Em Adespoton

Charlie’s always known how to string words together in accurate but powerful ways.

On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

Sir Pratchett was a genius. He will continue to be missed.

Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

Every single time Russia has announced a ceasefire since it became a nation in the 90s, that’s been so they can move their troops into better positions unhindered. Often it has been followed by a brutal attack that cares nothing about civilian or Russian casualties.

I’m sure Ukraine knows this already.

Threats and mixed messages? Is the US involved?

Trump getting elected turns out to be an inadvertent mistake….

Yet.

There’s more than one way to leave a country.

So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….

Ooh! Haribo sugar free!

Is this Chapter 7 or Chapter 11?

That’s next. Any faith org that doesn’t swear fealty to Trump will be on the list, as not swearing fealty to Trump is political.

It’s already poisoned.

They’re planning to drain it before the invasive species they stopped protecting against finish the job.

The National Guard will not be engaging with the public, but rather taking on duties that drain the time of sworn officers, like directing traffic. The troops can help secure crime scenes, distribute food and supplies to the homeless population throughout the corridor, transport prisoners, provide courthouse security and run drone operations used for locating suspects or assessing incidents.

Er, those things can’t both be true. Is the National Guard not engaging with the public, or will they be directing (public) traffic, securing crime scenes against the public, distributing food and supplies to the public, transporting the public, providing security to public buildings, and running drone operations used for locating members of the public?

I think I may have found part of Albuquerque PD’s problem. They’ve forgotten who they’re supposed to serve and protect.

In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

Ukrainians have been buying John Deere tractors for years… and reprogramming them.

No reason why they couldn’t do the same with Teslas.

The money they get from the government to run it has a small portion tagged as COVID money for disaster response. Which somehow has resulted in the entire funding being tagged COVID. Which means, unlikely to be renewed tomorrow.

Interesting story.

I started using Objective C in 1994 on NeXTcubes, and later NeXTstations.

For simpler, one-off projects, it was great; also great for its ability to make any existing C library or function (or even block of asm) an object that played nicely with all the rest. And every API was just another set of objects! Discovery was easy.

It wasn’t until it came to maintenance of complex codebases that it became a problem. There’s a reason things like NSurlHandler stuck around right into modern macOS — replacing objects like THAT had implications all up and down the dependency chain. Essentially, it became Apple’s equivalent of DLL Hell.

It was also the last language that I thought could be almost all things to all people; after that, I realized that specialized languages that performed really well in a single context were a much better way to go.

What an interestingly narrow perspective!

What I was wondering is, since the aircraft in question was too old to require a flight recorder, did the business, for their own protection, at least have something onboard that recorded video and audio, as “cutting costs” was unlikely to be the reason they wouldn’t have this. And if they didn’t have that for regulatory reasons, had anyone attempted to retrieve the telemetry or the footage from the cellphones of the passengers, since they were on a sightseeing tour and so were likely filming.

But you do you.

Interested in graduate studies? Consider Canada….