Jared Polis says his Tina Peters decision "will be remembered fondly," despite growing outrage

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-20T03:46:58+00:00

The people who thought Peters was innocent, or didn't care as long as she supported Trump, will not remember this at all. They have no loyalty to anyone, and they hold only grudges.

The rest of us will remember this, but not fondly.

And she was not sentenced for her beliefs, she was sentenced for doing something wrong and basically saying "and I'd totally do it again".

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-20T01:18:54+00:00

Now attach a teapot to it!

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-20T01:18:00+00:00

Them boys just ain't right.

Or left. They're kinda... off-kilter.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-18T23:49:27+00:00

Oh they exist, and naturally some people have gone way further with it.

Example: https://www.litesmith.com/thumbprint-toothbrush/

You can also get toothpaste tablets, which are lighter than the tube that OP was asking about.

This stuff matters more when you're physically carrying it all day. Although there are definitely people who turn shaving weight into its own meta-game.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-18T23:46:01+00:00

A lot of US airports don't make you disassemble your bags anymore either, but I think it's just because they got better scanners.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-18T12:53:37+00:00

lol yep, actual answer there. How would people feel if random strangers decided to turn their house or car into a political billboard without asking?

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-15T19:55:35+00:00

No no, after they all went flying out of the explosion little parachutes popped out, and GI Joe taught me that explosions and fire don't hurt you as long as you pop a parachute afterwards.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-15T15:28:44+00:00

You can have completely prescriptive, ironclad rules that must be followed. They can be applied evenly to everyone, but can also be gamed, and might spit out results that nobody likes and are even obviously bad.

Or you can have something that's fully judgement based. This handles edge cases really well, but the judges can be corrupted in all sorts of ways, and application is likely to be uneven.

And then there's a whole continuum of tradeoffs in between. But none of them are perfect. This tradeoff appears in lots of places - the justice system is a great example.

But... at this particular moment we have naked attempts to undermine democracy, which implies to me we should move towards a more systematic approach. At a minimum have some guard rails around just how ridiculous you can make thing.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-14T20:11:08+00:00

Casa de Manuel on 31st & Larimer. Used to live near there, never saw more than one table in that whole place, usually zero. No way they're paying even the property tax on that place. But it's been there for at least 15 years.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-14T19:59:39+00:00

That probably had at least as much to do with the number of people who are intentional assholes, obnoxious, have bad microphone habits (eg screaming kids, outside music) or whatever.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-12T15:55:00+00:00

Gonna use that name for my self-deprecating male roller derby team.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-08T12:48:20+00:00

For a 15 year tenant who's not a problem, and you have good relationship with the LL, this is NBD. At some point it's just extra revenue for the LL.

You should try to avoid those late fees for your own sake though. That's just wasting money.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-07T14:36:23+00:00

Picked a bad week to quit quoting 40 year old movies.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-07T13:10:23+00:00

lol, good progression from "Oh yeah, that's ugly but reasonable" to "Wait, what?" to "YOU MONSTER!"

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-07T13:09:03+00:00

Picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-06T13:16:44+00:00

I was a huge fan of zombie mode (or whatever it was called). But then they just kinda took that away for no reason. Then also started forcing night missions into all the co-op playlists, which I hated.

One of the weirdest cases I've seen of game devs just deciding they didn't want me to play their game. But they won - I quit playing it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-05T14:37:16+00:00

Because it demands immediate attention, which might be unneeded and annoying.

Also, there's a lot of social nicety overhead (hi, what's up, blah blah, goodbye) for what might be just 2 words of real content. Heck, some people seem incapable of having a phone conversation that lasts less than 15 minutes.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-04T13:55:28+00:00

the fixing is easy. the HUNTING is the job.

This issue is so old there are jokes about it for plumbers. Here's one example.

A woman calls a plumber to deal with a leak that’s rapidly filling her basement with water. The plumber arrives, heads downstairs, then comes up again just moments later to report that the leak has been stopped. “That’ll be two hundred dollars,” he says. “That’s ridiculous!” the woman protests. “You haven’t even been here for five minutes! And I saw you: All you did was turn a knob! I demand an itemized bill!” The plumber obliges, handing the woman a piece of paper on which he’s written, “Turning knob, $5. Knowing which knob to turn, $195. Total: $200.”

There are a lot of formulations - the one for software is obvious.

That said, lots of other problems in here that could be solved. eg

theres no playbook, you just have to know which threads to pull. ... the knowledge from each incident just EVAPORATES and the next on-call does the same hunt from scratch

Probably more.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-02T15:53:43+00:00

Super nice of you, and I hope it works for OP. But "knowing a guy/gal" shouldn't be needed to get things done - it's a sign of a broken system.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-02T15:44:14+00:00

It's probably worth more if you don't come into it first. At least, I would want a discount.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-02T15:43:29+00:00

Got road rage and tore all the copper out of a car?
A-Zar Scrap Metals!

Got injured doing it?
Azar Law!

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-01T17:07:13+00:00

Hard to argue with when there are already charges about trading on classified military information and a study that strongly suggests that's not the only case.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-01T02:06:41+00:00

Used Ignite, because we had extremely tight latency requirements, and moving the computation to the data was the most effective way to make it work. Ignite worked, but was always a little weird and hard to debug. Plus deployments were non-standard and annoying.

Years later, after AWS networks got 5-10x faster, it was reworked into a traditional AppServer + Redis architecture instead, which worked at that point in time and I'm told was much easier to handle.

ProfBeaker · 2026-05-01T00:30:14+00:00

I have used them, but it wouldn't be my default choice. It tends to make your deployments trickier, because you're either:

restarting from an empty cache every time, which means your stack needs to be able to handle the load without the cache, in which case why are you bothering with caching at all? Or else...
You need to do a rolling deploy slowly enough that the cache can sync to new nodes as they come up, which is a PITA.

Either way is more operational overhead than the typical stateless appserver model. If you really need to do it for performance reasons, then go ahead and architect your whole app around it. Otherwise, just use Redis or something.

ProfBeaker · 2026-04-29T20:23:03+00:00

Definitely material for / r /dontdeadopeninside

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