noahm

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[–] noahm 3 points 5 months ago

I attended a Ralph Nader rally in Boston ahead of the 2000 US presidential election. It was a high energy event, with an atmosphere almost like a pop music show. Nader and his VP candidate both spoke about their campaign positions, with frequent pauses for enthusiastic applause from the crowd. Nader was a third-party candidate, which meant that he was an outsider to the regular election process, and in particular was not invited to the nationally televised debates. There were frequent chants of "Let Ralph Debate", and we were certain that the establishment was uncomfortable with that idea because they knew his policies would be very popular. Cash donations were collected, and many people wrote pro-Nader messages on the bills they gave.

I suspect your rally will be similar, really. Not quite as much of an outsider vibe, but maybe it'll be replaced with an underdog vibe. Expect an optimistic event that tries to inspire enthusiasm. It's not just about encouraging your direct support, but also about inspiring you encourage others to support the campaign.

[–] noahm 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bush's 2000 campaign is largely responsible for mobilizing the evangelical Christian voting block in the US. So in no small way, we have him to thank for the rise of Christian nationalism that we've seen over the past 20 years.

I won't judge him as a person, but there's no rehabilitation possible for his presidency.

[–] noahm 2 points 5 months ago

Big +1 for K-9. I considered switching to an iPhone after breaking my previous Android phone, but two apps, K-9 and an actual real Firefox, kept me on Android. It's a great mail reader, and I struggle to imagine having to use something else.

[–] noahm 2 points 7 months ago

But the term is his, and it's what he's using to rationalize his plans. He's not declaring that he/Trump are declaring a post-constitutional doctrine, but that we're already living in one and thus he's justified in his radical reinterpretations of it.

[–] noahm 66 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Just ask ChatGPT; it's better than humans at proving its humanity with these stupid things.

[–] noahm 5 points 8 months ago

VMs provide a meaningful security boundary between applications. Containers (docker, etc) do not.

[–] noahm 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've known two respiratory therapists. They spend their days working with people suffering from emphysema and other smoking related ailments. Both of them smoked.

People are weird.

[–] noahm 14 points 8 months ago

Those aren't tubes, they're whole tubular tires, essentially an integrated tube and tire in one unit that is glued to the rim. Changing a flat first required peeling the old one off before the new tire could be stretched (they fit tight!) onto the rim.

Tubulars are still used regularly by at least one world tour team (French, naturally), but these days a flat is fixed by swapping the wheel or even the whole bike for a spare carried by the team car. That wasn't allowed in the early days.

[–] noahm 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's actually a decent sized income gap between the two cities, which no doubt contributes. Rents looks very comparable.

Median income for the city of Boston: $89,212 (source)

Median income for the city of Seattle: $116,068 (source)

Per the same source,

  • median gross rent is very comparable between the two cities ($1,945 vs. $1,981 in Seattle vs Boston, respectively)
  • Seattle has a higher percentage of its population with college degrees, which likely explains some of the higher income
  • Seattle also has a higher percentage of owner-occupied homes, which probably influences this, though I'm not exactly sure how.
[–] noahm 3 points 10 months ago

Mac Jones doesn't even make the list. Poor guy.

[–] noahm 3 points 1 year ago

That's what we said about Roe as well. They will always find some new way to manufacture outrage even after they get their way.

[–] noahm 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting! From his post,

Mikhail advised me to use balanced trees instead of extensible hashing

And

I never told Mikhail that Oracle had tried implementing a filesystem using balanced trees, and its performance was terrible leading to most insiders in the industry concluding that balanced trees performed poorly for filesystem File size patterns.

Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

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