Why? The supreme court gave Trump a get out of jail free card for official duties

Borrow 1 from the 7 leaving you 10 and 6. This is what they tried to teach in schools for awhile but adults weren’t getting it. Common Core? Is that what they called it?

My wife and I let a friend stay with us for awhile as he was moving states and needed to get on his feet. For a window of a few years, all 3 of us had Hyundais. A 2014 Veloster, a 2021 Palisade, and a 2019 Sedan (I didn’t look too closely at the roommate’s car).

My car was stolen out of a bus station parking lot and when the FBI agent called me to ask about my stolen car, he informed me my car was used to steal 3 other cars, 1 of them involved a gun, before ditching my car in a parking lot. It was a long few weeks between the theft and the getting the car back but we did recover the vehicle.

My roommate… it’s wild. First he accidentally left a back window down in his car and when somebody tried to steal it they set off the alarm. So the thief disconnected the battery to stop the alarm and then they walked away. Easy fix and we still had the vehicle.

But the second time… The second time the car was straight gone. All of these events, his car and mine, happened at the same bus station. We picked him up. Helped file the police report. Life was trying to move on when a week later he comes running downstairs saying over and over again “my car is outside” and sure enough there it was parked on the curb across the street. There were some clothes, some makeup, soft drinks, the car was a bit of a mess, not destroyed but partied in. Because my car had already been lost and recovered at this point, I had a club to put in the steering wheel to hopefully prevent it from happening again. We put the club on his car and go back inside thanking our lucky stars that the car just fell out of the sky back into our lap. But then…

A few hours later my roommate is back downstairs saying “the thief is back, he tried to pull off the club but he’s walking down the street.” So we hop in my car and catch up to this kid holding a bag full of quarters my roommate kept in his car for toll roads. We pull up on him and my roommate tries to ask him “why were you interested in that car back there?” The kid said “what car?” then immediately broke out running, didn’t even pretend to wait for us to respond. We tried to chase just to see where he goes. I’m not a violent person. I didn’t have a plan if we caught him. The thief hops a fence but not before we got a good look at his face and he was wearing his Freddy’s work uniform.

Skipping ahead a little, it turns out the kid was 16, stole the car on his way home from work through the bus station, but couldn’t bring it home to his parents’ house so he was randomly parking it around his neighborhood and walking the rest of the way home. The kid stole the car from a bus station parking lot so he had no clue that he accidentally delivered it back to the owner.

We pressed charges and the kid was found guilty. Don’t buy a Hyundai.

I feel for the workers, but fuck Hyundai. They put out vehicles that can be stolen by literal children. Ask me how I know.

The android store should get the change log as well

The blur doesn’t really hide much sometimes.

I’m more than a little miffed that Nintendo has my Patreon dollars.

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Then donate to the EFF

Light switches are a bad example. Up doesn’t mean on and down doesn’t mean off when you have multiple switches for the same thing.

These switches visibly have 2 states and switching it means you want the other one. In tech it’s less obvious that there are only two states and that toggling the button will do something in particular. Recall the play and pause button on your media app. That button could change the state in any number of ways but in order to convey to the user what will happen BEFORE the button is pressed, the player shows what action will take place.

You’re already in the current state, that rarely adds info. Toggles should indicate what they will do.

What about processes that terminate before writing the whole thing? You can’t protect against everything. Blame other processes all you want but the language spec allows for confusion.

TOML and YAML both have the problem that if you receive an incomplete document, there’s a decent chance you can’t tell. JSON doesn’t have that because of the closing curly.

I know it kind of breaks the pun, but Skechers the shoe company doesn’t have a T.

Shouldn’t this combination of settings result in a red preview? Or no preview? Currently it still shows a blurred preview.

My mom mockingly said once “do you want your doctor visits to be just like the DMV?”

Nope, I want my doctor visits to be more like the USPS. Compare their numbers to UPS or any of the others and it’s night and day.

My rule of thumb: if they would refill my drink then this is a tipping place. Non-food places are judged case by case. The rest are laughed at and I do my best not to come back.

Don’t listen to me, put that in a yaml validator for yourself: https://yamllint.com

Rule of thumb: valid json is valid yaml. If you’re ever unsure, do it the old fashioned way.

My problem with yaml is if you truncate it at any random spot, there’s a high likelihood it’s still valid yaml. I don’t like the idea that things can continue without even knowing there’s a problem. The single opening and closing curly braces enclosing a json object is all it takes to at least know you didn’t receive the entire message. Toml has the same issue. I’ll stick with json when it makes sense.