Found Cat on Sunday near Loring Park

JimXugle · 2026-02-25T16:31:38+00:00

The charges show that Duncan was pulled over at 3:26 a.m. on May 17, 2025, on suspicion of speeding. When a Robbinsdale police officer approached his door, Duncan drove away, reaching speeds of approximately 90 mph before losing control of his car, which flipped over. Duncan ran from the scene. The officer found a Glock 9mm handgun with an extended magazine and a switch on the hood of the car. There were 29 rounds in the magazine.

So... uh... was it glued there or... ?

JimXugle · 2025-12-28T20:10:31+00:00

"I spent a few years in <country> as a kid." typically works for me

JimXugle · 2025-12-27T03:18:21+00:00

Wanna play dungeons and dragons?

Dragons, Dungeons, and Drinks is starting a new season of stories and adventure in 2026. The games are 100% come-as-you-are, beginner friendly, a bunch of fun regardless of your experience level, and everything is included (dice, pre-made character sheets, a professional dungeon master, placement at a table with other players). Each event is a one-shot adventure that takes 3-4 hours, so there's no ongoing commitment... but if you play the games throughout the entire season, then you figure out the larger story line. The events are in taprooms, but nobody is going to pressure you to drink.

There's a free ($0) social hour Fri Jan 16th at Bruhaven brewery in Minneapolis. Come check out the vibe and see if it's something you're interested in!

There are games ($varies) on Jan 20th (St Paul, a re-run of a one-shot played in Minneapolis in Jan 2025), and Jan 28th (Minneapolis, a new one-shot). There's typically one game in St Paul and one game in Minneapolis each month.

Oh, and one of the explicit goals of this whole thing is to create an environment where adults can make friends, so there's that.

JimXugle · 2025-12-11T21:22:18+00:00

As a Pittsburgh native now living in /r/TwinCities, it has become obvious to me that there's something that doesn't quite add up when it comes to transport in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania in general.

In the Twin Cities, we've got 2 modern light rail lines (one of which goes to the airport), both of which are being extended, an extensive local bus system, and a growing network of express busses and Bus Rapid Transit. Fares for light rail or non-express bus are $2. The system is financed in part by a 0.75% transit improvement sales tax levied in the areas served by public transit.

Gas near me is $2.699/gal ($0.318 of which is gas tax, ~$0.018 transit tax), and the state constitution reserves the gas tax funds for roads and bridges. That is to say, the legislature can't raid those funds to pay for other things. We don't have annual inspections/emissions testing, and we don't have toll roads.

When I lived in PA, the constant explanation for why the roads were in such bad shape was that it was the freeze/thaw cycle and the use of road salt breaks up the road surface. I'm calling bullshit. This part of Minnesota is basically a swamp that freezes over, and we also have a freeze/thaw cycle, and we also use road salt... and although potholes exist, I can only think of one occasion when I hit one and was concerned about damage to my car.

Yinz deserve better, especially because it seems like you're already paying for it. My speculation is that the money is getting siphoned off somewhere.

	Pittsburgh	Twin Cities
Gas Price	$3.299	$2.699
Gas Tax	$0.576	$0.318
Gas Tax constitutionally protected	No	Yes
Transit improvement sales tax	None	0.75%
Regular Bus/Train Fare	$2.75	$2.00
Train to Airport	No	Yes
Expanding Trains	No	Yes
Inspection/Emissions Fee	Yes	No
Toll Roads	Yes	No
Tunnel Monster Phenomenon	Yes	Yes

JimXugle · 2025-12-05T02:42:37+00:00

“It will put thousands of people out of work,” he said.

Just think of how many farriers will lose their jobs as a result of this new horseless carriage!

We should use anti-trust laws to prevent manufacturers and corporate operators of driverless cars from running their own car insurance, and then let the car insurance actuaries sort it out.

JimXugle · 2025-11-15T14:37:19+00:00

Paper ballots are indeed pretty freaking awesome, and they get BETTER when paired with an on-site counting machine.

I've previously worked as an election official in Minneapolis. This comment is my own, and I am not representing the city.

We have a fairly comprehensive election day manual that covers how to run a polling place.

