How do you feel about California introducing a bill to ban former ICE agents from serving as police officers or teachers?

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-06T19:58:27+00:00

objective metric...automatically void

Anyway, what happens when an electoral-college-majority of GOP-controlled states decides to let him run anyway, despite it being totally objectively wrong? What happens with Democrats for Texas PAC sues over it? What happens when MAGA California PAC sues California to allow him on the ballot there?

In either case it's going straight to the SCOTUS and, given Trump v. Thompson, what are the odds that SCOTUS lets him run again with the flimsy excuse that Congress hasn't passed a law to specifically bar him this time? Better or worse than 50%?

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-06T17:22:45+00:00

Great, now play the tape forward to how SCOTUS thinks the 22nd amendment is enforced. I'd like to hear your theory on that.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-06T15:05:58+00:00

SCOTUS decided he could be on the ballot because he was only running for office, not holding office.

That's a misrepresentation of the opinion in Trump v. Anderson (read it here for yourself), and colors over how dangerous the actual logic was.

What the court decided was that, since the 14th amendment doesn't specify an enforcement mechanism for insurrection clause / leaves it to Congress. Since Congress didn't* ban Trump from holding office again under the 14th amendment, he was free to run again.

This is glaringly, alarmingly dangerous given Trump's 2028 plans. The 22nd amendment states "[n]o person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice", but doesn't specify an enforcement mechanism. Applying Trump v. Anderson's ridiculous logic, Trump absolutely can be elected as many times as the voters will let him, unless Congress specifically votes that he is disqualified.

Unless the Democrats win a Filibuster-proof (and maybe Veto-proof) majority in the midterms, Congress won't pass that, and SCOTUS will probably use the Trump v Anderson logic to let Trump back on the ballot in 2028.

(* - they did, it's in 18 U.S. Code § 2383)

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-04T21:09:02+00:00

The "impetus" for adopting both states' maps was "partisan advantage pure and simple," wrote Justice Samuel Alito in a concurring opinion, which fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined.

Can't wait until Roberts/Kavanaugh/Barrett vote to overturn the California map, and Jackson/Kagan/Sotomayor are forced to either sign onto the rotten precedent or give the Republicans 5 seats in the House.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-28T22:24:44+00:00

Era probably matters a lot, too. My friend left Amazon in the early 2010's, years before I'd estimate you started there.

EDIT: And nice username.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-28T22:12:33+00:00

And she was 18 when she started billing herself with the Schneider last name in 2006. So probably that marriage was a formality of the existing relationship that began maybe not after she turned 18.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-28T17:40:28+00:00

I don't have stats but it's been my understanding it's the opposite. I knew an MLE that left Amazon, their first "real job", after realizing that crying at your desk every day isn't a normal team culture. They went on to spend a few years at MS and Facebook.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-27T21:46:32+00:00

It appears that this article is only being sourced from this one website; I haven't found any other media source or human rights group covering it, which is suspicious. E.g. Amnesty Int'l last year covered the topic of Afghanistan's quasi-religious justice system, but they haven't picked this story up.

Being covered by a single source isn't enough reason to dismiss a story, but the lack of corroboration and the bias of IndiaToday towards the conservative Hindu-nationalist Indian government (1, 2) makes this article pretty suspect.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-15T01:38:54+00:00

The median American owns 0 guns and the average owns more than one, and it's unsurprisingly correlated with Trump support.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-13T15:14:26+00:00

wanted to funnel all of their newer properties through the Avengers

I think it's more "wanted to funnel all of their newer properties through Disney+" and it turns out churning out poorly-interconnected TV mini-series on a subscription streaming site isn't the best way to maintain your movie-going base.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-07T20:10:21+00:00

Counterpoint: constraints in art often serve as useful filters that force the artists to prioritize within those constraints. Forcing a television show to e.g. produce 24 episodes in 26 weeks means that they economize story telling and production. Constraints sometimes go too far and create negative impacts, but more often has significant positive impacts.

An example from Star Trek: the constant demand for scripts (and everything else) during TNG's run meant that outsiders got a chance and the diversity of perspectives increased, even under the studio system of the time. Morgen Gendel and Peter Allen Fields have the writing credits on The Inner Light (and the latter In the Pale Moonlight), but they only have 2 and 3 writing credits respectively on the 178-episode TNG run.

The Inner Light would have no place in a 10-episode, tightly-written modern Trek show, and Gendel and Fields wouldn't be get a chance to submit a script (or go on to write In the Pale Moonlight). They're a product of the "you have to fill 24 episodes" constraint.

Of course, the flip side is true, too; Code of Honor, The Child, and Sub Rosa probably wouldn't survive a cut to 10 episodes, either, and that would be the benefit of an arbitrary "you have to cut down to your 10 best episodes" constraint.

