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Very well put. I also live in a country where this kind of politics is everyday politics. Nothing really changes for good.
>Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term.

That timing is all about how long it takes a lawsuit to work through the system to reach a stacked court.... not so much who was President when it finally was resolved.
There is the short term reality that we are dependent on gas and oil and, decreasingly, coal. The difference between the two parties is the long term vision.

Dems want to have international treaties to address the problem and are willing to spend money to move away from fossil fuels. Republicans downplay the science (or outright deny it) and think international treaties make the US less independent and therefore weaker, and they would much rather cut taxes for Elon Musk than spend money on energy infrastructure.
JD Vance isn't president, Trump is. Trump does not care about breaking up big tech. What are we talking about here?
Did you take two years of your life to go into the military in your early 20s?
The number of border apprehensions is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the number of illegals who enter the country. If 0 illegal immigrants enter the country that would mean there are 0 border apprehensions. Would that mean the border was less secured?

Everything indicates there were less illegal border crossings under Trump than Biden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-...
I skimmed the Readme, the What is Superstreamer? page, and features list. I still don't understand when I would use this, or when I would recommend it to someone. I'm an engineer somewhat familiar with the space.

You may consider starting with a simple unique value proposition and reworking presentation from there.

Take the first sentence of the Readme as example: "Superstreamer is a self hostable platform that aims to simplify the complexities of video delivery" - and answer questions:

1. Who is benefiting?

2. How is this better?

3. What complexity is being solved?

4. What's the tangible outcome, or CTA?

5. What well-known alternative is this related to?

ChatGPT took a stab at it. Not amazing, but something to start with:

"Superstreamer is a self-hosted platform that simplifies video delivery, giving you full control over your content without third-party dependencies. Reduce costs, customize your setup, and deliver high-quality streams with ease. Drop <competitor> today and get started in minutes."

Also simple things like defining an acronym before it's used goes a long way.

Overall presentation, UX, design, code quality, and detail is a homerun IMO. Nice work, I can tell you put a heap of passion into it.
> Kamala never talks like just a normal person.

And Trump does? He says absolutely insane things.

However, "normal people" don't run for president.
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I'm fascinated by "sips" which has a full JavaScript interpreter built into it for rendering images using an entirely undocumented (as far as I can tell) Canvas-like API: https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips
It has never been about it being "pressing", or even about ideology. It's about cold, calculated electoral math.

Abortion is what's called a Wedge Issue[1]. It is so because the public opinion on the US is divided roughtly 50% for it and 50% against it.

On top of that, the US presidential election is a First-past-the-post[2] system. So if I manage to get 52% of the votes and you only get 48%, I win everything, you lose everything. You can probably imagine where this is going: Instead of convincing 51% of the people I only need to convince 3% of the indecisive, and I win.

Finally, the US is a very polarized country. The "other" is always bad, "we" are always good. So the wedge issues tend to "align". If you and I agree on abortion, we will probably also agree in most of the other wedge issues.

All of these factors together result in that both Democrats and Republicans are forced to "optimize", so their campaigns all revolve around the same wedge issues. They must, if they want to win.

If you ask me, the least complex way to get the country out of this rut would be changing the voting system to something other First Past The Post.

Unfortunately, the people who are in a position to make such a change are the least motivated to make it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
I did a bit of digging and it seems this was generalized into CSS System Colours at some point:

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color/#css-system-colors

And all these old colours were deprecated:

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color/#deprecated-system-colors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_in_Germany

Whatever you think about Trump, 2016-2020 was in no way, shape or form comparable to the 30s under NSDAP Germany and to *insist* on making such comparisons ad nauseum is one of the reasons you were rebuked at the polls by the electorate.

It's also electrifyingly funny that Trump took the largest Jewish counties (e.g., Rockland, NY) -- those self-hating Jews must want to go back to the concentration camps. This is your brain on progressive logic.
No, you're both wrong, nothing was "forced".

That dialogue is from the book. The book gets its title from the dialogue. The film has the same title and dialogue because it's based on the book.

There is no point where script writers are sat down trying to figure out how to work the title into the dialogue.
I did think at the time when Biden had to step aside that it was a shame they didn't try to choose the most competent replacement (maybe Shapiro?) rather than just going with Kamala who I think everyone agreed wasn't very good.
Can you name a policy of today's republican party that is further right than the republican party of 20 years ago? From my perspective they've ceded ground on many social issues. They had a porn star speak at the RNC convention this year. Dick Cheney, one of the people responsible for the "War on Terror", endorsed Kamala Harris. The idea that federal politics in the US has shifted right, not left, is baffling to me.
Trump talked for 3 hours straight and was coherent, remembered facts accurately and funny as well.

