aphlamingphoenix

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aphlamingphoenix,

I guess this is stochastic jury tampering.

aphlamingphoenix,

You mean Eeeeyyiiidiot Wind? Yeah, love that track.

aphlamingphoenix,

Having trans people in my life led me to question my relationship with gender. In doing so, I discovered that while I am cisgender, I have a lot of hangups about the expectations of my gender in society and among certain cultural groups, including the one I was raised in. It’s helped to resolve some things in my mind and discover things about myself, and I’m grateful for that.

aphlamingphoenix,

Gnome is a desktop environment, which you can install into virtually any distro. It’s the default for Fedora, which is a good enough place to try Linux for the first time.

aphlamingphoenix,

How people can think the story of the great flood - very nearly the greatest possible act of genocide followed by an explicit instruction to commit multiple generations of obligate incest- is some kind of uplifting story that’s somehow appropriate for children is beyond me.

Which movies have aged like fine wine? (either in their message or cinematography)

I recently saw ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973). Good picture, a little slow perhaps by today’s standards but worthy of any movie enjoyer’s time! So this movie was shot in Venice. Venice itself being an already beautiful spot to film even today. The way we get to look in a time capsule of Venice in the 70s makes the movie that...

aphlamingphoenix,

The scene where she auditions for the studio execs, delivering the performance of a lifetime is so enrapturing and creepy. A perfect movie, maybe Lynch’s best.

aphlamingphoenix, (edited )

I think of both Baby Jane and Misery as horror movies (although I admit I hadn’t realized how similar they are until your comment). It’s almost a 60s version of torture porn. The ending is utter delusional madness. I agree, though, that it’s a great movie in every way.

I’m sending a letter to Daddy!

aphlamingphoenix,

The ICD-11 definition for delusion clearly defines religion, but then commits special pleading to excuse religious belief.

Trumpism Is Emptying Churches: The former president’s embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US (www.bloomberg.com)

Donald Trump, a 77-year-old Bible salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, has emerged as the nation’s most prominent Christian leader. Trump is running for president as a divinely chosen champion of White Christians, promising to sanctify their grievances, destroy their perceived enemies, bolster their social status, and grant them...

aphlamingphoenix,

Have you heard of the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible? It’s probably the closest thing to CinemaSins on the subject of the Bible.

aphlamingphoenix,

Two protestors who were chanting were taken away in handcuffs, according to The Bloomingtonian. Authorities haven’t said whether they will face charges.

What charges? For chanting? Isn’t chanting free speech? Were they creating a blockade? Were they causing harm to someone? Or just vocalizing dissent?

aphlamingphoenix,

For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There’s one in every failing mall in the USA.

aphlamingphoenix,

He should be arrested and lose his freedom.

aphlamingphoenix,

If your options are “do as I say” or “suffer for all eternity” you aren’t really capable of exercising free will.

aphlamingphoenix,

No, I think it implies that they’re normally body swapped, and it’s weird that they aren’t for a day.

aphlamingphoenix,

I feel like there need to be multiple CS pathways. For example, people who want to go into hardware development might take a set of courses more closely aligned with electrical engineering. Another set of skills might be aligned with data center management. Another might focus on distributed web application engineering. That’s where I ended up, and nobody ever taught me in college when would be an appropriate case for implementing a cache, what options exist to solve that problem, how to administer them, etc. When I hire for entry level DevOps people, there’s usually a skill gap between “I’ve built some cloud servers” and “I have specific experience managing redis caches and ElasticSearch clusters.”

aphlamingphoenix,

So is that

aphlamingphoenix,

This is exactly me trying to get ahold of immunosuppressants to treat my Crohn’s Disease. I have to go through a specialty pharmacy owned by the insurance company. They bill to SaveOn, an assistance program, because my 30% copay works out to over $8K. They additionally bill against a discount/coupon program. If anything gets screwed up between the five systems of record I have to keep my data in (via phone calls, of course, because the self-service web portals are designed to give you incorrect data and accomplish nothing), then I spend weeks trying to correct everything and wind up getting my meds late.

aphlamingphoenix,

Agreed. This UI is very much inherited from ancient word processing applications. The shift that Microsoft made in the Vista era to the tabbed menu buttons only added extra mouse clicks to get to the same set of functions. Word and LibreOffice both allow you to do the kind of thing you’re talking about, but those features are nestled way down into menus and trays that are ugly and hard to use and promote the use of the wrong tool since the wrong tool is made more accessible.

‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond (www.independent.co.uk)

Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House...

aphlamingphoenix,

I think what they’re getting at is that he’s not giving his base their fears, he’s just willfully activating them for political clout. I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that Trump himself is evil.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

aphlamingphoenix,

In general, I agree. I’ll add two things:

  • Android allows you to use third party launchers if you don’t like the one that comes with your phone. I use Nova Launcher, for instance. I’m not an Apple person, but to my knowledge that’s either not possible or a pain to do on an iPhone. It also lets me buy from different Android device manufacturers and keep a consistent UI across all of them.
  • Android has some serious UX issues in a few places. The one that gets me the most is when you share something. The interface you get differs based on the source app, sometimes only has a handful of visible options with no sorting or recency options, and it hides the fact that’s you can scroll to see more, but never more than about four at a time.

Still, I’ll take it over an iPhone any day.

aphlamingphoenix,

Lots of coyotes and foxes around here. I think I could take them on with my bare hands.

Alabama governor signs law banning diversity programs in schools (www.reuters.com)

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against what she and other Republicans call a leftward tilt in U.S. education....

aphlamingphoenix,

Hey, you’re the other person who’s seen Kung Pow!

aphlamingphoenix,

As any true Scotsman could tell you.

aphlamingphoenix,

Good advice. I’ll add that any time you have to parse command line arguments with any real complexity you should probably be using Python or something. I’ve seen bash scripts where 200+ lines are dedicated to just reading parameters. It’s too much effort and too error prone.

aphlamingphoenix,

So if he falls to make bond and the state starts seizing assets, how does that work, exactly? They auction it to pay the lawsuit? What if Trump gets a bite on selling a property intending to make bond but it’s a big real estate transaction and that takes time? Will he be allowed to finish the sale before the state seizes assets?

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