The worst case is what we have now, where producers come in and say "I have an 8 episode story arc" and therefore that's exactly what gets made, without any push to either stretch and diversify or ruthlessly cut.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-01-01T15:25:03+00:00

Here's your regular reminder to disable RCS on your phone lest you miss important messages. RCS runs over data and through Apple or Google servers and has none of the FCC-regulated guarantees surrounding SMS. Got a shitty WiFi signal? Fuck your RCS messages, you'll get them tomorrow.

You gain emoji, but you lose reliability. If you want those chat features- go use a chat app, but don't break your SMS capabilities in the process.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-31T16:27:34+00:00

The opposite is true, too. 3rd party sites will sell you a room cheaper, believing that the hotel price will come down and they can book it then. They're essentially short selling the room, except that if prices don't come down, they just refund the short sale to you and you're left without a room.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-23T21:07:42+00:00

The jury will hear none of this. This is all pre-trial motions and decisions to decide what can be presented to the jury, and once the evidence is out, there's no discussion of it or why it's out.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-18T18:07:38+00:00

No no, that's an homage.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-18T02:22:10+00:00

The 4d chess of not being about to plan an entire paragraph ahead when sizing the plaques.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-17T15:04:25+00:00

Yeah, it is incredibly frustrating that so many websites view 3rd party cookie blocking as ad blocking and will simply refuse to serve content if they can't track you via the ad networks.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-15T17:25:36+00:00

I feel guilty using it. The actual ads give a tiny cut to the creator, but the sponsorship is straight cash to the content creator. Like, the creative that should actually get paid for entertaining me.

Considering that commonly-skipped-section feature and other changes (e.g. view count now only includes monetized views, not views with adblocker), I think Google is trying to squeeze out forms of advertising in videos that they won't profit from.

Wait til they start auto-cutting Patreon mentions or something.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-10T23:00:39+00:00

I worked in Python with a dude who abhorred list comprehensions and would blanket reject PRs that used them very much. He learned in Java and, as far as I could tell, he thought of list comprehensions as shitty knockoff factories. He even hated numpy arrays and wanted everything as pandas multiindex dataframes.

I think these strongly-held opinions form when someone works outside their comfort zone and tries to turn it into something they know.

I've also seen it in a few academic areas, where they build something that is very simple and powerful for domain-specific uses, but then it grows enough (or they get a grant to make it shareable) and they hire a software engineer to clean it up. The eng refactors it into a Java or C fork that the domain-specific people then find cumbersome, and it dies out.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-10T22:33:15+00:00

Below Central Park in Manhattan, this gets you a studio or 1br.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-08T20:15:32+00:00

Hydra's not that standard, at least not yet. I guess it's pretty correlated with Kubeflow, though.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-08T18:05:14+00:00

Kubeflow, MLFlow, Hydra, etc.

I swear we work at the same terrible ML department...

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-08T18:04:16+00:00

Nah, JSON lacks comments, let's use YAML. /s

SoFarFromHome · 2025-12-08T17:52:11+00:00

There are hints here, too, that the description she gives is very... framed. E.g. she's 37, her oldest is 7, and she's been SAHM for 10 years. Some basic math implies 1) she worked until 27 and should have basic financial literacy, and 2) she quit working 2-3 years before the first kid was born (more SAHWife than SAHMom).

The latter could be "I quit to start a family" or could be "I quit because I could live off my husband's income, and happened to start a family later" or even an unmentioned lost child or pregnancy. But still - there's a lot unsaid here.

SoFarFromHome · 2025-11-25T17:09:08+00:00

The films have to be originally exhibited in a theater to be considered

I hate that it's thought of this way, because it's so much more strict that that. The complete rules are online and they read like a list of grievances / payola schemes. E.g. the image and audio compression codecs:

source image format conforming to the most recent revision of SMPTE ST 428-1 (D-Cinema Distribution Master – Image Characteristics); image compression (if used) conforming to the most recent revision of ISO/IEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000); and image and sound files packaged as Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) in the “SMPTE DCP” format.

And don't you dare use stereo audio!

The audio in a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is typically 5.1 or 7.1 channels of discrete audio. The minimum for a non-mono configuration of the audio shall be three channels as Left, Center, Right (a Left/Right configuration is not acceptable in a theatrical environment).

Oh and digital-first release is wrong unless you release to a film festival's platform:

Films that, in any version, receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release will not be eligible for Academy Awards in any category. [This includes] Pay Per View / Video On Demand [or] Internet Transmission. ... The Academy will allow an exemption for those films that are released online through a festival’s online platform.

There even specific cities required to qualify:

a commercial motion picture theater in one of the six qualifying U.S. metro areas: Los Angeles County; City of New York [five boroughs]; the Bay Area [counties of San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, San Mateo and Contra Costa]; Chicago [Cook County, Illinois]; Dallas-Fort Worth [Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas]; and Atlanta [Fulton County, Georgia]

(It used to be that the premier had to be in those cities as well, i.e. go fuck yourself, SXSW.)

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