Harris avoided any conversation that wasn’t heavily edited.
There was a graphic in John Kings (CNN). Segment that showed a vast majority of the counties had wages falling behind inflation. This is just extremely real for the 5k(ish) takehome pay guy. I noticed the 4.5 ish $ eggs and milk.

The overall situation of housing and college costs have been increasing for a while this last round of inflation really was a big part of the last straw.
Don't you think the things Corning are accused of seem pretty anti-competitive though?
More like you are accidentally forced into arbitrary rotations with the tumbler, because of how moves correspond to inconsistent axes depending on the way you're turned.

Honestly I don't see that supposed failing as much of a downside really, because A) most of those extra rotations don't change the camera view in any meaningful way, they just roll it, B) you can typically rotate the object on top of the camera if you really need these rotations, and C) it makes control much more accurate.
This war (no need for scare quotes) definitely started on October 7th. The conflict may not have, but wars have beginnings and ends, and this one was started, by Hamas, on October 7th.

> "Israel has been occupying Gaza"

Nope. Left in 2005.

> "not allowing it to be recognized as a state"

Not allowing how? All Israel asked was a declaration of willingness to live side-by-side with Israel, without hostilities. Are you saying that's too much for Israel to ask?

> "or to control its own borders, for decades"

There are two sides to every border. Israel controls the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border.

> "Every year, even before this war, for every Israeli killed by someone from Gaza, Israel has killed two, three, sometimes even ten Gazans (and the balance is sitting at 45-100:1 for the current invasion, not counting all of the mass rape and torture and other crimes committed by Israeli soldiers against detainees)."

This is not a game. You don't aim for equal numbers. Israel is going for dead or surrendered Hamas militants, and Hamas is going for dead Israeli civilians. The Israelis are better at it. That doesn't make them wrong.

> "not allowed to import or export anything unless approved by Israel"

Yes, because they kept trying to import arms, explosives, and rockets. Look up the Karine-A affair. Apparently, given what happened on October 7th, the control is likely not strict enough.

> "in the West Bank, Israel is taking more and more of the Palestinians' lands and settling colonists"

Sounds like the Palestinians' top interest should be to get a deal struck as soon as possible that forces Israel to remove the settlers. Like they did with the Oslo accords in 92', until Arafat was found to be straight-up lying to Clinton, negotiating with Clinton and Rabin in the morning and directing terrorist attacks in the evening.

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Leaders of western nations are not generally allied with Israel because they particularly like Jews. They are allied with Israel because Israel is the historical homeland of the Jews, a full democracy with democratic values (...for now), and the most successful decolonization project in history; and it has from day one strived to make peace with any willing country, while successfully defending itself from numerous assaults by its neighboring countries, the Palestinians, and the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.
> I have yet to meet anyone who feels like they’re actually better off.

Hi! I’m doing better than ever before. It’s hard to attribute that to a political cause, however. I expect to be doing even better in 4 years, regardless of who’s in office.
Before ACA you could be denied health insurance or coverage due to pre-existing conditions (or they could charge you so much that it was infeasible to get insurance).

This was huge because if you ever lost insurance and got new insurance (switched jobs) then you were often screwed.

ACA defined essential benefits. Before ACA insurance usually didn't cover things mental healthcare.
Required coverage of preventative care/screenings/reproductive care for women.

Annual and lifetime coverage limits were banned. Your health insurance could no longer drop you because you got an expensive to treat cancer.

The amount of desperately needed consumer protections ACA added were immense.

Sure there are problems with ACA, especially the marketplace part of it, but overall it was a big change to healthcare in the US.
There is a very very close to 0% chance of the US stopping being a democracy in the next 4 years.
so spoofing, or using a real console, bypasses 2FA!
I think the most interesting observation was this... "never seen a 2FA prompt on a console".
There must be other opportunities for such... investigating :)
This is precisely his point. Illegal immigration isn’t about identity politics, as it has nothing to do with race or gender or disability, etc. Your comment turned this into a conversation about identity politics.
If Reddit isn’t real life, then twitter definitely isn’t. No website could do what you saw.
Reminds me a bit of the -a flag for snoop on Solaris in where you can listen for packets on /dev/audio. I wonder if that ever made it into tcpdump.
> if you don't see things my way

This attitude of putting words in people's mouths I expect on Reddit, but I am disappointed to see it here.
Those are not left policies. Just liberal. We have both left and right parties that have similar policies. We also have left and right parties that area against it.
Excellent book. I read this book after my WWII Veteran relatives passed away, had fought in Europe and survived the Battle of the Bulge. His wife invited everyone over and wanted everyone to look through his books and take some that looked interesting.

