Oh yeah. The hierarchical thinking inherent to the Conservative mindset is one of authoritarianism. They want to know their place in the hierarchical structure, which they wholeheartedly believe places them above someone else. Even though they have a boot on their face, at least they have their boot on someone else's face too.
They truly believe there must be a hierarchy. They can't seem to envision a world without boots on faces or that maybe we should work for a place without boots on faces.
Things have changed. One person lost a green card because they got a "too many fish" citation while not fishing, but being with a group of people who were fishing.
One student had their visa revoked by the US because they were the victim of domestic violence. It's batshit insane what they current administration is doing.
You know, if we made individual cars larger so they could hold more people or cargo, this idea could get really efficient!
Did some politicians hold up signs while the Nazis laid out a fascist plan in a government meeting? That'll stop em!
Every time the Republicans get control of the government they fuck over my current career trajectory. They'd been nothing but harmful to me and my family for three decades now.
Innuendo Studios summarized it rather well with:
"We're not like those other fascists. We're young, hip, and successful. Come back, baby. It'll be different this time."
https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&t=1179
His whole series on White Fascism and the current Alt-Right is a phenomenal summary of today's right wing "conservative" (fascist / nazi) landscape in an internet-connected age. Nothing has truly changed for them: they're still a suicide cult based around attacking "the other" (whatever they pick to attack) and then narrowing who is allowed to be at the top until everyone is dead.
Georgia elects horrible people: news at 11 (but only the executive branch approved news agencies, everyone else has been locked out to preserve alternative fact distribution)
I'm sure Putin has someone we can outsource the work to instead of directly hiring one of his people.
Thank you. It's been a goal of ours for a long time, but current events have accelerated things.
It's interesting times for everyone these days, so stay safe out there.
Thank you, and stay safe too. Yet more interesting times ahead for us all.
My German Visa was just approved. Off to a university asap. We take two STEM professors with kids going into engineering as a group out of the US. I have a feeling we're just the leading edge of the sluice gates opening.
That's an impressive display of marketing prowess. You'll never forget it, regardless of how stupid it was.
I like to talk about this in my CS classes. We get compiles to compile code by compiling a compiler with a compiler. It's an infinite regression problem that terminates with someone writing a compiler in assembly... Which requires an assembler to assemble... So you write an assembler in machine code directly on the processor.
If we lost all of the currently compiled programs one day, even with the compiler source code in hand, it would be some serious work to rebuild our current tool chains.
South Korea is one of the leaders, last I heard. They've had a massive shift towards childless couples.
You can do the same thing with an optical mouse.
https://images6.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED3/515b47490eeda.jpeg
The GOP is in favor of this.
Americans love to talk shit about other nations being pussies. To be fair, we also love to talk about how brave and special big boys we are. We then run around afraid of everything, but I'm sure those two attitudes are not related.
Our national anthem "home of the brave" is hilariously sad. We got attacked once in 2001 and we've been shitting all over ourselves ever since.
It would be very hard to start a show like Sesame Street because of the fascist right. Swings and roundabouts.
He knows, but does he care? Does it actually matter to him? I have been watching and meeting all too many people who have no idea just how dangerous the world can be when there's no rule of law and institutions protecting us. They want through life focusing on little personal gains and never truly understand how bad the world gets once Conservatives start showing their fascist foundations and the mask comes off.
There goes yet another pillar of our layered defense of the US. Stripping every bit from soft power, economic power, political relations, geopolitical position, and now outright military defense of our allies doesn't seem like a trajectory to protect the nation, but more like a "how can we get Russia to love us like our father never did" kind of move.
New York Declares War on Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story)
Climate Town drops a new video on the NY City congestion charge and how cars are being handled in the city.
Idaho moving to stop physician training partnership with UW.
The Idaho Legislature is considering a move to end a 50-year partnership with the University of Washington to train future Idaho doctors.
The Idaho legislature moving to stop the physician training pipeline that does a 2-2/3 program with UW. This currently trains about 40 physicians, mostly Idaho natives, in a cohort.
The reason is 'idaho values', which boils down to UW teaching modern medicine and ethics of bodily autonomy and Idaho elected officials not liking it.
This is just one more brick in the walls building between US states over progressive vs conservative states.
The cost of maintaining roads is astronomical
Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.
Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html
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The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.
Seeking working example of Junit5 and code coverage with maven
This is kind of an open question for me: does any code coverage tool work in Java with Junit5? I'll admit that I'm no Java configuration specialist, so I find the complexity of XML-based configuration systems to be quite opaque. I've got a few simple Maven-based build projects on hand and I wanted to add code coverage to the test harnesses. Unfortunately, I have never managed to get one stood up and running. I do this all the time with Python pytest/coverage tools, but it's been elusive for Java projects.
Could someone here please point me to a working example of any Java project using Maven / Junit5 / [any code coverage system]?
My latest attempt to get a working example came from this howto: https://howtodoinjava.com/junit5/jacoco-test-coverage/
But, it once again gave me the: [INFO] --- jacoco-maven-plugin:0.8.7:report (default-report) @ JUnit5Examples --- [INFO] Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file.
As near as I can tell, JaCoCo just never runs. Ever. It
The French capital's mayor hailed a 'clear choice of Parisians' in favor of a measure that is 'good for our health and good for the planet.'
The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.
Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.
How Commute Culture Made American Cities Lifeless -- Yet There's Hope
This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.
My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.
We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to
Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero
In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.
The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns their pedestrian traffic deaths to zero for several years.
The article does note that half of the streets have bike lanes, they've put buffers between pedestrians and cars, and continue to redesign intersections with a focus on safety instead of just focusing on car speed/throughput.
GPT tool query: seeking desktop application with document support
What I'm looking for is some kind of desktop tool that uses the OpenAI GPT web endpoint. I'd like something where I'm able to upload one or more documents (text files) and then include them as part of the conversation/query.
I have access to the GPT-4 API and I've been writing Python3 code against it for some various applications. I can see how I'd write a tool that takes in one or more documents to include in the total prompt history, but I'm hoping to not have to write it myself, mostly due to time constraints.
Is there some kind of application that has a similar feature set to this that I should look at? Or, is there a wiki/site that lists off the current tools available that I could look over?
