This is one of (many) lessons I learned, way back when, from Brian Kernighan. His approach: first, get it right (my phrasing: there's no benefit to doing the wrong thing thing quickly); second, measure, because your guesses about bottlenecks are almost certainly wrong; third, optimize. https://infosec.exchange/@larryosterman/112486986728658068
@Dianora Mmm—not sure I agree. There are often pretty solutions that are just plain wrong. Nor is the converse—ugly code is bad code—necessarily correct; reality is often ugly. Try writing pretty code to handle the US tax code…
So I’m trying to decide if my camera saw the aurora—I certainly did not. But here’s one shot where I cranked up saturation and vibrance (whatever that is) and you can see the color bands. The lowest is clearly city lights, but the purple? You can see stars in the area, so it isn’t clouds. The control, I guess, will be going out again in a few nights and taking a similar picture. (15 seconds, f/4, ISO 200).
@mrgtwentythree Think about it. DeSantis sponsored the "Stop Woke Act", i.e., he wanted to fight the Ewoks. Does this make him Darth DeSantis? An acolyte of the would-be Emperor Trumpletine? (And we now know the real reason for DeSantis' fight with Disney.)
Well, the Brother support web pages kept me from going out and buying a new printer/scanner—their fix worked. They lost out on an immediate sale, but that (plus, of course, the fact that they don't play weird, privacy-invasive games with toner cartridges) has helped confirm that this is the ONLY brand I'll buy.
Brother was fine back in the day, when they had bulk loading. These days, I use Epson, with the tanks. If you get one full refill in, the savings on ink has paid for the printer. And I haven't found any IoT nags on it. I'm somewhere over a dozen printers thru the years, now.
@skydog I use a laser printer, not an inkjet—I very rarely need to print in color, and I got tired of the yellow cartridge being empty when I hadn’t printed anything in color.
I'm not even slightly surprised. I had rated the probability of disruptions during commencement at 100%. I confess that I don't know why Baker Field is more secure than the main campus, except that no one is going to want to take over a locker room instead of Hamilton Hall… https://press.coop/@nytimes/112394353854634040
@FerdiZ If their home page is that out of date, the contents will be, too, making the web site essentially useless. A one-time fix won't accomplish anything.
The story about the officer whose “gun went off” gets better and better. From the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/nyregion/nypd-columbia-shooting-hamilton.html): “The officer, who was not identified, was approaching a barricade on the first floor of Hamilton Hall when he fired his gun, which had a flashlight on it, the police said.” Apparently, the NYPD doesn't believe in stand-alone flashlights or miner's lights on their helmets, and of course safeties have to be off to use the flashlight function. https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/112374521412998273
Of course, the police will add the charge of negligent discharge of a firearm by proxy to some protester's case.
Because if people weren't exercising First Amendment rights by protesting, the police would not have been armed for battle and in a hair-trigger stance.
Blame must be shifted away from the state whenever possible. /s
“NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Manhattan DA’s Office Confirms”: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/
Also note this: “Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred.” In other words, the officer had their gun drawnfor no reason and used flash-bangs when that would not be normal for this sort of situation. It is lucky that no one was killed. (It's probably also why the NYPD wanted no journalists or legal observers present.)
@druid Hey, it's only in the last ~2 years that press credentials were issued by the a mayor-controlled office and not the NYPD itself (https://www.nyc.gov/site/mome/press-card/press-card-faq.page). But the NYPD can still exclude people, per the first screenshot.
Of course, it could also have been the University, which threatened disciplinary action against any students who got near Hamilton Hall or the encampment (second screenshot).