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A quick search brings up this RFC to remove green threads [1] which is dated "2014-09-16". So, it's entirely likely that Rust (sure, pre-1.0) had green threads around the time that the Java conversion happened.

Although the only important thing is that WebAssembly is 2015 [2] so there's pretty much no reason to convert to Rust to target WebAssembly when neither of them were actually released.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remo...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly#History
Htmx has been great. I reach for it in a lot on my projects. Although I have to admit that for my larger Django projects it gets a bit difficult to work with. Creating a url then a template then a view every time I need my page to change gets a bit repetitive and difficult to work with.

Alpine.js has never really clicked for me. Outside of anything simple I find myself struggling with the framework.
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> He could claim that an illegal decision was about to be made

He doesn't even have to provide such a justification because the court has said the President's motives cannot be used to decide if it was official or unofficial.
> unlike England

We have the same thing in England though.
Frankly, this is terrifying. The decision gives complete criminal immunity from any "official acts" as President. It goes on to define that term so broadly as to include any conversation with Justice department officials. Under a plain reading, a President is more than welcome to instruct the Justice department to investigate or charge anyone, or to not investigate certain crimes, and that is completely permissible. Soliciting bribes to not prosecute is now fair game.

I find it particularly concerning regarding the military. The President is Commander in Chief, and thus any orders he gives or attempts to give to the military would be undeniably official acts. This was even brought up in oral arguments, where it was asked of Trump's council "if the President ordered Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, would that be considered an official act?" I find it absolutely terrifying that this possibility was brought up, and any mention of the military is conspicuously absent from the majority decision, even in passing (though Sotomayor explicitly brings it up in her dissent).

The most concerning part is how this decision is being made entirely on constitutional grounds. At least in the case of Rowe v Wade being overturned, we have the possible remedy of Congress passing a law enshrining the right to an abortion. But here, there is no legislation Congress could pass to create criminal liability for the President, no executive action. The only option would be a constitutional amendment.
Books are ok but I think it's better to learn with websites that use live coding examples and exercises.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/ is good, the Responsive Web Design and JavaScript courses are a good place to start, there's a great community of learners and tutors to help.

The MDN developer resources is a useful site to keep open while you learn. https://developer.mozilla.org

Now pick a framework to start learning and building with. React is the most used but I chose Svelte because it is powerful yet has simpler syntax and is easier to learn, also supposed to be more performant.

The Svelte tutorial is an excellent learning resource, nicely detailed and structured. I also found it to be a useful refresher for JavaScript in a more practical real world context. https://svelte.dev/

While doing the Svelte tutorial, and in fact all the time now, I have a tab open for an AI chat bot. I find Perplexity to be particularly useful for explaining syntax and code snippets.

If you want to get more into JavaScript then a good book is Eloquent JavaScript https://eloquentjavascript.net/

Other posters have pointed out the complexity of the back end stuff and devops, etc. You can simplify this aspect by using a service like Supabase or Firebase.
Presidents can already pardon people who murder their political opponents. Famously, the Reconstruction-era presidents pardonned every single confederate so as not to divide the country further and increase tensions.

You are clutching pearls over something that is already allowed. Like I said, Congress can impeach a president who does this if they don't like it.

Moreover, a president can't pardon state level offenses anyway, and I would imagine the murder would have to take place in a state. The state could simply retry the case. States have much more discretion in the sorts of things they can criminalize.
This is, unfortunately, how our (US) justice system works.

The entire concept of an "NDA" has been bastardized in this manner, if you think about it. Conceptually you may think of an NDA as protecting sensitive data from disclosure, a sort of intellectual property right. However, it's been co-opted by folks to do nothing more than cover up inconvenient truths because they realize most people cannot afford to either (a) give up money they are promised in the future or (b) bankrupt themselves in their own defense.

So it's basically a game where whomever has the most money can ensure their narrative wins out in the end, because competing narratives can simply be "bought out".
The real answer to all of this is scrap the corporate tax rate entirely. It’s only 6% of the total revenue the government takes in anyway.

The main payers are not these large corporations, it’s the little guy who can’t retain earnings year over year without paying that statutory rate. The little guy doesn’t have offshore entities and transfer pricing. And these little guys are 75% of corporate tax receipts!

