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forensicgarlic, 12 days ago to random

"What would happen if a person in prison actually won the presidency is a thornier question. Would the new president have to govern from a jail cell?

Probably not. Many legal experts argue that a state-court sentence would have to be held in abeyance."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/06/trump-running-for-president-prison-00090931

chris, 13 days ago to chicago

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gzt, 21 days ago to random

okay great, so, I thought, all right, let's try downloading plex, they say it should be easy to get to work, and it's like... there's a lot of stuff unsaid here, because this does not just work and I have no clue what buttons to push to get it to work on my local network, if my router is even capable of supporting it.

forensicgarlic, 27 days ago to random

Every new pitch I hear for "AI" makes me think wow they must have come up with some interesting new technique, otherwise these claims are obviously false. And then you look into it and it's still just a very complex stochastic model underneath. But the financially motivated folks keep claiming that there's actual factual based use cases for this stuff and I really am not seeing it.

gzt, 1 month ago to random

with the boomers getting out of the way, i guess we'll have to start saying "okay Xer" instead.

gzt, 1 month ago to random

i really need to find a place that will convert my mandolin book into a comb-bound book

why do any of these books come in editions other than plastic comb bound??? #mandolin #bookbinding

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Created a test account on bsky and there appears to be literally no way to opt out of algorithmic feeds. If it decides you aren't following enough people, rather than allowing the Content Spigot to end it starts showing you its fucking algorithmic recommendations after that. God. Fuck Twitter and everything that spawned from it

forensicgarlic, 2 months ago to random

For Illinois: @bikegridnow has a page with witness slip links to legalize Idaho stops and to lower urban speed limits. https://bikegridnow.org/bills/

forensicgarlic, 3 months ago to random

"We already have the money to end homelessness, we're spending it on the cops instead"

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

ouinne, 3 months ago to random

Last boost: I’m cis and my reaction to requests for gender is “come back with a warrant”, too.

gzt, 3 months ago to random

seriously though both of those dudes should be retired. so many people in government should be retired. the refusal to hand over the reins has destroyed entire generations of politicians.

mcc, 4 months ago to random

Core Rust infrastructure is frequently hosted on the .rs ccTLD. Some of these sites could be used to drive supply chain attacks if their domains were ever compromised. .rs is operated by an NGO, but ultimately controlled by the government of Serbia.

Do there exist plausible future chains of events that could lead to some future government of Serbia suspending, or redirecting, Rust project/community sites hosted under .rs? Does the Rust community have contingency plans for this hypothetical?

gzt, 4 months ago to random

the most annoying thing about the reels on facebook that get suggested is that they're all ripoffs of whatever original poster was there. it'd be one thing if it were organic, like, this hot yoga lady's video is suggested, but it's not, it's somebody stealing some video from the yoga lady's tiktok or insta or whatever, and if I see that woman ever again in a suggestion, it's a different scammer stealing her video, etc.

whitequark, 4 months ago to random

I think I'm starting to appreciate the value of extremely stringent and formal code style guides

18+ gedvondur, 4 months ago to vegan

Any recommendations on vegan Worcestershire sauce?

I've used Anne's and The Wizard, both are decent, just wanting to know if there are options out there that I'm not aware of.

Going to be making my vegan pulled pork (seitan).

#vegan #food #recipes

forensicgarlic, 4 months ago to random

This ai generated recipe seems like it calls for more fish than 4 people can eat.

nedbat, 4 months ago to random

Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."

So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).

I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?

C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

gzt, 4 months ago to random

1. lower back bothering me slightly over the last few days, not the side I tweaked at the gym last month (left) but rather right (the usual side). seems to be recovering, though annoying. staying out of the gym until this bout is over but not being inactive.
2. neck seems to be doing better from its annoyances now that i've switched from a two pillow solution to a one pillow solution.
3. lately been doing a ton of light biking at 90-100bpm while reading. easy to just hop on and go.

forensicgarlic, 4 months ago to random

Helping run a bike racing team has me thinking more about gender than anything else in my cis-male life because I want my trans and non binary friends to be able to race too, and the organizing athletic organization hasn't even really dealt with the fact that women should have equal rights to men.

dmarti, 4 months ago to random

"There won't be a single nail, screw or piece of metal in Notre Dame's new medieval roof frame."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/11/1179648233/notre-dame-paris-fire-rebuild-roof

gzt, 4 months ago to random

tried playing Lost Cities online, seems pretty good, have to convince the spouse to give it a try (but we're very into Azul right now)