officers to have high quality advanced degrees.

  • “This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

    Jump

  • The long term problem is that lawyers are often not stupid, and they can see that working for this DOJ will have deleterious effects on their future careers when this stuff is over. I've heard that the Minneapolis office is down to 9 attorneys, and should be staffed for 50.

    But the immediate problem here dates back to Rumsfeld v. Padilla*. In that case, the supreme court decided that habeas petitions must be filed in the district of actual, physical confinement. This created a race condition, where ICE is trying to get these people out of Minnesota as fast as possible, and these people's lawyers are trying to file the lawsuits in Minnesota before their clients physically leave the state. ICE would prefer for these petitions to be filed in Texas, because the Texas district courts are a lot more favorable to them. The Minnesota lawyers don't want to have to file in Texas, both because it's a disadvantage to them, and because they aren't admitted to practice in Texas, and it's a big hassle to work around that.

    Combine that with Trump v. CASA, and no one wants to try a habeas class action. So you have a crap ton of individualized habeas petitions, all over the same issue, which is ICE's incorrect interpretation of federal immigration law. And in many, many of these cases, they properly got filed in Minnesota, but the prisoners got shipped to Texas anyway. The Minnesota judges are figuring out that all these cases are the same, and they're making the decisions real fast now, and ICE is not keeping up, by design. It's a total logistical cluster.

    *Yes, it's that Donald Rumsfeld, and that Jose Padilla, the dirty bomb guy.

  • OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics' Houses With Threats and Demands

    Jump

  • “It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you,”

    That's how "service of process" works. "Process server" is an entire career for people who figure out how to deliver legal documents to people personally.

  • Judge quotes Bible and Thomas Jefferson as he orders release of 5-year-old and father detained by ICE

    Jump

  • No. I am suggesting that these times are abnormal.

  • Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans

    Jump

  • Rehmet won by around 10 points too, which puts the total swing around +30. If that kind of swing holds up in the rest of the state, it would completely blow up the Texas gerrymander. Remember, gerrymanders turn a lot of very safe districts into only moderately safe districts.

  • Judge quotes Bible and Thomas Jefferson as he orders release of 5-year-old and father detained by ICE

    Jump

  • This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:

  • TIL Apollo astronaunts had to use a fecal bag, leave it open, massage in a bacterocide before discarding.

    Jump

  • Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.

  • Army vet detained by ICE for 8 hours says he wasn't allowed to call an attorney

    Jump

  • Obviously, this is why you should keep your habeas attorney on retainer at all times. (/s)

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • If that's a Tomcat, where's that lizard's RIO?

  • Oklahoma lawmaker proposes blood bank for vaccine-free blood • Oklahoma Voice

    Jump

  • They're all hat and no cattle.

  • Yarr!

    Jump

  • Is that one of those early white external tanks?

  • Removed

    The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal | Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

    Jump

  • The active duty marines did actually detain a civilian Angeleno before that situation was shut down.

    Edit: Part of the legal difficulty is that Posse Comitatus Act violations are written up as crimes in the statute. It's not clear that someone could actually sue to enforce with a civil lawsuit. And good luck getting DOJ to file charges on that.

  • Department of Justice investigating Gov. Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey, U.S. officials say

    Jump

  • They're doing this because success would set up factual predicates to support invoking the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act is invokable when state governments are actively disobeying federal law.

    They're not invoking the Insurrection Act right at this moment, because with the facts they have right now, they're not confident they'll win the case in court. (And they may also lose a voting majority in Congress on the matter.)

  • Closing programs

    Jump

  • Windows does, in fact, have signals. They're just not all the same as Unix signals, and the behavior is different. Here's a write-up.

    You're correct there is no "please terminate but you don't have to" signal in Windows. Windowless processes sometimes make up their own nonstandard events to implement the functionality. As you mentioned, windowed processes have WM_CLOSE.

    Memory access violations (akin to SIGSEGV), and other system exceptions can be handled through Structured Exception Handling.

  • What the FVCK is calculus?

    Jump

  • millia pasuum, literally "1,000 paces," was a common unit of measure in the empire, and the basis of various modern miles. It was slightly shorter than the modern statute mile.

  • What's a standalone movie that deserves a good sequel?

    Jump

  • Colombiana (2011) started its life as a sequel before it changed.

  • First code coded

    Jump

  • It was also common to have a single step mode, where the CPU advances one cycle per switch press. Very useful for debugging.

    And you could frequently read out the contents of registers directly on rows of lights. This led to the trope of the blinky light computer in Star Trek (original series) and elsewhere. Because the lights would flash in various patterns when the computer was running, as the register contents changed. But in the single step mode you could interpret the values.