Scrap the whole thing and this shell game disappears.
> The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.

That seems like the majority opinion agrees.

It'd be hard to argue that commanding the military wasn't an official act of the president under the Constitution even if that command was to Navy's Seal Team 6 asking them to assassinate a political rival for reasons of "national security"
I get it’s threading the needle and people en masse aren’t going to understand nuance, but I don’t think his point was that electing him would bring hope/change, I think it was a call for America to remember it can change.

I don’t think “I have faith we can change but don’t put your faith in me” has the same ring to it as a campaign slogan.
Generally the way to hold a president accountable is to impeach him and remove him from office.

Under this ruling, the court system is generally not a way to keep him accountable.

So it’s not that there is no accountability or way to “punish”, a rogue president, it’s just a different method of accountability than what applies to you and me.
> If there is a presumption of immunity, it may be nearly impossible to establish the facts in cases where the president is acting improperly.

Well yeah that's true. But uh, you are talking lawyer talk with a set of opinions, insincerely held, because they are most concerned with "owning the libs" above everything else.
It's a show that caught my attention. It has good characters who were bullied at one point. But then it got a little good, this is very entertaining, thank you
What act of war has the US directly committed against Russia within Ukraine?
clearly you have a hard time distinguishing between who supports what.
Damien Miller
I'm sad that we've made it to these kind of specious defenses being offered in a serious response.
Mmmm interesting.

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Remote: Open to it. I've worked remotely since long before covid. depends.
Willing to relocate: will travel for work, in some situations
technologies:
- lots of "human api stuff" around writing and technical documentation, informed around a mix of skills and dispositions harmonious with my time on support teams, enterprise sales teams, engineering teams, and more: https://josh.works/blog for samples
- ruby/rails stack. I'll do other stuff along the way, but I vastly prefer the RoR ecosystem
- here's an odd conversation-starting piece: https://josh.works/mobility-data.
- If your engineers are unhappy, I'm tempted to ask you to hire me to help them feel happy again, but I don't know if 'engineering manager' is the right fit. I'd do it in a fractional capacity, for sure.
Haha, prosecute someone who only needs a tiny excuse to kill you with immunity.
They could just argue the PRA is impeding their ability to communicate with the people within the executive branch and are thus immune to the punishments of the PRA.
> Do you want a warning on every for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)

If n is of type size_t, yes please!

Also every for (size_t i = sizeof(var)-1; i >= 0; --i)

(I've been burned by that one more often than I want to publicly admit).
There is no such law for criminal acts.
> Under a plain reading, a President is more than welcome to instruct the Justice department to investigate or charge anyone, or to not investigate certain crimes, and that is completely permissible.

I think we have fundamentally different views of the Executive's role. We have 3 branches of government, and the President is the guy who enforces the law. The Justice department is not a 4th branch of government.
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I am a technical security generalist with a focus on cloud infrastructure and regulatory compliance. I help organizations secure their data, prepare for regulatory scrutiny, and improve their security practices. I interested in roles as staff security engineer at large organizations interested in safely deploying products leveraging AI and machine learning.
What can we do to optimize businesses to consider the long term and actually serve their customers and other stakeholders, not just making stock price go up?
How about "Pending" and "Complete" for 0% and 100%?
One take: Maybe some websites don't need to exist?

If nobody wants to pay for it, and you don't want to make it for free, maybe there's a case to be made that it just doesn't have to be made at all?

Ads just force a market to optimize for clickbait and readership, not quality. Having fewer websites, each more expensive and intentional, would probably drastically increase the signal to noise ratio of the web.

We could probably lose 80 to 90 percent of the current content on the web and not miss most of it...
No it doesn't. The conclusion III(B)(2) of the opinion:

> It is ultimately the Government’s burden to rebut the presumption of immunity. We therefore remand to the District Court to assess in the first instance, with appropriate input from the parties, whether a prosecution involving Trump’s alleged attempts to influence the Vice President’s oversight of the certification proceeding in his capacity as President of the Senate would pose any dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.
It is social skills and compatibility.

To be honest, Im pretty surprised that people see it as so much less relevant or informative. When I interview and have been interviewed, it is usually one of the most important topics.

For some reason, people seem to have a default hostile reaction. If you want a mutually informative conversation, it is a fantastic opening to have exactly that.

