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It's again unclear to me what you're arguing about. I have no horses in this race and no problems with either Biden or Trump.
I haven't used piper, so I can't comment on that. But people seem to have focused on git. Remind me not to actually use product names as examples; it inevitably triggers people into holy wars and prevents them from actually seeing the point.

I don't care if the competing solution would have been git, Perforce, hg, or whatever. The point was not "git". The point was "off the shelf". I also do not dispute that Piper may well be a great system; I've never even seen it, so I wouldn't know.

The issue is not about "outsourcing" (which is a rather loaded term that should not be substituted for "using off the shelf products"). It's not about "engineer productivity", per se. The question is about overall business efficiency.

I'm sure it could make engineers that much more productive to have the latest and greatest laptop every year. That doesn't mean we replace all our hardware every year. We also don't give every developer a terabyte of RAM. It's the same basic issue.

It's always a trade; those dollars can potentially do more good somewhere else.

You'll note that I have at no point stated outright that I thought they made the wrong decision; only that I'm skeptical. I asked the question about the ROI, and people decided to get all heated about it. The only arguably inflammatory point in my comment was about Google's case of NIH.

It's really hard to deny that Google has acute NIH.

Sometimes that's a good thing; they've done some amazing things and given us some amazing technologies. Other times, I question their decisions.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
> What I’m trying to teach myself to do whenever I think “this is ridiculous overcomplexity” is to imagine whose life it might make simpler.

I prefer to think "How can this be used against someone" because while there are a lot of "smart" devices that can help people, they are often also being used to exploit those same people by collecting massive amounts of data and using that data against them or selling/leaking it to those who will use it against them, or allowing hackers to gain access to their data/network.

People with a disability or those with accessibility needs shouldn't need to give up their right to privacy or security to take advantage of every technological advance that might make their lives easier. Even people without a disability don't need some company collecting a detailed record of when/how often/how long they have sex, or how many nights they sleep alone, or what days/hours they spend in bed, or what times they go to sleep or how much sleep they get.

Devices should be designed to protect users and not to collect as much data as possible, or push ads, or expose them to hackers.
Apple execs are giving themselves bonuses as a reward for illegal dumping
I've taught code to children for years as the founder of a coding nonprofit, and this is a great way of laying out logic. Block code is very often taught to children and is a pet peeve of mine as it doesn't translate into strongly typed code for them, so we lose a number of kids in the shuffle when they believe code is too hard. Thank you for sharing!

If you were wanting to build on this, one of the greatest struggles, particularly with children, is syntax and spelling errors. They very often misspell words like "background" when we're teaching web dev, or forget their brackets and semicolons, so their code doesn't run.

If you were to make something similar but in a language they're already learning, such as Javascript, Java or Python (which, in my opinion, are the most common languages taught to kiddos), that might be useful.

Happy to chat more about this if you're looking for more on this perspective.
Sure.

The Founders envisioned an extremely weak criminal justice system, especially for "their class of people." Defendants were given extremely strong protections, and convictions were the exception, not the rule.

The Founders were more concerned about facing a duel than a criminal conviction.

So they added other mechanisms for presidential accountability: impeachment, elections, and the weakness of the office.

These other mechanisms have become weaker and weaker, while the criminal justice system has become stronger and stronger.

Impeachment's happen, but not Senate convictions. The political parties have created a duopoloy on power which allow them to run weak candidates. Congress is less and less willing to hold presidents of their own party accountable. Dueling is prohibited not just criminally, but constitionally in most states.

At the same time the criminal justice system is becoming more and more powerful. Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors.

The Constitution simply didn't envision a situation where the criminal justice system is more likley to hold someone accountable than an election or Congress.

Impeachment, elections, and duels no longer deter bad conduct. Convictions do.

So we have an edge case: a system that can only hold an ex-President accountable via a criminal charge.

Edge cases are weird. They create "sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't" situations. And that's where we are now.
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> This is why blameless postmortems are such good thing.

