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I am prepping the area where I milk my goats every morning.

Not everyone has a passport. It is a lot of work to get one, costs over $100, and can take months to have them delivered.

> ...two forms of photo ID...

I have one valid photo ID. Most people have only one valid photo ID. How is this supposed to work?

You're very lucky. The worst wipeout I ever had was on the side of a small town street. I was accelerating, the chain popped of my gears, and I basically flipped the bike over and ground to a stop on my helmet. My reactions and training absolutely helped me; I knew how to roll into it and how to not break my wrists. But without that helmet, I would have ground a hole into my skull.

You don't need that helmet until you do.

I find college debt forgiveness to be backfilling an unequal burden we put on college students starting about a dozen years ago. During the great recession, many states needed to crank up tuition to cover gaps in their university budgets. Students at the time were given two options: pay even more out the nose for reduced services or drop out. Those who chose to stay had to build up even more debt than they would have piled up in the aughts. We as a country shifted the societal costs of educating our populace further onto the backs of the young. I often compare the state my friends who went to state school are still paying off their debt with the experience my older family had. My parents were both able to graduate from a state school with less than 5 figures of debt. My grandmother was able to pay her way through Berkeley with no debt by working at See's. Sometime around the late 90s we started to break this contact and by the teens, we had completely pulled the rug out from incoming college students. Despite having no college debt myself, I see college-debt forgiveness as a step back towards the society we used to be.

The biggest problem Twitter now has is that I'm not fully convinced someone didn't just pay $8 to publish this as Twitter.

Busses are bosons; they tend to condensate.

I had almost this exact same experience when teaching an algorithms course. I had to stop giving automated feedback when I had a student turn my own code back into me and then lie to my face when confronted about it. It only took 3 weeks. The worst part was how bad I felt for taking something useful away from the students who weren't abusing it.

There's even an official per-mille symbol: ‰

My graduate advisor loved slipping it into papers just to show it off. I had to dissuade him at least once because it was in the middle of a table of percentages and who is going to that the 7th entry out of 12 has ‰ instead of %?

I'll give the grad students at UC Davis props for trying: https://theaggie.org/2010/02/18/uc-davis-student-gives-hella....

My lab at the time slipped hella- into a few conference presentations here and there. We had to back our university. I always remember it getting a few chuckles.

I found a easy solution to this one a while ago: middle seat gets both armrests to compensate for it being the middle seat. When I get an aisle or window seat, I relinquish use of one of my armrests to the middle seat.

In Wisconsin, the state provides a list of who has requested an absentee ballot, who has returned it, who has voted early, and who is just registered. These are updated around daily and can be accessed by anyone with the right knowledge (and possibly cash).

Nope. The people running the election sign every voter in uaing a system independent of the voting machine (often paper). At the end of the day, they know that 216 people voted at that precinct. If the counting machine doesn't say 216 votes on it, something is awry and must be investigated.

Most states use paper ballots that are then run through electronic tallying machines. This process is completely auditable. This is how people lying about the 2020 election were able to do all of their sham audits in Arizona and Wisconsin.

Electronic ballot-tallying machines are necessary to running accurate and speedy elections. As we saw in the Arizona fiasco with the "Cyber Ninjas," hand-counting ballots takes weeks, if not months. Additionally, hand-counting has an error margin of 1-2%. In a era where many races are within a point or two, hand-counting ballots will lead to the wrong person winning office.

We also have tons of checks in place to make sure the machines work. There are calibration runs where known stacks of votes are sent through the machines and confirmed at the end. The vote totals on the machines are checked against the number of people who voted. Post-election, election officials randomly choose machines, open them up in front of the public at preannounced times, and confirm that the ballots that have been locked inside the machine match the tally the machine produced.

This is on the same level as designing doors that are supposed to open with a button but shame your passenger and supposedly damage your seals if they use the highly obvious and intuitive latch instead of the button that looks like a window control.

The inclusions of "Blackest Black 3.0" is just beautiful. I hope the Hex is `-1-1-1`. Or maybe it sucks brightness from the pixels around it.

Well, not just any. All of the dorms had access controls. Some of the business school buildings and floors had access control. There was a somewhat-noted case in the late aughts of MIT campus hackers (tunnel, shaft, and crawlspace-explorers and pranksters that the university somewhat turns a blind eye to) who had to fight trespassing charges after walking through an unlocked door.

This is really sad to me.

Part of the MIT experience was living and studying in the middle of a giant tourist attraction. I have classmates who were literally asked to be in pictures just because they were MIT students.

Since graduating, every time I visit I just walk around campus for an hour or so, strolling the halls. There are experiments, posters, and demos lining the walls. It's truly the densest area of knowledge I've ever seen.

Just to be clear, because it's in the title, the reporter was threatened with a lawsuit for looking at source code. I cannot find anyone acually sued for it. BTW, here's an article saying said reporter wasn't sued: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hac...

Anyone with a mouth can run it and threaten a lawsuit. If fact, I threaten to sue you for misinformation right now unless you correct your post. Fat lot of good my threat will do because no judge in their right mind would entertain said lawsuit because it's baseless.

Nope, not sure, but I've yet to run into a wall using it daily for the past 2 years.

I officially have a copy of pycharm and not webstorm. I use it to maintain both a python repo and a typescript repo. You can install language support for almost every official jetbrains language into basically any jetbrains editor. The only differences I have found are the default plug-ins and the app icon.

I believe it is an allusion to a speech by the Methodist pastor David Barnhart:

"The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.

Archimedes Banya in South SF is a wonderful Russian bath house. There are 4 or 5 saunas of varying types, two hot tubs, a warm pool, and a cold plunge. I've been going there for at least 6 years now and it's always been fantastic. https://banyasf.com/

s/without breaking the law/without getting caught or punished for breaking the law/

This is the confluence of like 5 different hacker news communities and I'm loving every second of it.

There's a huge difference between saying, "LGBT people are people," and "LBGT people should be shunned out of existence." Words have meanings.

I'm finding the text block with an overall left-to-right gradient surprisingly hard to read. Continuing from the end of one line to the beginning of the next takes more effort than it should. I'm guessing it's the abrupt change in color.

I've found the gradient text trend to be interesting for titles and single lines, but I don't think it works for multi-line text.

There were two Republicans in the race and one was Sarah Palin. People in Alaska have strong opinions about her, especially after she quit the governorship half-way through to go be a reality TV actor. There were many GOP voters that chose the other republican as their first choice and the Democrat as their second because they disliked Palin more than an R after her name could make up for.

In fact, this seems like the perfect example of ranked-choice voting giving people the outcome they preferred.

I think it's mostly because of how aggressive and one-way tesla is. My 6-year-old volt can probably get firmware updates over the air, but I've never stepped into my car to discover that the emergency blinkers are now hidden, the windshield wipers are now on the other side of the column, and my battery has been limited to only 60% of what I bought because telsa flipped the wrong bit 4 years ago and two owners back and has decided to "remedy" my experience.