Candidates are allowed take an active role in discussion, and those that do are massively rewarded by the hiring process. Failure to engage with questions seems like refusing to meet an interviewer half way, or do literally any of the conversational work to get want they want.

IT is taking a passive conversational position devoid of agency.

I have had hour long conversations learning about how the company operates in the context of what I want staring from this same premise.
New NOAA GOES-U satellite will track weather for most of Western Hemisphere
Worth noting that we’re 3-for-3 on recent-ish major Republican plans to do bad things being implemented at least in large part—the PNAC plan for Iraq and other issues from the ‘90s (W’s big contribution was carrying this out); the plan to execute a strategic focus of resources and follow-up with laws to attain practically unassailable dominance in states where Republicans should be losing pretty often, through gerrymandering and targeted vote suppression (enormous success, there, largely achieved during the ‘00s); and the Federalist Society plan to groom jurists and then get them placed to reshape the courts (Trump’s crowning achievement for the right in his first term—and not just the Supreme Court).

So I would take this one seriously.
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That's pretty cool :) It makes a great visualizer for bbs-over-dns.com
A lot of people, myself included, expected some carve out for "official acts". There was never going to be blanket immunity and the Court was going to take the case just to agree with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals [1]. SCOTUS slow walked this case. They could've taken it back when they were asked to in December. They waited until the end of hte term to deliver a verdict. The verdict ensures that any trial court findings of "official court" are going to simply make their way back to this exact same court.

The majority opinion even had the gall to call the prosecutions "hasty" when we're largely talking about things that happened in 2021.

But this decision is so much worse than many (myself included) expected. Not only is there blanket immunity for "official acts" but there is presumptive innocence for anything on the peripherey. Even worse, if something is a statutory or constitutional power of the office of President, the reason does not matter. The reason can't even be considered in deciding if something is an "official act" or not.

So the president has the right to issue pardons with ultimate discretion. If they want to sell pardons, now they can. Why? Because the reason this "official act" happened is irrelevant. That's what the Court decided.

Same for selling judgeships or presidential appointments.

We already have the donor-to-ambassador pipeline [2]. Now we don't even need the ruse of it being a donation. The President can simply sell ambassadorships for personal gain.

That's what this decision did.

[1]: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/1AC5A0E7...

[2]: https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/new-campaign-legal-...
So, for the next election, if Biden decides to pressure several state officials for them to choose him as the state winner instead of the real election result prevailing, there would be no prosecution. So why wouldn't he do it? Oh yes, basic honesty and being faithful to his country (unless that being old and confused, he decides to do just that, so two reasons there for him not to be held responsible).

During the Supreme Court hearings, has anyone asked the hypothetical of a president deciding to send Team 6 to get rid of some members of the Supreme Court? No prosecution for that too?
There's also the Supreme Court ruling that it was illegal for Biden to do mass loan forgiveness, yet Biden did it anyway.

Should Biden be prosecuted for that?
(1) In this case they are asking people questions about pictures and having the AI score their answers, not having the AI look at a picture.

(2) There's a pretty big area of research into AI-based diagnosis, for instance, diagnosing depression based on social media posts. Given that "business as usual" in psychiatric diagnosis is terrible (conditions that affect 5% of the population get diagnosed practically 0% of the time, but everybody has autism...) it's not hard to improve matters greatly but the problem is that you can collect enough info to diagnose people without their consent.
Finances are not an issue. I'm very lucky to have supportive parents.

> plenty of places that would be ecstatic to hire you, but the hard part is finding them

This was my experience prior to getting my RO after graduating. I think part of why the stakes feel high is just the market in general seems mostly uninterested in new grads.

I suppose I will need to find my niche in the industry. I don't care if I halve my salary. I don't care about company brand name. Amazon was more less incidental.
Anybody who is interested in this topic really needs to go see this awesome documentary:

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8

It was even done on a 4klb budget!!!

The reality is that the brits realized they could no longer maintain hard power and Lionel Curtis was the primary pusher of the psyop transition to "commonwealth" soft power while maintaining all the real vestiges of empire under a false name.
Norway blocks sale of last private land on Svalbard after Chinese interest
But presumption of immunity is different from presumption of innocence. You can't face a trial if you are immune. That's the entire reason this is before the court now, before the trial has even started. They are very different things. The presumption of immunity here is way stronger than you realize.
> because the medieval Latins traded more with the Arabs than they did with Byzantium

That’s really not even remotely true. The Empire was the primary foreign market for all the Italian merchant republics.