100%. I'm very much a fan of asking _what_ happened and then figuring out how to prevent it from happening ahead. Look back to inform the future, not to find blame. Ultimately, if 1 person can blow things up, it's a bigger issue at play.
The criminal act is in official capacity. The benefit is personal.
> explanations try to follow a neat chain of cause an effect. But [...] there isn't really a clear one. All these [...] are related to all the others, but not straightforwardly

There seems a pattern of misattributing pervasive failures of science education content design, to physical system complexity and student deficiency. A favorite of mine was a PhD thesis "We taught grade G young students common incoherent nonsense about atoms. Surprisingly, that's didn't work out well. We draw the obvious conclusion: students in G are developmentally incapable of understanding atoms." Which might even be valid... for a "regurgitate incoherence" definition of "understand atoms".

Here, I wonder if an atomistic explanation might work better? Could one craft a nicely accessible, coherent, transferably powerful, molecular superball mosh pit story of wings? The confusion and disagreements here sound a bit like "It's net molecular motion! No, surface impacts! No, differential surface impacts!". An abstraction/model fail, rather than underlying irreducible system complexity.
Sure. Then you ask a simple question. Is point A to the left or the right of the line defined by points C and D and then you find out that your code gives different answers depending on how you ask the question then you find out about floating point robustness with regards to geometric problems then you wish you had stuck to studying high energy physics.
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Everywhere is a terrible place to work because the companies don't give a shit. Its bullshit they want access to sell in our market, but aren't employing Americans, especially for being Deere.
Last time I was asked that, I got very annoyed but caught myself before getting pithy and turned it around. I said I don’t know that I do yet, we’re both still trying to figure out if this is a good fit. But here are the things that attracted my attention, and here’s how they overlap with my experience and skills. It seemed to go over well.
Unfortunately presidents on both sides have used executive order as a way to bypass the process.

Combined with Chevron doctrine precedent, agencies could enact what the executive branch wanted if the standard quo process failed
> Could Obama be prosecuted for ordering drone strikes that unintentionally killed two Americans? It seems like that world would hamstring the president far too much.

The President shouldn't have the legal authority to conduct any drone strikes without a declaration of war from Congress. We've been ignoring the Constitution for a very long time.
There have been many other rulings in support for vaccine mandates since that landmark decision. Reducing such measures to nothing more than 'a gross violation of bodily autonomy' and having 'no legal basis' is just ignorant and inane.
Places like Texas tend to equal out the taxes. For example, I have to pay an additional $200 fee on my registration to account for the fact that my EV doesn't contribute to gasoline taxes. I assume they'd do the same to any carbon taxes.
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Thanks! I pretty much did this as a learning/hobby side project. Back in 2021, I was dealing with a lot of K8s clusters and had recently learnt what about ndots[1]. That prompted me to build an easy to use DNS client which can avoid surprises about the host environment.

I've built this using Go, my daily driver. It doesn't use any CLI frameworks, that was mostly out of choice as I didn't want to add external deps unless really required.
My favourite part was to build this small help.go[3] utility which renders colored/formatted help text.

Over the time I got some good quality external contributions, especially the one from @jedisct1 for adding DNSCrypt[2] support to it.

Releasing a v1.0 has been on the back burner forever (like, a whole year+ :'). Life, other projects, and probably a bit of procrastination got in the way.
Finally sat down last week and forced myself to come up with a deadline to push this out.

[1]: https://mrkaran.dev/posts/ndots-kubernetes/

[2]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/17

[3]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/blob/main/cmd/help.go
Let's take Biden's student loan forgiveness as an example. Some say that he overstepped his authority.

The courts should decide if that act is legally permitted, but it would be a tough pull to think that he should be personally responsible for that, including potential jail time.

