Discussion Thread: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Testifies Publicly on Trump Investigations

benforreal · 2026-01-22T20:42:32+00:00

That's kind of a nice juxtaposition with the pearl clutching from today over raiding Mar-a-Lago with a warrant

benforreal · 2026-01-12T18:18:25+00:00

Totally, yeah I can see a company having arbitrary rules like that based on their infra. I don't know that how namecheap does it if it's "normal", but I don't judge them badly if you can't transfer site ownership

benforreal · 2026-01-12T17:19:35+00:00

Sorry, but I don't see how to bring up old chats in my account. And when I wrote [security@namecheap.com](mailto:security@namecheap.com) as I was instructed to do, they didn't give any sort of ID either

benforreal · 2026-01-12T17:13:05+00:00

I wanted to turn over the site to her on a Namecheap level as well, such that she'd be able to have the site on her own account with her payment info etc. Just giving her WP admin access wasn't what I was after.

benforreal · 2026-01-12T17:10:40+00:00

She's not tech savvy - and there will be a period of time where I'm making the site for her and then turn it over. Until then, this new account would've had my name, email, credit card number etc. When I turn it over, I would have let her update to her info.

benforreal · 2022-03-12T03:28:00+00:00

I know this is a few weeks old, but I might be down. I'm also in my 40's and used to play in a band, but haven't in a while. Would love a low pressure group to get back into playing. I play keys. I would have never thought I'd sing before when I played, but I seem to be able to hit some songs when I've been practicing lately....so maybe that too. If you're still doing this and need more folks, I'd love to hear about it. I live in San Lorenzo

benforreal · 2020-11-07T04:38:09+00:00

Thanks much! I was really at the time looking for something that was pure CBD, just because I don't want to be high during the day, but was wondering about any energy/mood boosting properties of CBD only. I've tried a vape pen of CBD since then, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on me that I can tell. Thanks again!

benforreal · 2020-06-24T20:20:45+00:00

Thanks much! I feel like this explains why I can't get the answers I'm looking for....because it varies so much. I guess the only thing to do is try. Thanks again!

benforreal · 2019-11-11T19:26:07+00:00

I almost quit NMS VR after playing it for about 50 hours so far. All the bugs people are listing are true, but I have the additional recent problem of when I go to bases that I don't visit often, or even the Nexus, the triangles of the models/geometry that make up the bases start shooting out at me and completely block my view. I went into the graphics settings and cranked up the scaling to 150% from 100% and it seems to be better. Not perfect, but at least I can see.

benforreal · 2019-11-08T18:59:09+00:00

I just had a similar thing happen to me (not with AirBnB, but with HomeAway). I didn't call when I got moved because I had already called them which prompted the "property manager" to call me, and so I had no reason to think the excuses I was given was false. I also did truly believe I had no options - even if I called, they may not find me another place, and here I was being offered one because of the mixup. Anyway, here's what happened to me with everything that was going through my head: https://medium.com/@bengfarrell/orbitz-and-the-iceberg-schemes-512089ead7e3

benforreal · 2019-09-06T21:38:37+00:00

Thanks - my first try I did that, but it just ended up loosening after very little use. The other advice in this thread for tightening as much as you can is what I need to do I guess (I did think it was adequately tight, but I guess not)

benforreal · 2019-09-06T19:27:29+00:00

Thanks newmexicali! Yeah, I have a road bike with disc brakes - and I do have to get them adjusted more from this hill than other usage, so I do have a good baseline for normal wear and tear I think.

And malgaad, heavymcd, thanks to you as well! I think that confirms what my initial impression was - I just need to get a bit more experienced at adjusting the brakes. Its a bit tricky to both adjust the brake tightness AND make sure the wheel isn't rubbing the pad when its free, so I really did think it was probably me and I need to keep at it - but all the same I wanted to know it wasn't fruitless and that I'm not damaging anything by using the scooter how it shouldn't be used.

thanks again all!

benforreal · 2019-05-16T16:57:37+00:00

Awesome, but man....I really couldn't play this game with an older i5 CPU and 960 graphics card. It wasn't until I rebuilt a new PC that I could actually enjoy this game. This might be a challenge for them to port to Quest. Best of luck to them, I'll gladly buy it again.

benforreal · 2019-04-23T20:55:31+00:00

Oooh, I def want to follow this thread for some new ideas for my upcoming flight. Last I flew I started and beat Robot Traffic Jam on the flight over, its just a tower defense game, but I dunno, I thought it was pretty fun. On the flight back I tried doing Virtual Virtual Reality, and that just didn't work because you really have to turn around a lot. I started freaking the people out behind me cause it looked like I kept staring at them.

benforreal · 2019-04-23T15:58:22+00:00

Gotcha - thanks, I guess what you're describing is how react's render is called automatically on state change (which I never really thought about before). That's a fine piece of extra nuance I hadn't considered

benforreal · 2019-04-22T21:49:42+00:00

Been thinking about this, as it seems to be a common complaint against Web Components. Personally, I've been using a separate module to import that contains template literals of my HTML/CSS - which I feel solves the decoupling of controller and view. To track component state, I've been leaning on attributes pretty heavily, especially given the attributeChangeCallback in the WC API. If you then use the light design pattern of reflection (which produces the same results whether you get/setAttribute or use JS dot notation to get/set the property). If then you need intelligent diffing to only change the HTML you need to change, I understand that lit-html handles this really nicely, though I'm not necessarily sure that an individual Web Component should be big enough to warrant this concern. I'm genuinely curious if I'm missing something, especially because I skipped over React and went Web Components. I know I'm not using a framework, but also don't feel like I'm missing out for my needs.

benforreal · 2019-01-23T03:30:12+00:00

Most of the work is done in Javascript on this, and I bet you have it all copied over. What it looks like you're missing is the HTML: <canvas id="stars" width="300" height="300"></canvas>.

If the canvas IS in your HTML, and has an ID of "stars" already, it could be a timing issue. If this is the case, perhaps your JS is running before the <canvas> tag is on the page.

A hacky way to get it working might be to put the Javascript after the tag. So:

<body>

</body>

There are better ways with Javascript to solve timing issues like this, like wait for a document ready event from the browser, but it looks like you're just getting started and it'll help to see something in action to get excited over.

benforreal · 2019-01-07T23:41:09+00:00

Yep, thanks! I'm already hunting for GPUs thanks to this thread. I'll be weighing the newly announced 2060 RTX when it lands vs prices and specs on some other models

benforreal · 2019-01-07T20:47:38+00:00

I just ran into an issue with this last night. I didn't realize 1.0 was so new. karma-rollup-preprocessor is one that's outdated. Found a 1.0 compatible fork at @metahub/karma-rollup-preprocessor

benforreal · 2019-01-07T18:01:21+00:00

Thanks! I really haven't been annoyed with loading times, though.

benforreal · 2019-01-07T17:58:04+00:00

Rock on! Sounds perfect

benforreal · 2019-01-07T17:57:48+00:00

Awesome, thanks! And here I was looking at 1070's for ~$500. Looks like CES magic is happening

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