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Piker, recounting the incident on his Twitch live stream on Monday, said he was led to a private room at Chicago O’Hare airport and interviewed for nearly two hours about his political views. He is a US citizen.Comments
He said the officer was particularly focused on his criticism of Israel’s prosecution of the Gaza war, asking him: “Do you like Hamas? Like, do you support Hamas? Do you think Hamas is a resistance group?”
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When the Executive Defies the Judiciary: How Federal Courts Can Enforce Their Orders Without the MarshalsComments
When the Marshals are ordered to stand down, the All Writs Act could operate as a legal backstop, enabling courts to fill the resulting enforcement gap by appointing other officials, including state law-enforcement officers. The Supreme Court has held that the Act authorizes commands “necessary or appropriate to effectuate and prevent the frustration of orders” issued under a court’s jurisdiction. A situation where the Executive blocks contempt enforcement would represent precisely the kind of unanticipated gap—a “casus omissus”—that the Act is meant to address.
Well, that’s something. But still, there’s this:Courts will need to consider that non-USMS officials appointed to enforce court orders against the Government may find themselves in direct conflict—and perhaps even an armed standoff—with federal law-enforcement officers. That possibility is particularly salient in a context where the Executive Branch already has rejected the Judiciary’s Article III authority. Courts must weigh this risk carefully.
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Usually when I go to judo, I have some nifty combo in mind, and never actually make it happen in randori.Comments
So today, instead of being that specific, I decided to drop defense and go for forward throws even if they weren't set up perfectly, and I was at risk of getting countered. And I did get countered.
It did feel like I was making progress that way, though. At the least I got more entry practice for uchimata and seoinage.
Endurance-wise, I got in my three rounds. Two of them were consecutive. And I was really tired during the last two, but I wasn't dying and was able to try stuff. Progress!
Someone suggested circuit training to me, which I used to do back in the day. He pointed out you don't need to be really hardcore about it; you just need to do some sets of exercises with no breaks. I think I might try it again, at small scale, like 10-15 minute circuits.
There was some "locker room talk" again — this time it was about how AI sucks and VC is stupid. It's weird how many software engineers feel this way, yet so many of them just have to work for VC controlled companies. The French Revolution started because the third estate (non-nobles, non-clergy) noticed they were doing all of the work, got very little of the wealth, and had no say about what their labor was for. One big difference between then and now is that it was clear that nobles didn't earn their money, whereas now there is this idea that billionaires did. - Comments
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Hey, the IQAS says that they could take up to five weeks to validate that your educational credits from outside of Canada are real, but they did it in five days. Alberta seems like they suck politically, but they are good at verifying that you graduated from college.Comments
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It is the year 2025. Kanye has a song named Heil Hitler.Comments
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Take Control by George Fenton and Kenneth Freeman is a library music (music written and sold as background music) banger.Comments
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My state congressman contacted the MBTA last week about their honking in a quiet zone. They have frozen him out, too. I guess you have to be really high up the ladder to not get shrugged off.Comments
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Zermelo developed nine simple axioms, that is, unproven basic assumptions, on which everything is based in math.
These are still used today. One of the axioms is: “There is an empty set.” …And, in fact, this is the only set that Zermelo constructed so explicitly. The other rules say, for example, that you can “combine two sets to form a third set” or “select an element from a set.”
Everything else follows from the empty set, the “zero.” For example, the numbers are constructed from it. To do this, it helps to imagine a set as a bag into which you can pack objects. An empty set corresponds to an empty bag.
When constructing the numbers, Zermelo started with zero. It corresponds to the empty set or empty bag. “One” is the quantity into which the previously defined zero is packed, so it’s a bag with an empty bag inside. Two is the quantity that contains the 1 and the 0, or a bag containing a bag that itself contains a bag. -
Trump has received only 12 intelligence briefings since taking office in January, while his FBI director, Kash Patel, has cut his own daily briefings to twice a week.Comments
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Well, I guess I gotta delete everything from SoundCloud:Comments
In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services.
