Dude I replied to you in the last thread.

Walk out of the house. Now.

Exactly. As much of a leftist as I am, redrawing electoral maps on the basis of party advantage disenfranchises voters. It is antidemocratic and ethically wrong. California, where I am a registered Democrat, really fucked up here.

Yep most BIOSes will have a toggle for Secure Boot. Make off.

I grew up in a very similar house. This is indeed uncommon.

My advice:

• you’re doing great by going to therapy
• get out of the house at all costs as soon as possible (today if possible)
• wherever you end up, you will have a rough go, but you will find work and a way to support yourself. You’re a good person, and people want to work with good people
• in your new city, join a volunteer group. This will help you to understand that there are good people out there, that you can make a positive difference in the lives of people with similar experiences, and that there’s good in the world. Social connectedness is very strongly correlated with happiness
• people can begin to resemble their abusers but sometimes they become saints. You’re on the right trajectory, keep up the good work

I’m a programmer. Happy to take a DM from you anytime. Also if you go to SF, I can give you more info.

I don’t mind when it links to wiki but I actually follow the link to verify. It totally made up a pardon from the king of England to some guy yesterday

The bespoke short-lived solutions angle is an interesting one, to be sure.

I wonder how many orgs will back themselves into a corner thinking their product will be short lived but it ends up hanging out for a while, as you mentioned.

Honestly this feels like an extension of this Agile/Scrum madness we’ve been dealing with since the mid-2000’s. Instead of the next quarter, we’re only building things with a view of the next two weeks.

Now it’s measured in hours, and even then we can give a prompt to an LLM and have a half working thing to throw away after it converts that PDF to a CSV.

I worry about the craftsmanship leaving this field. Engineers used to push back and for good reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

This thread is full of people imagining that he committed war crimes in Iraq, but it’s also very likely that he once had discipline, the threat of consequences, formal training in weapons, use of force, the rules of engagement, and the concept of restraint.

It’s far likelier IMO that when he joined law enforcement, and particularly ICE, he felt that he could be less restrained.

Perhaps you are the wellest of all

Build quality for Dell is down over the past few years

Also box/irukandji jellyfish, stonefish, brown snakes, eshays, and ice addicted bogans

Me too. I break out to google with a !g when necessary, which is maybe 1/3 of the time depending on the subject (maps, technical)

Here in Australia the police saying this would get a stern talking to unless they were in NSW

Dawg I’m fat too. We’re not a monolith.

It’s good to promote health. Light pressure applied with empathy can be a good thing.

Weird way to spell Linux Mint

Shame can also be a motivator, it has an evolutionary role.

Being overweight is a series of choices. Not an immutable characteristic.

I’m a hard determinist, so I empathise with your viewpoint and it has merit, however, if you believe in free will, you believe the person has some agency.

“Montgomery met Kirk when the latter was 18, after hearing Kirk speak at a small college.[4] Montgomery has been described as Kirk’s mentor, including by advising him to start Turning Point USA rather than attend college.”

Nothing weird about that at all

Honestly? The kids and their pesky iPhones.

So we’re looking at a ham sandwich

Seconded