If you haven't already tried biking your commute, keep a close eye on the bike lane as you're driving. How many delivery trucks or other motor vehicles are driving or stopped in it? Is it clear if gravel, sand, trash, and snow? How would a cyclist make a left turn, and would they have to wait through an extra light cycle? Any potholes, runners, folks with grocery carts collecting aluminum?
If they're checking resumes for this position as closely as they're checking them for the armed bullies, maybe I could get the job with 0 legal experience and lose a lot of cases.
Was it found in a routine, thorough sweep of the whole school that happens every time after organizations use the building? Or by luck, and it could easily have still been there when kids came back?
Twenty-one Republicans—primarily from the fascistic House Freedom Caucus—voted against the bill. The Democrats responded by supplying the exact number of votes needed to offset Republican defections.
Were the Republicans just unwilling to accept the reduced ICE budget, or actually against it?
I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?
Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.
I also strongly suspect that the mask is not adequate protection against the particulates in tear gas from a health standpoint — I didn’t have a normal period for six months after the 2020 protests.
I do like python's syntax, and I think it's very expressive. But what I really enjoy about working in it over years is that it has standards that can help you write good software — there's often one best official package to do something, there's one style most libraries adhere to, etc — and the older ways often get deprecated. When I'm working with PHP and js, especially, that's what consistently footguns me: closely related library functions that follow different styles/conventions, inconsistent error handling.
So I guess if you're going to hate Python maybe that's it. But if you're stuck with it and want to see what you can see, those aspects could be something to reflect on. (Saying this as someone currently stuck with a bunch of legacy Perl I pretty well hate.)
Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24
Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot,
I think this is where AI unquestionably shines: switching languages/projects frequently, on personal projects.
so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.
But I actually draw the opposite conclusion. The architecture and maintainability needs are where AI is pretty poor, and they're vastly different and more important in a 100-1000 person 10 year production system.
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn't more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
The phrase has been around in political circles and on the internet for decades, and it doesn’t appear to have a single originator. It is widely believed to be an amalgamation of ideas from Karl Marx, simmered down into a phrase that people can easily remember.
Making worthless widgets for corporate overlords for a paycheck? Sure, I sympathize. Taking other's livelihoods, safety, and comfort so you can have your own? Nope.
If you haven't already tried biking your commute, keep a close eye on the bike lane as you're driving. How many delivery trucks or other motor vehicles are driving or stopped in it? Is it clear if gravel, sand, trash, and snow? How would a cyclist make a left turn, and would they have to wait through an extra light cycle? Any potholes, runners, folks with grocery carts collecting aluminum?