That's one of the ones I took, certainly the one I remember most.
You say that but then demand we don’t call such people stupid. The actions at the Capitol were very well documented. It’s implausible that people see it for anything other than what it was. The obvious conclusion is that these people support the attempt.
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Would you say it's a better solution than a local nonvirtualized environment?
Trump is not the end he is the means to an end. His party will absolutely change the rules just to take advantage of them in the future.
Trump faced comparatively more headwinds in his first administration.
From what I can tell, the polls were just really bad. Less than 1% response rates. This provided hope for various sides at various times but at the end of the day they basically aren't that useful.
I've emailed you, asking if the position is still available, how you seen an email?
It's more important to look at what Trump does than what he says. Because he says whatever he thinks people will like. He's a chronic liar, by the way.

Trump did in fact enable the judges who changed the law on abortion.
What is at Frankfurt Hbf?
https://archive.ph/GCmDC
You believe polls? The right notoriously is undersampled because they simply don’t take them. If you need more evidence, the polls also put her in the lead.
I can't help find such edgy cynism nothing else than juvenile. Yeah, sure, in the end nothing matters and the universe doesn't give a fuck about you.

And life on earth is just an accident, and that intelligence and consciousness exists here for a very brief time on the universe's path to heath death doesn't matter at all. Except of us poor conscious beings who find joy in being alive and actually have the capacity to marvel, because it is marvellous that we can, and we should.

And I care that it is us who inhabits the earth, and not slugs.
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I'm not of that opinion. At all. They should stay and clean up their own house. And I don't know what optimism you speak about: the people who I assume are frustrated right now, are not whose optimism I miss.
It's not in Trump's nature to do the work, but all he has to do is sign the bill. It's staffers that do the work.

In 2016 the staffers were mostly Bush people, and the 2016 presidency was mostly a Bush repeat.

In 2024 the staffers are going to be much different. If Trump gets a trifecta all bets are off -- we'll get policy set by whoever gets Trump's ear.
My tolerance is predicated on me not giving you money.

Spend the money you earn on yourself: it will flow through the rest of the economy. But I am not going to give you any to do so.
I've emailed you asking if its still available, have you seen it?
I have a very clear answer to this: Suzerain

By far the best decision-making game I have played, incredible writing, world building and character development too.

It’s about being president but surprisingly similar to being a founder. No matter the scale, there is always a small inner circle and it’s just as much about the people as the technical aspects, which is also always similar: estimating outcomes based on evidence, logic, experience and advice.
Then why won't they leave us alone?
In response to someone calling Puerto Rico garbage? It wasn't "all trump supporters".
Interesting! I will give fixtures a look. I've shied away because -- unless you introduce a manual step to generate them, my understanding is that they're static.

You're spot on about background jobs. Rails added support 2-3 major versions ago and there's no shortage of back-ends. With Django, it seems to be Celery-or-bust and there's no Django API that I'm aware of. I actually recently rolled my own solution using SQS and a dedicated compose service which runs a management script (in the Django context). It works but ... it's klunky, the API is ad hoc and there's no monitoring/retries/etc.
So... Right Wing?
OK he still won. Unless you will claim, like MSNBC already is, that it was stolen by the Russians.
The conversation has become so polarized that people are preferring to hide their intentions to avoid confrontation.
The article you're linking to makes claims about FBI data, but its only evidence are links to and images created from another website [0], and not the FBI data it is referencing. Further, following the link, the site claims "the data is here" and links only to self hosted excel files and not to the referenced FBI data.

0 - A website which happens to have a conservative bias and has failed several fact checks according to Media Bias/Fact Check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/crime-prevention-research-cen...
You mean the terrorist attack orchestrated by the same guy (Osama Bin Laden) the USA propped up in the 80s when he was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan?

The 11 September is the perfect example of the USA bringing instability to the world and giving life to future enemies through their reckless interference in the Middle East.
You mean a country that is more white?
> also the dropdown menu, when opened, looks very different than the original 98 style

Sadly this is the dropdown provided by the host operating system. The tell is that it can extend beyond the browser chrome! 98.css doesn't ship with any JS, and I thought about hacking it with checkboxes and :after but.... no thanks.
Well, you and Germany are one of the few influential western countries left that has some sort of stable center-left government. Almost everything else is rightwing conservative, neoliberal or slowly descending into fascism.
OK? how did this statement change anything I posted?