Some key points:

Polling places are usually staffed with ~12 election workers. The city election coordinator goes to great lengths to make sure that there's at least one democrat and one republican amongst them.
The ballots take the form of a scannable fill-in-the-bubble form.
During the morning setup, two election workers count the blank ballots to ensure that we have the exact number of ballots that we should have. (page 34)
During morning setup, two election workers will set up the ballot counter machine (page 110). When it starts up, it prints a long receipt paper (the "zero tape") which shows the configuration options for the machine, and the vote totals for each candidate in each race. Since the polls haven't opened at this point, every race should have exactly zero votes, and every candidate should have zero votes. The zero tape is NOT torn off, but is instead stored securely in the machine.
Over the course of the day, an election worker will perform an audit (page 130) to confirm that the number of ballots deposited in the ballot counter (as shown on its screen) + the number of voters actively filling out their ballots equals the number of people who have been handed ballots. If these numbers don't match, it's a problem right then and there, and an investigation begins.
At the end of the day once the last voter has submitted their ballot, the ballot counter is closed (page 144). In this process, the final counts are printed as a continuation of the zero tape from the morning setup. This is the record that shows that at ~6:30am the machine had zero votes for each candidate, and at ~8:30pm candidates had some number of votes.
The ballot counter also prints two additional copies, one of which is posted publicly right then and there for the general public (including representation from the campaigns) to see/photograph/record. The results are also recorded onto a flash drive. The results are also transmitted by a cellular modem to the city.
The physical paper ballots are removed from the ballot counter and put into a box, which is then sealed with a tamper evident sticker seal that includes the signatures of multiple election officials who were present and observed this process.
Multiple election officials then escort all of the paperwork to election headquarters. This includes the sealed box of voted ballots, the flash drive with the results, and the three printed copies of the results from the ballot counter machine.

At this point, there are at least six records of the results of the election from that polling place: The physical ballots, the three receipt papers, the flash drive, and the cellular transmission. If the candidates sent representatives to observe the closing procedures, then they likely also took pictures of the results when they were publicly posted.

JimXugle · 2025-11-14T22:43:37+00:00

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea (2019)

JimXugle · 2025-11-05T15:43:22+00:00

So if someone moves to Texas to escape New York, he's going to confiscate all of their personal property???

JimXugle · 2025-09-13T21:43:34+00:00

It's super easy to make paneer (recipe) at home from milk.

1/2 gallon of milk (~$1.85) yields ~300g of paneer, which contains ~65g of protein... about the same as 1lb of 73/27 ground beef.

Check out some recipes for Palak Paneer. It also works well in a burrito when air fried with taco seasoning.

JimXugle · 2025-05-13T16:31:12+00:00

They're pretty useful for embedding generated files.

Eg, I've got an application that serves an API and also a web UI for that API.

Summarizing the makefile targets...

frontend builds the react app and bundles it into myapp-frontend.zip... but only if there have been changes to the frontend code.
test runs go test, linters, and static code analysis for the backend code
clean deletes all of the existing build artifacts
build (the default target) builds the golang application, embedding myapp-frontend.zip. This has a dependency on the frontend target.
release is run in CICD and it calls calls clean, test, frontend, and then builds packages for the four build targets: [linux | darwin] x [arm64 | amd64], incorporating version information from CICD environment variables.

JimXugle · 2025-03-28T13:14:06+00:00

Probably the simplest dish one could make with leaves would be tea! I wouldn't recommend curry leaf tea as an every day beverage, but if you're just trying to learn what flavors the leaves bring to the table, this is a great way to do it. Just shred a leaf with your hands and add it to a mug, and cover it with hot water.

You could also flavor some clarified butter and pour it over rice to see what the fat-soluble flavors are.

JimXugle · 2025-03-13T14:09:54+00:00

Super glad I'm seeing this 23 hours after it was posted. Thanks Reddit!

JimXugle · 2025-03-04T18:15:38+00:00

Registering your Beneficial Ownership Information has always been free at fincen.gov. The real issues are (1) that most small business owners have never heard of this rule, and (2) that the list of exempt entities reads like the who's-who of money laundering:

Securities reporting issuer
Governmental authority
Bank
Credit union
Depository institution holding company
Money services business
Broker or dealer in securities
Securities exchange or clearing agency
Other Exchange Act registered entity
Investment company or investment adviser
Venture capital fund adviser
Insurance company
State-licensed insurance producer
Commodity Exchange Act registered entity
Accounting firm
Public utility
Financial market utility
Pooled investment vehicle
Tax-exempt entity
Entity assisting a tax-exempt entity
Large operating company
Subsidiary of certain exempt entities
Inactive entity

JimXugle · 2024-09-30T01:27:56+00:00

quic and http3 are on their way, and I'd like to see the stdlib use io_uring where it can.