Now egregious cases that fall outside of the reasonable expectations of the role of the President. Sure, those should go to the courts. But I don't think this case prevents that. Most of what Trump did after the election, IMO, was clearly as a candidate, not a President.
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They also cite the Federalist Papers in comically-vague support of their ruling, while the dissent cites the Federalist Papers right back to note that the founders had executive immunity very much on their minds and left it out of the constitution extremely on-purpose because they regarded subjecting the President to the same law as everyone else to be key difference between the system they were setting up, and monarchy.
The point (which the author as making) still stands, which is that Darrow achieved his lasting fame from the Scopes Monkey trial, which both as an event and in its fictionalized form as the play/movie "Inherit the Wind" is still relevant to discourse today as it is is brought up whenever Creationists are in the news.
The problem will not be the AIs; the problem will be who owns the AIs, and how will we control them?
eLife publishes reviews very prominently within articles, and they ask all reviewers to discuss their assessment after they have evaluated the article. I think this favors deep reviews.

In Nature or Cell, I have sometimes seen 2-liners sent to authors as a review, or reviews where the reviewer clearly read the article for just 10 minutes before rushing an opinion.

I wish eLife doubled down on this and disclosed the reviewer names after e.g. a 2-year embargo. This would make reviews even better IMHO, more skin in the game.
Well obviously… otherwise a politician paid by putin could remove the ability for the president to fire the nuclear weapons. You can’t have randos deciding what the leader can do.

The question is, will everyone surrounding a president allow the president to commit mass cullings or nuke California. And the answer is clearly not, outside of delusional fantasy scenarios.

Trump wasn’t even allowed to build a wall, and you think his VP would have let him commit genocide?
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That last point is bothersome, because if you're looking at "color of law" as a defense, when does that end?

A good example is that killer cop in Minneapolis, I don't remember his name or care to fill my brain with it. He was acting officially when George Floyd died under his care; he was responding to a 911 call that Floyd was the subject of.

The cop was convicted of murder, but let's say that POTUS does something abhorrent (and this is likely to occur now that this is case law) under color of law and someone wanted to charge him or her because of it. Does that get somehow pulled back as it did for the cop?
Interesting talk. I've been looking into this stack recently as a backend/ML developer who wants to start building web apps but doesn't want to dive deep into the NextJS/React ecosystem. So far it's going well, I'm definitely avoiding all of the previous stumbling blocks around setting up a JS/TS environment, not knowing NextJS best practices, etc. The learning curve there in the past was painful.

However, now that I'm getting to the point where I want to take my web app from "pretty cool toy" to something I can sell to users with all the bells and whistles, I'm having a bit more trouble. There just aren't as many examples out there for "bell and whistle" patterns than there are with React.

Eg: I want to implement typeahead. When I google "typeahead htmx alpine" I get some blog posts, some reddit posts, some random github gists. Cool, but looks like I'm going to have to think about the problem and toy around with it a bit to get it working. It's not quite "copy and paste this component". When I google "typeahead react" the 1st link is a pretty popular npm package that seems to support everything I want (and some stuff I didn't even know I wanted). Complete with user guides and docs and everything.

So now I'm asking myself whether I made the right decision trying to keep things "simple" with htmx/alpine? It's not even about whether my app is a SPA or not, or "how much interactivity I want" (which is a difficult question actually if you're not familiar with FE - what is interactivity, exactly?), it's more like "which framework is easier to blindly stumble through (with ChatGPT's help) to get what I want".
You don't actually use Terminal.app do you?
> However, there is a history of Republicans increasing government regulation on private businesses, most recently around private doctors providing health care for women.

No one (except certain strains of anarchists) is against laws restricting "big" crimes like murder, theft, etc. Regardless of how you think about it, Republicans tend to think of abortion as murder, and so it is perfectly consistent to constrain that behavior while still being against government regulation broadly speaking.

Now, I'm not going to try and convince you that abortion is murder, I'm just saying your accusation of Republican hypocrisy is not convincing at all.

> Republicans say they are pro small government, but their actions clearly prove otherwise.