I guess you didn’t know this, the idea is strength in numbers. If you can’t provide for personal and collective defense, gtfo.
In aggregate things will get more expensive, but purchasing power of some will increase. Or at least that's the idea.
Voters on the left need to learn that lesson, the DNC already knows. Harris campaigned to the right of Biden, at that.
If you had a city, could you produce them locally then?
look, whatever the charts say is a 100% bold faced lie. have you seen the price of a little ceasars pizza? it's jumped nearly 50% in the last 4 years. my salary has not gone up 50% relative to my experiece in the last 4 years. most recently i got a salary cut. you can't make me believe the economy is doing fine.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen many republicans be anti-Israel and anti-Palestine, anti-Ukraine and anti-Russia. Their stance is pro-America.
> Your operating philosophy cannot be that everyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

I don't think people are stupid. I think they don't think things through.

MAGA is not a coherent political policy. Project 2025 is at least soundly documented and is probably the set of policies we'll see out of this admin.

I googled MAHA and it doesn't seem like a thing beyond a boilerplate website and twitter account nobody follows and some videos from RFK. Again, not a policy, just a platitude like MAGA and an unserious one at that.
You know, it’s interesting that you don’t seem to care what American Pakistanis think. Ham sab gaye tel lene kya? Ham bhi bhugtenge
you’re free to make your own weapons, plenty of NATO countries do.
I tried! No country would let me in without a job, and no company in Europe would even interview me from America.
Heya, infosec nerd and titanfall fan here. Can you elaborate on the bit where apex was referred to as titanfall3? I didn't notice anything about apex in the accompanying JSON in that section of the writeup.
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I have no clue what you're talking about? Did Gore call Bush a fascist? Obama?

Ultimately, I see the world this way: people want good things for others. Most people who voted for Trump aren't directly fascists. Trump himself I wouldn't even qualify as a fascist. But he espouses fascistic policies. Immigrants polluting the blood of America, stuff like that, those are fascist ways of talking about immigration. So at some point we have to talk about things, and denounce them. And no, Trump himself is not Mussolini. But the shortcut of calling him a fascist is ultimately okay.

Same thing with racisms. Most people aren't fundamentally racist, but they'll espouse racist opinions. So they're racist.
”where are the adults”
I mean, the Republican game plan was to create this situation. Once they decided that they will do what it takes to win, they really did succeed.

I mean take everything from the climate crisis, to my favorite - creationism being taught in school at the same level as evolution.

The playbook is literally right there, you get experts to come on stage, ridicule them to your audience, show that they are cartoons and have no real value.

Then you provide you viewers with good sounding news bites and manage the optics, and you can get a convicted felon elected to President.

Yes - it really is just the information ecosystem. There really is no free speech when one side is a regular joe and the other side is a marketing and political speech behemoth.

It is that simple, and we can’t do anything about it, because that would be harming our ability to speak freely.
>Are you confused about the meaning of understanding vs a literal equivalence?

No, but you seem to be about any context not spelled out completely and pedantically.

>e.g. “ Because the code is the entirety of the process” is clearly false regardless of which way you look at it.

A coder works on code (literally editing lines of code, which is what they deliver), and is called to create, understand, and debug code.

Else, sure, code also runs on some server, by some organization, that had meetings to decide the requirements, and there are also end users, and the whole thing runs in some planet, inside a universe, or perhaps a multi-verse, so the code its not the entirety of the process /s
I am not sure that's the case. The main supporter is a guy who produces e-cars with all the interests to sell more of them.

The way I see it, he will continue with the transition whenever it benefits him/the country. Which means some programs might be canceled, especially if they go against such interests.
You're touching on one of the struggles for many left leaning voters and why the democratic party struggles with enthusiasm and to win. To many on the left, the party markets itself as "the least bad option" and thus "the only choice". Anyone in sales would tell you that is not the best pitch.
The last few intel generations were soldiered too. I'm still using one.
Voting for lower interest rates to come back will certainly fix that. https://www.reuters.com/article/business/trump-heaps-pressur...
See, I kind of agree that there are certain types of sexism like assumptions that women won't get their hands dirty or patronising artificial politeness that are purely middle class constructs.

But the idea that only white collar workers are capable of ass-grabs or genuinely derogatory remarks is wild...
That's perception. In reality layoffs happen all the time even in a growing labor market. I saw tech layoffs in my network up to maybe a year ago and almost everyone is employed again. We had a correction after what was the most overheated job market ever.
This is amazing, thanks for this! I made a simple app using 98.css because that was the most feature-filled retro CSS library I could find. Going to try and use your 3.1 schemes :)
I'm doing great.

That doesn't mean I don't notice my grocery bill is three times what it was in 2019 after being pretty much the same from 2009 till then.

It's kind of annoying having people tell me this doesn't impact me. I'm literally spending more money for the same thing and my salary hasn't tripled in the last 5 years - my shares though. Which is kind of the point.