Riskable @ riskable @programming.dev

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“The universal injunction was conspicuously nonexistent for most of our Nation’s history,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion.

So was your right to vote. Shall we let the executive branch take that away on a whim as well?

Over a billion dollars to fight... (checks notes) the concept of people not being 100% aligned masculine/straight/male or feminine/straight/female.

WTF‽ What made them think that the 0.5%-2% of the population (depending on who you ask) that land at the edges of the sex spectrum are worth that level of hate?

These folks are all giving great advice but also let us know when you're ready to really fuck around and have fun with your Linux superpowers 😀

You, in practically no time at all: "Nearly everything is working great! Now I want to make my desktop change it's background to NASA's picture of the day while also putting all my PC's status monitors on there. Oh! And I want my PC to back itself up every hour over the network automatically with the ability to restore files I deleted last week. I've got KDE Connect on my phone and it's awesome!"

Then, later: "I bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to turn it into a home theater streaming system and emulation station."

...and later: "What docker images do you guys recommend? I want to setup some home automation. What do you guys think of Pi-hole?"

"I've got four Raspberry Pis doing various things in my home and I'm thinking about getting Banana Pi board to be my router. OpenWRT or full Linux on it? What do you guys think?"

...and even later: "I taught myself Python..." 🤣

More Americans are witnessing people being hauled off as they shop, exercise at the gym, dine out and otherwise go about their daily lives

There was another time in history when this happened. It's pretty famous. Maybe the news media could make that reference? Nah, that would be too prescient and "too biased." In the same way the news media didn't report the same things realistically for the same reason during that other time in history when this happened.

Biden just followed through with what was negotiated with the Taliban by the former Trump administration. If the US doesn't follow through we lose credibility in all future negotiations with everyone.

What you're complaining about is the fact that Trump et all made an agreement to pull out the troops within a certain (completely unreasonable) timeline. They had no idea WTF they were doing and obviously didn't do due diligence or any sort of logistics planning for such a withdrawal before making the agreement.

If you think that sounds like bullshit let me ask you this: Does Trump ever do due diligence on anything? During his first administration nearly all his executive orders got thrown out because they were deemed arbitrary and capricious and during his second administration it looks like we're getting the same exact situation.

They don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to govern. If they didn't have several powerful right wing media empires backing up every stupid decision they make Trump would never have been re-elected and he'd have long since been impeached in this administration.

Missing:

• A game console
• All the maps in the world + compass
• Gigantic notepad
• Calendar
• Entire stack of catalogs
• Newspapers
• Thermostat
• A whole fucking supercomputer
• An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
• Flashlight
• An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.

I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I'm sure they all sound fantastic:

1. Death.
2. Death.
3. Death.
4. Death.
5. Death.
6. Death.
7. Death.
8. Death.
9. Death.
10. Feces on their faces.

Actually I believe the correct term is, "fascism"

Correction: Education is not OK.

AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

Except we don't have very many factories any more. And we don't have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They're going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.

Not covered on the site: The fact that San Francisco experiences earthquakes. Unlike all those other cities it sources as being perfectly fine with completely different building standards.

To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY... They just won't bother to get a permit/get it inspected.

Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.

Socialism to the rescue!

Retiring would be a step down for that guy.

Just hoof it down to your nearest library and ask the librarian. They know how to horse around 🐴👍

Ah yes. I'm actually impressed that they were able to determine that he was "Verified BS" so quickly.

If they're bringing on "IT leadership" people then the only place where they're going to be bossing people around is cubicles, conference rooms, and operations centers.

They may get people killed but it will be because they underestimated the damages caused by their hackers. In fact, I highly suspect that there will be a huge "collateral damage" incident from US/Israel hackers using an undisclosed vulnerability to break into something that "the bad guys" then use to break into some important systems all over the world.

Imagine a major industrial control vulnerability that gets turned into a worm by Iran that then causes massive explosions and chemical fires all over the world. Even in countries that have nothing to do with their current conflict.

The "front line" in that war is an operations center somewhere in the US where they control spy satellites and tell our allies, submarines, & other remote equipment what to do.

It's super interesting, right? Are there any other armies around the world that have lowered their minimum health/boot camp requirements in order to recruit more people like drone pilots, software developers, and various other engineers?

Seems like a good idea to me. Ever since WW2 technology has been the most important factor in warfare. So much so that it now doesn't matter if you have a single soldier ready to deploy if you have nuclear ICBMs (not that it's a good thing we have those).

The difference today is that what you need are lots of people to "man" data/operations centers and just a few ready to deploy for actual combat. Also, a lot of people involved in manufacturing and with skills like CNC machining and 3D printing.

None of those skill sets are conducive to "being in shape". Rather than focus on troops being "ready for anything" it makes more sense to have them housed right next to the systems they work with so they can roll out of the bunk and into the operations center like a fireman rather than out of a barracks and on to a troop transport.

Many drugs permanently alter your brain. He could've been smart at some point but he just took too many/the wrong drugs. Now his intelligence is low enough that he thought it would be cool to hang out with Trump.

...but let's be honest: You don't get that rich by being smart. You get that rich by being lucky (and a total scumbag).

When that happens it will derail their entire argument. These people are the opposite of trained professionals.

Even if you bring it up they'll try to change the subject, "this conversation is getting off-track."