jbmchuck

27 dagen geledendiscuss

I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

vorige maanddiscuss

It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass.

It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than move your legs a bit.

jbmchuck

vorige maanddiscuss

Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be doing with my time.

jbmchuck

vorige maanddiscuss

I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - than making more income than I really need.

jbmchuck

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.

jbmchuck

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Reminds me of this onion bit: https://theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-c...

jbmchuck

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.

jbmchuck

3 maanden geledendiscuss

'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.

jbmchuck

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)

jbmchuck

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.

jbmchuck

9 maanden geledendiscuss

He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...

jbmchuck

10 maanden geledendiscuss

> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car.

Huh - do you have a source for that stat?

jbmchuck

10 maanden geledendiscuss

My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.

jbmchuck

11 maanden geledendiscuss

Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:

    ~> cat semgrep.yaml
    rules:
      - id: no-pattern-matching
        pattern: |
          match ...:
        message: |
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
        severity: ERROR
        languages:
          - python

...

    ~> cat test.py
    #!/usr/bin/env python3

    foo = 1
    match foo:
      case 1:
        print("one")

...

    ~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py   


     no-pattern-matching
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
                                                         
            4┆ match foo:
            5┆   case 1:
            6┆     print("one")

(exits non-0)

jbmchuck

vorig jaardiscuss

There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.

jbmchuck

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing that can improve their bottom line at the end of the day - more prisons.

Outside of a few non-profit orgs I suspect there aren't a lot of dollars lobbying for fewer prisons, it's not a great look and it's easily to spin as "company X doesn't want to lock up violent criminals!

On the other hand that's really the only agenda item private prison operators put their lobbying dollars toward.

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