They almost always had a significant presence in Constantinople and in later periods almost controlled internal trade in the empire.

The Venetians especially were highly reliant on their trade with Constantinople until quite late.
Engineers and doctors in the U.K. go to US and Australia instead of staying in the shithole of the U.K.
This line of thinking is similar to "wont someone think of the children!" where harmful things are done in the name of good and designed so fighting them puts one in a precarious position.

A bridge to a common controller doesn't need an applications processor with millions of bytes of memory to run millions of lines of code to change the firmness of a stupid mattress. Stop using hammers to solve all your problems, other tools exist.
More like: if my guy does it that is official

Evidence:
Obama supporters treating the assassination of that American citizen as an official action.
> It's wild that software nearly the entire world relies on for secure access is maintained by seemingly just two people

obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/2347/
One cow costs $2500, one chicken costs $10. So one cow life is worth approximately 250 chicken lives. Q.E.D.
The whole "HD" thing of HD Radio was a deception to begin with. It blatantly played on the understanding of HD as "high definition", when all it actually meant was Hybrid Digital, i.e. you get a digital audio stream that falls back to a simulcast FM with insufficient signal strength or exceeding error correction thresholds.
> I thought the USA was a country of laws, not kings.

It is. The 'official' duties of presidents and the federal government are clearly laid out in the Constitution and subsequent laws. And moreover, the Presidents term expires at the end of four years, whether he believes it does or not. The concern-trolling over Jan 6 is something else. Even supposing the rioters had murderous intent and were going to hang people (they weren't... this was just a protest gone wrong)... trump would still cease to be president on January 20. No action needs to be taken to elect another one. The Presidency would fall to whomever is next in line and duly elected.

There is no way for a President to become a 'king'. The most years a President may serve is eight and at midnight on January 20 (or noon, I forget), no one listens to him anymore

> * actually guaranteeing that if the president is trampling my rights and a supermajority of congress don't like it, he'll be ejected from office, not anything to do with my protection or restitution.

Currently, the recourse you have if you believe the president is violating your rights is to file a civil action in a federal court. No action of congress is needed for you to do this. If your complaint is that SCOTUS, as the court of final appeal, may get your case wrong... indeed that is worrisome and indeed it's happened before, but if that's your complaint, then it has nothing to do with this case.
totally agree, they need immunity for whatever the hell they are doing these days.

btw - this thread is hilarious, thank you thank you thank you
There is an economic model where workers own the means of production. But people tend to lose their minds about that.
It means:

On the one hand: if you are president and you authorize the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima to get Japan to surrender without further loss of American life, you won't later be prosecuted for war crimes when your political rival comes into power.

On the other hand, if you are president and you murder a Japanese person you see on the street when going for a stroll outside the white house, you can be prosecuted for that.
Novo's rise is due to the proliferation of its new blockbuster weight-loss drug, semaglutide (aka Ozempic)
I’m an American citizen, and no matter where I go, I owe the IRS taxes on what I make, even if the USA isn’t involved otherwise.

Question: why can’t we do the same for corporations in the USA? The equivalent action might be to only allow a company to expense money spent inside the USA and thus they can’t just license themselves all their own technology and patents which are held in a one person office in Ireland.

I’m sure I’m simplifying things too much, but I’m tired of the two tiered tax system where regular people pay for everything and corps reap the rewards.
You're misreading this.

Core constitutional powers: may not be prosecuted. Period. Impossible.

Official acts: presumptive immunity, may possibly be prosecuted.

Clearly "core constitutional powers" != "official acts" because they have two very different standards applied.
Nice job. I actually experimented with a chat driven instruct2pix sort of interface that connected via API to a stable diffusion backend. The big problem is that it's difficult to know if the inpainting job you've done is satisfactory to the user.

This is why usually when you're doing this sort of traditional inpainting in automatic1111 you generate several iterations with various mask blurs, whole picture vs only masked section, padding and of course the optimal inpainting checkpoint model to use depends on whether or not the original images is photorealistic versus illustrated, etc.