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  • Another huge, important, but subtle distinction to make here is that the trial is not to decide whether you did the thing. It's not always a mystery who perpetrated an alleged crime. Even if you pull out a gun and shoot somebody on the 50-yard-line at the Super Bowl, and 300 million people see it, they can't just take you off to prison for murder. They have to give you a trial to determine whether you violated the law.

    There's a thing called an affirmative defense, as in, "yes, I did the thing, but it wasn't a crime, because..." If you can, say, convince a jury that you're a time traveler, the ref was going to make a bad call in the 4th quarter that cost your team the Super Bowl win, and that justified shooting him, well, then it wasn't a crime. That's what a jury is ultimately charged with deciding.

    This is not to say that Magione's attorney plans to present an affirmative defense, just that there are a number of good reasons to plead not guilty, even if it's 100% certain you did the thing.

    (Edit: Typo.)

  • I feel like there's a lot of information missing here. VLANs operate at OSI layer 2, and Immich connects to its ML server via IP in layer 3. It could talk to a remote server in Ecuador over the Internet, so the layer 2 configuration is irrelevant.

    What you have is an issue of routing IP packets between subnets. You just need to set up a rule on your router to allow the Immich server on the Internet-facing IP subnet to connect to the correct port(s) for the ML server on the private subnet. Or maybe use the router's port-forwarding feature. Lacking further information about the setup, I have to be vague here. In any case, it's conceptually the same as punching a hole in the firewall to let IP packets from an Immich server in Ecuador get to the ML server on your private subnet, except that the server is not in Ecuador.

  • I first heard about the Y2K bug in about 1993 from a programmer who was working on updating systems. These were all older systems, often written in COBOL, which did not use epoch time, and in fact didn't reference system time at all. They'd be doing math on data entered by users, and since they were written back when every byte of memory was precious (and nobody expected that the program would still be in use after 30 years), they'd be doing math on two-digit years. It would certainly be a problem to calculate people's ages, loan terms, payments due, et cetera, and get negative numbers.

    Heck, I remember reading a story about a government system once that marked the residents of Hartford, CT as dead, because somehow the last letter of the city name data overflowed into the next column, and marked them as 'd'eceased. Y2K was definitely a real problem.

  • As a bicyclist, I see that we have Schrödinger's Cyclist: Too poor to be able to afford a car like "normal" people, but also a rich elitist who can afford to commute by bike.

    Also, Schrödinger's Bike Lanes: A conspiracy by car-hating politicians to punish drivers, but also an amenity that only rich elitists get in their neighborhoods.

  • I had major depression when I was younger. I couldn't get individual insurance because it was a pre-existing condition. I couldn't afford it, anyway, because getting and keeping a job was very difficult because, uh, depression? So, getting a job with a group plan was also out of reach. I had to research it and treat it myself, which, goddamn right I'm proud I managed.

    But now I'm middle-aged, single, and probably will never have the savings to retire. Eat a Grand Canyon full of Godzilla dicks, U.S. healthcrime system.

  • Decades ago, a group calling itself The New Party tried to eliminate the spoiler effect of third parties through the practice of electoral fusion, that is, allowing the same candidate to run and appear on the ballot under more than one political party. That way, they'd know where their support came from. But the Democratic Farm Labor Party (Minnesota's Democratic Party organization) went to court to shut it down, offering the specious argument that it would confuse voters.

    Would the corporatist, establishment Democrats allow an upstart progressive movement into its primaries?

  • ohh ...

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  • Waiting times are atrocious here in the U.S. The earliest in-person appointment that I can get with my GP is about 6 months out. Non-urgent surgeries are sometimes take close to a year. A friend recently had to keep a bladder drain in after surgery for an extra week because there were no doctors who could do the 5-minute removal available.

    Anybody who says that long wait times are unique to public health systems is lying.

  • Osama bin Laden also didn't kill anybody personally on 9/11, and the attack killed only 2,977 victims, which is almost certainly a lower body count than UnitedHealthcare under Brian Thompson's leadership. Yet the US military personnel who violated Pakistan's sovereignty and murdered him are heroes?

    What odd moral standards!

  • The song is "No Mercy in June" by a band called Hot D.A.M. I'm pretty sure that I got the song by piecing together a multi-part, MIME-encoded Usenet posting. Somehow, I have a whole album by the band in my collection that I found somewhere on the seven seas years ago. I don't recall when or where now. The best information that I could find back when was that Hot D.A.M. was one of those local bands that stayed local, perhaps one of the many that bubble up out of the musical quantum foam, and disappear just as quickly.

  • Samesies. I remember back in college powering through a writing assignment with a 2L bottle of Coke and a 1lb. bag of M&Ms. Totally not healthy, but I learned later that it has to do with the relationship between insulin and neurotransmitters, like dopamine.

    I think I need to read up on that link more.

  • "Freezing temperatures" mean "freezing temperatures," though, and numbers are pretty irrelevant. American schoolkids learn that it's around 32°F and 0°C, and we easily remember it, but the weather forecasters still say "frost warning," or "freezing rain," rather than "it's going to be 32°F tomorrow," because there are so many confounding variables. Even the temperature of the phase transition is kind of squishy, since pure water freezes at 0°C at STP (except when it gets super-cooled). And if we're talking about the fundamental importance of water, then I might argue that 4°C is the important temperature, because it's temperature at which water reaches its maximum density.

    Anyway, not to say that Fahrenheit is great, or anything, just that Celsius is similarly arbitrary, and we lack a compelling reason to switch. (Even though virtually every thermometer I've ever seen in the U.S. has both scales on it.)