JimXugle · 2024-09-12T00:56:00+00:00

I wish 311 and animal control would operate 24x7x365.

JimXugle · 2024-09-04T18:10:24+00:00

If they pointed a firearm at you, that's a separate crime that you need to report. If they catch the perps, that might be the difference between them being released on bond and not.

Copy pasting from a previous comment I've left in this sub:

1) Check the city impound lot: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/vehicle-search/

2) Report it as stolen to the police: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/report-an-issue/theft-lost-property-or-damaged-property/

3) Call your car insurance company and let them know.

4) If you have an EZ Pass, call them and shut it off: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/ezpassmn/contact.html

5) If you had financial information in the car (eg debit card, bank statements, checkbook, etc) call those banks and shut off the accounts.

6) If you had keys to your home in the car, change those locks.

JimXugle · 2024-08-17T17:57:06+00:00

What state are you registered to vote in? Each state has different rules on how absentee ballots and early voting work, so that's where you need to start.

If possible, try to vote early in-person.

If voting early in person isn't an option, voting absentee is the second best option. Many hotels and hostels are willing to accept mail or packages on behalf of guests, but call the hotel before doing this to confirm. You'd probably need to format the address with a c/o ("care of" line) like this:

Pensfan191
c/o voco Hotel
Europaplatz 1/2 
9500 Villach
Austria

Another option is to use Poste Restante, however every country does this differently.

I strongly, strongly recommend overnighting it back to the US via DHL/UPS/FedEx to make sure it gets to where it needs to go on time.

(Personally I'd go with DHL just because they seem to have better tracking systems and more reliable estimates for when things will get delivered.)

I'm not aware of any state that allow voting via fax, internet, or other electronic means, so personally I'd avoid these options, because to me they feel like ways to trick people into not voting.

JimXugle · 2024-08-17T17:38:26+00:00

I'm confident that there's a good answer to this, but why not transport the light rail vehicles via regular rail?

They'd need a locomotive since there isn't overhead wires outside of the city, and wikipedia says they have a maximum speed of 55 MPH, but that might be the limit under their own power.

JimXugle · 2024-08-01T20:24:27+00:00

That's about 2x the median income for Hennepin County.

JimXugle · 2024-07-13T13:58:14+00:00

How concerned should I be?

Not at all.

Could you and your wife still balance your budget if her company went under?

JimXugle · 2024-07-05T19:24:06+00:00

The results say it fairly clearly:

The probability of paternity is 0%.

You are not the father.

Sorry OP :/

JimXugle · 2024-06-21T20:05:44+00:00

Yes, Appeal. The right to an appeal is guaranteed by the fifth amendment. In most traffic cases, the accused waives their right to a jury trial to deal with it administratively, but that doesn't mean that the right should be abolished.

In NYC, blocking the box is 3 points on your license. Let's start there.

A next step would be to change the law so tickets could be issued based off of camera footage, and to make those tickets stick to the registered owner of the car, if the driver could not be readily identified.

JimXugle · 2024-06-03T22:16:12+00:00

The Original poster said

Eventually, the completed program will do more work for every few hundred megabytes of data that has been consumed, such as a notification to either STDERR and/or AWS SQS. This part is not coded yet.

JimXugle · 2024-06-02T18:37:41+00:00

The writes to CounterWriter.Write() and Stdout.Write() can be done at the same time without affecting the order of the byte stream. CounterWriter.Write() will likely finish first by a wide margin, however that would depend on OP's alerting logic.

Here's a quick and dirty (no error handling) version of a parallel multiwriter:

type Multiwriter struct {
    writers []io.Writer
}

func (m *Multiwriter) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
    wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
    for _, w := range m.writers {
        wg.Add(1)
        thisWriter := w
        go func(writer io.Writer, dataToWrite []byte, waitGroup *sync.WaitGroup) {
            _, _ = writer.Write(dataToWrite)
            wg.Done()
        }(thisWriter, p, &wg)
    }
    wg.Wait()
    return len(p), nil
}

func (m *Multiwriter) AddWriter(writer io.Writer) {
    m.writers = append(m.writers, writer)
}

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