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I reviewed more code that was also reviewed by an AI service. None of the issues it flagged were real issues, but of course, the comments generated by it were confident and did talk about real security problems. It's just that those security problems weren't in the code it highlighted.Comments
Also, it appears to have been trained on comment that use the word "necessitates" a lot.
One of its issues was that framework internals were being manipulated. I think `Object.keys(someObjectFromTheFramework)` lead it toward that output. Then there was another in which some string was being validated via multiple clauses connect by `&&` with the final one being `someString.length > 2`. It said oh, only strings longer than 2 are being validated. I could see some statistical basis for that. I guess the probability that the (correct) interpretation that strings longer that 2 are being further validated because shorter ones were already rejected is less likely.
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Stephen Miller, unsurprisingly, is lying about the Constitution saying that the president can suspend habeas corpus. Only Congress can do that.Comments
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From this episode of Past Present Future, I found out that the oil shock of the ‘70s was shocking largely because Americans didn’t know that oil was not infinite nor that it largely came from the Middle East. Amazing. And the Nixon administration didn’t think OPEC would ever upset them by raising prices.Comments
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Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes holding direct negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 15 after the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland threatened further sanctions if it does not agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire beginning on May 12.Comments
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25 minutes on treadmill, 8x10 resistance band pulls (as you can see, they don't offer that much resistance), eleven pull-ups.Comments
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Well, this is a grim post asking what AI coding service toComments
pay for.Young me started his path to professional development with Turbo C++, a bookstore, and a library.
That’s rough.
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Old me’s been paid for doing this most of the last thirty years. … He’s also broke, because today’s job search world is — not good.
Friend, I gave plasma last month so we could have a meal.
“$200 a year is worth it!”
It better be. Do you know how much plasma I have to give to afford that? How many times I need to wait in line for a couple hours, get jabbed with a large needle, and made to sit immobile for 45 minutes with a nail hanging off my arm? And then eat ramen instead of meals so the money lingers in my account a little longer?
I do not use AI tooling, but I assumed that, like all other software tooling, there’s a free variant of it somewhere. LLAMA is a free LLM, but I have no idea how hard it is to make it regurgitate code. Apparently not tjat easy!
Well, I can’t answer Brian’s questions, but I hope someone can, as much as I’m against this trend.
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After the Fujimori reign in Peru, there’s an example of congress causing creating democratic instability.Comments
During the presidencies of Ollanta Humala, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra, the right-wing Congress led by the daughter of the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, obstructed many of the presidents' actions.[100][105][106] The political legacy of the Fujimori family was assumed by Keiko after her father Alberto, who instituted Plan Verde and oversaw the Grupo Colina death squad during the internal conflict in Peru, was sentenced to prison for human rights abuses.[107][108][106][109] During their majority in congress, Fujimorists "earned a reputation as hardline obstructionists for blocking initiatives popular with Peruvians aimed at curbing the nation’s rampant corruption" according to the Associated Press.[110] According to Walter Albán, head of Transparency International Peru, Congress has been infiltrated by criminal groups that obstruct reforms to maintain their status and parliamentary immunity,[111] while Human Rights Watch said that Congress was more focused on personal gain and vote trading instead of issues facing the nation.[100]
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It's weird how things you do can be implicitly quantified in a misleading way. This is usually obvious in work productivity measures like Agile burndown charts and Jira tickets and the like, but it also happens outside of work.Comments
Just now, I implemented unsubscribing in a mailing list manager I'm writing. I didn't implement it perfectly, but I did get five unit tests to pass. That took fifteen minutes, and it looks like "I really did something."
In the four days previous, for 2-4 hours a day, I worked on this line in the Book of Shaders:Make rows of moving cells (in opposite directions) with random values. Only display the cells with brighter values. Make the velocity of the rows fluctuate over time.
I worked on a variant in which the cells were defined by moving horizontal and vertical bars but still in the spirit of the exercise. Things weren't terribly complex but still complex enough for a space I wasn't familiar with that I had a lot of subtle (and few not subtle) bugs to work through. I did learn quite a bit by doing that, but from a "explain what you spent over eight hours on" point of view, you could see it as "I did one line in a tutorial."
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