I would rather have a better candidate. Someone who appeals to a broad coalition of progressives, lefties, liberals and general non-nazis, and now is the time to look for that person. We’re 3 years from the Presidential election - it’s way too early to anoint Newsom or pretend that he’s the only alternative to Trump’s 3rd term.

My understanding is that they removed “MMRV” - the combined Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella - shot, presumably in favor of “MMR+V” - on Measles + Mumps + Rubella shot and a second Varicella shot, which has been the ‘default’ practice for under-4s anyway. Parents have had the option to use the 1-shot MMRV instead of the 2-shot MMR+V, and removing MMRV from recommendation will (I assume) eliminate that option.

Slightly ironic, given that RFK Jr was just complaining how kids these days have to get “90 injections” to be fully vaccinated, that the MMRV move will essentially add an injection to the vaccination schedule.

MAGA hasn’t changed. Whom they believe will be the targets of government intervention has changed.

“My hate speech is free speech” but “Your hate speech is intolerable”
“My tiktok propaganda is patriotic” but “Your tiktok propaganda is treason”
“My military actions promote world peace” but “Your pointless wars are unsustainable”

Honestly, as acts of appeasement go, a fancy dress party seems about the least humiliating thing a country can agree to. Play king for a day, like Make-A-Wish for senile fascists. If that settles the tariff negotiations, then well done.

The actual case is on hold until 2029. This is a tangential question of who’s allowed to lead the prosecution, if or when it resumes. More importantly, it’s about punishing an elected black woman, hurting her chances of being re-elected, and disrupting whatever institutional knowledge of the 2020 election case exists.

This is as close as he’s going to get to apologizing for that fuckup. His girl’s got her bag packed, waiting on the Uber, and the best he can do is say he really does like her lasagna. Totally won’t throw it in her face next time. Even though he used to cook much better than her.

I’ve used a retired desktop for my home server since 1999. It doesn’t have the fancy web-UI management of commercial NAS, but I’m comfortable with command line and config files.

At some point, I realized I could use its wifi card and hostapd to replace my WAP. That was a bit of an adventure initially finding a card that really supports AP mode and setting up hostapd, but has now allowed me to migrate from 802.11g to n to ac much cheaper than buying whole new devices,

Recently converted to an N100 with 4x ethernet ports, which let me unplug my little 5-port switch.

Managing this doesn’t feel like a second job: it’s stable and just works. Automatic updates, with kernel blacklisted; periodically log in, update kernel & reboot. It does give me the opportunity, when I get inspired, for a weekend project, like adding hostapd or a new service, either via docker or bare metal. I like that I have one device doing “NAS,” WAP, and router jobs.

Debt incurred by students divided by their post-graduation salary. For conventional medical school, it’s around 75%. Law school 35-40%. 688% is crazy.

Not the person you replied to, but a shoulder plane is kind of specialized tool. The blade goes all the way to the edge of the shoe, which lets you plane right up to square corners, such as a tenon, and the shoe is narrow, which lets you plane into grooves, such as dadoes, where general purpose planes won’t fit. The narrow shoe means you have to pay a lot more attention to keeping the plane square/flat to the surface, and the relatively short shoe means you have to pay a lot more attention to overall flatness of your work piece. If you need to true-up twisted & warped wood, a general-purpose bench plane will be a lot easier.

Probably edited by the Guardian. They don’t do as much sanewashing as US media, but I don’t think anyone but comedians quotes Trump verbatim.

It’s even easier to lurk and just look at the funny memes. A post with no comments gives the poster no encouragement or feedback.

That drive averages 900 hours between power cycles? In Windows?

A lot of those 45+ are in two-earner households. They might be ok independent of each other, but not at the same level. Then the whole retiree population…is someone on social security ‘financially supporting themself?’

I used to wonder how Lysenko pulled all of that off. Like, they were backward days in a backward country, and the whole world was still just kind of getting the hang of science. But now, here’s RFK Jr who doesn’t even believe in germs, filling our science administration with lackeys, half the country cheering him on, and I’m thinking that university grant departments are going to be getting Political Officers soon.

It’s time for America’s Great Leap Forward.

The stock market doesn’t reflect how well companies are doing; it reflects a combination off how well speculators think they’re doing now vs their previous hopes&dreams and how much better they’re going to do next year.

You need a lot of houseplants to make up for a human. Humans exhale something like 1 kg CO2/day where plants consume something like 0.2 kg/hr/100 m2. Figure natural light, maybe 6-8 hours of full sun in a day, and you’d need 60-80 m2 of leaf surface.

That kg/day of CO2 is enough to raise a 200 m2 home to 3000 ppm CO2. CO2 diffuses pretty well, but my 110 m2 house equilibrates around 1000ppm when it’s sealed against the summer heat.

The firings will continue until the numbers look good.

This is one of my pet peeves with containerized services, like why would I want to run three or four instances of mariadb? I get it, from the perspective of the packagers, who want a ‘just works’ solution to distribute, but if I’m trying to run simple services on a 4 GB RPi or a 2 GB VPS, then replicating dbs makes a difference. It took a while, but I did, eventually, get those dockers configured to use a single db backend, but I feel like that completely negated the ‘easy to set up and maintain’ rationale for containers.

That deck is probably 60, maybe 100 feet above the water. Serious air time.