I would say that Republican politicians are much more comfortable with big government than the average voter that supports them.
W.r.t. SCOTUS's ruling, you'd claim the main problem is that "Both the District Court and the D. C. Circuit declined to decide whether the indicted conduct involved official acts.". If the lower courts had claimed the conduct wasn't official when they denied the motion to dismiss then SCOTUS wouldn't have vacated the lower rulings?
They added directly finally? Good to know they hadn't when I got Win 11.
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Is desktop on the roadmap? I use HeyNote (desktop) every day and the only feature I _really_ want is multiple notes. You added that, but I need desktop because of corporate rules.
This has to be one of the worse courts in the last 100 years.
Great! I'm always looking for more places where I can make semigraphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics

but I've fallen out of the habit because it's a hassle to get them to display right all of the time on the web.

One of my favorite terminals of all times were the DEC ReGIS terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS

which supported a set of commands similar to the drawing commands in BASIC back in the day but supported more and better colors than home computers at the time and could also freely mix graphics and text. Since the PDP-11 supported BASIC you could write graphical programs in BASIC that would draw on the terminal using the right character sequences.
I have a reasonably complete implementation of dark mode in my open source application, Explorer++. It uses the standard Win32 controls and applies a variety of strategies to get something that looks more-or-less cohesive when dark mode is enabled. ThemeManager.cpp[0] contains the bulk of the functionality. It could be useful as a reference for how you might create a dark version of a standard Win32 control.

[0] https://github.com/derceg/explorerplusplus/blob/4bad3ab95d87...
> That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me?

Right? They didn't abandon the concept, they just picked a solution that better fits their needs. Less headache, less abstraction, and less surprises overall.
Thanks, I've missed that.

I suppose the Output could be washed by publishing it on the web and having another entity crawl it.

OpenAI doesn't treat anyone else's content any differently, acting like it's a fair game, so why should we care.
conhost is in the terminal repo? Huh interesting, that surprises me.
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That's what happens when the unitary Executive and the Commerce Clause expand to devour the entire constitution. If we wanted to reduce the expansiveness of executive power (the Bush Doctrine), Obama was given the mandate to do it, but instead went out of his way to codify the practices which a lot of people thought had been illegal.

To borrow from a similar claim: with the combination of the "Due Process" interpretation that backed the al-Awlaki killing (where Holder explained that due process was simply a term designating whatever process that they do, and could entirely occur in one's own head), and this judgement, Trump could have stood in the middle of 5th Avenue and shot somebody and could not be charged for it. So can Biden.

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Ten Years after the al-Awlaki Killing: A Reckoning for the United States’ Drones Wars Awaits

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/ten-years-after-the-al-awlaki-kill...

> From the Magna Carta to the US Constitution, citizens have sought ways to protect themselves from the arbitrary exercise of sovereign power. The drone strike on al-Awlaki reversed this historical process with an executive process. From the so-called “Terror Tuesday” or “targeting Tuesday” meetings where President Obama personally approved targets for drone strikes to the drafting of the legal logic justifying the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen, the strike on al-Awlaki was the result of decision making within the executive branch. Completely absent from the proceedings was the judiciary, which acts as a crucial buffer and neutral arbiter between the citizen and the executive.

> In its own defense, the Obama administration argued that due process was not the same thing as judicial process and presented the test that it used to justify the targeted killing. While some observers have emphasized the narrowness of the legal standard, it was crafted specifically to target al-Awlaki, therefore reinforcing just how discretionary this exercise of executive power was. Furthermore, it was conceived of and adjudged constitutionally sufficient by attorneys who had previously opposed executive overreach during the Bush administration.

[It's interesting that the al-Awlaki killing was over speech, too. So while the executive branch is not allowed to exercise prior restraint over speech, Presidents are now constitutionally immunized for murdering people to keep them from speaking.]
It's nice for me because my workplace turns off access to the Windows Store.
This is really just the formal ruling that qualified immunity is applied to the presidency. Just like with other qualified immunity, it'll be messy to figure out what should be covered an what is not.